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Pray and rise good morning. God is good. God

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is great We thank God for another day if y 'all

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can bow y 'all heads won't pray before we get

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into this word Amen our Father which art in heaven

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Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come that will

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be done in earth as it is in heaven give us this

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day our daily bread and forgive us our debts

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as we forgive our debtors and lead us not into

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temptation but deliver us from evil for thine

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is the kingdom the power the glory forever amen

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god is good god is great pray and rise we back

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with another one put god first wake up say the

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lord's prayer and be forgiven for your sins amen

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now let's speak on the daily reader When you

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are plagued by a persistent problem, one that

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goes on and on, view it as a rich opportunity.

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An ongoing problem is like a tutor who is always

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by your side. The learning possibilities are

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limited only by your willingness to be teachable.

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In faith, thank me for your problems. Ask me

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to open your eyes and your heart to all that

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I am accomplishing through this difficulty. Once

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you have become grateful for a problem, it loses

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its power to drag you down. On the contrary,

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your thankful attitude will lift you up into

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heavenly places with me. From this perspective,

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your difficulty can be seen as a slight temporary

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distress that is producing for you a transcending

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glory never to seize. When you are plagued by

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a persistent problem, problem, one that goes

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on and on, view it as a rich opportunity. When

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you suffering, God gonna bless you. Let me tell

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y 'all this story. Me and my homeboy was talking

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on the phone. He told me, he was like, Rondell,

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when you suffering, that's when them blessings

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is gonna come. When you suffering, that's when

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you seek God. Stay blessed, stay focused, put

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God first in everything you do. Amen. And we

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got some scriptures also today. And our scriptures

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is coming out of Isaiah and Ephesians and 2nd

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Corinthians. The first scripture I'm going to

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be going to is 2nd Corinthians. 2nd Corinthians

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chapter 4 verse 17. Let's get to it. God is good.

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Good morning. Wake up. Give God the highest praise

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and you can't lose. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse

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17 God is good as it reads for our light affliction

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which is but for a moment working for us afore

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more exceeding in eternal weight of glory while

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we look while we look not at the things which

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are seen but at the things which are not seen

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for the things which are seen are temporal but

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the things which are not seen are eternal the

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things that are not seen are eternal Jesus Christ

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is eternal amen and Jesus Christ won't fail us

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next scripture we gonna go to is Ephesians chapter

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5 verse 19 through 20. The one we just read was

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2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 17. Amen. I'm already

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right here. God is good. Wake up and store scripture

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on your mind. Wake up and store scripture on

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your heart. Keep it close. And you keep it close,

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you can't lose. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 19

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through 20. as it reads, speaking to yourselves

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in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing

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and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

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giving thanks always for all things into God

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and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus

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Christ, submitting yourselves one to another

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in the fear of God, obtaining the fear of God.

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There are four results of being spirit -filled.

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Believers speak to one another with psalms and

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hymns and spiritual songs. That is, they exhort

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and instruct each other. There is singing in

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the making of a melody of individual song and

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praise for the Lord. There is giving thanks always.

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The Spirit enables the Christian to be grateful

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for all things, divinely allowed to enter his

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life since they will be used for good. And number

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four, there is mutual submission that is showing

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difference to the wishes of one another as long

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as that to which the believer submits is in the

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fear of God which is to say in accord with that

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pleases him amen these are the full results of

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being spirit -filled and what do spirit -filled

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mean believers speak to one another with songs

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and hymns and spiritual songs connecting with

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the spirit that's the results of being filled

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with the spirit you can connect with God You

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connect with the Holy Spirit. Amen. Isaiah chapter

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30 verse 20 through 21. Our next scripture is

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coming out of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 30 verse

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20 through 21. Verse 20 through 21 as it reads

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in thy ear shall hear a word behind thee saying

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this is the way Walk ye in it. When ye turn to

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the right hand, and when ye turn to the left,

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ye shall defile also the covering of the graven

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images of silver, and the ornament of the molten

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images of gold. Thou shalt cast them away as

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a menchus cloth. Thou shalt say unto, Get thee

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hence. Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,

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that thou shalt sow the ground with thou, and

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breed of the increase of the earth. And it shall

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be fat and plenteous in that day, shall thy cattle

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feed in large pastures. will feed in large pastures

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in the day of the Lord amen and that was the

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daily reader we read Isaiah chapter 30 verse

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20 through 21 Ephesians chapter 5 verse 19 through

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20 and 2nd Corinthians chapter 4 verse 17 amen

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God is good now I want y 'all to come over to

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Mark come over to Mark and we're gonna read about

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the goodness of God we're gonna read about the

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goodness of God And I wanna start, we're gonna

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start at the beginning, at John's message of

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repentance. We're gonna start at the beginning,

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amen. And Mark begins with a burst of information

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that functions as a title. The Gospel here refers

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not to the whole book, but to the context of

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the early Christian proclamation, which is turned

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centers on a person. Jesus' given name, Christ,

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is both a name and his Old Testament title. The

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Son of God points his unique, familial intimacy

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with the God of the Old Testament. Amen. We're

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reading the New Testament. John's message of

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repentance. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus

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Christ, the son of God. As it is written in the

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prophets, behold, I send my messengers, behold,

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the face which shall prepare the way before thee,

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the voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare

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ye the way of the Lord, make his path straight.

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Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his path

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straight, be prepared. Be prepared, prepare the

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Lord's way. Get prepared for Jesus Christ. John

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did baptize in the wilderness and preach the

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baptism of repentance for the remissions of sins,

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for the forgiveness of sins. And there went out

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unto him all the land of Judea and they of Jerusalem

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and were all baptized of him in the river of

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Jordan confessing their sins. And John was clothed

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with camel's hair and with a girdle of skin about

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his loins and he did eat locust and wild honey.

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And preach saying, there cometh one mire than

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I after me. The latchet I whose shoes I am not

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worthy to stoop down in a loose. And John is

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telling them that Jesus is about to resurrect.

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Jesus is on his way. He's telling them to prepare

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his way. Prepare his way. Repent. We gotta repent.

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I indeed have baptized you with water, but he

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shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. And Jesus

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died on the cross for our sins, which made us

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able to gain the Holy Spirit. God's Spirit empowers

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Jesus for his coming service. Amen. And it came

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to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth

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to Galilee and was baptized of John in the Jordan.

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And straightway coming up out of the water, he

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saw the heavens open and the Spirit like a dove

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descending upon him. He saw the heavens open,

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torn open, and there came a voice from heaven

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saying, There are my beloved Son, in whom I am

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well pleased. And immediately the Spirit driven

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him into the wilderness. And he was there in

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the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan,

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and was with the wild beast, and the angels ministered

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unto him. So Jesus was in the wilderness. So

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after he after he was driven out by the spirit

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that he got baptized He was challenged he was

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challenged and Immediately the spirit driven

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him into the wilderness and he was there in the

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wilderness 40 days tempted of Satan and was with

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the wild beasts in the angels ministered unto

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him The temptation is portrayed as lasting throughout

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the 40 days, but so is the sustaining ministration

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of God's angel, while beast underscores the loneliness

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and hostility of the surroundings. Jesus' public

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ministry in Galilee gets underway. Now we gonna

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be reading about Peter, Andrew, James, and John.

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And what did God tell them? I'll make you fishermen

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of men. We gotta figure out our calling for God.

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And we I'm in verse 14 mark chapter 1 verse 14

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now and after that john was put in prison Jesus

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came into gallilee preaching the gospel of the

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kingdom of god and saying the time is fulfilled

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And the kingdom of god is at hand repent ye and

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believe the gospel Repent ye and believe the

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gospel. Listen to these words. Now as he walked

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by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew,

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his brother, casting a net into the sea, for

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they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them,

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come ye after me and I will make you to become

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fishers of men. So Jesus is telling them, walk

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after me. Walk after me, I'm gonna make you fishermen

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of men. I'm gonna make you great. I'm gonna put

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the word of God in you. In straight way, they

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forsook their nets and followed him. And when

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he had gone a little far there thence he saw

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James the son of Zebedee and John his brother

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who also were in the ship mending their nets

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and Straightway he called them and they left

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their father Zebedee in the ship with the hard

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servants and went after him. They even left their

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father They even left their father for Jesus

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because you can you can do that Because Jesus

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is our father God is our father If you're a parent,

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you give your kids to God. You don't stress one

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bit, just give your kids to God and they're gonna

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be greatly blessed. An unclean spirit rebuked.

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An unclean spirit rebuked. And they went into

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camp and straightway on the seventh day he entered

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into the son of Gude and they were astonished

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at his doctrine. For he taught them as one that

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had authority and not as the scribes. because

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he taught them as one that have an authority

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and not as the scribes. Jesus astones his listeners

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for he teaches as one that had authority. The

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surprise is not informally pleasant. Some were

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doubtless, offended by his seeming efferency.

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And there was in the Son of Gug a man with an

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unclean spirit, and he cried out, saying, Let

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us alone, what have we to do with thee, thou

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Jesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy us?

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I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

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And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace

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and come out of him. And when the unclean spirit

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had torn him and cried with a loud voice, he

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came out of him. And they were all amazed, and

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so much that they questioned among themselves,

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saying, What thing is this? What new doctrine

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is this? For with authority commanded he even

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the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. Even

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the unclean spirits obey God. And as we just

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read, we see Jesus commanded the spirit to come

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out. And that's what God do. He commands the

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spirits to come out. If you got anything going

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on in your life, pray. Give it to God. Amen.

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And immediately, His fame spread abroad throughout

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all the region round about in Galilee many diseased

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and possessed are healed Mark chapter 1 verse

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29 many diseased and possessed are healed and

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for with when they were come out of the son of

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goods they entered into the house of Simon and

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Andrew and James and John but Simon's wife mother

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lay sick of a fever and any they tell him of

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her And at once they tell him of her, and he

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came and took her by the hand and lifted her

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up, and immediately the fever left her, and she

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ministered unto them, and that even when the

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sun did set they brought unto him all that were

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diseased and them that were possessed with devils.

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and all the city was gathered at the door and

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he healed many that were sick of diver's disease

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many that were sick of diver's disease and was

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diver's disease various demons and cast out many

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demons and suffered not the devils to speak because

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they knew him and in the morning rising up a

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great well before day he went out and departed

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into a solitary place and there he prayed he

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went to a solitary place deserted place and Simon

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and they that were with him followed after him

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and when they had found him they said unto him

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all men seek for thee and he said unto them let

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us go into the next towns that I may priest there

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also for therefore came our fourth and he preached