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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, ourselves 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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Oh, you who enlightens the 
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your greatness do in light or my
Lord are thoughts that we made? 

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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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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. 

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Jonard one of the many difficult
attributes or characteristics in

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our Christian lives. 
Life. 

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In general is being content, 
being satisfied, being content 

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with what we have or what we 
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what we receive or miss out on 
being content in any lives, 

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cruel disheartening, 
disappointing displeasing. 

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And all the disses circumstances
that life throws in us or at us.

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You see Christmas is around the 
corner, right? 

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And we're preparing our gifts, 
we're buying gifts for others. 

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We've already started wrapping 
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receive a gift from others. 
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the thoughts that count. 
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Now, we ask, what would you like
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And it's not about the gift 
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it's about celebrating the birth
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But even then, There has to be 
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to be pleased. 
I need to, I need to need what I

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receive. 
I need to be satisfied with what

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I receive or what I give away. 
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as it sounds or as contentment 
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as a great gain. 
It is a great Victory, a great 

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success along with godliness. 
According to what st. 

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Paul writes to Timothy in his 
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Chapter 6, verses 6 to 10. 
We're going to break it down. 

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It begins by saying, but 
godliness that beat, that means 

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being god-like being christ-like
being complete. 

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As our father, in Heaven is 
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So godliness actually is a means
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accompanied by contentment. 
We could love the Lord, pray to 

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the Lord and ask that he's will 
be done in our lives. 

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That he's will always supersede 
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And when he does, we're not 
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So, why is it a game to be 
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contentment? 
Why must I be content when I 

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don't have or can't have what my
neighbor has? 

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Why must I be content with my 
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When my friend, my cousin, my 
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is Basking in his or her 
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Or better still, how is it that 
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most undesirable situations in 
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Genuinely joyfully, I will add 
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can never forget a video that I 
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I think it was Facebook. 
It was a video of a father who 

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would ride his bicycle to a 
restaurant and this is in the 

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evening just before the 
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would ride his bicycle to the 
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Now the restauranteur would save
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plates of The customers. 
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third of a chicken left on the 
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there was some rice and some 
baked potato, that wasn't 

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touched, he would leave them and
place them in a plastic bag and 

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hold them, reserve them for the 
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to the restaurant, the father 
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This is leftovers beloved and he
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children. 
I'm being Overjoyed because they

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received food. 
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you know that that didn't touch 
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What touched my heart? 
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me was this that before they 
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children. 
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The father said, no signaling. 
Wait, we need to pray praying 

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for leftovers being content. 
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That today, we are able Eating, 
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So how is it? 
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content? 
Well, firstly, because those who

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are content with the most 
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they know they have accepted 
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fact that God will always 
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and this is where we missed the 
mark, beloved, they have 

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understood the nature and the 
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might, and the capability, the 
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faithfulness of God, they have 
read the scriptures and not only

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ready to use them to correct 
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of the scriptures, but to 
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in life. 
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assured in Matthew 10:29, and 
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Jesus says are not Two Sparrows,
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of them will fall to the ground 
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father's knowledge, but the very
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You who are listening, stop the 
vacuuming stop the washing of 

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the dishes. 
Pull over to one side, listen to

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this. 
You whoever you may be wherever 

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you may be Who love the Lord 
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you and I both but the very 
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showing the, the precise 
knowledge and forethought of God

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for you. 
And I but the very hairs of your

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head are all numbered. 
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You are most valuable than many 
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Matthew 6. 
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the birds of the sky. 
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I don't toil, they don't have to
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They don't have to invest money 
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Dodge come, they don't have to 
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what's gonna come out of his 
mouth and everyone pours money 

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into that specific stock. 
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But the Father in Heaven 
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How much are you more worth than
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You know, animals don't have a 
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Spirit, the animals don't have a
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The animal's life is within 
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So when they die, we say we use 
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That means they have gone 
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There's no and I'm sorry, I'm 
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bread. 
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heaven, and doggy and catty 
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It's not in the Bible, it's on 
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Not in the writings of the 
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But yet, let me tell you, two 
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very recently. 
And you can Google this Google 

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fish spitting, water out of out 
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it's a grasshopper. 
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just on the surface floating on 
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is caught on a grasshopper. 
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The fish spits out water to hit 
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grasshopper is going to land 
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and eat. 
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because that fish has had food. 
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I saw last week, it was on 
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find it Stephen and I bird was 
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The Birds storing The Twig so 
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a nest in. 
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feathers, I mean Stephen made a 
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bird going to fly, but you guys 
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I mean, if you have The snow 
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It's storing it in her in her 
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wings. 
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amazing because I thought how 
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how to store twigs and transport
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knitting, her nest. 
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And if the God Is providing as 
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the trees, and the plantation, 
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Job job. 
God says, to job, where were 

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you? 
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I think was about 28 verses or 
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God says, listen, where were 
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Where were you? 
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the wilderness so that the 
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the animals would live? 
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That is why the people you know,
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disease or undesirable 
situations have understood the 

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true meaning and the truth 
behind the word of God that says

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that I will never leave you, I 
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secondly, Paul continues in 
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that for we have brought nothing
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So we cannot take anything out 
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So, what we have, I should be 
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pray to the Lord, to the father,
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Not weekly bread, monthly bread 
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I ate today, I weigh close 
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I am working today, I will be 
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My bills will be paid my fee. 
My table will be, will be full. 

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My children will eat, Praise 
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all going to end as well, but 
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I am content with the leftovers.
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My auntie God, Rest, her soul 
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You know, when we were young, we
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We were, you know, we weren't 
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of some other people had and, 
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Pray and eat our food every day.
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just dried bread, you know our 
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their abstinence which means 
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abstaining. 
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abstinence, they would end it 
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like my buuza and having a glass
of water and yet they were still

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content. 
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writes amazing on these verses 
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Only one who lives for Christ. 
He stands Superior to all 

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troubles, any undesirable 
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And if he does not choose to 
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be able to to do this. 
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That means he is secure. 
He is not stung by the loss of 

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wealth for he has learned that 
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this world. 
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anything out? 
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He is not caught by the longings
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He has learned that our 
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Philippians 3:20, no one. 
Annoys him by abuse or provokes 

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him by blows. 
There is only one Calamity one 

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disaster for a Christian. 
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What do you think hunger? 
Illness. 

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Being poor being limited know. 
There is only one Calamity 

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disaster for a Christian 
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Saint John chrysostom and he 
continues all the other things 

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such as loss of property, Exile,
Peril that is danger in the 

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risks of life. 
No one, sorry, one does not even

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reckon to be a grievance at all 
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Which all dread. 
Departure hands to the other 

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world. 
That is death. 

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This is to him sweeter than life
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This is the person who is 
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or has not saying Paul continues
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Timothy chapter 6, verse 8 if we
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these, we shall be content. 
Look at The Bear Necessities. 

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The simple bare nostromo's, 
Jungle Book, right? 

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I think it was Jungle Book. 
It was that, that, that bear, 

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that was scratching his back on 
the bamboo stick, I used to 

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watch it. 
I like that. 

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Haven't watched it for a long 
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it today. 
That is yesterday. 

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Look at the bare necessities, 
the simple Bare Necessities food

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and covering If we are content 
beloved with what we have, any 

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covering any food and some John,
chrysostom is going to write 

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about this whole. 
I'll share it with you. 

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When we are content st. 
Paul writes in Ephesians chapter

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3, God who can give us 
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even think of if you are content
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God will provide. 
If it pleases him in a pieces 

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him, if we are content with the 
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continue to provide 
immeasurably. 

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Saint, John chrysostom comments 
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wife and her husband. 
Listen to what he writes for it 

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is not by beautifying herself or
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demanding from her husband, 
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lavish. 
That a good wife will be able to

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win him over. you know, we don't
need to post some of those 

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Amazing mind-boggling posts that
are sisters are posting on 

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Instagram and on tick-tocks and 
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Why to be able to win over the 
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male or vice versa st. 
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it's not by this how when she 
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concerns and Rinse upon herself,
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Meaning the true way of life, 
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modesty, decorum disdain for 
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Then she will be able to capture
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food and clothing, we have all 
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laughing at physical death 
calls, this This life nothing 

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when she considers along with 
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Every Glory of this life, to be 
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Isaiah 46, then she will capture
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Of wife will capture the love 
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The faithfulness of her husband,
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can provide and vice versa, 
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Now, those who are not content 
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a danger beloved when we are not
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we may be eating and we pray 
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everyone. 
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says, those who want to get rich
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and met many foolish and harmful
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rumen and discussion this 
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Now, I must say that st. 
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discrediting or disapproving 
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So, the desires, the intention 
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Because she has, or he has, I 
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because I have what God has 
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I am content that I don't have. 
What my neighbor has enriches is

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not money alone. 
Prepare beloved not just 

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property and assets, riches can 
be Comfort. 

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We want to have comfort. 
We don't want to suffer in this 

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world. 
Why you must we suffer in this 

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world. 
I don't want In pain, I don't 

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want sorrow, I don't want Agony,
I don't want illness. 

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Well, that's not being 
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Beloved because the world is a 
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provide nothing but calamities. 
Riches are not money and 

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property alone. 
Gladness being happy in Christ. 

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I want to be more happy. 
I'm not happy if people come up 

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to me and and you know I don't 
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don't know what it is. 
Well be content if your content 

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then you will not be sad because
whatever circumstance you have 

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and you praise the Lord Jesus 
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And you know that he is with you
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your content, you're satisfied. 
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Knowing that one day we're going
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this world st. 
Peter, right? 

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That will melt all the elements 
will melt everything will be 

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left behind and will melt. 
There is nothing that we're 

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going to take with us and then 
maybe you will be glad and you 

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will be happy. 
So st. 

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Paul is writing about the 
desirable evil love for these 

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which is a path to ruin and 
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The love for being continuously 
joyous and happy and glad the 

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only gladness we have Beloved, 
the only joy we have that cannot

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be taken away from us is through
Jesus Christ and that Joy when 

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you went, when we hear the word 
Joy, leaming always, you know, 

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enjoying ourselves and laughing.
Being and carry on? 

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No, no, the joy in suffering as 
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Why? 
Because he suffered for you. 

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And I first and he died for you,
and I and he overcame suffering,

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he overcame death and sin and we
have Victory through him on this

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Earth or in the Kingdom of 
Heaven according to God's 

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perfect plan for you. 
I Saint Paul writes and 

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reiterates in Hebrews 13:5, let 
not your mind. 

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Love money, not only money 
power, Fame attraction, Let not 

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your mind, love money. 
But let what you have satisfy 

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you for the Lord himself has 
said I will never leave you nor 

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slacken the hand towards you. 
So one of the most helpful 

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beneficial way of putting God's 
will before the Earthly desire, 

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which was one of the questions. 
How do we do this in this most 

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trying and challenging world? 
How do we put God's will before 

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the Earthly desire before the 
world is be content? 

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Be content where you are in your
faith, you believe in the Lord, 

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Jesus Christ, praise and glory 
be to his name. 

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You have been baptized in the 
father, in the name of the 

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father and of the son and of the
Holy Spirit, the baptism of 

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Jesus Christ, praise the Lord 
Jesus Christ because you have 

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been put to death with him, in 
your baptism. 

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And you have been brought to 
life with him. 

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You read your holy scriptures, 
you pray. 

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You have a communication with 
your heavenly father through 

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Jesus Christ. 
You attend church, you partake 

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in the old sanctifying body and 
blood of our Lord. 

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Jesus Christ. 
You fast. 

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You perform your your good deed.
Your charitable Deeds. 

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Praise God. 
Maybe it is not for you to go 

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and evangelize the world know 
some people want to and then 

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they are not content because 
they are unable to that is not 

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for you. 
Be content with the way you are 

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in faith. 
Examine yourself test yourself 

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If your conscience is not 
rebuking you, if your conscience

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is clear and your conscience is 
encouraging, you praise God and 

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remain and wait for God to move,
who can do immeasurably, who can

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call you to, to, to the 
callings. 

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That are immeasurable. 
You never even thought of 

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yesterday, we celebrated, the 
Angelic and uncie ation to the 

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Blessed ever Virgin Mary, the 
mother of Jesus Christ, the son 

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of God, look at Mary's respond 
beloved. 14 years old told that 

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she will be impregnated without 
a man. 

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If you chuckle just now. 
Yeah, but she didn't chuckle. 

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She was fearful. 
She was astonished. 

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When she heard the sound of the 
voice of the Angel. 

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But look at her. 
Listen to her reply, beloved 

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Luke, 1:38. 
Behold! 

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I am the handmaid of the Lord 
God. 

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We are God's servants and 
handmaidens. 

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We are his children, but just as
servants, we are ready for God 

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to use us. 
According to whatsoever, he 

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pleases, even if our life will 
be in danger. 

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And if you read Mary story, 
annually, read Luke chapter 1, 

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you know what I'm talking about.
I am the handmaid of the Lord 

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God let it be done to me 
according to your word. 

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Obedience acceptance, 
willingness Readiness ready for 

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God to work according to his 
will and being content. 

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What a beautiful role model, the
Blessed Virgin Mary. 

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That didn't argue. 
The reason why she asked that, 

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how could it be? 
Because there has been, no man. 

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Is because in the history of the
world, no woman has conceived 

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without a man. 
Zechariah was punished because 

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prior to Zechariah and being a 
priest, he should have known 

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that they were Barren. 
An old woman sir, I who did give

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birth through God's power, but 
Mary was the first and the last 

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to give birth to the Son of God.
And yet she accepted it and she 

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was content. 
So, as we approach the Advent of

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our Lord and Savior, Jesus 
Christ. if we don't have the ham

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on the table, beloved, if we 
don't receive any gifts and what

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little we can give let us first.
Praise God for it. 

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Praise God for his son, for the 
gift of his son, to the whole 

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world. 
If I can't give Steven anything 

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and saving his a little bit 
upset, don't wait for a gift, by

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the wasting. 
If I can't give Stephen a gift 

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and he's upset and maybe, you 
know, he's got the courage to 

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come and say a hobby, you know, 
I mean, he didn't even buy me 

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anything I'd say, hey, Steven 
God the father has given you the

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greatest gift ever, which is he 
son l? 

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Jesus Christ, so be content. 
The gift, I give you will perish

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the gift. 
I give you will be superseded by

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version 10.10 point 10.10 point.
Turn, what I find here, we are 

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up to now, 14. 
Well, let me tell you probably 

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20 is in the line now to, right?
So things are changing, the 

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iPhone 10. 
Now, is one of those thing would

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say he, bro, there's iPhone 14. 
Now, so what we give one another

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is, Limited but what God has 
given us regardless of what 

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shape what amount, what 
quantity, what quality which is 

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always perfect. 
Let's be content and I pray that

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the willing and the spirit of 
contentment is bestowed upon 

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each and every one of us so that
we can possess it first and 

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foremost and only for the glory 
of our Heavenly King. 

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Jesus Christ. 
Praise and glory be to His holy 

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name now and at all times and 
forever. 

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