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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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Double-edged sword, a Christian 
podcast Ministry presented by 

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father, jernard Lazar. 
Father, jernard is a parish 

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priest of the mud edit Parish of
the Assyrian Church of the East 

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and Turlock California. 
Here's father jonard. 

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One of our dear listeners has 
requested that we speak and 

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discuss the topic of Pride and I
will be more than proud to do 

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that. 
It is one of the dangerous 

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elements of factors in one's 
Christian Life. 

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When we read the scriptures in, 
Proverbs chapter 16 verses 18 to

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19, it states that disgrace or 
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before ruin, and pride of spirit
before, Misfortune The Humble 

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spirit, and humble eyes are 
better than he that divides 

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loot. 
That is wealth with a mighty. 

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So pride is the killer of Honor,
killer of respect, is the killer

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of reputation Saint John 
chrysostom quotes and rights. 

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Let us not be proud at all. 
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is God and Lord and Son of God 
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of a slave or a servant much. 
Whoa, much more. 

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We must do everything even if 
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He continues. 
So let me so I'm sorry. 

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So, tell me, man, where does 
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do you own in life? 
But these leave before they even

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appear? 
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But there is one and only 
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is not to be proud. 
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spiritual State and your 
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where you maybe look yourself to
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Well, the spiritual achievement.
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to be proud so that's a failure 
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So why are you so proud because 
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what crisis. 
When you do what you are 

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commanded to do and that is to 
forgive your brother who sins 

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seven times a day. 
The and returns seven times and 

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you forgive. 
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student, John chrysostom quotes.
This and Jesus says, when you 

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do, what you are commanded to 
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are useless, empty idle 
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that's in Luke 17, 10 Saint John
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I use also proud of your wealth.
Why do you not hear that naked? 

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We came to life and naked? 
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Do you not see those who came 
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And in the wilderness Who is 
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not his because those who want 
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pleasure lose them without their
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before death, but our death and 
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So the question is posed. 
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How do we combat, how do we 
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Very simple, be humble. 
Be humble yourself by humbling 

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ourselves. 
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Trina's, don't eat today but I'm
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behalf. 
These are some spiritual 

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personal exercises. 
I'm going to share with you to 

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overcome pride and Excel in 
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Number one. 
Hate it. 

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You probably thought prayer, 
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Yeah, I was gonna say, pray. 
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Pride. 
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Because God hates it hate. 
Everything that God hates God. 

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Hates the sin. 
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God loves the Sinners, and sent 
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We also love the sinners. 
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And one of those is being Pride,
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Lord God is hating evil pump 
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Excuse me, Pride the evil way 
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I hate, let me read it again. 
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hating evil pomp that is show 
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I hate says God. 
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bat, we must despise, what 
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The next will be that you want 
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Humility again, not prayer. 
I, okay. 

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Hold on. 
Don't jump. 

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The gun. 
We're coming to pray. 

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You need to want, humility 
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for it, lust for humility. 
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when someone lost for 
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go through and to Extends they 
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Well. 
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way. 
You truly require and you truly 

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desire to attain humility strive
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And all for the glory of God 
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It means God has a special place
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First and foremost, I'm going to
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for my fellow men. 
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thirst for humility strive for 
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And then yes, here it is. 
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Jesus Promised in John 4:13 and 
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will do for you. 
That the father may be glorified

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in his son, this is Christ's 
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How do we pray? 
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together at times, or we just do
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Paul writes in Colossians 4:2 in
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praying for humility, because 
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Remember, your thirsting for 
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You desire to be humble in all, 
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And in giving, thanks watchful 
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Chrysostom. 
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Paul realizes that continuing in
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restlessness therefore, he 
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be. 
So Bob be sober, avoid Wandering

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Minds. 
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For prayer away from the 
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praying continuously, praying 
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you, the gracious? 
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Gift of humility over Pride. 
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to admit, and to concede to the 
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We are refugees in this world 
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ours and will remain else. 
A beloved is suing Nation, our 

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beloved brothers and sisters, 
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sisters can so relate to this. 
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have had brothers and sisters 
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and fled for their safety. 
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Western countries. 
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they give and the stories that 
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all of our livelihood, we left. 
Just so we can You know, reached

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Well, it's the same. 
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Nothing is ours. 
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order to enter that Eternal 
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Christ. 
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We put we spent tens maybe even 
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on our bodies. 
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whatever it is, hundreds and 
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are people that are dying. 
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beloved, if you don't believe 
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Or if you're in Sydney, go to 
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Oh I forgot the other one. 
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the symmetries of visit and go 
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who these people are and if the 
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So our bodies belong to the 
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body because you have a nice 
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Yeah I'm going to say these 
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is and if you Fence, praise God.
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to repentance and if it 
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and pray that it encourages to 
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so much pride in your body. 
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the mirror and take his pictures
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know, selfies and post them and 
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pride in and you spent so much 
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I'm not saying exercises bad, 
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take care of our temples of the 
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that Temple will one day return 
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So your body is not yours. 
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It is yours. 
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eternal body and some will enter
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with a Eternal Body. 
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temporal belongs to the Earth. 
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or rested in I dice the good 
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awaiting, the return of the Lord
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it in an Earthly perspective. 
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Let's wait. 
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understand what it means, right?
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understanding our souls are 
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those who have been obedient. 
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torment in sheol and the spirit 
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Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 
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father's comments, the spirit, 
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intercourse between the Sexes. 
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special way returns to its 
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This to is clear it clearly 
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through which atom in the first 
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Nothing will remain. 

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Nothing will remain beloved 
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hear of people wanting to be 
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Let's You know, it's at carnal 
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be resurrected in your car or in
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Nothing everything will dissolve
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Peter writes this in his Second 
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the Lord will come like a thief 
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Being ignited will be dissolved 
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It will not be found as 
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to be dissolved. 
What persons ought you to be in 

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holy conduct and in the fear of 
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humility not taking not being 
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himself, praise be to his name. 
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remind yourselves and that we 
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Christ, including humility, you 
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We had a week overcome Pride 
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We can't do this on our own John
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disciples, or he says to his 
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I am the vine and you are the 
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Whoever abides with me, and I in
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fruit because Without me without
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nothing and that includes the 
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humility to be humble. 
Saint ephrem the Assyrian rights

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if you want to defeat Pride then
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say that you have done it 
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your own strength, you know? 
Something that's why when Jesus.

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Instructs, his disciples. 
That they ought to forgive seven

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times a day. 
Forgive a brother seven times a 

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day. 
If he if he sins and seven times

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he repents and returns and 
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times. 
Then he goes on to say, what 

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servant? 
Do you think will come back from

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the plow? 
And his master will say, come 

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eat with me. 
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He will say, first prepare for a
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I will eat and drink and then 
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You can you can, you know, eat 
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question, does the Servant 
deserve Grace and you know, pat 

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on the back and glorification 
because he has done what he 

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needs to do know. 
So to you everything that you 

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do. 
Keep in mind that we must avoid 

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vain glory and pride. 
So pride is not only in, you 

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know, the Earthly things that we
product prior can also creep in.

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When you are doing the will of 
God, you want to preach the word

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of God, because you want to show
that, you know, the word of God,

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you want to correct someone 
who's in error, because you want

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to show that you're not in that 
era, you know, st. 

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Paul says, if a brother is in 
error you who are Chul, 

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spiritual not prideful. 
Meaning, humble correct. 

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The person that be careful. 
That you don't fall into 

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temptation? 
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Temptation the temptation of 
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Saint ephrem continues. 
He says if you fast keep vigils 

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sleep on bare ground, sing 
Psalms serving the altar or do a

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great number of prostrations, 
say that it was done with God's 

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help and protection, not by your
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This is the level of humility 
that we need to attain in order 

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to claim rightly that we have 
overcome pride and beloved 

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always keep Mind, our Christian 
Life is a marathon. 

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Not a hundred meter dash, no one
can claim that they've ran the 

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100 meters. 
They've made it st. 

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Paul, who was called by Jesus 
Christ, who heard the Lord Jesus

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Christ, who was a chosen vessel 
by Jesus Christ. 

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Who writes that whether I have 
attained it or not, that means 

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glorification Perfection. 
I do not know. 

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One thing I know that I focus on
the Crown. 

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That is awaiting me. 
So it's a struggle, it's a 

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continuous work, it's a 
continuous deed beloved until 

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the day the Lord returns who and
that is the time that is the 

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person that is that is whom we 
await to receive our our tick of

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approval for being humble. 
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close by sharing say nephrons 
prayer with you. 

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And maybe you can recite this 
when you feel that you need to 

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Humble yourselves. 
Lord and Master Of My Life. 

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Do not give me a spirit of 
sloth. 

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Curiosity lust for power Pride 
or idle talk, but give to me 

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your servant a spirit of sober. 
Mindedness, humility, patience 

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and love indeed. 
Lord. 

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And King Grant me to see my own 
faults and not to judge. 

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My brother for you. 
Are blessed unto the ages. 

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Is of Ages. 
Amen. 

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Praise and glory. 
Be to the Holy Trinity, the 

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Father and Son, and Holy Spirit 
forever. 

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Amen. 
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