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In the name of the glorious 
Trinity, Father and Son and Holy

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Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Glory be to the everlasting 
mercies which sent you to us, O 

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Christ, the light of the world 
and the life of all. 

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Give us wisdom by your law and 
enlighten our impulses by your 

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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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fulfil your commandments at 
every hour. 

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O you who enlightens the 
rationale with the knowledge of 

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your greatness, do enlight, O my
Lord, our thoughts that we may 

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meditate upon your holy and 
divine scriptures at all times, 

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O Lord of all, Father and Son 
and Holy Spirit forever. 

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Amen. 
I was watching an episode of 

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Shark Tank and noticed quite 
evidently, the scrutiny those 

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presenting a product or business
idea experience prior to the 

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members of the cast. 
That is, the sharks either 

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commit financially or pass 
altogether. 

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Now, some wise and significant 
questions are posed to the 

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presenter, and rightly so. 
You know, the whole idea is to 

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be certain that an investment 
will pay off as claimed, as 

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projected, as described and as 
expected. 

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Now we can say that that is a 
good method and process to adopt

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when evaluating the world and 
what it has to offer versus 

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Christ and His promises. 
Let's put it in practice. 

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Let me pose you a question. 
What is the most beneficial 

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thing, most important thing that
you have invested in and are 

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expecting and praying and hoping
and anticipating, investing in a

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for a great return. 
You're anticipating a great 

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return, a successful investment.
Is it finances? 

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Well, let me tell you, they are 
too often disappointing. 

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Let me take you back to the 
stock purchase frenzy. 

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You remember that? 
I think it was during COVID. 

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Robbie buy some of these stocks 
cause Elon Musk just sneezed and

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that's a good sign. 
Robbie, buy some of these 

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stocks. 
You know, some of my beloved 

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deacons and beloved brothers and
sisters would recommend and I 

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would adhere to it. 
I would go and buy some stocks 

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right when I check what I have 
today. 

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Now I'll just leave it at that. 
So finances can disappear just 

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like that. 
Taking losses is a norm in this 

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world, beloved, because this 
world is a loser. 

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It's a losing world. 
Is it relationships? 

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Allow me to politely and 
respectfully ask you yes, you 

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who are listening or watching? 
What number of girlfriend or 

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boyfriend or partner are you on?
How many? 

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And I'll leave it at that. 
As far as relationships are 

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concerned, health. 
Let's not even go there. 

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Back in 2010 when I arrived in 
California, I was adamant. 

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I would walk 2 to 3 miles in 
that blistering heat during 

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midday, right. 
I remember going to Arizona for 

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a youth conference. 
It was at it was 103 or 113°. 

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And my dear sister, cousin Rita,
we were driving home and I said,

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Rita, I'm going to go for a 
walk. 

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She goes where I'll be. 
I said, you know, in the 

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streets. 
I'm going to go for a walk at 

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twelve, 1:00 in the in the 
afternoon. 

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She says you'll be arrested. 
Robbie, you can't walk in these 

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heat. 
I was adamant. 

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I want to lose weight. 
Well, today that's changed. 

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You know, sometimes some of the 
clergy vestments are barely 

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fitting me. 
So health is also changing, 

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right? 
How many? 

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Healthy, trim, ripped, stacked, 
6 packed athletes are hit with 

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terminal diseases, illnesses, 
Alzheimer's, dementia, 

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Parkinson's, etcetera. 
So health is not a guarantee nor

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a guaranteed payback, education,
academic credentials. 

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Now I know many of our brothers 
and sisters who had who who 

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arrived in these Western 
countries with with credentials 

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such as pH. 
DS and today cannot make any use

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of it because there is a lot of 
requirement marriages. 

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What about divorces? 
Death Does that. 

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That does marriages asunder 
unfaithfulness, cheating, 

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dishonesty, disrespect. 
How many husbands are living in 

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fear of the wives and vice 
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How many husbands are unable to 
communicate with parents because

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of their wives? 
Or how many wives are unable or 

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not permitted to communicate 
with their parents because of 

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their husbands unable to see 
children? 

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That's that's another one. 
Children. 

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Family. 
Friends, career, faith, church, 

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people causing schisms in the 
church and then calling for 

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unity. 
That's hypocritical, right? 

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You see, all of these that I 
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circumstantial. 
They are bound, affected by 

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circumstances, Marriages and 
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It's unprofitable, unfaithful, 
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When you evaluate marriage, it's
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That's why our brothers, many of
our Christian Assyrian brothers,

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are fearing marriage. 
When you talk to them about 

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marriage, there's this. 
How should we say we're saying 

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this here, A heartburn reaction,
a reflux reaction when you've 

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when you mentioned marriages. 
Oh, Robbie, don't talk about 

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marriages. 
No, no, no. 

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It's marriage today and divorce,
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That's why fornications, that is
sexual relationships outside of 

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marriages are so being the norm.
And on the increase, by the way,

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that does not justify it. 
Just because marriages are not 

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guaranteed lack of a better 
term, it doesn't justify 

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fornication, because according 
to One Corinthians, chapter 6, 

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verses 9 and 10. 
Beloved, stop. 

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Just listen to me this few 
seconds. 

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Stop what you're doing. 
I encourage you. 

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I command you. 
I encourage you to read the 

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First Epistle of Saint Paul all 
to the Corinthians, chapter 6 

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verses 9 to 10. 
It specifically clearly 

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instructs fornicators. 
Those who are engaging in sex 

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out of marriage will not enter 
the Kingdom of heaven unless 

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they repent. 
So let's not justify because 

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marriage is fearful and it's not
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You see, the core issue and 
problem will all the troublesome

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marriages. 
You'll find that the core issue 

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is that the couple have not 
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in marriage is that of Christ 
and his church, yet it is still 

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circumstantial. 
So off the bat, that investment 

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which we are using marriage as 
an example, that investment is 

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not going to yield profit and 
grow. 

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It's not guaranteed to yield 
profit and grow because it is 

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circumstantial. 
However, marriages according to 

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Christ and only with Christ, 
where both husband and wife are 

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valuable and they both count and
they are precious. 

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They're not just the material. 
Beloved brothers or beloved 

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sisters, more so beloved sisters
and wives. 

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You're not just the material. 
According to some other faiths 

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out there, where the husband can
throw acid in your face because 

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your food is not tasty. 
It happens. 

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I've heard it on BBC and I 
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this show called Every Woman. 
Some of the cases were just very

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heartbreaking. 
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With Christ, both a husband and 
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valuable, and when marriages are
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they will have a great return 
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eternity. 
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and embarked on, built upon 
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unity of the Church and her 
Christ. 

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Now though there are there may 
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Now I'm not saying just because 
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upon Christ and upon Ephesians. 
5 And you pray about it, and you

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see God's intervention. 
They will still be trials and 

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struggles and challenges and 
heart breaks. 

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But these circumstances will not
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They will not end up in complete
heartache, headache, court cases

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and children being used as 
leverages. 

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Now I must stress, you may have 
misunderstood me. 

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I must stress that I am not 
whatsoever against or in any way

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oppose relationships, Being 
healthy, obtaining your 

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education at the highest level, 
marrying the love of your life 

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for whom you are too willing to 
gather all the stars that are in

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the sky and lay them at her 
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Having children, belonging to a 
family, having friends, and most

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definitely being active in 
attendance in church. 

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No, no, no, no. 
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When I mentioned that you invest
in the Church, I'm talking about

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people. 
But when you invest in the 

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faith, the doctrine, the 
sacraments, the liturgy, the 

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services of the church, who is 
Christ? 

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You will have, yeah, you will 
have people that will break your

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heart and disappoint you, but 
you're still with Christ, 

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beloved. 
Christ will overcome. 

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No, no, I'm not against. 
I'm just saying. 

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I'm cautioning you out there to 
remember that outside of Christ,

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they all will be positively 
affected by circumstances. 

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And we spoke about that in all 
of life's requirements, 

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engagements, commitments that 
you embark on. 

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Examine that they are done so in
the Lord, With the Lord, and by 

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the Lord build these little 
houses that you want to begin to

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build on the rock of Christ and 
not the sand of secularism. 

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That way the unforeseen and 
normal circumstances will not 

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have an effective and 
everlasting damages or damaged 

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results. 
Saint Paul writes to Colossians 

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chapter 3, verse 17 and 
everything that you perform in 

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Word and in works, everything 
that you want to embark on, Do 

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in the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ and give thanks by him. 

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Wow, listen to this. 
Give thanks by him to God the 

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Father. 
The only Thanksgiving that God 

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is pleased when we utter and 
ascribe is only through Jesus 

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Christ, no one else. 
We cannot thank God in the name 

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of Muhammad. 
God is not pleased with that. 

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We cannot thank God in the name 
of Buddha. 

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God is not pleased with that. 
We cannot thank God in the name 

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of Krishna. 
God is not pleased with that 

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according to the scriptures. 
So everything we do, we do in 

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the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 

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What does that mean? 
Evaluate everything? 

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Scrutinize everything through 
Christ's Measurements Proverbs, 

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Chapter 3, verses 5 to 6. 
Quoted rapidly, but only quoted.

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Unfortunately. 
Trust in the Lord with all thy 

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heart, and lean not upon thine 
own understanding. 

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And I'll dare to add to that 
lead not upon the understanding,

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the measures, the outlook of the
world, but more so, and only the

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Lords evaluate everything by 
Christ's standards, measures, 

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projections and outcomes which 
will not have any effective 

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destructive circumstances that 
will disappoint despair and 

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bring to destruction. 
For without him John chapter 15,

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verse 5. 
Without Jesus Christ we can do 

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nothing. 
What we plan to embark on or 

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invest in life, we need to keep 
in mind not only the earthly 

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return. 
You know when you when you when 

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you marry. 
You want to have a a great 

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relationship. 
You want to have children, you 

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want to have a big family, which
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These are the the earthly 
returns, right? 

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We need to keep in mind not only
those returns that are earthly, 

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but more so the heavenly 
returns. 

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You know, I think this sums it 
all up. 

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In Matthew chapter 6, verses 19 
to 21, Jesus instructs do not 

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place treasures for yourselves 
on the earth. 

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We're moth and corruption. 
They're your circumstances and 

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we can go on health and what 
have you, You know, do not place

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treasures for yourselves on the 
earth. 

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We're moths and corrosion, this 
figure, and where thieves break 

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in and steal but place treasures
for yourselves in heaven. 

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Where neither moth nor corrosion
disfigure and where thieves 

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neither break in nor steal. 
For where your treasuries. 

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There is also your heart. 
I know contextual. 

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Yes, you may be saying that's 
contextual, speaking about 

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wealth and non possessiveness, 
right? 

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But this, in some way or 
another, is what we've been 

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discussing. 
Everything you embark on, be 

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sure to embark on that you will 
receive your reward in heaven, 

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including marriage and 
relationships and health. 

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Life's provisions are 
circumstantial. 

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Beloved. 
There is one thing, one place, 

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one person, that which at which 
and through whom what we are 

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promised, projected, and 
provided is not bound 

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circumstantially. 
And that is the joy of eternal 

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life in the Kingdom of heaven 
through Jesus Christ our Lord 

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God. 
Praise and glory be to his name,

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now and at all times and 
forever. 

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Amen. 
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