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Don't be left in the dark. 
Get proper understanding of life

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through the Word of God. 
My people perish for lack of 

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knowledge. 
The Word of God is an 

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illumination which gives 
direction. 

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Remain placed as Reverend was 
far alone. 

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Illuminates your mind with the 
Word of God with all simplicity 

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and clarity. 
Last week we started to study or

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glean lessons from biblical 
characters on friendship. 

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So the topic has been lessons on
friendship, and we're learning 

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the principle of clothing to 
climb. 

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You unite, you relate. 
You keep complaining that 

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together you make progress. 
That's what is intended by the 

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coinage clubbing to climb. 
And we started to prove into 

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what to look for in the 
potential frame. 

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And for it starts, we mention 
substance. 

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I like the fact that great 
friendship must be characterized

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by mutual reciprocation and not 
service expectation. 

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Lots of people go into 
friendship with selfish 

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expectation as a gain, mutual 
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respect, of kindness, even of 
charity. 

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So friendship should be a 
symbiotic relationship. 

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Now that word symbiotic is a 
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relationship is mutual and of 
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one sided. 
So friendship to be a symbiotic 

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relationship built on 
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not a parasitic relationship 
where contribution is limited to

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only one side and consumption is
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So it is expected that 
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ideal, proper and of course last
and satisfied both the spiritual

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and social purpose of keeping 
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It must be symbiotic, and by 
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should be from both end. 
It must not be a parasitic where

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one is draining the other. 
So contribution must not be 

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limited to only one side and 
consumption must not be treated 

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to just one side. 
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essentially the reason every 
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into friendship with the 
reasonable mayor of substance. 

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You know, we're probing to what 
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before you choose a relationship
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So and of course, we clarified 
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we'll use the term substance, it
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OK. 
It's about being resourceful. 

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It's about being resourceful. 
And we for our character study, 

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we studied the example of David 
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Are you coming abreast with what
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So, we studied the example of 
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friendship. 
We noted that both of them were 

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men of substance in their own 
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different social background. 
Jonathan was of royalty, David 

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was coming from a peace and 
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So whereas David was not from a 
royalty background, he was still

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not an empty gold digger in the 
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He was still capable of 
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the relationship. 
So they did not come to the 

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palace with weight or weapons. 
Nevertheless, it came with both 

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kinetic and non kinetic scheme 
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It was a musician and of course 
it was a warrior. 

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So it's non kinetic scheme, 
which is his skill in music. 

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You know, it's not a forceful 
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That's why I described it as non
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It was that non kinetic scheme 
of knowing how to play the hap 

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very well in such a way that you
can inspire the Spirit of God 

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and also make deliverance to 
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So it was that skill that 
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with the hap. 
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asked the connective skill of 
Potentia, OK, And that 

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introduced him for a second time
in the palace with the head of 

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Boulayas, praise the name of the
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So his ability to fight war, the
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Goliath that every warrior, all 
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obviously were running away 
from, he confronted Goliath and 

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it came to the palace with the 
evidence that it was the one 

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that killed Goliath. 
And I said to you that the CD 

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you are building today, the 
certificates you are acquiring, 

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this key that you are acquiring 
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One day it will be needed. 
I pray in the name of Jesus that

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your potential will not go into 
a waste in the name of Jesus. 

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So for somewhere chapter 16 so 
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kinetic ski of music force 
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some I succeed. 
I read from verse 14 But the 

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spirit of the Lord, the spirit 
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and an evil spirit from the Lord
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And Saul servant said to him, 
build now an evil spirit from 

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God troubled thee. 
Let our Lord now command thy 

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servants which are before thee 
to seek out a man who is a corny

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player on an app. 
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non kinetic skill and it shall 
come to pass when the evil split

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from God is upon thee. 
That is a play with his hand and

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thou shall be well. 
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strong in effect. 
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And Saul said unto his servant, 
Provide me now a man that can 

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play well, and bring him to me. 
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but a man that can play well. 
Please, whatever is your skill, 

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learn how to use it well. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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So they don't, they didn't just 
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Just anybody that can play, it 
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So if you are singing, singing 
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well, OK. 
If you are an athlete, be good 

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at it. 
Praise the name of the Lord. 

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So be excellent in all that you 
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One day, one day it will 
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One day, one day it will end you
the truth so and so said of the 

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servant. 
Provide me not a man that can 

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play well, and bring him to me. 
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and said, Behold, I have seen a 
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That is corny, not a word. 
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excellent in playing. 
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Can you see how the two combined
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OK, The soft non kinetic skill 
of playing well. 

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OK and the strong kinetic skill 
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And a mighty valiant man, and a 
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matters. 
So in other words, a maridos 

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skill with wisdom to manage 
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Prudent in matters. 
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you are not wise. 
And so your potential is going 

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into a waste. 
Many of you are skillful, but 

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you don't know how to explore 
the financial side of your 

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skill. 
Praise the name of the Lord. 

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You are so good, but you are not
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not prudent and a comely person 
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That is very important. 
That's very important. 

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During the second service. 
I'm going to be speaking on 

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that, Very important. 
A number of people have had 

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messages about purpose and the 
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OK in fulfilling destiny. 
OK, And yet they have discovered

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purpose and they are not making 
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Why? 
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purpose, but they lack divine 
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Understanding divine purpose and
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purpose. 
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amount to nothing. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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So the reason David could amount
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was because he understood divine
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He applied his potential and he 
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These three things are very key.
You have the potential, you must

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apply the potential to a 
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the divine presence of God. 
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when God is absent from the 
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Am I talking to somebody verse 
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source sent messenger on to GC 
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which is with the sheep and as 
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slaughter of the Phillies time 
now let's now go to chapter 17. 

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It's from there, we are now 
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the Kinect is key of being able 
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from the slaughter of the 
Philistine have not took him and

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brought him before soul with the
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hand one day. 
OK, you have the connection, the

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head of Philistine will be 
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What have you done in the past? 
What exploits? 

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OK, have you done in the past 
will be requested. 

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What are you? 
Have you been building your CV 

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for the fighter day when the 
expected and unexpected 

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opportunity we arrive. 
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Praise the name of the Lord. 
And so these were the things we 

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did last week and have expanded 
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We are still going to push 
further on these two great 

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friends and if time permit us, 
we may take on another 

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character. 
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Jonathan and David, we can 
classify friendship into two 

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types. 
One, there is the organic 

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friendship. 
During the reflection session 

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last week, I did mention that 
you don't force relationship 

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otherwise it will not work. 
It must be organic. 

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So there is organic friendship 
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friendship. 
What is the first category and 

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Sami Church the second category,
mechanical friendship. 

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So friendship is achievable 
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achievable mechanically. 
In other words, friendship do 

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evolve and friendship can be 
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Hello, friendship do evolve and 
friendship can be words can be 

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organized. 
Even marriage which is a type of

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friendship are we together? 
It can evolve organically and 

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sometimes it can be organized by
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So the type that I evolve 
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as organic type of relationship 
and the one that is organized is

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the one that I described as 
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But friendship is better when it
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when it is a mechanical one. 
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Friendship, it works better when
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when you can hone the 
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It's not anybody that forced you
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actually compel you or kajo you 
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So an organic relationship is 
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is the type that grow from 
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It is not arranged with selfish 
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opportunism or exploitation. 
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mechanical kind of friendship is
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there's always an ulterior 
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Sometimes the motive could be a 
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Most of the time you see 
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mechanical kind of friendship. 
So but for organic relationship 

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it grows from natural laws, it 
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appreciation. 
It is not far arranged with 

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service interests or ulterior 
motive of opportunities, 

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opportunism or exploitation. 
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the other hand is 
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Organic relationship can be 
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Are we together? 
It can be spontaneous, but for 

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mechanical friendship it is 
premeditatively Irene and built 

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on self-centered expectation, 
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So, but the relationship we find
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fall easily into the organic 
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you consider these two guys, 
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and where you base your 
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consideration, Jonathan will not
descend low to have a shepherd 

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boy as his most intimate friend.
You know, Jonathan was already a

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Prince in the palace. 
David was a shepherd boy in the 

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in the wilderness. 
So ordinarily and where you base

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your judgment on social 
consideration, Jonathan may not 

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want to descend. 
No, to have a shepherd boy as 

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his most intimate friend. 
Yet nobody can do him into 

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becoming an intimate friend to 
David. 

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And it was not David that made 
the first move, it was Jonathan 

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that made the first move to draw
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So it was an organic kind of 
friendship that evolved 

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naturally out of mutual love and
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So based on social 
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rather hire a David as his 
servant, maybe to keep the 

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palace animals and at most 
because he was a brilliant man. 

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Maybe as an Amor biara, because 
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Praise the name of the Lord, 
maybe as an Amor biara. 

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So that is the best you expect 
if you base the judgment on 

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social conversation. 
But the very first day that 

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Jonathan met Devi, he responded 
organically to Davis Kill with 

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respect. 
That's why I said the best kind 

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of friendship is one that 
evolved organically because it 

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comes with mutual respect. 
His first response was not to 

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hire him as a bodyguard, A 
bouncer or hire him as somebody 

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who would keep the the family 
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So it was not taken of Hayari 
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Rather, you respected him as a 
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When he saw him carrying the 
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respected him as a national hero
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We're going to read that 
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We read it last week too. 
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royal room, OK and place it on 
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And also Debbie responded very 
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over the Philistines. 
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Goliath should be fair. 
They should be able to kill 

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anybody, including King Saul. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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But he also responded 
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By winning more victories over 
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contemplating mutiny, without 
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concern, in spite of his power 
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For Samuel 18. 
For Samuel 18, And it came to 

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pass when he had made an end of 
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Are you from verse one? 
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made an end of speaking on to 
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was neat with the soul of Devi. 
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friendship is a relationship 
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to happen it. 
So the soul of Jonathan was made

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with the soul of David and 
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soul. 
Who persuaded Jonathan into that

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relationship? 
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that socially he has David out. 
Yet there was disrespect that he

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accorded David and Saul took him
that day. 

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I will let him go no more home 
to his father's house. 

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Then Jonathan and David made the
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as own soul. 
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organic friendship. 
We start as contacts, not as 

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contracts, but a mechanical 
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We start as contracts and when 
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relationship also end, the 
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dissolved. 
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will not let him go no more home
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verse 2 of chapter 18. 
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covenant because in love him as 
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So if we start as a contact, not
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of the Lord, and from there it 
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Today you see ministers of the 
gospel use the word my covenant 

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friend carelessly. 
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his covenant friend, he will 
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And Jonathan stripped himself of
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So he replaced his shepherd gown
with the royal roof, and gave it

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to David, and his garment even 
to his sword and to his bow, and

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to his gadoo. 
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And David went out. 
We are so ever saw something and

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behave himself wisely, not 
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And Saab sent him over the men 
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the sight of all the people and 
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You see reciprocation. 
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He never thought of exploiting 
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and his popularity with the 
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overthrow king. 
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So we see reciprocation then 
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David also did not forget the 
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You know, eventually David rose 
to become the king and as he was

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consolidating on the truth, as 
he was constituting his cabinet,

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he remember his late friend and 
he brought his son on board. 

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The people said Second Samuel 
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I take those but one from there 
for time and they will say is 

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there yet any that is left of 
the hours of soul that I may 

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seem kindness for Jonathan's 
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So, and I said the idea kind of 
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friendship is a symbiotic kind 
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contribution is from both end, 
not the situation whereby on one

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end that is contribution on the 
other end, the only thing you 

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find is consumption. 
So when it was time for Devi to 

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also reciprocate in 
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Well, why? 
Because in by that spirit I 

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taught you few weeks ago, the 
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That spirit was actively at work
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He recognized the good that his 
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loan that must be paid back. 
So if you are going to be a good

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friend, you will not take 
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You will take it as a loan. 
Hello. 

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Kindness that anybody does to 
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You won't take it as an 
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You will take it what as a loan.
That was the kind of spirit that

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made David to also get to this 
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I said as I'm constitute my 
cabinet OK, the family of my 

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great friend Jonathan must be 
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And he said is there any that is
left of the household of soul 

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that has I mean seem kindness 
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So he understood kindness as a 
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So organic relationship like I 
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Must not end as a contract, it 
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When you are into a relationship
and issue came up and issue can 

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easily end relationship 
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I suspect that that 
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OK, has not been able to grow 
from contact beyond contract to 

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a covenant level. 
Am I talking to somebody? 

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So organic friendship will 
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It will grow into a 
transgenerational covenants. 

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And may I draw your attention to
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Distance is never a barrier to 
an organic relationship. 

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Promotion is never a barrier to 
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What do I mean by distance? 
It is possible you relocate OK, 

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and you are no longer together 
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It is not because your friend 
has located you. 

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Now begin to shop for another 
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You will discard that even at a 
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There will be more anger for 
yourself, more respect for each 

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other. 
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promotion. 
OK, you were friends together in

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the secondary school and then 
suddenly one get to the 

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university, the other is not 
there. 

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And that is the relationship. 
It's either the one does not 

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understand the concept of 
organic relationship and then 

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became full of himself and he 
said I can't go along with you 

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again. 
Or the other one who has not 

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moved ahead became jealous of 
because of the priority complex 

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decide to disconnect. 
So not until you are able to 

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meet the two of them and study 
them critically, you may not be 

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able to know where to please the
blame. 

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It could be one that has move 
ahead there. 

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You know, that felt like I'm I'm
not too big for this kind of 

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relationship. 
It ought to be or sometimes it 

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could be the other one that is 
yet to move on that become 

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jealous or become so imperial 
and decide to to disconnect. 

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But for organic kind of 
relationship, the type that we 

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found between Jonathan and 
Debbie, it it eventually grew 

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from contact went beyond 
contract to a transgenerational 

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covenant. 
It became a transgenerational 

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covenant is the reason when 
David got to the truth, he 

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thought about his little friend 
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Am I talking to somebody? 
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promotion and your friendship, 
it was never a covenant 

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relationship that evolved 
organically. 

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Thank you Father for the help we
have received again this morning

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to bring your cancer to your 
people. 

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I ask, O Lord, that from this 
understanding you will help them

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to build relationship and 
friendship that will fulfill 

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your purpose in the name of 
Jesus. 

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I pray in the name of Jesus, in 
your pursuit of purpose, the 

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divine presence will not be 
lacking in Jesus name. 

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God bless you. 
So next week we are going to 

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move to another example. 
If you are clap to clap it, well

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it is for Jesus. 
Next week we are going to take 

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on the example of King David, 
King Iram and King Solomon. 

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King David, King Hiram and King 
Solomon. 

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Next week, Prince, the name of 
the Lord don't. 

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Believe in the dark. 
Get proper understanding of life

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through the Word of God. 
My people perish for lack of 

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knowledge. 
The Word of God is an 

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illumination which gives 
direction. 

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Remain placed as Reverend was 
far alone. 

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Illuminates your mind with the 
Word of God with all simplicity 

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and clarity.