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Hi there, welcome to NECF.

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We're excited to share today's message with you.

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Don't go anywhere, stay with us to the end for some valuable resources to enrich your

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faith.

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Here's today's sermon.

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John 14, verse 1 says, let not your heart be troubled.

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You believe in God, believe also in me.

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The me there is Christ.

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Jesus Christ is the one speaking.

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Just stay there, let not your heart be troubled.

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This is Jesus Christ's admonition, his disciples, because there are things that will cause you

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to be troubled.

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There are things that will cause you to be worried.

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There are things that can cause you to be stressed.

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But the focus is that you want to place that trust, that belief and confidence in the one

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who is instructing you.

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Praise God.

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I'm saying this, I think we've already gotten that charge and there's a whole lot that has

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been said that you will see it always point down to your trust, your trust.

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The reason why you stay in on something is because you're persuaded.

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The reason why you start your first year, you want to run away, but you're persuaded

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or you'll be persuaded.

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Praise God.

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You'll be persuaded too.

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There's something that keeps you in there.

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There's something that keeps you running.

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There's something that keeps you going.

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There's something that encourages you to stay strong, to stay true.

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And it's hard, praise God.

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It's difficult.

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When everybody was sharing four years at first, I was concerned people, what helped them

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through is that they were not sure what was happening before they could get a grip of

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themselves.

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They were already in the middle.

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Praise God.

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But things will get us to be troubled.

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But the encouragement here is to believe in God, believe in God, believe in God, believe

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in God, believe in God.

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I'm saying this again and again so that it will resound to you.

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And that word believe is the Greek word pistuo.

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I'll spell it.

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P-I-S-T-E-U-O.

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P-I-S-T-E-U-O.

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It's pronounced pistuo.

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And that word is used a lot of times in scripture.

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It's used scattered all through scripture.

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You see the word believe, believe, believe.

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Even in today's day and age, we call ourselves believers.

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Praise God.

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Believers.

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Believe, believe, believe.

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The word pistuo means to be persuaded of, to think of to be true and to place confidence

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in.

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To place confidence in.

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Be persuaded of to think of to be true and to place confidence or to place confidence

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in.

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That is what the word there means.

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And when it says believe in God, it says, it means place your confidence in God.

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Be persuaded of.

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Know Him to be true.

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Praise God.

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Know Him to be true.

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Know God to be true.

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Because one thing that stays consistent is God.

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Every other thing will change.

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Career will change.

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The way the world is moving, it will change.

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Seasons, times will change.

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The word stays consistent is God.

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He says believe in God.

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This is Jesus Christ speaking.

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Believe in God.

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And if there's anything that sounded so strong for most of the persons that are speaking

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or most of the persons that spoke or shared testimonies, is the fact that when they were

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troubled or they weren't sure, they sought God.

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They didn't just seek.

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And seeking God, seeking people, all of those things are very interconnected.

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You showing up here on a Sunday, something has to persuade you.

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Right?

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There's some things you do because of habit.

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Oh, you're persuaded.

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I don't believe.

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If I come to service today, I'll be blessed.

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I can't help but just go to what one of the sisters said.

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I think that is it?

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N-A-R-H-E, your name sounds very...

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She said she had gone to places where her heart wasn't there.

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She was persuaded.

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Her heart wasn't there.

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And we use words and that's one of the things we want to.

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And that's what showing up in church teaches us to do.

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It teaches us to learn, to be trained.

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We come to church service to be taught and we are also trained.

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And that's why when you skip services, you are missing an opportunity to grow.

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You're missing an opportunity to be trained.

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You're missing an opportunity to learn.

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I've seen many persons come.

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You can never stay the same when you're in an environment where you're being trained.

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Because every now and then something is dropping.

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Even those that show up and they're not participating, but you're learning something, praise God.

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You're growing in some shape or form.

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How you used to see God's Word before changes over time because you are continually...

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It's not a one-time event.

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You don't come to school one time and graduate.

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If that was it, most of us would have just been taking degrees, falling in and out of

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degrees.

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But you stay through it, even when you don't feel like it, you still stay through it to

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the very end.

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But this is what you are called into for the long haul.

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Praise God.

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Believing in God, staying in Him is what you are called into for the long haul.

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If you call yourself a believer, there's responsibility, there's commitment, there's trust.

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But sometimes we...

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Circumstances and situations around us will make us lose trust, lose confidence in.

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And the apostle John, who wrote the book, uses it much more times than any other.

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John uses the word a lot of times and is used.

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Note that if I'm talking to someone who is not a believer and I'm explaining to them

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the Word of God, what I'm trying to get them to do is to be persuaded of what exactly it

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is I'm saying.

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I'm talking to someone who doesn't believe, I am talking to them so that they can become

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what I am, which is a believer.

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Note that if I don't teach you, if I don't explain to you, you can't just fall into this

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thing.

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You can't fall into a relationship with God.

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Something persuades you that this is true, this is real, there's something in this.

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Praise God.

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The same way I'll be encouraging someone, you will not make any progress if you're not

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persuaded.

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Praise God.

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You will never make any meaningful or substantial progress if you're not persuaded.

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Just imagine, you enter, you sign up for the course, you start the first day, you're not

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interested, you're not even confident in what you're going to become after you're at the

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other end of the certificate.

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You will just be falling in and out of it, your studies will stop at some point and sometimes

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some people are very drastic, you just end it and move on.

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Some people will have to do several to get there but note that there's something about

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believing that ensures that you stay true to what exactly it is you are in.

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Praise God.

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And believing is very key.

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We started this year, we said the team of the year is manifesting the kingdom of God,

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the team of this year is manifesting the kingdom of God.

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You can't even manifest what you don't understand.

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That's why we started off by helping us to understand what the kingdom of God is.

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And yes, you know that coming into the kingdom there's the union you have, that's what brings

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you into this kingdom.

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That's what brings, we understood from the teaching and I want us to go there very quickly

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so that I will, we'll start from there in Luke 17 verse 20 to 21.

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Luke 17 20 to 21.

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It says, now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, when the

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kingdom of God will come.

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Note that you asking somebody of something means that there's a bit of, yeah, we're

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curious, we want to find out, there's an expectation.

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Want to find out.

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And he answered them and said, the kingdom of God does not come with observation.

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Other translation would say it's not something that is visible.

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It's not something that you can see going to the next.

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It says, nor will you, will they say, see here or see there for indeed the kingdom of

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God is within you.

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In other words, the kingdom of God is among you and we're taught that first and foremost

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for you to be able to not misunderstand what has been said, you have to understand what

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has been said.

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Praise God.

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And the understanding there is that when you hear the word kingdom, what comes to mind?

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This we are in this earth, physical is what hits you first.

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Kingdom we should be speaking about a physical location.

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That's basically what comes to mind.

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But what he was saying there is not because we look at the word, we're taught that the

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word there is the word Basilea, right?

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Which means what?

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Which could mean authority, which could mean dominion, which could mean rule or royal power.

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Praise God.

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So that in itself gives you an understanding of what is being said.

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Means that if you're talking about a kingdom, you will not be expecting to see a physical

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location.

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And that is basically one thing that has been established and one thing that you should

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bear in mind.

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It says you can't, it's not something that is physical.

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It's not something that is physical, but note that the influence can be seen.

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Praise God.

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The influence can be seen.

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And believing the same way when we talk about believing in God.

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Not that when somebody says you can't see that belief, there's no way it registers

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in your forehead and percentages and then you can be able to see where exactly it is

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to scale it.

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But note that a person that believes there is a result, there's an action.

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There's the things that he do that say this person is truly a believer.

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And let me put it to you.

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You start your first year, a strong part of you believes that this course, I'll see it

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to the very end.

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But there's the responsibility you have to stay to the very end.

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And once you finish that, note that there's the confidence that you can take on anything

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else after that, right?

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But there's also the fear of what to do next.

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But for someone that doesn't just believe in the course that they studied, but believe

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in the God that has seen them through that four years.

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And I think I was just writing to Pastor Fred that during the graduation, he said something,

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I think the picture of his own graduation way back.

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And he said that looking at the picture, there's a lot of memory that runs through.

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And then the other brother that was there with us, that the picture carries a lot.

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It's sweet, sour, a mixture of things.

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And some of them were sharing tears, because there's a lot that you had to go through to

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get to that very finish line.

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But you were persuaded that we will see this thing to the very end.

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Does that believe, that trust?

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And note that you don't trust in those, like courses will change, all of those things will

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change, but you trust in the God that has seen you from that time to this very point.

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And you're trusting in him for what to do next.

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And we have been saying this in this church, don't just do life aimlessly.

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If you want to get something done and done properly, you want to trust God for how to

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do it.

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You don't just go and say, oh, and most of the times we have good ideas.

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We have a lot of things that want to do.

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Most of the times it doesn't work.

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You have everything you have planned it out.

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Sometimes the plans fail.

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But what shouldn't fail is your faith and your belief and your trust in God to see most

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importantly, his kingdom manifested through whatever it is that you do.

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Because you are a conduit.

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You are not living for yourself.

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You know, what used to happen is that we turn God to an ATM, right?

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When we need something, we go there, you know, you know, you put in the codes, the amount

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of money you want, it comes out, you collect and then you move.

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You only think of money, when you think of money, you think of ATM, you think of bank,

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all of those sources and you go there because you need that.

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But it's going to be hard for you when it's like that, because now you have nowhere else

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to go to, right?

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Then he becomes an option.

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But for a believer that has always been there, he knows what to do.

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He knows what to do.

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He's not confused.

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He's sure of what exactly.

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In fact, he's confident in the fact that the direction, he has it already.

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What he will be doing now is knowing what the direction is.

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He's confident because he knows that he has the God that has brought him in at first and

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he's confident that same God is going to lead him through to what should be done next.

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And please, please don't follow the crowd.

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You are not the crowd.

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Your name is not crowd.

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Please God, praise God.

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Your name is not crowd.

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You have a name.

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You have something that, yes, if it so happens that the direction you're headed is the direction

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of it, go for it.

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not telling God what should happen.

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What is, you are now confident of what God, because you're, you know, some people say

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I'm praying to hear what the will of God.

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To listen and have direction.

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The direction is there all along.

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trusting Him and believing in Him for direction.

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John 20, 31.

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Remember I said that John uses the word believe a lot.

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that Jesus is the Christ.

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That what is written, God's word, what it leads to is to us believing.

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That's why I say that first.

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will have life, what it means is that there's something about the life that you now have

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that's different from the life that you once had.

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There is a big difference between the two lives and have life in His name, that's in

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His authority.

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And He uses that word like that there because if you look at it now, this whole thing will

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be speaking to a believer or non-believer.

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Because if I'm talking to you now, I'm saying that, okay, this is written for you to believe,

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For somebody who has believed, will that be an information to them?

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That will not be news, right?

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Because they know and they have.

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They know and they have.

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I want us to see it in NLT, because of New King James, NLT 513, but we can go back to

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New King James later.

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So in NLT he says, I have written this to you who believe in the name of the Son of

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God.

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Now he says, so that you may know, so that you may know, not so that you will believe

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again.

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He says, so that you may know.

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So when you believe, what keeps you going is the knowledge.

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And that's why fellowship is important, because no matter how you know, you know what's happened,

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you can forget.

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You know when you blink, you're like, I'm not sure.

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all of a sudden you seem like you're forgotten.

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You have put your watch together, you know, you have said, okay, my name is this.

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They give you the microphone.

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you're very sure.

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because when they wake up, they are still alert.

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They are very, it's almost like they were never sleeping.

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He says, so that you may know, not, and he, even the first line tells you that I'm writing

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this to you who believe in the name, who is not like the first one where he says that

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you may believe.

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He says, who believe in his name?

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And the reason why I ask that we see from any of these that in the New King James is

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longer, in New King James is longer.

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that.

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So we know that in this, this is the NU while in the majority texts, it adds something.

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I just want to show just so that we, you know, you're not wondering what happened to your

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Bible or why, why didn't we read it to that end?

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So now it says, these things I written unto you, sorry, New King James, I was wondering

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where I was saying unto.

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So these things I have written to you who believe in the name of the son of God, that

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you may know that you have eternal life.

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may continue to believe in the name.

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That's why that now is saying because, because note that what happens afterwards is that

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you have believed what you just now need to do is to know.

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And guess how we know.

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And that's why what we have been, all that has been happening is just reemphasizing the

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importance of training, the importance of showing up.

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And he didn't even know that that was even part of what I was going to say.

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He says it a lot of time, Pastor Victor says a lot of times.

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How why are you surprised that someone that spent a number of years in the seminary should

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know more than someone that has spent all their life studying the same exact thing that

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the person in the seminary should be?

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Why should that be?

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It's because we have gotten it wrong.

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We actually have gotten it wrong.

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And some of us that are reading the book that has been shared or the other book, not the

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book, there's in any safe train set of you know, there are books now and there are books

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coming.

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Praise God.

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And that is what training is.

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Praise God.

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Some of us we show them we have never read, we have never read a book before.

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And I'm like, this is new to me.

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But guess what happens when you read?

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You grow.

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You know, when brother kindness was talking, I was like, let this boy not go and say, and

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you know, everything.

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See, I have, I don't use the library because the library doesn't work for me.

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If I go to the library, I end up greeting everybody in the library.

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So because because I will enter the library and say, hello, sir, and there's some and

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some people don't understand that you want to concentrate.

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They will still come and say, okay, sir, how is it?

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And then you like, can't you see it's in the library?

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Wait for me.

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I'll say, oh, let's just do it quickly and then move on.

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So library doesn't work for me.

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So I can't I've never if I go to libraries, because I have to maybe pick a book or use

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or there's I want to see the information decks or something, but I don't use the library

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because I will always see the young man at the other at all the times I've entered the

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library.

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We just seemed that was even how I knew he uses glasses, because I never knew he uses

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glasses.

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I was like, oh, you use glasses.

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I was like, some people they just hide uses when they want to.

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And as I knew, he's business.

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Praise God.

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There's work for any good thing you see.

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There's work any solid believer you see.

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There's work and you're not doing it because you saw somewhere that you're going to be

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a past.

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No, most of us didn't get that memo.

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Praise God.

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You're training yourself so that you'll be solid.

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You know, when a person is solid, when a person is solid, in fact, that should be the testimony

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of everyone that calls themselves a believer because you have no choice but to be.

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Praise God.

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And it's very important that we understand that the this action is consistent.

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You show up not because you feel like it.

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You are tired.

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You still come because teaching is not a single event.

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It's continuous and it is a comprehensive process because you're hearing it here.

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You're hearing it again.

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And some of the things you'll be hearing, you've heard it before, but you're hearing

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it differently and it just keeps coming to you, coming to you until you know for a fact.

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And you know, you can have a knowledge of something here, but there's there's how when

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it hits you again, it's like, I didn't understand this thing until now.

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Praise God.

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And that is why coming and and he says, and where else can you grow?

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You can't grow.

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And I want us to just read first Timothy, first Timothy 3, 15 and then we'll see 16.

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First Timothy 3, 15, 16.

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I'll just find somewhere and then we'll close because that's not even I'm not going anywhere.

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Just find somewhere we're close.

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So first Timothy 3, 15 and 16 and he says, but if I am delayed, I write.

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So if you notice, there's the uses you see this write, write, this write is you see it's

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kind of you.

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That was a means of communicating, right?

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You write to assure the person to be confident.

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You know, there was no, you know, when you say someone should come and see you, you know,

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if you don't know where the person should come and see you want to be confident where

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you're going.

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So there's this communication that you have to do to pass information in to and fro so

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that you can be able to get clarity.

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So you're sure because you know that you're sure that the person is in this building.

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That's what even gives you the confidence to go at first.

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But if you're not sure you'd be like, I'm not, you just be wandering around except if

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someone leads you or someone guides you.

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Praise God.

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And that is why writing is done so that you may know.

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And you see that word that that communication so that you may know communication so that

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you may know because communication for you to know helps you to be confident, to be persuaded

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of something.

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Praise God.

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And then it says that you may know how you ought to conduct yourselves in the house of

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God.

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It says which is the Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of truth, the pillar,

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the other word there is the foundation of truth.

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So it means that if there's anywhere that you as a believer would grow is in that place

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where the truth is being taught.

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How many of you know that there's lies that is taught even in the same because and we

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and one thing I will explain to us is going back to what our sister said is that when

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you're reading a text of scripture, you want to be very, you want to take your brain along

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with you because sometimes we can read things mindlessly.

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When you look at the text, you want to understand, okay, why, what, what does this mean?

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How does this apply?

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What is the person trying to say?

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Those things will avoid, will make you avoid making mistakes, right?

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Will make you avoid it making mistakes because if you go back to that text we read, it says

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if a kingdom is coming to you, if that kingdom is a physical location, how does it move from

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where it is to where you are?

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Praise God.

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Thinking is what will get you to come to that place where you, okay, what's going on here?

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This will not be speaking of something physical, right?

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Because in the text of scripture, we'll see, I don't know whether we will be able to stop.

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We see that even Jesus Christ in, let's just look at it very quickly, Jesus Christ in Luke

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and John, John 15 verse 25.

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I just want us to see 25 and 29 because Jesus Christ speaking to his disciples, he used

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figurative language and if you're, yeah, so it says, but this happened that the word might

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be fulfilled 16, not 15, 16, 25, John 16, 25.

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He says, these things have spoken in, spoken to you in figurative language.

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If you look at the NLT, it will say it's figures of speech.

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We use figurative language that you, that by the time is coming that you may no longer

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speak Ramayana no longer, that says I will no longer speak in figurative language, but

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I will tell you plainly about the father.

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Go to 29, just jump to 29.

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It says his disciples said to him, see now you are speaking plainly, plainly using no

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figure of speech.

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Praise God.

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Because if someone is using a figure of speech and I'll give you some for you to, when someone

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is speaking metaphorical, metaphorical means that it's not literal, means that if I tell

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you of, if I'm, I can use the word there, but what I'm saying is not something that is literal,

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not something that should be taken literal because if I said that, like take for example

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this, I think I was looking at my time, this and I think I was Mark 3 25, that was the,

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that was the Bible verse for this that flashed to my, okay.

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It says, so if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

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So just think about this.

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If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

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Is it a literal house?

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Is it a house that the house just start dividing against itself?

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So, so obviously the house is divided against itself.

479
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The house definitely wasn't the house in the first place.

480
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Praise God.

481
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He's, the house there will be pointing off and that word there is okia, which is what

482
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we look, what we'll see, like just give you a slip.

483
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So, so you understand that certain words shouldn't be taken literally.

484
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Let's say I'll give you the keys.

485
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How many of you have keys?

486
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,560
Yeah, yeah, so you have, yeah, yeah.

487
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,880
So your house keys, as your house keys.

488
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So when it says I'll give you the keys, so you don't want to be reading, let's go back.

489
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So it means that when Jesus Christ was speaking to his disciples, he said certain things that

490
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if you take them literally, you'll be lost.

491
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You will still keep asking questions until you understand what is being said.

492
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And he was speaking to them and say, oh, now I get you now because you're not, you're not

493
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no longer speaking.

494
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So it means that even us now, when we are reading, we don't read it.

495
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We really wouldn't understand that this can be figurative, right?

496
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The one that is very interesting is in John, right?

497
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Still John, I think was John, is that scripture again?

498
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Yeah.

499
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Look, look 1426, look 1426 says, if anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and

500
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his mother, wife, children, nobody's left out in this.

501
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Children, brothers and sister.

502
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Yes, I see even yourself and his own life also.

503
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He cannot be my disciple.

504
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,440
So now you read this and then you go, is this Jesus speaking or someone else?

505
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He says hate, he means just be a hater.

506
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Just everybody knows, some people they say they have enemies, enemies, enemies.

507
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You just hate everybody and then come and follow me.

508
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,040
Is that what he's saying here?

509
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:18,800
No, but what he's saying there, the word there hate is Miseo.

510
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The word means the hate is hate.

511
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It's not something else.

512
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Praise God.

513
00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:27,520
The hate, that word hate is the word hate.

514
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,360
But what if you now decide that you're going to be hating everybody?

515
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You see family, you will not have it.

516
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Are we clear?

517
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:40,840
So what it means there is that it's a metaphor for you to, he's saying in essence that you

518
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love less and make this more.

519
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The same way somebody says you go to the market and you choose to pick water.

520
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I think Pastor Victor has said this before.

521
00:28:49,740 --> 00:28:54,360
You go to the market and the fact that you chose water doesn't mean you hate Jews.

522
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Some people's juice is their standard temperature and pressure.

523
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But thank God you got some insights into what the Jews companies are doing to you and then

524
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,400
you say, no, they will not chop my money anymore.

525
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,040
And then you know, but not that something informed you, right?

526
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,040
And then you decide it doesn't mean that you hate it, but now you have made the choice

527
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to prioritize this over that.

528
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,320
So he says, what he's saying there in essence is that love them less than you do me.

529
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,720
And if you thought, if you're in doubt that that's what he's saying, let's look at Matthew's

530
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account of the same account.

531
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,320
Matthew 10 37.

532
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And that is how you clarify that what he's saying is that it doesn't mean hate your family

533
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,120
members because you'll be family less.

534
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,160
There's any word like that.

535
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,160
So it's 10 37.

536
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:37,160
10 37.

537
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:46,240
10 37 says he who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.

538
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:50,760
The week, the week get that it says you're loving your father and mother more than me

539
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,900
is that you should prioritize him overdose.

540
00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:58,840
Do you notice that your father and your mother are there?

541
00:29:58,840 --> 00:29:59,840
You see them every day.

542
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,840
You deal with them.

543
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,880
You know, that is going to be hard for you to just sit daddy and mommy.

544
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,960
I will choose God over you.

545
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,240
God you cannot see.

546
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:14,720
You know that that takes some level of trust to be able to say, I see you.

547
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:21,560
I know you have best interest for me, but I know I'm persuaded that this is what I need

548
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,560
to do.

549
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:26,040
So the thing is, it's like your parent tell you don't go to church or just go to like

550
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,160
what God was saying, where you say, don't do it.

551
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,200
You know that that is not the problem, right?

552
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:34,840
You know that that's not the problem.

553
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,800
The problem is not just I had, I was speaking to someone who said, see, you know, the reason

554
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,700
why I'm not committed in church is that, you know, I'm very busy.

555
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:48,840
You know, I'm doing biomedical engineering and I have certain responsibilities.

556
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:49,840
He's here.

557
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:50,840
He's here.

558
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:51,840
I think he's here.

559
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,960
I have certain responsibilities.

560
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,360
And I looked at him, I say, if I use me as an example, the example will not make sense.

561
00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,360
But we have medical students.

562
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,560
We have people that are doing multiple degrees.

563
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,080
And they are serving, you know, they're not just, they are serving.

564
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,360
You know, when you're the head of department or you're, these guys, they're not, you know,

565
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,480
we're just saying, just serve in church.

566
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,480
We're not saying be the head of the department.

567
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:15,480
Praise God.

568
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,000
And know that in all of these excuses you're making, I told him one thing.

569
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I say, see, if your house is flooded, no matter how busy you are, you will mop the house.

570
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:26,160
You say, I'm very busy.

571
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,160
I don't have time.

572
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,120
But because your house is important to you, you will do what needs to be done.

573
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,120
Praise God.

574
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:33,880
You will do what needs to be done.

575
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:34,880
Praise God.

576
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,960
So, let's not make excuses.

577
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,580
The fact that you are not confident in something doesn't mean that it can't change.

578
00:31:41,580 --> 00:31:46,800
What you must seek to do is to trust God and trust that you are in his family.

579
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:50,640
You are a member of his family and he will not leave you stranded.

580
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,440
All that you need is in his word.

581
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,440
Trust his word.

582
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,440
In this season we are saying, read your Bible.

583
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:58,440
We are forcing you.

584
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,440
You know, some people, they say we are forcing you, say, sir, this thing is hard.

585
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,440
Read me the Bible.

586
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,360
Now we have entered the book, now that the part of the Bible where it's not, it's not

587
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:06,360
even, I was enjoying Genesis.

588
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,640
We enter Exodus now.

589
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,040
We're not going to all those things.

590
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,040
But it's Exodus now.

591
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,960
I don't, I don't really understand what is going on here.

592
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,840
You have not even started.

593
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:21,360
When you get to Numbus, Lewis Coast, you, you, it will need, you will need the grace.

594
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:26,640
You need grace and you're not, it's not, you need great grace to be able to pull through.

595
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,240
But you know the beautiful thing is that, you know, those of us that ended it last year

596
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,240
were like, I did it.

597
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,880
Finally, I was able to complete it.

598
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:36,880
You are a believer.

599
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,760
You have never read, you have never read your Bible from, and then you're wondering why

600
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,360
or what, why certain things are flying over your head.

601
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:44,360
Praise God.

602
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,320
So I want us to be confident in what the church is doing.

603
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:52,520
Please trust not just God, but also the leaders that God has given to you.

604
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,000
Know that we have your best interests at hand.

605
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,960
Some people were sharing, they were like, ah, they heard it, but they still grew.

606
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,240
And now their growth is going with them.

607
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,720
I was telling our brother, I say, you know how to take pictures now.

608
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,880
Not that the pictures you can take, you will not drop it.

609
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:05,880
You will not pass it.

610
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,720
You will not carry it and just give it to somebody and then leave without it.

611
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,240
You're going to go with it.

612
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:15,200
Any job you're getting, when you tell them, I have a BSc in this, but I also have an experience

613
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,200
in photography.

614
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,400
You know, when you add that to your, you know, yes, that's to, to pad it.

615
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,400
Even if, even if you did not get the three point that we've been telling you to get,

616
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,640
to get, to get, to get, you know, not to offset certain things.

617
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:27,640
Praise God.

618
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,360
We have to offset certain things because you are going to add value.

619
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:31,360
Praise God.

620
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,400
So know that in this church, we encourage you and we keep encouraging you.

621
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Don't just be a passerby, right?

622
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:42,400
Don't just be someone that shows up and just marks attendance and services.

623
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:43,800
We have midweek services.

624
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,160
We have cell meetings.

625
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,200
All of those are avenues for you to grow.

626
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Praise God.

627
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,400
I want you to just close your eyes and just thank God and just give God all the glory,

628
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,400
give God all the praise.

629
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,680
Thank Him for, just say, God, I trust you.

630
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,640
Thank you for listening to today's sermon.

631
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Your journey matters to us.

632
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,120
Let's keep walking together.

633
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635
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