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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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A blessed rotation of the 
ninevites to you all my dear 

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brothers and sisters, but 
aborted nanwalek alone. 

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Those who have called a fast 
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During this time, remembering 
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the ninevites offered to God in 
the city of Nineveh, according 

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to the Book of Jonah in the Old 
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It's never too late to to call 
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Offer that fast in prayer and 
supplication. 

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So that our sins and 
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that have risen to the throne of
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And of displaced, him will be 
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mercy upon us as he did to the 
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I'm not going to talk much about
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talk about the main point of the
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repentance that the donor B 
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was pleasing to God, that 
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changed or altered God's 
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Of destructing Nineveh. 
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and showing mercy upon it. 
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rotation or any period of 
fasting be at the rotation, be 

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it, any fasting of the, Holy 
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50-day. 
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And the key factor is 
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I'm going to talk about what is 
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what we're going to talk about. 
How do we know what we need to 

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repent from. 
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and why must we repent and put 
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repentance Well, to repent, is 
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180 degree turn. 
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repentance in our life, in 
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walk with Christ, in our claim 
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Meaning we belong to Christ. 
We must repent from what is 

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displeasing to God. 
What is despising to God? 

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What is disappointing to God? 
And what is Disobedience to God?

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The 40s? 
Father, John adds four days of 

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repentance. 
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We'll simply because we are his 
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And if we stop there, we cause 
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greatest gift and told her that 
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We are not only his mere 
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image and his likeness, we are 
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his children beloved through our
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baptism, according to Galatians 
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The question arises and many 
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I asked myself sometimes 
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should ask him or herself this 
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How do I know if I need to 
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four D's or all of the 4d's? 
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Despising to God, what is 
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What is this obedient to God? 
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always mention this. 
Is and answer a question with a 

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question. 
How do you know when it is time 

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to pay your physician? 
Your family doctor, a visit? 

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How do you know Well yes, the 
symptoms obviously, when you 

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start getting these symptoms, 
you know, that it and as they as

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they become more aggressive and 
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become more intense. 
Then you make a decision to see 

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or pay your physician, a visit. 
A few weeks ago, I had chest 

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pains for over two weeks and I 
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physician until I could hardly 
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And that's when my wife said, I 
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go and pay your physician a 
visit better. 

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Still, let me ask you this 
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How does the physician or the 
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Know what's wrong with you? 
How to diagnose you what to give

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you what to prescribe? 
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Yes by examining you when he 
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mentally verbally, what comes 
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When you tell your doctor your 
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you're struggling in your 
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physically, then the doctor will
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10 times prescribe. 
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medication. 
So, the key word is examination 

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st. 
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in his Second Epistle, 3:15, 
examine yourselves. 

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This is now not a physical 
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This is a spiritual examination.
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that I need to repent? 
How do I know that I possess the

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four DS? 
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That are displeasing. 
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Paul goes on to say, and see if 
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first and foremost, it's faith. 
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An introspection of your faith, 
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qualities in the faith, your 
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conduct in the faith, your 
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examine to see if we are 
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Faith? 
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Those things that are in Hope as
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action. 
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something, that, as though it 
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So when we hope for the Kingdom 
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the kingdom of God, when we hope
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wishful thinking. 
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it will happen, it is ready for 
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And I, and the revelation of 
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but also we can add to that. 
That faith is also a b d instead

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to God which Intel's love trust 
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Why? 
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14:15, if you love me, that 
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You have accepted me. 
You witness for me. 

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You Proclaim my name, you sing 
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You Raise Your Hands In Worship 
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If you love me, keep my 
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There's a bead Ian's, keep my 
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And did you, as I have 
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Because it is by our Deeds, our 
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to James chapter 2, verse 22, 
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So let us examine ourselves. 
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What are the examination tools? 
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Is it called what the doctor 
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you to gag and you are I'm 
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If those are that are eating 
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your tonsils and he sticks the 
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microscope in your ear and a 
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right? 
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on your knee, to see your 
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I will, I'm a physician. 
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That's all I know, but how so. 
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may examine ourselves, first and
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judge you but the words that I 
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the holy scriptures, they will 
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any of the 4d's that we possess 
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The flock of Jesus Christ. 
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examine ourselves by the canons 
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importantly by the intercession 
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When we pray, we ask the spirit 
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So when you begin your 
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script before you even begin to 
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Liturgy and sacraments of the 
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and ask and beseech, the Holy 
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will reveal any of the 4D. 
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14:26 Jesus claims. 
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means the Holy Spirit, whom my 
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day of Pentecost and any time 
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who invokes the holy spirit in 
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that Holy Spirit to bless and 
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to bless and sanctify the 
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Holy Eucharist, The Bread and 
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laying on of the hand. 
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ordained into the priesthood, 
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sends in my name, he will teach 
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remind you of everything 
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I have told you so along with 
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reveal will expose will convict 
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Holy Spirit to reveal to us, to 
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examination. 
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Saint, Paul writes to the Romans
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the Holy Spirit. 
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We do not know what we should 
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necessary, but the spirit prays 
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Praise God. 
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God sympathizes With Us. 
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God God's desire is truly that 
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Eternal Bliss. 
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weakness knows our one of the 
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Whole of the for these that we 
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the spirit will reveal to us. 
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repent for. 
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of repentance and discovering 
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How do we repent? 
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repentance that we offer during 
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Now after the city of Nineveh 
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Jonah was in Nineveh, not 
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know, sometimes people ask me 
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God has given us free will, but 
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will, he made Jonah to go to the
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He was escaping esa, mean God 
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So sometimes be prepared. 
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God will permit you or will 
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So after he has come to the city
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Proclaim repentance. 
He the first thing that comes 

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out of his mouth is God is going
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mention repentance. 
And obviously there was a 

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dialogue, you know, during the 
during the the prayers and the 

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readings of the rotation of the 
nanomites, you know, the the 

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tradition or the the verbal 
tradition of the father's, you 

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know, as written what dialogue 
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king of Nineveh, and the 
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But look at what they did. 
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then the people of Nineveh 
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didn't know God. 
They didn't believe in God, they

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believed they understood, they 
fathom, they accepted that we 

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have disappointed. 
Me, go that we have this 

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pleased. 
We have despised. 

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We have disappointed, we have 
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And they called a fast and put 
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to the least of them when the 
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Nineveh. 
He arose from his throne laid 

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aside his robe from him. 
You know we ask the question how

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do I repent here it is he arose 
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laid aside, his robe from him, 
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and sat on the ashes. 
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I don't want to see people 
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sitting on ashes, okay? 
These are metaphor, he, you 

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know, that the city did this, 
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know how we say in a see we say,
but my buddy, sure. 

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Right. 
I think I mentioned this last 

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time in a program, we talked 
about this Ashby albani ahead. 

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It's an analogy, it's an, an 
idiom of a state of where 

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someone has no more hope, Up 
there is no hope. 

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But obviously there is always 
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So as helpless as the city of 
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hope and and they receive that. 
Hope they receive that grace and

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mercy from God. 
He issued the king of Nineveh 

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issued a proclamation and it 
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This is the decree of the king 
in India by the decree of the 

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king of He and his Nobles. 
So make a decree for yourself in

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my body engine are in Steven, in
Adrena. 

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In anyone, I am going to now, 
decree to myself that any goes 

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on to say, do not let man-beast 
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Now, I don't mean to say make 
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make a degree 4. 
Of that, I will not taste 

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anything and see there is the 
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not eating meat and not eating 
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No, it means total abstinence, 
I'm going to talk a little bit 

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about the services. 
Total abstinence no flock, 

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should taste the thing. 
That means abstain, do not let 

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them eat or drink water, but 
both see not do not let them eat

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or drink if they like chocolate.
They cannot eat chocolate. 

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If they They don't if they like 
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Well, let them just give up Red 
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No, no. 
Do not eat or do not drink 

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abstinence because of the 
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sin because of the seriousness 
of the 4d's of repentance with 

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spoken about, do not let the let
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Let them eat or drink water. 
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covered with sackcloth and let 
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each may turn from. 
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And from the violence, which is 
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There it is. 
We defined repentance, turn away

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180 degrees from the wickedness,
that is in his hands that phone 

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that we hold in our hand and we 
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and what we post on our social 
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or posts or whatever it is. 
I captions you know let's turn 

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away from that. 
Witness beloved, who knows? 

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He continues, who knows God may 
turn and relent and withdrawal. 

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His withdraw his Burning Anger, 
so that we will not perish. 

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This is how we repent when we 
have discovered our sins, our 

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transgressions, our weaknesses, 
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Because most of these we do with
the body, we deprive the body, 

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from what it is, essential for 
food, and drink Jesus fast, that

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neither ate nor drank. 
This is how we fast beloved. 

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This is why in the beginning, I 
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You're either you've either 
reached that completion and 

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perfection Holiness. 
God bless you. 

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Please pray for me because I 
haven't, that's why we are 

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fasting, but I doubt that there 
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out there, offer that offer 
that, that repentance and offer 

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that fasting in that rotation. 
A nice prayer. 

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During this time Bassam chapter 
51 verse is 1 2 3, show mercy 

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upon me o God according to your 
kindness and according to the 

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multitude of thy mercies blot 
out my sins wash me completely 

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from my evil and Purge me from 
my sins because I know my crimes

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and my sins are always in front 
of me. 

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This is such a powerful prayer. 
It's not just the psalm reading.

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It is a prayer and what a 
beautiful prayer befitting for 

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any time we fast. 
And we ask God to forgive us so 

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that we may repent from our 
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Our transgressions, if you're 
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sleeping around, repent, if 
you're a husband or a wife and 

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you're cheating on your husband 
or your wife, repent, if you're 

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a drug dealer and you're on your
way now to do a deal repent, if 

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you're an alcoholic and 
Destroying your family yourself.

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Repent, if you're a gambler and 
your tote complete continuously,

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deceiving your family, you 
stealing from your from your 

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wife, your lending and borrowing
money, which, you know, you 

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cannot repay. 
Repent. 

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If you gossip, if you cus, if 
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Why must we repent? 
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very. 
Perfectly and very simply 

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effectively, eternally says in 
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All of you shall be destroyed. 
Regardless of what rank, you 

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are, regardless of who you are, 
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All of you shall be destroyed. 
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Jesus commands produce, 
therefore fruit. 

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That is fitting of repentance. 
This is why we must take it 

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serious beloved. 
You know, sometimes when we talk

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about fasting we joke around, we
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But fasting is the key is the 
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established to overcome evil to 
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overcome Satan, and his trickery
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And remember, where does Satan 
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He attacks you, when you're on 
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on your laptop, your scrolling 
around and then he throws Those 

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those those pop-ups. 
And then he entangles, you. 

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Well, we know what you do during
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That's a repent. 
And this fast from getting on 

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our social medias, let us repent
and let us fast as abstain for 

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three days from scrolling 
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Let us do that beloved. 
And then when we do it become so

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encouraging. 
So, self pleasing that when the 

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rotation is over, when your 
fasting period is over, you, I 

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feel like you do not want to go 
back to it, like a dog returns 

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back to its vomit, but you know 
what, I'm sure this time next 

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year we're going to be talking 
about the same thing again, 

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because we are weak. 
Repentance is a part of 

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Christian Life. 
Repentance is not a, that's not 

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repentance. 
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Yeah, I have but I keep falling.
I keep falling because I'm weak.

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Repentance is one of the 
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our Christian Life. 
Let me share a revelation 2:5. 

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Remember from where you have 
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sin. 
When we have given up an hour, 

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dropped our shield and have 
conformed to the patterns of 

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this world and given up to the 
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We form from the place that we 
were at one stage where we 

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weren't sinning or we weren't 
giving up to the patterns of the

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world. 
So remember from from where you 

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have fallen from and do, the 
former Works Deeds, we spoke 

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about the insignificance of 
Deeds, but if not, I will come 

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again. 
I will come against you and I 

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will move your Menorah which is 
lampstand unless you repent, one

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of the church fathers. 
Says areas of Arles was a bishop

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of owl which is in France. 
One of the later Church fathers.

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I love his comment and I want to
share it with you. 

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He writes commenting on 
Revelation 2:5 and in, in 

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relation to the lampstand or the
menorah, he writes a note that 

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he Jesus did not say that. 
He takes away the lampstand, but

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that he moves, he will move it 
for the lampstand signifies. 

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The one Christian people, 
therefore he says, As that this 

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lampstand is to be moved not 
taken away. 

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So that we might understand that
it in the very same church. 

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That evil are moved and the good
confirmed. 

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Moreover, he means that by the 
hidden, but nonetheless just 

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Judgment of God, that, which is 
taken from the evil is given as 

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increased to the good. 
This fulfills that which is 

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written here. 
Who has it will be added to him,

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but him to him, who has not? 
Even that which he has shall be 

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taken from him. 
Matthew, 25 29. 

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So Christ is, is is pre warning 
us that unless we return back to

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the Good, Deeds back to pleasing
God back to obeying God back to 

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appeasing God which is the same 
thing and back to work. 

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Kicking Deeds which are the 
confirmation of our faith. 

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That actually God loves if we 
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What is being given us the 
gracious gift of the holy spirit

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that we have received through 
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That baptism the holy 
sacraments. 

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Whatever we have received that 
will be taken away. 

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That will be moved to those that
have been obedient. 

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It's serious beloved unless we 
repent. 

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The Lord will come back and 
remove. 

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That means evil and good cannot 
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On this Earth. 
There is good and evil. 

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Why? 
Because the good are left by God

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to be an example of what God is 
appeased by and how people of 

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God should live the evil 
remains, as an opportunity to 

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repent. 
I insane. 

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Peter writes that people are 
saying that, let me paraphrase 

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it. 
Some people are saying that 

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God's return is delaying. 
Saying it's not delay, it's 

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given every person a chance to 
repent because when the Lord 

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returns when the Lord returns to
judge, he will not call people 

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to repentance. 
He will call all to that fearful

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awesome judgment. 
He will not come to Bear our 

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sins, our transgressions, he 
will come to reward to 

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recompress Companions, our evil 
Deeds, which means total 

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separation from But we don't 
want to focus on that. 

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We want to focus on the day when
the Lord returns that we will 

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praise His holy name and we will
bow willingly. 

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We will confess joyfully that he
is our King who has come to take

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us away to the Eternal Bliss 
that is awaiting us because we 

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have offered our prayers, our 
fasting and our repentance we 

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have been busy struggling 
tirelessly in Repentance so that

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we may receive that Holy 
pleasing. 

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Men from God. 
Well done. 

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Good and faithful servant. 
Praise be to his name now and at

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all times and forever and ever. 
One last thing. 

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