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In the name of the Glorious 
Trinity. 

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Father and Son and Holy Spirit 
forever. 

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Amen. 
Glory be to the Everlasting 

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

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

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

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

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fulfill your Commandments at 
every hour. 

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

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Our thoughts that we made 
meditate upon your holy and 

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

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and Holy Spirit forever. 
Amen. 

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Double-edged sword. 
A Christian podcast Ministry 

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presented by father, jonard 
Lazar father. 

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Jernard is a parish priest of 
the mud edit Parish of the 

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Assyrian Church of the East and 
Turlock California. 

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Here's father jernard. 
Sometimes when I finish 

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showering and I put on my 
cologne, normal teen and I come 

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out and Melissa my oldest 
daughter asks me dad, what is 

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that? 
What have you got on so when 

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she's frowning, I know it 
doesn't smell nice but when 

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she's got the inquisitive for 
facial expression, I know that 

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it smells nice and I say to her,
it's more teen either the green 

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can or the Blue kitten or the 
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And it's fiscal ology. 
Isn't it a drainer? 

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What I'd like to talk about 
today, the sweet fragrance to 

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God, you know, the scriptures, 
tell us and give us an 

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indication that let's, let's 
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You know, when God's take takes 
a Sniff and he smells that sweet

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fragrance coming or Wharf Ting 
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All right it's in the passage. 
I'd like to share his second 

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Corinthians 2:15 st. 
Paul writes for we he's talking 

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about himself in a third-person 
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speaking in the Middle Eastern 
culture, but we also have a part

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in this because we are the 
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Lord Jesus Christ. 
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God. 
In Christ amongst those who have

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life and among those who perish.
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when God takes a sniff or 
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You know. 
The question is, what smell does

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he smell? 
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Is it sweet? 
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we confess in the Holy Liturgy 
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So we we being himself and us 
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the fragrance or the aroma of 
the Holy gospels or the 

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scriptures which wafts forth 
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When we believe when we accept, 
when we honor, when we obey and 

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we live the holy scriptures, 
according to the interpretation 

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of the church, that is the power
of the scriptures paired up with

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the interpretations of the 
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Venus is a sweet fragrance to 
God, the father of Christ. 

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Everything By the father to the 
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his son Jesus Christ praise and 
glory be to his name. 

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So the activeness the liveliness
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us, maybe dorky nerdy geeky 
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To the world to men but to God. 
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Christ. 
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Christ, someone being loving and
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Again, may be seen as a dorky 
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conventional person, someone who
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pray for his his, or her hand 
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He's seen and portrayed that way
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the sweet fragrance because the 
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us the gospel of the Lord Jesus 
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The holy scriptures is a love. 
Sty, spiritual Love Story. 

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It's all about love and from 
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punishment but it's all in love 
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John chrysostom. 
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Saint, John chrysostom Saint, 
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The gospel has a sweet savour. 
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Christ, all lost the gospel 
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So whether it's geeky, nerdy, 
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But the gospel has the power. 
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gospels, we have the power It 
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when it blinds, someone is still
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It's bitter to those who are 
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You know, when I feel sick and 
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water that you drink is tastes 
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It's still refreshing. 
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Goes on to say so also the 
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even if those who do not believe
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So we are a sweet savior to God.
Savor flavor to God, fragrance 

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to God when we live and obey the
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We may be a sweet fragrance to 
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we still are a sweet fragrance 
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the scriptures the holy Gospel 
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So How do here it is Adrena. 
How do we begin to smell sweet 

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to God through the Sacred 
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Each time. 
I mention my topic that I'm 

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going to speak about and a brief
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the mouth of your says. 
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We'll come to it. 
So here it is in my notes. 

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Audrina, I promise you. 
How do we begin to smell sweet 

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to God? 
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A message without A a hint of 
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information. 
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you go to the physician and he 
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says I'm trying to think of some
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term and I'll make someone 
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a practical operation, some 
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And if it's only prescribed with
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indication of how you you are to
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The medication will be of no use
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Even though I always, you know, 
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whipping girl or the sacrificial
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application. 
How do we become a sweet 

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fragrance to God through the 
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First and foremost, we must 
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Notice I didn't just say read, 
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some research and I got onto 
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on, on the difference between 
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defines. 
Studying is the process of fully

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concentrating and devoting, 
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research of a particular task. 
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scriptures, that means fully 
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devoting. 
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are reading and to understand 
for that time to come for you to

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understand and to comprehend 
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However, on the other hand, 
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understanding and gasping the 
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the related content within the 
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Oh yeah, I understand that. 
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That's why it's nice to read 
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because there's no distractions.
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are in your room away from 
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truly contemplate and devote 
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And Jesus says this in 539, he 
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opposition's who thought that 
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They were eating. 
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Jesus. 
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Testament search the scriptures.
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think that you have eternal life
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not at hearing and obeying the 
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you read and they testify 
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The Old Testament is about Jesus
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So in John, chrysostom rights 
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not read about, do not only 
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them that his Jesus tells them 
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Why? 
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John's goes on, says, these 
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Or out in the open but were 
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So when you search this and I 
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that you can understand the 
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have the treasures that are not 
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Anyone Saint, John chrysostom 
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searches for hidden things, 
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diligent will never find the 
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This is why Jesus says In them. 
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meaning that they did not reap 
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reading of them without faith. 
Search the script believe in the

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Holy scriptures, believe that 
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written. 
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canonized by the church because 
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lack of a better term. 
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they want a holy scriptures when
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Paul says, to in his career 
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me let me just use my own terms.
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They what was spoken so they 
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should be saved by reading of 
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faith. 
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the holy scriptures as I said 
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church, that is the only. 
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it's not at the church, is not 
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Is the body of Christ is a 
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Let's use the word the The only 
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Center, the only fountain that 
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which is the church and having 
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studying the scriptures living 
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Converting your life changing 
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According to the scriptures, 
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to God and to others. 
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with good reason that he said 
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But merely prided themselves on 
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searching the scriptures 
studying the scriptures beloved 

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doesn't merely until finding 
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lives. 
Some people try to find 

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scripture to justify the 
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they live in, Jesus didn't spoke
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Jesus didn't speak about many 
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one word that entailed 
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And when you truly search study 
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Devote ample time and 
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that one word that has come out 
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Kane, Jesus Christ. 
The only son of God Intel's, 

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everything searching, the 
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scriptures doesn't merely Min or
until finding versus for dispute

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or four arguments or so you can 
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because of skip some people do 
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Searching, the scriptures helps 
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with Jesus Christ. 
In our war work of the works of 

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life in our work of a life in 
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And once we find ourselves 
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beloved reflecting the 
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ambitious to preach the 
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Saint Francis of Assisi and I 
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Preach, the gospel at all times.
Use words, if necessary, leave 

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the holy scriptures, search the 
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Evaluate yourself. 
Correct yourself live. 

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That correction, that evaluation
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you become that sweet fragrance 
to others and to God, and even 

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to those who don't accept you, 
but you are still a sweet 

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fragrance. 
This is how we become a sweet 

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fragrance. 
Beloved God smells the fragrance

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of his son Worf that from us. 
God is a piste notice. 

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It's all about Jesus Christ, 
everything to the father must go

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through Jesus. 
Sighs God is appeased with us 

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when we are obedient and living 
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Another fundamental work of the 
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which we spoke about two 
programs ago, is reading the 

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holy scriptures when we need to 
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Christ in the scriptures. 
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What do I do Lobby? 
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start reading the scriptures. 
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the gospel of Mark because it's 
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to read and to understand. 
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before you start to read the 
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before you commence, reading the
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Let me, excuse me. 
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prayers that the priest recites 
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holy gospel is read and 
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church. 
God, the Lord of all strengthen 

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your thoughts, make your choose 
melodious. 

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So that you may sing Glory by 
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I mean, and everyone says I mean
glory to the mercies that sent 

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you to us, oh, Christ the light 
of the world and the life of all

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armed in grant us wisdom by your
law and lighten our impulses by 

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your truth sanctify. 
Our souls by your truth. 

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Give us that we may be obedient 
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your And so, you know, these are
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So before you pick up the holy 
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the holy scriptures pray 
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written word of Jesus Christ. 
The power of Jesus Christ in his

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words praying before the reading
of the Holy gospels or the 

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scriptures. 
Saint ephrem advisors on the 

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study of scriptures and this is 
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I found this on the internet. 
Listen to this it's a long read 

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but please bear with me. 
Lord who can grasp all the 

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wealth of just one of your 
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One of your words and that's 
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Lord who can crack grasp all the
wealth of just one of your words

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that we understand in. 
Sorry what we understand is much

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less than We Leave Behind, like,
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fountain for your word. 
Lord has many shades of meaning.

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Just as those who study it, have
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the Lord has colored his word 
with Many Hues so that each 

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person who studies it can see it
in what he loves, he has hidden 

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many Treasures, Treasures in his
word so that each of us is 

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enriched as we meditate on it. 
The word of God is a tree of 

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life that from all its parts 
offers you fruit. 

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That is blessed. 
It is like the rock opened in 

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the desert that from all its 
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drink, when Simon Rowan. 
Moses struck his rod on the Rock

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which was Jesus Christ, he who 
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share of its treasure that is 
the word of God should not think

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that the only thing contained in
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found. 
Whoa, he should realize that he 

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has only been able to find that 
one thing from among many 

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others. 
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has been Come. 
He's should he say that the word

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is void and empty and looked 
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So when the word doesn't 
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you're thinking, don't dare to 
say that the word of God is 

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empty and void. 
No, it's not. 

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It's full of fruits and Saint 
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Google st. 
Ephram's, advice on the side, a 

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study of the Sacred Scriptures, 
and I'm going to close off with 

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Saint. 
John, chrysostom says prayer 

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before reading the scriptures. 
Those who'd like to cut a copy 

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of this prayer reach out to us 
that the producers would be more

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than happy to provide it to you 
after doing the sign of the 

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cross. 
Everything is in the name of the

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Holy Trinity, the Father and Son
and Holy Spirit. 

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The prayer begins. 
Oh Lord, Jesus Christ. 

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Open the Eyes of My Heart that I
may hear your word and 

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understand and do your will for 
I am a Sojourner upon the Earth 

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hide. 
Not your Commandments from me, 

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but open my eyes that I may 
perceive the wonders of your law

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speak unto me, the hidden and 
secret things of your wisdom on 

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you. 
I Set My Hope. 

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Oh my God, that you will 
Enlighten my mind and 

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understanding with the light of 
your knowledge, not only to 

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cherish those things. 
Which are written, but to do 

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them that in reading the lives 
and sayings of the Saints. 

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I may not sin, but that such may
serve for my restoration and 

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Lightman and sanctification, for
the Salvation of my soul. 

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And the inheritance of Life 
Everlasting for you, Lord are 

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the enlightenment of those who 
lie in darkness and from you 

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comes every good deed and every 
gift a lot of all, Father and 

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Son, and Holy Spirit forever 
Amen. 

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