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31. Sow a Character, Reap a Destiny

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    and
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    and
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    further never know what a wonderful
    privilege of years to come into your
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    presence
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    we thank you for your holy word
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    which is a shoe or compass
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    in a world of confusion and rebuild
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    and as we study today how about
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    sulaiman
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    a character in reaping a destiny
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    we ask that your holy spirit will be
    here to teach us
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    we thank you for hearing our prayer
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    for we ask it in jesus name, amen
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    during the course of this seminar we
    have been studying
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    primarily the meaning obj and assist
    chapter three and versus fifteen
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    and i would like to refresh our memory
    about that verse which is foundational
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    to all of scripture
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    any adverse god is speaking to the
    serpent
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    and adam and eve are spending their
    endlessly
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    and dot says to the serpent
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    i won't put admit the
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    between you know and the woman
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    and between your steven and her seat
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    he shelled bruise your head
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    and you shell bruise
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    his feet
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    one thing is very very clear investors
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    and that is that there were only tour
    groups
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    that exists in this world
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    from the beginning
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    till the end of time
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    although it does scenes
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    the scene of the righteous embassy of
    the week
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    now in our study today we're going to
    notice
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    itgroup which is classified as the
    wicked
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    there are three different kinds
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    of people
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    or ask unblocked side
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    there is only one
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    tight of person
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    so in the category outs safe and see
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    are free types of people
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    whereas on the side of goradze
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    there is only
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    one time
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    number of other study today the famous
    parable of jesus
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    of the seller
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    who sold the sea
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    and as we began i would like to say that
    this parable is found in all three
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    of the synoptic gospels when i mean by
    the synoptic gospels is matthew
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    mark
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    and lou
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    this terrible has filed an all three of
    these gospels
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    which means that we're not going to
    remain only in one gospel as we study
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    this parable
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    were going to go out to matthew mark and
    luke
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    in order to do we need details
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    from every single one arby's
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    gospels
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    and as i am speaking now i would like to
    ask
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    the deacons to please distribute the
    list of cuts and almost hit my mind
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    we have less attacks and we would like
    the deacons at this point to please
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    quickly
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    distribute
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    these lists of tents
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    we want them again
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    look at matthew chapter thirteen
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    adverse thirty-seven
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    matthew chapter thirteen
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    adverse
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    thirty-seven
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    we want to determine first of all
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    who sa lawyer of the cv is
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    it says they're and matthew thirteen and
    burst thirty-seven
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    the following
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    he answered and said to them
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    whose sole role is
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    dot blot cd
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    is the psalm
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    abang
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    son the parable of the solar
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    the person whose sole was
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    but let's see
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    is not less
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    vinci's was
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    now we also want to determine what the
    seeded represents
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    going to make to the gospel of luke
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    chapter eighteen
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    actually not chapter eighth not eighteen
    look chapter eight and verse eleven
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    luke chapter eight
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    and verse you havent
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    it says here now the parable is this
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    that's either
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    gears
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    bullard
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    of god
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    so nice that we have one solar
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    jason's
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    we have on the one seat
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    which is the word of god
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    no i want your daughters that that seed
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    that word of god
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    is very very powerful
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    got what nato i say that chapter fifty
    five
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    and versus ten any levin
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    isaiah fifty five
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    and versus ten
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    and eleven
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    here we find the profits speaking the
    following wertz
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    isaiah chapter fifty five
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    and vs
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    and eleven
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    for us the rain calms down
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    and this al from heaven
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    and do not return there
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    but a lot of the earth
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    and make it bring forth embarked
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    that it may give seat to this solar
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    and director of the heater
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    saw show mind worded
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    being that goes forth from my mouth
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    it shall not to return it to me about it
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    but inshallah com police
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    what high please
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    and it shall prosper engulfing for which
    i sent it
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    here god promises that what he saw
    secede
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    his cv well bear fruit
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    his seat is powerful his word is
    powerful
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    so what do we have so far
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    we have a sartre
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    who is jesus
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    we have a seed which is the word of god
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    and that seed is powerful to produce the
    results for which got sent it
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    but had this terrible we also have for
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    the effort saw deals
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    for different grounds so-to-speak
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    now the question is what do these four
    soils
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    represent
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    daughter making the gospel of mark
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    chapter four
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    and verse fifteen
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    marked chapter four
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    and verse
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    fifteen
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    here we have an explanation of what is
    meant to be
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    by the soils
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    it says here
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    the following
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    and this is speaking about the seed
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    that fail by the wayside
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    but it'll give us the principal for all
    alba solos excessive risk fifteen
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    and these are the ones by the wayside
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    where the word is sold
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    i hear
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    saic outcomes immediately
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    and takes on going
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    but what are the that was solloway
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    there was solid in their hearts
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    so that's it
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    in his sock in the ground or at the soil
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    but that's all i a lot represents what
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    the seidel represents
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    the heart
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    and so this parable of the sort you out
    for it
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    different kinds of hearts
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    reactance hearts an undesirable
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    all only one of them is desirable
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    in fact three
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    have these hearts etc dot being in the
    camp of satan
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    and only one of these aesop being on the
    side
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    of god
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    edsall summarizing what we've studied we
    have this parable what's sort who is
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    jesus
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    we have watched seed which is the word
    of god
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    the work of god is powerful to account
    police dot dot progress for which it is
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    sent
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    and finally
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    this sidles
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    represent
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    for different kinds of of hearts upon
    which the seed of the truth of god's
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    word
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    falls
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    now let's examine all four of these
    sorts
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    and see what they have to teach us today
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    let school first of all up to that
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    seemed that failed by the wayside or on
    the path
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    dark made on both chapter eight
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    and we'll read verse twelve look chapter
    eight
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    adverse twelve the scene
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    by the wayside
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    it says here
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    bolstered by the wayside
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    i don't want to hear
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    by the way everyone in this parable
    here's
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    blowouts who cesar planted by the
    wayside
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    the hearts
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    here
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    though i wasn't starting classes
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    the people here
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    but some on flyers
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    the people here
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    bars on the ground the people in it
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    in other words there's no way of saying
    i didn't know all this
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    in other words everyone is responsible
    because every one of these soils
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    here's
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    the word of god
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    now knock us once again it says in verse
    twelve lost by the wayside
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    are the ones who here
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    vet devil comes
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    and tanks are weighing dole word
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    out of their hearts
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    lest they should be leaving
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    and do you want
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    nbc_
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    falls on the wayside are on the path
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    does not even begin to germany
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    democracy vase of the heart
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    the devil comes and takes away to see
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    these are individuals who hear the word
    of god
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    anne makes deadly they've reject the
    word or they postpone they refuse to
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    accept
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    what god
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    is teaching them
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    we have that legal examples of this type
    of person
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    you remember for example when the
    apostle paul appeared before feely ts
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    the story is found in exchequer
    twenty-four converse twenty five
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    the apostle paul preach this tremendous
    powerful sermon
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    and after you preached a sermon he was
    hoping that felix
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    what except the message
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    but i want to notice
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    what happened
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    with three weeks
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    it says here
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    in
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    villa book of acts chapter twenty four
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    inverse
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    twenty-five the following
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    not asking you resend about right
    justice
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    self contribu
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    and a judgment to cum laude ismael
    ceremonies bridge in the word of god
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    about these things
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    felix was afraid
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    and answered
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    blow away for now
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    what i have a convenient time
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    i will call for you
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    do you know the opportunity never k
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    because
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    that was his moment of opportunity
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    what a sad
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    it's convenient i will call you
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    not convenient time in turkey
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    we have also the apostle paul spanning
    the fourteen agreed upon
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    not as acts chapter twenty six
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    and versus twenty seven and twenty eight
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    exchequer twenty six and versus twenty
    seven and twenty eight
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    once again the apostle paul is priest a
    powerful sarma about receiving jesus
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    christ
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    and preparing for the judgment
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    and much of a notice what happens when
    he finishes his sermon
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    it says they're in acs chapter twenty
    six and verse
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    twenty seven
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    and twenty eight
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    doug reply
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    don't believe the profits
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    i'm not
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    i'll bet you do believe
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    that hug repulsive to paul
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    you almost
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    persuade me
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    to become
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    actress
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    tragic war
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    some properties powerful service
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    be far phoenix
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    before work but
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    felix s
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    i will call you at a convenient season
    he puts it off
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    acrobats says
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    you know what you're saying is very
    persuasive and powerful you almost
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    persuade me
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    to become a christian but not quite
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    deceived fail underpaid
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    the seed failed by the wayside
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    it did not given begin to germinate
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    in the heart
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    these types of here is our also
    illustrated bites
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    those
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    who stalled steven the first christian
    barter
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    but what made to the book up acts
    chapter seven
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    acts separate seven
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    but either way this whole chapter almost
    yes a sermon presented
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    by steven
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    to the jury said he'd read
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    to the jewish council
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    now watch notice what happens after
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    the sermon is preached
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    chapter seven and starting with versus
    fifty four
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    it says well they heard these things
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    they were cut to the heart
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    and a net
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    stab him with their he
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    they were really angry weren't there
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    but heat being fought the holy spirit
    day is going to happen
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    and saw the glory of god and jesus
    standing at the right hand of god
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    and said look
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    i seem to have a solvent and the set-up
    man standing of the right hand of god
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    vandyck krakow without loud voice
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    bear
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    errors
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    and ran at him with a card
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    and a cat scan out of the city and
    stoned him
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    and the witnesses lay down their clothes
    at the feet of a young man named song
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    gnashing their teeth
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    their hearts a raging within them
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    rejecting this wonderful simon that
    stephen had preached
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    beginning way back in the old testament
    and showing how prophecy was fulfilled
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    and eventually the messiah came
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    the openly rejected
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    the message that god presented
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    through stephen
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    by the way in the end time there are
    going to be people like this also
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    in fact all of those who received the
    message of the anti christ will be
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    eventually be people of this time
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    not a second thessalonians chapter two
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    second fazal audience chapter two and i
    would like to read afew verses that we
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    find they're beginning with burst eight
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    it says they're embattled lol this one
    will be revealed
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    that's the anti christ by the way
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    hold a lark will consume with the breath
    of his mouth
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    and destroyed with the brightness for
    this coming
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    the coming up a lot less one is
    according to the working of satan
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    without power assigns and line wonders
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    and that's all i might just be section
    among those who perished
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    and now morris why they perish
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    because
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    they did not greasy what
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    the laugh public truth
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    that they might be saved by the way what
    is truth
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    jesus said in john seventeen percent
    gain
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    sanctified and through your truth yaar
    wondered is truth
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    so what has rejected if they did not
    receive the love of the truth
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    they rejected truth which is found where
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    in the holy bible
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    norris what we find enforced eleven
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    and for this reason dot will send them
    elsewhere
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    notion
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    that they should be in the black
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    the line
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    that they are
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    they condemned who did not
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    relieve what
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    the truth
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    but had pleasure
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    in on righteousness
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    and as a serious rang
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    to have the word of god preached
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    and presented to you
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    and the first type of soil represents
    those
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    who hear our caller
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    but email
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    hardly wear cubs they shot out the word
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    the work does not even began germinate
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    and as a result take sacred takes the
    troops from the heart
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    and those who have this kind of soil
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    i lost
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    but we have a second kind of song
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    it's the soil
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    unse stoney
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    go with me to the gospel of luke
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    chapter eight adversities
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    the gospel of luke chapter eight
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    and versus six
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    the description obvious conduct so
    little
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    it says there
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    the following
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    fail under a rock
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    anis has its frank
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    it with their outweighing because it
    lacked what
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    meister
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    now i watch visualize that what's
    happening here
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    there is a rock but there's also some
    good site
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    because the scene germinate skynet
    begins to grow isn't that right
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    you know is that this cd this saw is
    different than the first so because the
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    first solo even before the siege
    emanates
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    the devil concentrated from the heart
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    but here at least
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    the cd cancer its process of growth
    there
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    yes some subtle there
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    but we noticed then looked after eight
    that that's on a lot lack slot
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    it lacks
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    mores jer
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    and by the way it's stony it's rocky
    this not year or so little
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    there's also stalled with the soil
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    by the way as we witness in matthew
    thirteen it gives us an additional
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    detail
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    noise matthew thirteen vs five and six
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    matthew chapter thirteen
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    and vs five
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    and six
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    it says here
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    south fail un stony places
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    werent they did not have much whacked
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    much are
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    and the email
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    italy sprang up
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    because they have no depth of cars
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    but notice but when the sun was opt
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    they were sparked ste
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    an because they have no route
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    they work
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    they withered away nonetheless the
    combination that we have here
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    we have saw al
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    which is not always so little but you
    have rocked
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    in the song
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    you outside a little
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    that does not have moisture
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    and you have the same dead
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    it's down upon the soil
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    and scratches
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    the sea
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    starches the newborn client
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    now you imagine some of you living here
    in the valley i may i imagine have
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    gardens
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    what would happen if you plant a seed
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    and it adds just a little bit soil
    enhancements stall owner underneath that
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    and so you plant the seed superficially
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    there's no forrester hardly in the earth
  • 20:30 - 20:35
    and the sound of that fresno side are
    intending residual i you know about that
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    is big
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    came out of time to see
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    how much of an opportunity does that
    seem to have to germinate and grow and
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    eventually produce fruit
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    very
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    now what does the seed planted
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    i'm stony ground
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    represent
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    well it represents those individuals
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    who when the dust bowl it's preach to
    them
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    thrilled with excitement and with the
    motion
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    has planted in the heart
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    and a they say this is wonderful i've
    never heard anything like it in my light
  • 21:11 - 21:13
    and they got all of those
  • 21:13 - 21:16
    but then trials and tribulations come
  • 21:16 - 21:19
    you see one of the problems that people
    have is that they think that when they
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    accept the gospel it's been a key or all
    of their problems they're not going to
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    have temptations are difficulties are
    tribulations anymore the fact is false
  • 21:29 - 21:32
    their greatest tribulations com after
    baptism
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    the greatest tests of the devil come
    after we've decided to get our hearts to
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    jesus christ i see many of you nodding
    you say yes
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    that's absolutely true
  • 21:42 - 21:44
    because the devil has lost a child
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    and he's got to make it as difficult as
    possible to try and gain that child back
  • 21:50 - 21:53
    but there are people that when the dust
    was preached when we have a series of
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    meetings like this
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    their all pumped up
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    and they're really excited
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    and then they have problems with their
    families that have problems with their
  • 22:01 - 22:03
    relatives they have problems at work
  • 22:03 - 22:05
    they have all sorts of difficulties
  • 22:05 - 22:09
    perhaps i can tell you having problems
    with some of the habits that they had
  • 22:09 - 22:11
    and they get discouraged
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    and as a result the fall
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    by the wayside
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    by the way this c this so little
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    represents those
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    who want disarmed jesus and themselves
  • 22:23 - 22:26
    you see the stone represents a stoner
  • 22:26 - 22:30
    that some other kind of good song which
    means that they want to serve the lord
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    but they also want to keep some of self
  • 22:32 - 22:35
    these are the ones that jesus spoke
    about what he said
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    noel man
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    ken starr effort to masters
  • 22:38 - 22:42
    you cannot serve the lord with a divided
    heart in other words
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    it easy there everything are nothing
  • 22:45 - 22:49
    now i want you to notice acouple of
    passages in scripture
  • 22:49 - 22:51
    did speak about
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    what happens when we receive the gospel
    of jesus but what made a mark chapter
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    ten and versus twenty eight to thirty
    one
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    mark chapter ten
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    and versus twenty eight
  • 23:02 - 23:04
    two thirty one
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    jesus has just talked about how
    difficult it is far rich man to enter
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    the kingdom of heaven
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    and i want you to notice
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    what jesus continues saint of the
    disciples because they say we've left it
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    all what's in it for us see they were
    kind of mercenaries
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    and so jesus says unmarked and beginning
    adverse
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    twenty-eight
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    the following
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    mark ten twenty eight
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    that appear began to say to him
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    we have left all and followed you
  • 23:34 - 23:37
    sought jesus answered and said
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    assuredly i say to you
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    there is no one who was left house
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    or brothers or sisters or father
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    or mother or wife
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    or children
  • 23:47 - 23:48
    all our lands
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    for might say abduct schools
  • 23:52 - 23:56
    who shall not receive haha dreadful now
    and this time houses and brothers and
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    sisters and mothers and children and
    lands
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    the next expression
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    now most
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    slot
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    persecutions
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    enemy you stuck come
  • 24:09 - 24:11
    eternal life
  • 24:11 - 24:15
    did you know is that you receive many
    blessings because you have a new family
  • 24:15 - 24:16
    into a church family
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    and so you have everything you need
    within the church family
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    but the etc but we find jesus saying
    that this will be with what
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    persecution
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    norris matthew chapter ten
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    and beginning with versus thirty-four
    the same idea coming through
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    matthew chapter denver study for by the
    way it's become very popular today
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    to see on television television
    preachers
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    would tell you that when you receive
    jesus
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    you're going to prosper you're going to
    get directs
  • 24:46 - 24:48
    and things are going to go well
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    that cost totally against the grain
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    of scripture
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    and particularly this parable not so
    that we find in matthew chapter ten
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    and beginning with verse
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    thirty-four
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    jesus says this
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    think that i came to bring peace unrest
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    i did not come to bring this by the
    sword that's sound strange coming from
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    blitz is jesus is indeed the prince of
    peace
  • 25:13 - 25:16
    modest verse thirty five
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    far i have come to settle man against
    this pop his father
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    anna dot against her mother
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    anna daughter in law against her
    mother-in-law
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    events cummings will be balls up his own
    household
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    breast thirty-seven
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    he wore last father or mother more than
    me is not worthy of me
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    and he will not sign a card bader
    marconi is not worth the of me
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    yusuf ops the second soil represents
    those individuals
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    cool here at work
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    they get excited
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    they think everything is gonna be a good
    everything is gonna be prosperity
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    they have a divided art they haven't
    totally given up on self they have very
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    little lost your of the holy spirit in
    their lives
  • 26:02 - 26:05
    they have a stocky heart and aside
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    out collections
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    sop and a m in the fall
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    by the wayside
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    and ultimately
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    are lost
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    you know several years ago while i was
    teaching in our our university in
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    colombia
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    there was this young lady that came to
    our theological school she came to study
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    is a bible instructor her name plus a
    female mendes
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    she was involved in an accident and she
    died a few years ago
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    but she came to our school
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    and uh... you know i tried to get close
    to the students and find out about their
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    background and so
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    one day i was sitting under the trees
    there another dimension
  • 26:42 - 26:46
    uh... you know she came and sat down we
    started talking as she told me her story
  • 26:46 - 26:50
    she's ed pastor aryan i'd lived in this
    town in colonial remember the name of
  • 26:50 - 26:53
    the town burned in this town in colombia
  • 26:53 - 26:56
    and uh... there are received and ellen
    the mail that they were going to have
  • 26:56 - 26:59
    uh... this series of meetings
  • 26:59 - 27:03
    and saw uh... i decided that i would go
    to that series of meetings even though i
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    did
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    but i didn't know anything about the
    church where the rabin held i didn't
  • 27:07 - 27:09
    know anything about the speaker
  • 27:09 - 27:10
    but god
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    opening night i went to the meetings
  • 27:12 - 27:14
    there was an evangelistic series you can
    guess
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    and so she went for the whole
    evangelistic series
  • 27:17 - 27:21
    and at the end of the series he decided
    that she would be the attached
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    insult she went home
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    and she told her parents i've been going
    to these meetings
  • 27:25 - 27:29
    and uh... i believe that the truth is
    being proclaimed their they ask you what
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    churches that is that the catholic
    church he said no on if the seventh
  • 27:33 - 27:38
    adventist church and uh... immediately
    the parents frantz calden frowns and
  • 27:38 - 27:41
    says you've been going to the seventh
    evidence church she said yes
  • 27:41 - 27:45
    and i've been hearing these wonderful
    messages and i believe that's the truth
  • 27:45 - 27:49
    and i've made my decision to be back on
    ste
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    her father looked at her and he said
  • 27:51 - 27:53
    a subpoena
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    if u get baptized
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    you don't have a father and mother
  • 28:00 - 28:02
    we're all this are you
  • 28:02 - 28:06
    and also been a lot better father
    insisted father i love you the bible
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    says that we're supposed to honor our
    father my mother
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    but i told my allegiance first of my
    heavenly father
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    and therefore i'm going to go through
    with this
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    i'm going to be baptized on
    such-and-such a day
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    and her father xavier baptized on that
    date
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    united daughter you can't live here
    anymore
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    she went to the church
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    she got baptized
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    her parents knew about because they were
    checking it out
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    when ha subpoena came home
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    all of our few belongings were on the
    front door step of the house
  • 28:39 - 28:42
    entered at matter at the door and he
    said also fiat
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    don't chew ever come back here again
  • 28:48 - 28:51
    and she said i'm sorry father
  • 28:51 - 28:52
    i love you very much
  • 28:52 - 28:57
    but i must obey god rather than men and
    that includes my own parents
  • 28:57 - 29:00
    and she came to the school she did have
    anyplace to go
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    and that's why she came and decide to
    study at the school
  • 29:04 - 29:09
    she became a bible worker she married a
    seventh-day adventist pastor
  • 29:09 - 29:12
    and by the way her parents never
    accepted the message
  • 29:12 - 29:13
    as far as i know
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    she was disloyal
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    for the rest of her life
  • 29:17 - 29:22
    she did not receive the work like this
    stalini ground here is
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    army went revelation came and the fact
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    directly against her
  • 29:26 - 29:27
    she says
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    mileage and spears with god
  • 29:30 - 29:34
    by a personal and a superficial religion
    with very little holy spirit a very
  • 29:34 - 29:38
    little moisture because the monitor
    represents the holy spirit
  • 29:38 - 29:39
    what
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    they followed by the wayside
  • 29:41 - 29:42
    and said
  • 29:42 - 29:43
    oh laughs values
  • 29:43 - 29:45
    i can have my foot
  • 29:45 - 29:49
    outlier kids make i can't have my fellow
    workers against me hike at my friend's
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    against me
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    and in full
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    by the wayside
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    by the way did you know that judas it's
    scary it fits in this category
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    i'm not going to read a passage brandon
    matthew eight verses eighteen to twenty
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    two
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    there's a certain scribe it comes to
    jesus and he says to him i'll follow you
  • 30:07 - 30:11
    wherever you go
  • 30:11 - 30:14
    that was yours
  • 30:14 - 30:17
    jesus tried to discourage him because
    you know it's hard
  • 30:17 - 30:19
    says
  • 30:19 - 30:21
    barracks at mass
  • 30:21 - 30:24
    foxes have holes
  • 30:24 - 30:28
    but the son of man doesn't have anyplace
    delays it
  • 30:28 - 30:31
    what jesus was saying to him as a look
  • 30:31 - 30:33
    if you're if i don't mean
  • 30:33 - 30:36
    for those also that this is
  • 30:36 - 30:38
    no i'm not going down the wrong road
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    because i don't have any prosperity and
    all that money and i don't have anything
  • 30:42 - 30:46
    to offer your in terms of material
    prosperity
  • 30:46 - 30:49
    if you follow me for that reason forgave
  • 30:49 - 30:52
    do you know if you look at the context
    of that passage
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    you're going to find that judas offered
    to follow jesus
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    when jesus was popular
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    multitudes were following jesus
  • 31:03 - 31:07
    a people were excited because jesus was
    healing diseases and he was fading
  • 31:07 - 31:09
    thousands of people
  • 31:09 - 31:10
    it's a lot
  • 31:10 - 31:13
    out this is the guide that we want to be
    with but then we just are preaching the
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    word
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    accorded the judge after six
  • 31:16 - 31:20
    only the disciples were left
  • 31:20 - 31:24
    and jesus says are you going to leave
    too
  • 31:24 - 31:27
    empiricism lowered if we leave work and
    we go
  • 31:27 - 31:29
    you have miracles
  • 31:29 - 31:31
    so what readers at
  • 31:31 - 31:33
    you have what
  • 31:33 - 31:37
    you have works
  • 31:37 - 31:40
    see peter he said many things without
    thinking
  • 31:40 - 31:42
    but this was one good thing that he said
  • 31:42 - 31:47
    yes i do you have not goes and signs and
    wonders he says you path
  • 31:47 - 31:49
    but why arts of life
  • 31:49 - 31:52
    everybody else left because i would no
    longer in our cause
  • 31:52 - 31:54
    but peter
  • 31:54 - 31:55
    headed straight
  • 31:55 - 31:57
    and so we have two kinds of soil
  • 31:57 - 32:01
    those by the wayside who don't respond
    at all when the worries preached they
  • 32:01 - 32:04
    showed no religious interest
  • 32:04 - 32:05
    saket
  • 32:05 - 32:08
    the laws on the stony ground they have a
    superficial
  • 32:08 - 32:10
    acceptance of the truth
  • 32:10 - 32:12
    part rock
  • 32:12 - 32:15
    there also and partnered soiled part
    jesus
  • 32:15 - 32:20
    trying to sacto masters accepting jesus
    at that time of emotion and feeling
  • 32:20 - 32:22
    tribulations com
  • 32:22 - 32:24
    they fall by the wayside
  • 32:24 - 32:26
    but there's a third type afzal
  • 32:26 - 32:29
    and that is the seed that fail
  • 32:29 - 32:30
    among the
  • 32:30 - 32:32
    form
  • 32:32 - 32:34
    used to have a good sign
  • 32:34 - 32:35
    but there were a farce
  • 32:35 - 32:39
    not a salute chapter eight inverse
    fourteen
  • 32:39 - 32:46
    luke chapter eight inverse fourteen
    describes this current of soil
  • 32:46 - 32:47
    it says there
  • 32:47 - 32:50
    invoke chapter eight inverse fourteen
  • 32:50 - 32:53
    the following
  • 32:53 - 32:55
    now the winds that fail amato
  • 32:55 - 32:58
    forums
  • 32:58 - 33:00
    i've always cool
  • 33:00 - 33:02
    have heard sleeping here also
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    well they have heard it
  • 33:05 - 33:08
    gault
  • 33:08 - 33:10
    and are what
  • 33:10 - 33:13
    anike shopped
  • 33:13 - 33:15
    by what
  • 33:15 - 33:17
    with perris
  • 33:17 - 33:22
    by the way if you go up to the gospel
    uh... of mark
  • 33:22 - 33:25
    chapter four inverse nineteen it adds an
    ex-president says
  • 33:25 - 33:30
    by the kerry's obvious world
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    it adds that by the cares of this world
    you know because of this world arc
  • 33:34 - 33:37
    wanting to accumulate houses
  • 33:37 - 33:38
    and cards
  • 33:38 - 33:41
    and money in stocks and bonds
  • 33:41 - 33:44
    in wanting to work two jobs
  • 33:44 - 33:46
    things that are not bad and themselves
  • 33:46 - 33:52
    but with jobs all or part time and
    effort
  • 33:52 - 33:54
    that's part of the forms
  • 33:54 - 33:56
    that care is of this life
  • 33:56 - 34:02
    not us once again uh... looked chapter
    eight and verse fourteen
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    it says
  • 34:03 - 34:07
    now the ones that felt among the
    florence and also wet may have heard got
  • 34:07 - 34:09
    out an art shot with a care
  • 34:09 - 34:13
    this of this world if you compare mark
  • 34:13 - 34:15
    what else
  • 34:15 - 34:20
    actually mark says with that dc
    fullness of riches
  • 34:20 - 34:24
    so that's why you have to compare all
    three gospels because it's one expresses
  • 34:24 - 34:26
    that a little differently
  • 34:26 - 34:27
    riches
  • 34:27 - 34:29
    is that the ec
  • 34:29 - 34:30
    formats of riches
  • 34:30 - 34:32
    and then something else
  • 34:32 - 34:34
    and a lot
  • 34:34 - 34:34
    and apply
  • 34:34 - 34:37
    fisher's out alive
  • 34:37 - 34:40
    and bring no proof
  • 34:40 - 34:42
    to maturity
  • 34:42 - 34:47
    the florence by the way what the forums
    represent in scripture
  • 34:47 - 34:50
    you remember in genesis chapter three
    adverse eighteen
  • 34:50 - 34:55
    what came in consequence of sin
  • 34:55 - 34:58
    god said car scares the ground for your
    state
  • 34:58 - 35:03
    in talking would you show event although
    days of your life
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    and at what does he say
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    both clarence and fred souls
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    it shall bring forth
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    for you
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    foreign census vessels
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    represent
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    saying
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    it comes in
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    the pleasures of this world
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    dot
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    of this life
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    that decided for mass aldrich is scott
    and and they chaal
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    the plant
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    which has begun to grow
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    now we have been brutal examples of this
    we have a rich young rumor that came to
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    geez
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    do you know the bible says that jesus
    loved this young man
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    he seems easiest blessing the children
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    missus i'd love that they look at how
    the children
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    i've drawn
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    so he comes to jesus
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    and he says what do i need to do to have
    eternal life juices will keep the
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    commitments
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    he says which
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    so then jesus quotes
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    the last table of a lot
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    and the address es i've done all these
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    thanks since i was a young boy
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    what part of it
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    and jesus looks at him
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    and he says
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    you would be perfect
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    gold sales all that you have
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    and give it to the poor
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    and you will have treasure with me in
    heaven come follow me
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    and the bible says
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    that this young man left
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    southville
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    because he had a lot
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    because he had
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    possessions
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    did he allowed the dc fullness of
    riches to choke
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    the seat in his heart
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    you know folks as as seventy evidence
    precios many times you say although i'm
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    not a slave to money i have no problems
    of money i can handle it
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    and yet what are we doing
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    work too hard waiting finance dept were
    not that we don't really need
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    isn't that right
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    doing it for houses
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    to live in
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    doing actually we
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    for automobiles
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    don't actually need
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    tens of thousands at first
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    files on some balance and the bank
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    while the work of god is languishing
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    do you know that i miss coming when
    people are gonna cry out
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    why didn't i use my money why didn't i
    invest my money in the kingdom of god
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    defer that the gospel
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    why did i acutally for myself
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    when we won't be able to buy and sell
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    people are going to say that
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    but it's going to be too late
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    the dc fullness of riches
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    has been the ruin
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    of their soul
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    by the way the apostle paul had
    something very interesting to say first
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    timothy chapter six verses nine and ten
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    first timothy chapter six versus nine
    and ten the apostle paul had something
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    very interesting to say about money
    analogical reed had to read it carefully
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    with me
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    because i'm
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    some people misread it they get the
    impression that riches abit ridges are
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    not bad
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    notice what the apostle paul says in
    first timothy chapter six converse nine
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    but also desire to be rates lotus is not
    even say the rates because a lot of the
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    rich
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    but also a desire to be rich
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    did temptations and a lot
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    a smear
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    an internet foliage and ha
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    default lasts
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    which drowned and in destruction and
    producers
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    because the more money in our the more
    twice you want and the more entertaining
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    that you want and the more popular
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    now modest verse ten
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    far molly
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    is the root of all kinds of evil
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    uh... thank you thank you
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    for the lack of money
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    is on rooftops on times of evil was the
    king james says is the root of all evil
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    novelist this for weeks on the head
    straight
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    and from the fight in their greedy miss
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    and pierce themselves through with many
    sorrows
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    do you know
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    i have
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    scene
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    many rich people that are absolutely
    miserable
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    because they're always afraid they're
    going to lose their riches
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    and they're always thinking about making
    mark and investing more
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    do you know that jesus gave a parable
    which describes this type of person
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    no absolute chapter twelve
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    looks chapter twelve and verse fifteen
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    luke chapter twelve and verse fifteen
    foster said not time for us to invest
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    art treasures in the heavenly bed
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    did not get how you can send your money
    panel now
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    you don't send video back nasa
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    and have now so send it in a rocket
  • 39:51 - 39:52
    but they haven't
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    what you do is you and bask in its cost
    and the salvation of souls
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    and when the solid penned up their your
    investment is there
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    now not so that we find in look once
    again chapter twelve
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    and beginning at first fifteen twelve
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    verse fifteen this is another parables
    jesus
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    and he said to them
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    take heed
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    and beware of covered just nuts
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    for once life does not consist
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    india but that's not the frenzy plus
    taxes
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    life does not consistently abundance of
    what
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    things which we possess
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    nice running illustrate
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    danny spark a parable to them same
    background of a certain richmond yielded
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    plentiful e
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    and he fought within himself
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    saying
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    whatcha like you
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    so yes i have no room to store my crafts
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    sali said
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    i will do this
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    local down my barnes and build greater
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    and their all will start all my
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    crops and mag goods
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    and i will say to my soul so
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    you have many goods led up for many
    years date carries
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    etc and be mary
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    how you get in the connection with the
    parable of the song
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    brass twenty
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    but god said to him
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    full
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    this not your soul will be required of
    you
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    then holds will postings
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    be which you have provided saw is he
    coolest op treasure for himself
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    and he is not
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    rich
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    tort
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    we find jonassaint love not the world
  • 41:44 - 41:45
    no other things better in the world
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    and i know we paid lip service to this
    folks
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    do you believe that we're living in the
    last moments of human history
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    this in as we look at what's happening
    in the world
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    i can't help but my revel in the last
    couple of weeks what we've been seeing
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    how the united states is fulfilling the
    prophecy of revelation thirty in the
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    initial stages at least
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    and how all of the questions are coming
    together with a common attend dot
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    it stopped we are as practically clear
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    the question is what are we doing with
    the resources that god has given us
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    are we
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    investing please and the cause of
    dinosaur well pastor bar you just want
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    to be paid
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    well let me tell you the private comes
    here to this church
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    but you know which in none of it comes
    into my pocket
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    it all goes to a central location
  • 42:34 - 42:36
    and then they pay all of the pastors
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    anat equitable basis
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    i don't receive any of the offerings
    that come into the church the offerings
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    golfer the writing of this church for
    the preaching of the gospel for
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    evangelistic meetings for health
    seminars
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    for all of these things which have the
    intent on reaching people with the got
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    school
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    and i pray to god that we will late
    everything we have time to talk to have
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    sacrificed because soon it might be too
    late
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    we need to wake up from a slumber
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    we better not call not too long
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    we've got it
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    who aren't too long
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    it's time to get up
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    and make a sacrifice regard as i
    mentioned in one of the previous
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    lectures
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    the little window
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    she comes in chief closer to mike sin
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    jesus says she gave more than all of us
    will be a great a great sums
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    and explain why
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    he says because
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    came out of their abundance and others i
    get what they have leftover what they
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    really didn't
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    eight but she gave all
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    that she had
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    her only system
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    it's
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    and so we have jesus said
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    by the way in looked after twenty one
    thirty four
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    he says make sure that your heart is not
    weighed down by carousing drunkenness
  • 43:45 - 43:49
    and the cares obvious life death that
    day come upon you
  • 43:49 - 43:51
    unexpectedly
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    an easy kill chapter seven burst
    nineteen we're told that in the day when
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    the wrath of god is poured out upon this
    world
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    people attacked their called and their
    silver and they will find
  • 44:03 - 44:06
    hence on the streets
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    and there are saying what does this
    world
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    we return only lost what good is that i
    have all of these things silver and gold
  • 44:13 - 44:17
    will be absolutely worthless
  • 44:17 - 44:21
    and so we have three different kinds of
    people so far that we stay
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    number one they hear the word
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    be rejected
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    doesn't even begin to germany
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    number two
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    those individual so here's alert
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    and in a moment of emotion they accept
    that they say this is wonderful
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    and that relations com
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    the sun comes out and beats on the
    planet
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    impacts
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    then you have balls
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    they are on foreign soil
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    for whom the dc elissa preachers
    riches the terracotta this life
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    strangle the seed that has been planted
    the plant that is beginning to grow
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    but i thank god that there's one other
    kind of slow
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    and that is the good summer
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    norris what we find in the gospel of
    luke chapter eight and versus fifteen
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    luke chapter eight
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    and verse
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    fifteen
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    we find out there
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    the following words luke eight inverse
    fifteen
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    but the ones that fail and a good ground
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    eyeball sku
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    having her
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    their word
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    without noble and good heart
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    do what
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    chia pet
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    and bear fruit with what
  • 45:42 - 45:43
    patients
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    noticed that the good side represents
    loss will hear the word of god
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    where what
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    and eventually if there's a lot fruit
  • 45:52 - 45:52
    patients
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    does affect starbucks on l
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    bear fruit
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    does a second type of soil bear fruit
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    that's a fact dot gov soil bear fruit
    nor the plant begins to route but more
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    fruit
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    what is quite interested in
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    goddess interested and planting the seed
    of his word in our hearts
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    and that we might we see
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    that c
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    wef al-assad
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    with plenty of the moisture of the holy
    spirit
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    and a taxi driver named
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    emperador supplier
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    which eventually will bear whacked will
    bear fruit for god's under and god's
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    glory
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    revelation chapter one in verse three
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    we find john speaking about this book
    which deals with ken tiny bits
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    he says blessed is he
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    and
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    and also here the parts of this prophecy
    and what and people most things
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    which
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    are repent ended
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    for the time is near
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    notice
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    reiki
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    hearing that means to pay attention and
    what
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    and
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    noticed john chapter fourteen and verse
    twenty three john chapter fourteen and
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    verse twenty three
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    by the way jesus are biting in our
    hearts
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    has a condition he will not candid abide
    in any heart
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    notice what we find in john chapter
    fourteen
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    and vs
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    twenty three
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    guarantees us
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    says this
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    if everyone loves me
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    he will work
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    hywell cape
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    my
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    wire
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    and my father will love him
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    and we will come to him
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    and make our home with him
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    isn't that the other four
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    if anyone here is my work and watch
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    and
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    sly word
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    behind the file
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    other will come
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    and we will make our holm are uphold
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    with them
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    james tells us that it's not duck
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    here is of the word
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    which will be justified but whom but
    donors of the word
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    by the way do you know that indian time
    they're going to be many christians
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    who hear the word
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    but don't do it
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    noticed
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    the gospel of matthew chapter seven
    matthew chapter seven and verse twenty
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    one
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    matthew chapter seven and verse twenty
    one this is a very solemn passage
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    i'm gonna read several vs
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    jesus is not everyone who says to me
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    lord lord
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    jackets that
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    not everyone who says to me lord lord
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    show after the kingdom of heaven
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    but he who does that will have my father
    in heaven was if not only hearing but a
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    lot
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    doing if not only saying
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    doing
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    verse twenty two
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    many will say to me in that day
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    lord art
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    have we not prophesied in your name
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    passed out demons and your name
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    and done many wonders in your name
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    by the way were these christians
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    why would they be doing it in the name
    of jesus if they were christians
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    out this week the questions
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    so what is jesus was right
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    and then i will declare to them
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    i never ignore you
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    d part from maine you know who practice
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    lawlessness and then jesus gives an
    example
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    the parable
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    of the man who built this house up on
    the rock and the man who built this
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    house upon the saint
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    we even sing about this in summer school
    do you still saying this is our school
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    the wiseman builtin spouse upon the rock
    i remember i used to love to sing that
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    song
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    still do
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    style of a child at heart
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    but anyway jesus gives a parable abotu
    builders
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    who is the one who builds on the rock
    and it was the one who builds on the
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    sand
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    listen up
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    verse twenty four
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    therefore whoever here
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    first these words sayings of mine
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    and does them
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    hello
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    anybody out there today
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    therefore whoever hears these things of
    mine and spam
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    i would like him him to our wiseman who
    built his house out a lot
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    on the rock
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    and the rain descended the floods came
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    words blue and
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    on that house
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    and it did not fall
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    four it was founded on the rock what
    does that mean to be found on the rock
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    it means that you'll be here are the
    words of jesus and what and through them
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    now morris what about the man who build
    on the same
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    verse twenty six
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    but everyone who hears these sayings of
    mine and does not
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    do them
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    will be like a policeman who built his
    house on the senate
  • 51:05 - 51:09
    and the rain descended the flags came in
    the winds blew
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    and
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    on that house
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    and it fail
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    and great
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    by the way these verses are speaking
    about the tribulations that is coming up
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    on the world
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    flooring tiles are hoping the far went
    on strike
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    why are we ask you at the storm dot com
    installer
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    and all the calls who here
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    or words of jesus
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    and two of them
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    will be safe
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    in that great day
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    i'd like to take the last
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    few moments that we have
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    to talk about the process of god
    planting the seed in the so little of
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    our hearts
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    how this god
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    do it
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    well listen to what i'm gonna sing
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    the cd
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    is a word of god
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    we've already studied
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    the word of god is preached
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    and what that means is that god is
    taking the seed and he's putting it
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    where
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    he's planting the seed in the heart
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    by the way faith comes by hearing and
    hearing by what
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    by the word of god
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    what happens with people who are not
    into the word of god
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    cornerstone can block plant
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    his seat in our hearts
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    if we're not studying the word
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    absolutely not
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    because god speaks to our hearts to the
    word
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    but now we're starting to work
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    but mark dot plants his will antecedent
    in our hearts
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    antennae morrison's
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    the ground where black
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    with but do out his holy spirit
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    and i'm mark time that i suspect or
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    the longer
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    the plant grows
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    ever continue in this process
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    eve actually what's gonna happen is that
    plant is going to go out to into a tree
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    and victory eventually is going to bear
    whacked
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    is going to be here
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    and by the way what is the fruit
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    though it may delay since chapter five
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    galatians chapter five
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    and i would like to begin reading
    adverse nineteen
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    uh... well actually let's let's begin
    reading adverse twenty-one ending about
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    though works of the flesh
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    and the murders drunkenness rebel armies
    and the like
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    which i tell you beforehand
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    just as i also told your diet
    basketballs
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    who practice such things will not
    inherit the kingdom of god
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    reticence about the fruit of the spirit
    verse twenty two but the fruit of the
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    spirit is
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    love joy
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    piece
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    long suffering
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    kindness
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    goodness
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    faithfulness gentleman's self controlled
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    do you know what the fruit of the spirit
    is
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    if the character of jesus
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    is is a description of the character
    jesus
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    let's read again
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    it says
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    lob joint peace long-serving kindness
    goodness faithfulness gentleness self
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    control
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    that's different
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    how does the front cover
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    do you have to plant before you artistic
    uh... fruit
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    proceeded
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    so what does god do
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    he takes the scene of the truth he
    planted in her heart the more that were
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    in the words studying the word
    assimilating the work
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    god speaks to us
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    he placed the word in our hearts
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    through the influence of the holy spirit
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    that plaque begins to watch
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    to grow and eventually it produces in
    our lives
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    the fruit of the spirit
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    in other ways it produces in our lives
    that character of jesus
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    do you know we take the mold of the
    character of that which we dedicate our
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    time too
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    you know this right
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    if we gotta get most of our time
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    music and well endeavors and television
    and videos and all these things
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    what type of character regatta
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    we're going to reflect that character
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    but the market we allow the word of god
    to enter through our allies
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    by bible study by listening to sermons
    by watching three ibn
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    by watching sports all things
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    guard plants and seed in our hearts
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    the sea grows into a plaque then grows
    into a tree and in our lives changed
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    because we had as a result the fruit of
    the spirit appearing in our lives
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    which is christ likeness
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    the hope of glory incidentally
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    so we have four solar house
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    three of them will eventually be lost
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    one of them only will be saved in the
    kingdom
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    what is the soil of your heart
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    are you
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    away side here
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    ru any story ground here
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    are you
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    forney ground here
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    or are you a good salil
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    our decision
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    will determine
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    ru ternal destiny
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    and folks let me finish with a positive
    note
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    do you know that we're not stuck with
    the heart that we have
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    god can't change the heart just look at
    some of parsons
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    have style he was like
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    are starting steven along with uh... not
    actively but he was encouraging the
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    people to start a statement
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    and yet the lord changed his heart
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    from stony salil
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    two-way sought from wife side so
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    a soft
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    the good news is that give god can
    change the soil for hearts
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    and i pray to god that we will be like
    the good side
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    where the seed truth
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    despite
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    unto eternal
Title:
31. Sow a Character, Reap a Destiny
Description:

Genesis 3:15 foretold that there would be good seeds warring against wicked seeds in this world. Every person nurtures and reaps either the one seed or the other in their lives by choosing which of four types of soil we allow that seed to grow in.

Pastor Bohr examines the Parable of the Sower to find what is represented by the kinds of good and bad soil which brings up good or bad plants. This is a call for those who have heard the truth to cherish what they have heard and not let satan pluck it out of their heart by rejection or neglect, or by giving in to the cares of this world, the pressure of persecution by family and friends, or the pleasures and riches of life, which may destroy the plant which the Holy Spirit of truth has sprouted in the heart. Several biblical examples of those who chose one of the four kinds of soil are given so we may see the results of letting the Word fall on poor ground.

This sermon will encourage you to keep planting good seeds like Jesus did, no matter if they are accepted or rejected. His Word will not go out and return to Him with no result, but will bear fruit in either souls judging themselves by being unreceptive to the good seed or by being receptive to the moisture of the workings of the Holy Spirit. God can change the heart's naturally stony and unfruitful soil through contact with and time spent in absorbing His Word.

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English
Duration:
58:36
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