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In the name of the Glorious 
Trinity. 

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Father and Son and Holy Spirit 
forever. 

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Amen. 
Glory be to the Everlasting 

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mercies which sent you to us. 
Oh, Christ the light of the 

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world and the life of all give 
us wisdom by a law and Enlighten

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our impulses, by your knowledge 
sanctify, our souls by your 

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truth and Grant that we may be 
obedient to your words and may 

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fulfill your Commandments at 
every hour. 

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O you who enlightens the 
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your greatness? 
He's doin light O My Lord. 

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Our thoughts that we made 
meditate upon your holy and 

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divine scriptures at all times. 
Oh Lord of all Father and Son 

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and Holy Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Receive the blessings and the 
Peace of our Lord and our Savior

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Jesus Christ, beloved listeners,
wherever you may be, I pray that

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you are protected guarded and 
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compassionate. 
Love of our heavenly father 

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through his son. 
Our Lord Jesus Christ, and His 

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Holy Spirit. 
Praise and glory be to His holy 

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name for he has given us yet 
another gift. 

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These are his Provisions that we
come together to discuss the 

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holy scriptures and to talk 
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period. 
How beautiful and how blessed 

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that he is for brothers to be 
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The psalmist says, but we to 
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service. 
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Heavenly, you know when we talk 
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Savior, Jesus Christ, we talk in
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utmost reverence and in worship 
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Yes I know it's Wednesday. 
This is a special program as we 

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have entered our Battlefield 
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fasting. 
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Wednesdays we can have a 
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one another to What is it? 
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Each other up to 2. 
Hype each other up to continue 

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this battle as we have entered. 
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Satan and his special forces. 
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You know, when we when we pray 
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Holy scriptures, when we 
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enemy that is trying to devour 
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away from that. 
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spare Spiritual battle. 
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battlefield and those who 
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on the sidelines, come in, come 
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Yes, it's not easy. 
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itself battle, it's a fight. 
It's a, it's an out war war 

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against the enemy and we 
encourage you to join us in this

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battlefield. 
Meaning, you know, offer your 

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fast, your prayers come Um to 
the law through your fasting 

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sing Paul writes, to his his 
son, he calls the Bishop Timothy

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and his first epistle to Timothy
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contents contest of faith is you
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faith and sees eternal life to 
which things you are called. 

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We are called to eternal life, 
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profession before many 
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So I encourage. 
It's those who are still sitting

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on the sidelines and watching 
those who are in the battlefield

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to come and join us. 
That is joining each other. 

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In this, in this battle and 
strengthen each other. 

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Through our prayer, Our 
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today, and we know that the 
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his various types of Temptations
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desires struggles pleasures of 
the World Pride lust, this sees 

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immoral desires, foolishness 
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on shortfalls hatred. 
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selfishness, you know, it's more
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it? 
It's not just about not eating 

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meat and eating Martian, Locker 
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You know this week, we begin our
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And what we should be doing is 
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should be meditating, we should 
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revelation of the evil that has 
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made its about its resting 
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us. 
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thoughts, our bodies, our souls 
our minds, our feelings, our 

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reactions, our senses. 
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trickery and deceitful. 
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For the past two week, we have, 
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greatest challenge of our life. 
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rebuking trying to conquer the 
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Yeah, right. 
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jernard father, you may say, you
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it's not as easy as you speak 
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At this moment, I personally am 
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but more. 
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Don't worry about what's 
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what's happening around us now, 
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politics, don't worry. 
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that because these things are at
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You know, we're living in a 
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of wickedness can produce 
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let's concentrate more during 
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praying and meditating. 
The holy scriptures on what's 

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within us what's happening 
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You know why? 
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with hatred, if I'm surrounded 
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Love Of Christ, that is Christ, 
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me. 
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May cause me to stumble and to 
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harm me. 
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love Christ himself. 1 
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the cross. 
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within me, then what's around 
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What surrounds me really won't 
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so much immorality, there is so 
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There's so much impurity 
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on, but I am complete with the 
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With the sanctification, with 
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Spirit, who is active. 
And in total control of me, then

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again, I won't be harmed. 
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I will be attacked continually, 
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overcome. 
You know, I must correct myself.

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I may be harmed, it may affect 
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If I have the genuine Love Of 
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Holy Spirit within me. 
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Temptations, and I have an 
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the name of my Lord and My 
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overcome and Conquer everything.
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verse 6, the second most amazing
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fulfilled and was able to do 
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empowered by. 
The holy spirit, is this look at

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the beautiful words that came 
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I have no gold. 
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It's not about money, it's not 
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my know Simon is speaking on 
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The Christ, the only son of God,
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And we should to give to others 
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The Christ. 
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in the name of Jesus. 
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what's surrounding me? 
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how we always use that as an 
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excuse. 
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the power of Christ. 
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the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 
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a faith that is unshakable 
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the power of the name of my Lord
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I too can conquer and I will 
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but I will not be conquered. 
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Jesus said, excuse me. 
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ask me anything Timeless. 
Truth. 

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I speak to you. 
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Everything that shall you shall 
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In my name. 
He, you shall, he shall give it 

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to you. 
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my Lord and My Savior, Jesus 
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savior Jesus Christ, that when 
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creator of the universe Heaven 
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name. 
We he the father will give us 

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there is the power of the name 
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Please mind the neighbor's dog. 
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He's named. 
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You got to do something about 
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I mean, I know I think Dina 
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case, let's focus. 
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were talking about the enemy and
attacking us and you have a dog 

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barking anyway, in the joys and 
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surrounding us. 
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focusing about what's What's 
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using that as an example, the P 
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world, you know, during this 
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Pleasures surrounding us are 
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Royce need to them. 
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television, just what's around 
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But I contemplate. 
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lives of the Holy Saints, who 
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And I try to walk the path of 
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be crowned as they did. 
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biographies, the histories of 
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you know, this is one of the one
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what we need to do is to read 
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those struggle, Worse than you. 
And I possibly and yet they 

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overcame and they conquered And 
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backslide and we fall to the 
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And I mentioned that that, you 
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be affected. 
We met backslide, we may fall 

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but if we believe that we have a
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have a high priest Jesus Christ,
Our Lord and our savior, praise 

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and glory be to his name. 
The name above all names. 

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The name above all names. 
Do you not even dare, do not go 

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there to put any name, alongside
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Savior Jesus Christ. 
By whom only God, the father was

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pleased, only Jesus Christ, and 
if we know that we have this 

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high priest who will suffer with
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Because any did that on the 
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Because he went through 
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that is so hard to go through 
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He didn't sin. 
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And that's why he has sympathy, 
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suffice with us. 
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we believe in that and take that
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encouragement, as an 
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knows what you and I are going 
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So let's not hop on the, the 
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know, which you use, we to 
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and justify our Evil by our 
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Let's not use that as an excuse.
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during this time and as God does
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our own strength and for our own
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Of others, regardless, Matthew 
chapter 5 verse 38, which is one

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of the readings of the gospels, 
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Excuse me, I'm coming over 
recovering from a cold, excuse 

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me, Matthew chapter 5 verse 38 
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This is the reading but I'm 
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I for I listen to this. 
This is God, allowing in Exodus 

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21:24, you know, I'm going to 
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Jesus is quoting. 
And I in exchange, for an eye, a

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tooth in exchange for a tooth, a
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foot in exchange, for foot 
sounds cruel or maybe even a 

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little cool. 
Hey, you know, there you go. 

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There's there's my key to 
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Why was this allowed? 
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so that one could, you know, 
fulfill the anger and could take

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out his wrath and anger and 
frustration on one who is 

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hurting or, you know, causing 
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Well, no, it wasn't. 
That wasn't God's purpose. 

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God didn't say, you can go. 
And, you know, take your revenge

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and you can you can sort your 
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hurts, you know, because that 
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tells You know, the scriptures 
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for God's Vengeance. 
But why is this recorded in 

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scripture? 
Why does God permit that? 

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Was that to deter people from 
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John. 
Chrysostom comments in verse 38,

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Jesus instructs us not to resist
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do not. 
Resist, the devil or do not rise

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up against. 
Well, it's not actually do not 

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resist the devil. 
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theology spiritual psychology 
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harm or afflict Us in any shape 
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auspices or the influence of 
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It's evil. 
You see all good comes from God,

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nothing but good comes from God.
Now God may allow evil upon us 

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but there is reason for that. 
There's a purpose for that. 

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All good comes from God and all 
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Now God, as I said, May at times
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reforming. 
You know, reshaping educating, 

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rebuking remoulding, 
strengthening. 

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Let me give an example. 
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you punch someone to hurt 
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Unless it's, you know, it's a 
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sometimes hurts. 
I might go up to Steve and say, 

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hey, Steven and I punch him on 
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are points in the shoulder where
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Wow, that hurt Robbie, my 
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right? 
My intention was through pain to

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show how much I love him, right?
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As an example, punching someone 
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pain its evil but you see in the
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to their students. 
They actually Stomp Them on the 

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stomach, then they punch them. 
They kicked him in the stomach 

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SWAT so that they can strengthen
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I think it is. 
What is it that stomach laughs? 

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Yeah. 
What about what about when when,

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you know I watch rugby league 
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change rooms and new Talking Tom
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and then I stay next to me in 
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each other in the face. 
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because you can see there. 
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But what do you know? 
That's, that's so you can you 

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can encourage and you could 
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We're going in a battlefield now
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Yeah, you know, or you see, you 
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they fall on the ground in a 
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their faces and punch them with 
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say, Praise Jesus. 
You know that I can never work 

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that one out but regardless but 
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For this reason, John chrysostom
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say to you, do not resist. 
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John chrysostom also adds, he 
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brother. 
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So if a person is harming you is
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Don't go against the brother 
don't go and paint, punch the 

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Daylights out of the brother but
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The evil one. 
So we are authorized to dare to 

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act in the presence of evil to 
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However this is the key Point 
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through cry. 
Iced influence. 

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Reverse psychology, reverse 
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I said through Christ influence 
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Wee. 
We can relax. 

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We can secretly remove most of 
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When we look at the evil, not 
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That is Satan. 
So how am I going to combat 

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Satan? 
How do you combat evil with 

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good? 
So you do good to that person 

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who is harming you, that's why 
Jesus said, pray for your 

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enemies. 
Let me tell you my enemies will 

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never ever do good for me. 
My enemies will try to hate me, 

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my enemies will try to slander. 
My name, my enemies will try to 

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Define me character assassinate 
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These are enemies. 
But Jesus said, don't go against

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your enemies. 
Go against that evil. 

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What you do is Come back and you
say, for example, you know, God 

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bless you, I'll pray for them, 
I'll continue to pray for them. 

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If they, if they spit in my 
face, my reply will be, will God

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bless you? 
You know what, who am I, when my

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Lord received my spittle, who am
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And to be, to be utterly 
disappointed in one, take one to

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take revenge, so what's 
surrounding me is not an excuse 

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beloved, that's actually a key 
and excuse that Satan gives You 

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and I to even further distance 
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Holiness of God, Saint Paul sums
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So beautifully in Romans. 12:21,
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See Saint Paul is not extracting
that we do not be overcome by 

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those who cause us pain 
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It's evil, it's Satanist on 
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Do not be overcome by evil that 
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evil Evil with good. 
Pray for those who persecute you

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feed your enemy, close your 
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Yeah. 
I you know, I can feel the Vibes

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right now, you're probably 
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And as I've always said, 
concentrate on the road or 

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you're washing your dishes, 
you're probably thinking, yeah, 

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whatever I'll be. 
Well if that is the mindset we 

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have in our Christian faith, God
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We need to pray. 
We need to ask God to remove 

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that, that evil mindset and to 
put us in that in that peaceful 

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and loving mindset of our Lord 
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imitate Jesus Christ. 
During this Lent beloved, let us

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imitate Jesus Christ. 
Which means suffer with the 

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weakness of others as well. 
We too have at times been 

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tempted in all things like they 
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And yet we have sinned There has
been times where I have caused 

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disappointment sadness. 
Maybe even hurt through my words

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not so much for my actions but 
through my words my service, 

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maybe you know, how, I've how I 
have battle, or how I have, 

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what's that word? 
You know, there's a word that 

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you sometimes you lose them. 
You know how I've taken control 

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over certain In certain 
circumstances I may have heard 

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people. 
See, I have sinned, I have 

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fallen Satan. 
May have worked through me and 

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he has overcome me. 
So who am I then to to be ready 

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to take take revenge and you 
know take Vengeance on someone 

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who is you know hurting me and 
not knowing sometimes what 

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they're doing and it's from 
Evil. 

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So I must not resist, the evil 
eye must come against evil with 

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goodness. 
I'll leave you with this verse 

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to conclude 2 Corinthians 13:5. 
I think the best way to really 

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see where we stand with all of 
that we have discussed, is to 

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examine our souls Saint. 
Paul writes, examine your souls 

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your inner, whether you stand in
the faith, faith is not just 

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praising. 
Jesus, faith is not just doing 

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good and feeding, the homeless 
and coming and attending church 

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and fasting. 
That's not only mere faith. 

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Faith is to see whether you 
truly Stand in the faith and the

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test of faith. 
As I've mentioned, I think in 

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previous programs is the test of
faith. 

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Is what? 
How you conduct yourself your 

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Christian manner, in a world of 
wickedness, in the most awkward 

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and in the most difficult 
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that's where you tested your 
test. 

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Your faith, you don't test your 
faith. 

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When you're a church and you 
hear all these beautiful 

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chantings and the prayers and 
the Liturgy and you partake in 

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the Holy. 
Has. 

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That's not where you test your 
faith. 

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You test your faith when the 
world goes up against you. 

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And how you react, so examine 
your souls, whether you stand in

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the faith, tend to your souls. 
Or are you not aware that? 

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Jesus the Christ is in you. 
Jesus. 

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The Christ is in you, you know? 
Yes, those who are at church, 

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two days ago, three days ago was
a two days ago. 

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They partook in the Holy body 
and blood of Christ. 

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The Holy Eucharist to put a 
banner khadisha. 

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Hello, your body with my body, 
he who eats my body and drinks, 

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my blood remains in me. 
And I in him, that's not only 

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during that church time, and 
when you leave the church, the 

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body disappears, and just 
dissolves know Christ is with us

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through his script. 
Through the Holy Spirit through 

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our contemplation and mediation 
through his body and blood 

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through our blood. 
Christian brothers and sisters 

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Christ is in you. 
And that if not Paul goes on to 

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say you are worthless. 
If you cannot find Christ within

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you, if you are not sure where 
the Christ is in you. 

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And how do you test yourself to 
see if Christ is in, you is You 

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test yourself to see whether you
are in the true Faith. 

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So during this battlefield 
beloved in this battlefield, and

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during this war that we have 
waged against Satan and his 

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enemies. 
Let us focus. 

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Focus on ourselves. 
Where do we stand as far as 

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Christ's Commandments as far as 
Christ instructions? 

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As far as the instructions of 
the the church, The Liturgy, the

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Eucharistic service, the 
prayers, where do we stand as 

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far as they are concerned? 
Because beloved fasting without 

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reading the holy scriptures or 
praying is a spiritual bodies 

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up. 
We got spiritual diet. 

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So I pray that during this time 
if you have dared and you are 

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courageous to take on Satan 
during this time of fasting and 

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lent and you have joined the 
battle. 

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I pray that the Lord will 
strengthen you continuously 

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focus on Jesus Christ. 
Focus on Christ's victory in the

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wilderness where he truly was 
Victorious over Satan. 

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And all his Temptations. 
And if you're standing on the 

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sidelines, please come and join 
us in this battlefield so that 

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you can encourage. 
We can encourage one another. 

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May Christ be glorified at all, 
times in all that we say and do.

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Amen. 
One last thing. 

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