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Passages with me tonight. 
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number of them anyway, and as 
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with me, I would appreciate it. 
If you did, we are planning to 

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continue on with the standards 
and convictions and I'm going to

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show you my page full of notes 
that I had on that this is it. 

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So I was working on it. 
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said, I worked on everything 
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That I had to get done and 
worked on the Sunday morning 

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message and everything else. 
And I sat down last night, while

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I was already sitting down, but 
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it probably around 11:15 ish to 
finish up just a little bit that

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I had left on it and it was all 
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I have no idea. 
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night and he was in places in my
computer that I didn't even know

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existed. 
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everything else and words, but 
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anything that I had done was 
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So I have no idea what To it, or
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went, but the blank document was
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So I shifted course a little bit
and I want to give you a little 

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bit of a challenge tonight. 
We'll move that too. 

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Well, next week we have our 
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Aidan's going to preach for us 
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So we'll move it to the week 
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I don't know why. 
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I trust that he did and so he 
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when is best. 
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in a couple weeks. 
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helpful for us tonight. 
Night Romans chapter 8, really 

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in the Book of Romans and really
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Testament. 
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our lives being pleasing to God.
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very broad statements. 
A very vague statement, really? 

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And it's if we don't know 
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then it can just be anything. 
Let your life, please God. 

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Well and that's a great, you 
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wrote that on my Tombstone, that
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Please God, I mean, that'd be a 
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Tombstone but as far as making 
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does that look like? 
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What's the, what's the goal here
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And I'm going to look at a few 
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when we get a little bit further
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But verse number eight, I think 
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All of that up in the Bible says
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So then they that are in the 
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Cannot please. 
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Well, there's a lot of things in
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pleases God and there's a lot of
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this does not please God. 
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So tonight I want to give you 
some specific things that we can

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do in our lives to make sure 
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God, let's pray and then we'll 
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tonight. 
Father, we love you and we thank

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you for your goodness, thank you
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given us to be here tonight. 
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help this to be a challenge to 
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one of us in our lives would 
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to, please you with our lives. 
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work in. 
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message in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

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The very first point goes right 
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Romans chapter 8 and that is 
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we must fight the flesh. 
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that live in the flesh. 
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cannot, please God, let's back 
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There in Romans chapter 8 for 
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do mind, the things of the 
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the spirit for to be carnally, 
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carnal mind is enmity against 
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It's not subject to the law of 
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then they that are in the flesh,
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If we truly, if we truly are 
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We're going to be different than
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Jesus Christ, as our savior, and
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They that are after The Flesh, 
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But the Thereafter the spirit, 
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because if we are living in the 
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focusing on, and that's all we 
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That's death, will die in the 
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But they that the Bible says, 
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is life and peace. 
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we have to fight the flesh over,
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We talked about this with the 
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especially, there's things that 
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for them. 
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steal or cheat or to disobey or 
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I mean there's so many things 
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younger kids. 
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telling lies and stealing and 
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But for the, for the older ones,
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moves into things that are whole
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as well, right? 
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listen to the wrong, kind of 
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things on TV or Watch the wrong 
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even to be in pure was another 
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Those are all Temptations. 
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happens is because we're living 
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If your desire and your goal was
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God, then you wouldn't be 
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Now, it's not the Temptation. 
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Bible says, there is not. 
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That's not common to man. 
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But God, who is faithful. 
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not suffer you to be tempted 
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We are able but he'll give us a 
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that Temptation. 
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Jesus was tempted, right? 
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and for 40 days. 
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as he was done and mind, you is 
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physically, the devil came and 
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because he was tempted course, 
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So it's not a sin to be tempted.
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temptation. 
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that temptation is We're not 
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living in the flesh, and if we 
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fight that flesh. 
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and allow the flesh to rule. 
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over to Galatians chapter 5. 
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to, like I said, when we jumping
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your fingers loose if you can. 
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chapter 5, actually, we'll get 
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Have you ever thought about ways
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to die? 
Nobody wants to die but we know 

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it's inevitable. 
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But there are ways that I 
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suicide. 
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pull the trigger or do you know 
what people do to commit 

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suicide? 
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all the time. 
If you find a suicide note next 

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to my body it was forged. 
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same thing. 
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suicide, note and take my own 
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some, you know, some of the ways
that would be very difficult 

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drowning. 
I think would be would be very 

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scary, right? 
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Breath or burning in a building.
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the Flames all around you and 
burning in the, you know, in the

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flames? 
It's just a lot of different 

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ways that would be painful. 
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for most people, the easiest way
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never wake up again, right? 
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But I saw this, I read this one 
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I mean, I saw this when I was a 
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die, I want to go, I want to go 
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And in my sleep, like, my 
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like the passengers in his car, 
and I just saw the years and 

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years ago, and it stuck with me.
I just thought it was pretty, 

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but I think the absolute worst 
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would be by crucifixion, could 
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Imagine? 
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some of the torture techniques 
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and things and honestly, many of
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Christians who ended up becoming
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Christ. 
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book of Martyrs and some of 
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and Chronicle, those who gave 
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Jesus Christ and see what they 
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The torture that they went 
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than Christians, there's a lot 
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that have been tortured in 
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But the reason why crucifixion 
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a about a torturous way as you 
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somebody to die. 
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at the stake most of the time 
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Or not dying from being burnt, 
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inhalation before your body is 
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And so there's a lot of other 
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crucifixion is a tough tough way
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that means he was he was 
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could possibly suffer as a human
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the way that he did. 
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crucifixion as much as I would 
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I would hate to be whipped and 
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And if you stayed Long enough, 
you finally get your, get your 

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legs broken and all of those 
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that. 
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Galatians chapter 5 and verse 
number 24 says this and they 

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that are Christ's have 
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affections and lusts, see the 
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and it's going to fight against 
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It can to live to stay alive to 
keep fighting another day and it

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just keeps coming back and 
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that's why Paul said I Die 
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Daily. 
Because the flesh is going to 

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keep coming back. 
It's not going to be dead until 

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you are right. 
The flesh is going to constantly

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fight against us, and if we want
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fight against the flesh. 
Turn over to Second Timothy, 

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Chapter 2, and I'll give you the
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God not only when we fight the 
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from the world, stay away from 
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Now obviously, we can't help but
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You can't go live on Mars 
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separate and be different from 
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Of course, maybe that's not too 
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one of the ones that goes on 
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I can tell you that much but we 
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of it. 
And that's exactly what Paul is 

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talking about there in second, 
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number 3, thou, therefore endure
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Jesus Christ. 
No man, that warith and Tango 

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has himself with the Affairs of 
this life, that he may, please 

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him who hath chosen him to be a 
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God, you want to please him, 
that's called you to be a 

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soldier, then don't entangle 
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this life. 
That's what a true Soldier 

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that's out there. 
Fighting in a battle, is not 

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worried about anything else 
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winning that battle. 
They're not, you're not texting 

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in fashion and all Those other 
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army gear, they are out there 
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to do, and that's to fight 
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exactly what God's called us to 
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Please, God do that by 
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There ought to be something 
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If you're a Christian, you ought
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Ought to be that people say what
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That's different. 
I want what you have many. 

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Many people have been 12. 
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Jesus Christ by Christian who 
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And we ought to be different 
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an easy thing. 
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things that are worldly. 
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one and you can turn over there,
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the world hates God and the more
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The more we are trying to be 
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these? 
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place that are that are Banning 
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with Christianity, right? 
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Ten Commandments out of the 
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the manger scene out of the Town
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can do to erase Christianity and
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to the world. 
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with and going, right. 
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to destroy the very thing that 
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that we claim is our life. 
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God and the father is this to 
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in their Affliction and to keep 
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The world is a muddy nasty, 
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a dirty Street, you're going to 
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clothes, but I'll responsibility
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compounding and compounding. 
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That's what we as Christians. 
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Keep yourself unspotted from the
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Anyone who's in love with the 
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number 4, and boy what strong 
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adulterers and adulteresses 
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of the world is enmity with God,
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you shouldn't be friendly with 
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talks about the world, it's 
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glitz and the glamour in all of 
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the world is and everything that
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the fashion industry. 
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that the world presents itself 
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are doing everything they can to
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adulteress is. 
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friend of the world, you're an 
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You, you are, you are basically 
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whosoever. 
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the world is the enemy of God. 
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God's not pleased with him, God 
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world, that's very, very strong 
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us up that ought to make us say.
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an enemy of God, I want to be a 
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Know, ye not that, the 
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enmity with God, whosoever. 
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the world is the enemy of God. 
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God, we please God, when we 
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Number three, we seek, we please
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over men. 
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ironic question I guess for do I
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I seek to please men for if I 
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Should not be the servant of 
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men. 
That's how we're going to please

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God. 
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with pleasing those around them 
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that they're not pleasing God, 
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Right. 
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seeking to please men are not 
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God, it's easy to want to be 
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hated. 
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with you right now we know that 
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things of Christ, when we take a
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are going to be hated. 
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of God, more than I love being 
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Right? 
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having God not pleased with Me, 
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over. 
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over principle and we see that 
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our politicians now, right? 
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okay? 
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you know, a lot of times you see
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ago, they were staunchly against
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there's these so, quote, 
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know, used to be that 15 years 
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different direction and now just
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against those things, now there 
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principle at standing on 
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If it's going to give me a 
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it's going to give me a little 
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We should not seek the praise of
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appearance. 
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matter as much, what you look 
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especially have gotten used to 
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outside and, and, and to their 
Christian friends into the world

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around them. 
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They're full of dead men's 
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seeking to please God over man. 
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We please God when we fight the 
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away from the world. 
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please him over men and number 
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When we choose things that 
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profound statement. 
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We please God. 
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pleasing to him, right? 
Isaiah chapter 56, in verse 

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number 1, Thus said the Lord 
keep you judgment and do justice

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for my salvation is near to come
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revealed. 
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this and the son of man that 
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the Sabbath from polluting it 
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any evil, neither. 
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That have joined himself to the 
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hath utterly separated me from 
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Neither like, the eunuch say, 
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Saith, the Lord unto the eunuchs
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choose the things that please 
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And take hold of my Covenant 
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Will I give mine house and 
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name better than sons and of 
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everlasting name. 
That shall not be cut off. 

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Also, the sons of strangers that
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serve him and to love the name 
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Everyone that keep the Sabbath 
from polluting it and take a 

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hold of my Covenant, even them 
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and make them joyful In My House
of Prayer, their burnt offerings

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and their sacrifices shall be 
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From my house shall be called a 
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The Lord God, which gather at 
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yet. 
Will I gather others to him 

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beside those? 
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that the Gentiles were going to 
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before the Jews did, right? 
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that, I would say, it doesn't 
matter who it is that accepts 

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what I'm preaching accepts, what
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God the matter who you are. 
If you are a eunuch, if your A 

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stranger. 
It doesn't matter. 

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You do what God says you're 
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he'll look at that the same way,
he'll be pleasing to him but 

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every single day you're faced 
with a whole lot of decisions 

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about whether you're going to do
right or wrong. 

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I don't know, I've never done 
any looked up any research on 

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it, and I don't even know if 
there's any way that you could 

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really do research on that, but 
can you imagine how many choices

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you make every single day? 
I know I have in the past. 

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I've heard that they're that 
they're you know what the number

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was, and I haven't seen in a 
long time so I don't even want 

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to throw a number out there, but
it's a lot. 

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They have also been able to 
calculate the number of thoughts

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that you have in a day or the 
thoughts, that that an average 

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person has in the day. 
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We are making even if there are 
the smallest scale, we are 

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making decisions, hundreds, and 
hundreds and hundreds of 

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decisions. 
Every day on whether we're going

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to do right. 
Or whether we're going to do 

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wrong, the devil is constantly. 
They're trying to tempt us to do

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those things. 
But every day, the flesh is 

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going to try to turn us away 
from God every day. 

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The flesh is going to fight 
against you reading your Bible 

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and having your prayer time, the
flesh is going to fight against 

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you giving out the message of 
the gospel. 

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And it's not even that that in 
your mind, you say, you know 

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what, I'm not giving out the 
gospel today. 

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It's just that you get busy and 
we allow that busyness to take 

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over the things that are more 
important that our most 

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important. 
That is the things of God. 

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Every person has to make a 
deliberate choice to do things 

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that please God. 
And when I say choose things 

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that please him, of course, 
that's pleasing to him. 

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But it's it, you know, in your 
own life that sometimes, It's 

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harder to do that than it 
sounds. 

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Oh, just juice things. 
That please God. 

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That'll be pleasing to him. 
It will be. 

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But often, we don't choose those
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We choose the opposite. 
If we would just take every 

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individual decision on an 
individual basis and say, no, 

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I'm using this decision to 
choose to please God. 

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I know that there's a lot of 
things that are pulling me away.

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I know that there's a lot of 
things that are trying to eat at

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my time, but this is what's 
right. 

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This is what's pleasing to God 
and I'm going to choose the 

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things that are pleasing to him.
I want to look at one more in 

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Hebrews chapter 11. 
How do we please? 

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God, there's there's, there's 
other verses in the Bible that 

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talk about, pleasing him, but 
there are there. 

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We're just going to look at five
of the night, and this is the 

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fifth please. 
And when we fight the flesh, we 

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please him. 
When we stay away from the 

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world, please him. 
When we seek to please God over 

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men who plays him when we simply
choose the things that please 

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him. 
But then lastly, we find here in

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Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 
number 6. 

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But without faith, it is 
impossible to please him. 

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For he that cometh to God must 
believe that he is and that he 

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is a rewarder of them that 
diligently seek him. 

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So how do you please God, you 
have faith, you have faith. 

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All of these things that go into
pleasing god require faith. 

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Right? 
So you can, you can choose 

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things that please God. 
You can fight the flesh, you can

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stay away from the world, you 
can do all of these other 

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things. 
But the Bible, very plainly, 

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says without faith. 
It's impossible to please him. 

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So, if you're doing these things
without faith, then there's no 

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possible way that you can 
please. 

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God faith to believe that he's 
going to reward those that 

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please him, right? 
And that way he talks about 

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there in that verse he that 
cometh to God Must Believe. 

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Number one, that he is, that he 
is God that he is in that 

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position that he does exist. 
This right? 

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But that he is a rewarder of 
them that diligently seek Him 

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their faith to believe that he's
going to help those who are 

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seeking to, please him have to 
have faith to believe that he 

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can give us the victory over the
flesh. 

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So many people fail to, please 
God because they don't have the 

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faith to believe that God can 
give them the victory. 

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I think what happens in our 
lives. 

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So many times as we fail, and we
fail and we fail and we fail. 

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And finally, we give up. 
And we say God's not, helping me

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God's not given me the victory. 
I'm just going to, I guess I'm 

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just going to be a failure of 
the rest of my life. 

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It takes Faith to believe that 
God will help you. 

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You have to work, you have to 
make an effort at it, but you 

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make an effort, God will help 
you same way. 

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That we just mentioned the verse
a little bit ago when it comes 

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to Temptation there hath. 
No, temptation taken you, but 

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such as is common to man, but 
God is faithful, who will not 

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suffer you to be tempted above 
that, ye are able. 

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But also will with the 
Temptation, make a way of 

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Escape, that you may be able to 
bear it. 

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Right, there is a way out 
knowing there's not a temptation

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is so strong, I just can't help 
it. 

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Now, there's a way out, there's 
a way out, you just have to have

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faith to believe that God can do
it, right? 

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A lot of other things that go 
along with that, but God, God 

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wants to give us victory in this
life. 

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First, John chapter 5 and verse.
Number 4 says, for whatsoever is

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born of God overcometh. 
The world. 

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This is the victory that 
overcometh. 

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The world even our faith 
songwriter said, faith is the 

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victory. 
It overcomes the world God wants

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to give us victory in this life 
and he wants to help us to 

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please him. 
But we have to have faith to 

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believe that he'll do it. 
Once you look at one last 

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passage with me and we're done 
Proverbs chapter 16. 

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Proverbs chapter 16 and boy the 
Proverbs are just filled with so

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many verses that give us great 
wisdom and how to please God, 

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but Proverbs chapter 16 And 
verse number 7, it says this, 

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when a man's ways please the 
Lord, he maketh even his enemies

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to be at peace with him. 
Well, you talk about him. 

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Good life. 
Talk about having a life that is

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it is peaceful. 
Talk about having a life. 

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That's wonderful. 
When a man's ways, please the 

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Lord. 
And we've talked about all these

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different ways that we please 
the Lord. 

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But when a man's ways, please, 
the Lord, even as enemies, even 

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the ones who hate him, even the 
ones who are against him are 

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going to be at peace with him, 
right? 

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Everything is right. 
When we're seeking to, please 

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God, if everything we did. 
With a mindset above all is I 

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just want to please God, we 
would never have to worry about 

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falling into temptation or 
falling into sin. 

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Because we're tempted, we never 
have to worry about a lot of 

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these things that so often like 
the Bible says easily beset us 

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if every single day my mindset 
is I just want to please God. 

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Well what a thing that you could
put on your on your mirror and 

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put it on your dash and your 
car, something like that. 

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I just Just want to please God. 
And if you have that as your 

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mindset, then I know then you 
will please God, you will please

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God because everything else 
pales in comparison to that. if 

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we fight the flesh, we stay away
from the world we seek to please

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God over men if we choose things
that please him, and if we have 

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faith And our lives will be in 
complete fulfillment of what he 

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is. 
That he wants us to accomplish, 

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right? 
And above all our overarching, 

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theme of our entire life, should
just be, I just want to, please 

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God. 
I just want to please God, if 

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that would become our Mantra, if
that would become our life, that

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would become the model that we 
that we live our lives. 

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After Then we would please God. 
The Bible says even our enemies 

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00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:53,200
if even our enemies will be at 
peace with us, imagine the 

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blessings that would come from 
living for the blessings. 

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That would come from God. 
Imagine the blessings that would

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come from other Christians. 
Imagine the way that God would 

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use us if we just had that 
mindset, I don't want anything 

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else. 
I just want to please God. 

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Hopefully, that's a reminder to 
you tonight but let's pray. 

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Father, we love you. 
And we thank you so much for how

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good you are to us. 
And God, I pray that you would 

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00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,100
use the message in our hearts 
convict us convict this of the, 

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in these areas where we, where 
we choose the world over you, 

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00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:33,000
where we choose the flesh over 
you. 

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00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,300
We don't fight as hard as we 
could, where we don't. 

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00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:39,100
Please, you and everything that 
we do. 

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So God I pray that you would 
speak to our hearts. 

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I pray that you would just allow
the Holy Spirit to work in our 

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hearts and we're decisions need 
to be made tonight. 

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God, I pray that they would be 
and that everything in our lives

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would focus around that thought 
of I just want to please God. 

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00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:59,000
and God, I pray that you to help
us help us to be used by you 

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because we Want to be used by 
you and because we want to place

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here, but thank you for all that
you do for us in Jesus name. 

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Amen. 
If you