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As we begin this morning. 
The keynote passage for the text

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that is on the screen. 
Really? 

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Is found in the previous 
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There you remember that these 
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and verse? 
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continuous letter. 
So when Peter divinely inspired 

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by the Holy Spirit wrote. 
This it was a continuous letter.

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So the keynote passage that's 
found in the previous chapter is

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found in First. 
Peter chapter 1 and verse 23. 

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Three it really sets the tone, 
it sets the stage of who Peter 

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is talking about or talking to. 
It says having been born again, 

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not of corruptible seed, but 
Incorruptible through the word 

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of God that lives and abides 
forever. 

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Let me just say a couple things 
about being born again. 

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You know, I realize that it 
really is a subject or really is

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a concept. 
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but let me just explain Way to 
give me about two minutes, I'm 

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going to explain what it means 
to be born again. 

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And it really is very, very 
simple. 

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And we go to the words of Jesus,
in Matthew chapter 18, it all 

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begins their. 
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to Jesus and they said, tell us 
master, who is the greatest in 

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the kingdom of heaven and Jesus 
took a little child and he 

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placed a little child in their 
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converted and become Come as 
little children ye shall not 

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enter the Kingdom of Heaven. 
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words of Jesus, the teachings of
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and he tells Nicodemus, he said,
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Nicodemus says, how is that 
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How can a man when he is old be 
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Can he enter the second time 
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born? 
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of the flesh is flesh and that, 
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Spirit. 
Jesus, then says, you have to be

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born of water and the spirit. 
So all we know so far, Matthew 

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18. 
Jesus said, if you want to go to

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heaven, you have to become as 
little children, John chapter 3,

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if you want to go to heaven, you
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chapter 3 tells us. 
You're born again. 

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Can you are born of water and 
the spirit, we all know that's 

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baptism, but let me give you a 
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beginning there in verse 3. 
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many of us as were baptized into
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his death. 
Therefore we are buried with him

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by baptism into death that like 
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dead by the glory of the father.
Even so we also should walk get 

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this in. 
In newness of Life. 

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Sounds Familiar, doesn't it? 
Matthew 18, Little Children. 

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John chapter 3 born again and 
Romans chapter 6 New Life. 

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It's the same thing. 
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that has been baptized for the 
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going back to our passage, Peter
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corruptible seed, but 
incorruptible Incorruptible 

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seed, in other words in Romans 
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The Apostle Paul says, for I am 
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Christ for it is the power of 
God to Salvation for everyone, 

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who believes for the Jew first. 
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more passage along this line, 
and it's found in Acts chapter 2

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and verse 41, then they, that 
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baptized and the same day that 
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3,000, Souls. 
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our introduction, and it's going
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on as we progress through. 
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how not of corruptible seed, but
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that? 
That is the gospel of Christ and

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the gospel of Christ is the word
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All right, so we're talking 
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that point forward, though, the 
Christian has Has a 

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responsibility. 
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you've heard me say, you have 
heard me say that the Christian 

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from the Waters of baptism, has 
a three-fold responding 

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obligation. 
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You've also heard me preach on 
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obligation to God, and that's to
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We understand that that's first 
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have an obligation to serve God 
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Number two, we have a 
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Action to each other in that. 
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We do that. 
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struggles. 
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obligation to each other. 
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obligation to my father 
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but there's one more. 
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to our self and that is to grow 
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These are things that we have to
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Let's go back to our passage. 
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chapter 2, and we're going to 
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And by the way, in this, we have
some practical things and Peter 

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gives us the negative side and 
these going to give us the 

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positive side. 
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negative side In this passage 
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laying aside all malice, first 
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literally means once for all 
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It doesn't mean cut back. 
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people trying to quit something 
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something. 
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something in their life, I'm not
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vice, but something in their 
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For example that they were 
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sometimes people say this, well 
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going to cut back a little at a 
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little at a time then eventually
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Okay. 
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A little at a time. 
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while you are cutting back, you 
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It doesn't make any difference. 
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in something in great magnitude 
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bit. 
You're still doing it. 

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You still have that problem. 
You still haven't quit. 

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Now, I have to say this to. 
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growth, so please get this down,
you're taking notes, write it 

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down. 
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growth and doing without things 
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difference. 
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Because growth is always 
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Paul said until Christ is 
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In you, meaning, we grow 
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Absolutely, but what about 
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Now what he's talking about is 
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are a member of the body of 
Christ, we have specific things 

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that we must lay aside once and 
for all once, for all time 

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action. 
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Sometimes people struggle in 
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sometimes we always take a 
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And sometimes they struggle in 
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old you are. 
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sometimes people struggle 
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break from their pest. 
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that were not right and you 
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with certain people. 
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out of your life. 
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of your life out of the way. 
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February before in Oklahoma 
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holding the young people's 
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One of my topics was living 
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one of the things that I brought
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talks about mortifying, the 
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death, the Deeds of the flesh, 
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mortify, or put to death, the 
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that once we are born again when
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What happens though, is this, if
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sinful act that, you know, is 
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know, it's wrong. 
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joys and pleasures of that sin, 
right? 

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All the Happy Times, all the fun
memories, right? 

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If you do that, you have not 
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You have merely internalized, it
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before it leaks out. 
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Later, decide once, and for all 
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specific malice What do you 
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When you think about malice? 
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wickedness Badness in quality 
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And, you know, really, I don't 
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congregation that, that fits 
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that pertain to you perhaps some
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you. 
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this is a hundred percent of all
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Once you obey the gospel, you 
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all time wickedness, Badness and
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It's called Mouse. 
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The idea of mouse to is to have 
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Someone and that also is with 
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Number two, deceit. 
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deceit? 
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like things that are crafting, 
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We get that, right? 
I got a slip, something else in 

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there too, though. 
I got a slip, something else in 

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because in our society, this is 
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lie. 
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Underhanded towards someone else
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As a terrible thing. 
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But little white lies are, okay.
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ever heard somebody say 
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I have everybody lies people 
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it a way of living, make it a 
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dear father-in-law. 
I love when he's used to say 

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he'd say. 
So and so would lie if the truth

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bit better. 
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that you're going to do once. 
And for all time action, lay 

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aside, malice lay aside to seek 
to be an honest person, get rid 

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of that. 
What else live an aboveboard 

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life? 
Got to get rid of this one too. 

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And, you know, over the years, 
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Over the years, you've heard me 
preach on this. 

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You've heard me mention 
hypocrisy and you've heard me 

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say what hypocrisy is not. 
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I got to do it again, but I'm 
going to give you something else

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today. 
I'm going to give you an example

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that I gave in Oklahoma City 
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I'm gonna give you an example 
specific example. 

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If you want to know, if someone 
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hypocritical life, I'm going to 
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okay? 
But let me talk about what it is

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not It is not this, it is not 
that brother so-and-so or sister

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such-and-such is trying to do 
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But they made a mistake, they 
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They became weak and they 
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That is not a hypocrite. 
You know what people do though? 

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I hate this. 
I just hate this. 

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It is the most overused and 
abused word in the world. 

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And what it is is it's used 
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justify their own lack of 
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Have you ever heard somebody 
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Oh, I don't want to go to 
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There's Hypocrites over there. 
Least I can stay out here. 

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I don't want to go, I don't want
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overused. 
I don't know, anyone in fact, 

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there has not been any one ever 
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Besides Jesus, that was perfect.
So guess what? 

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We're all going to sin. 
And, you know what, I'm so 

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thankful because the Bible says 
John says we have an advocate 

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with the father. 
Jesus Christ the righteous. 

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All right, we're going to send 
so committing a sin is not a 

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hypocrite. 
What is it? 

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As defined? 
It is one answering for another 

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according to Yui Vine. 
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It is a play actor. 
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something they never intended to
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Now here's the example, this is 
what I used. 

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So a kid goes away to school, 
goes away to college. 

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And during the week. 
He's doing things that he 

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shouldn't do. 
Saturday night rolls around goes

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to Big frat party. 
Okay, does things he shouldn't 

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do gets bombed out of his mind. 
Sunday morning, he drives to 

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He walks in bleary-eyed from the

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night before I'm brother, greets
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Brother so-and-so. 
How about taking the third song?

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Sure. 
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bleary-eyed. 
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sits down. 
He spends a few hours with his 

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Christian Brothers and Sisters 
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That's a hypocrite. 
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pretending to be a Christian 
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didn't intend to be that's the 
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And may I say this to, you've 
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I've added to it since then, 
I've added to it. 

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But I really do believe that who
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Is better determined, by the way
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you are not known. 
That's number one, that's really

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you. 
Number two, I got to add to it 

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though, or in places where you 
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That's you. 
That's me. 

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That's us. 
All right. 

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Now we understand what it is. 
That's just not do. 

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That sounds good to me. 
Let's lay it. 

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Aside. 
No more hypocrisy. 

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No problem. 
What about this? 

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What about Envy now? 
What is Envy me is in Via bad 

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thing. 
By definition, it is. 

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But let me tell you what Envy is
not, okay? 

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Chris is sitting up front. 
So I'm using him as an example. 

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He's right there. 
I like Chris's truck. 

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I love that truck. 
Nice truck. 

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What if I said man? 
Chris, I sure like to have that 

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truck That Envy. 
Nope. 

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What if I said this man that's a
great truck. 

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I'd sure like to have one one 
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That and me. 
Nope, nothing wrong with that 

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It's not a matter of, I just 

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would like what somebody else 
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That is not what that means. 
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envious person is someone that 
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something. 
That somebody else has that's 

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wrong. 
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whatever state you're in, which 
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not a sin that the girl was 
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A one-day. 
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that, like, to afford that one. 
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Here's the sin. 
I'm displeased with Chris 

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because he has prosperity and I 
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Now, I'm guilty and me. 
You see what that no-good Chris 

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got. 
He got that truck. 

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I've been working my own self 
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I can't afford to truck like 
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Yeah, that's Envy. 
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prospered and I have not, that's
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That's what you got to get out. 
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of, sole aside malice, deceit 
hypocrisy, envy and then here's 

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this one. 
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Evil speaking. 
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speaking down to or about 
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The word In this passage is also
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20 and it's translated as 
backbiting. 

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It Paul said, for I fear, lest 
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you, such as I wish and that I 
shall be found by you. 

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Such as you do not wish, lest 
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jealousies outbursts of Wrath 
selfish, Ambitions, back 

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bitings, whisperings can seats 
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So the word for back bitings is 
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this text, and it's only found 
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It means speaking down to 
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And you know what really is 
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We've all done it. 
Speaking words to tear down. 

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I want to understand something 
with you today. 

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We are in a spiritual battle 
everyday. 

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If you're a Christian, you are 
in a spiritual battle every day.

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You are an individual Soldier 
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Collectively together in the 
body of Christ. 

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We are the Army and we're 
fighting a war and a battle. 

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You know what the war is? 
We're fighting a battle against 

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the devil every day. 
Who wants our souls? 

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And you know what else? 
We're fighting a battle against.

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The world who opposes us. 
Now, I'm going to tell you what,

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we got the devil against us and 
often times, we have the world 

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against us. 
Let's not be guilty of Friendly.

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Fire me. 
Tell you something out, 

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Friendly, Fire. 
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ever hear is when a soldier, an 
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battle and loses his life. 
It's bad enough when they lose 

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their life, but when they lose 
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Fire, that's so much worse. 
number of years ago, you 

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remember Pat, Tillman Pat 
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football player. 
He had a multi-million dollar 

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contract to the University of 
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Arizona State University, then 
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Cardinals and FL Right after 
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give up my football career and 
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I'm going to go into the 
military. 

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I'm going to fight for my 
country. 

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He said, And he was fully 
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Shortly after he was in the 
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I don't know how long it was 
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thereafter. 
We all found out that he died. 

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He was killed. 
That he died in battle. 

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We all thought, But then the 
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died. 
From Friendly Fire. 

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One of his own accidentally took
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All I'm saying is this, we're in
a battle every day, we fight 

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against the devil, we're 
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Let's not do that to each other.
Let's build each other up a 

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strengthen one. 
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doing that. 
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and for all time these things 
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Now let's talk about the 
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Here's some positive things that
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First Peter, chapter 2 and verse
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First of all, he says, as 
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what this means is this is 
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infancy. 
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So it means right from the 
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When you obey the gospel as 
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responsibility from coming from 
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earliest infancy to do certain 
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What does God? 
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the same thing he expects from 
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thing he expects from a new 
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and years, here it is as newborn
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burning desire and have a desire
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when a baby is born, I think 
this is emphatic in the sentence

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here, when a baby is born and 
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first thing that they do is they
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because you come in this world 
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saying. 
You enter into this world from a

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spiritual perspective, you're 
doing so hungry you're doing so 

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with a burning desire, for the 
word of God, it's an intense 

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driving desire to know more 
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know. 
Now the suggestion in our 

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passage is very clear that until
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sins in our life, we are not 
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word of God that we need to. 
Have we will be full of the 

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world and not full of the word. 
I'm going to tell you if you 

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have sinful things in your life,
if I have sinful things in my 

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life, you know, when I'm wanting
to do those simple things in my 

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life, the last thing I want to 
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choice to have sinful Pleasures 
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The last thing I'm thinking 
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God and reading it, don't you 
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His you got to get rid of a 
sinful things. 

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Immediately right now, I did say
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you have to get rid of the 
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just as a baby comes into this 
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If you want to be successful, 
have a burning desire for the 

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word of God. 
An intense hunger for the word 

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of God. 
You know, in Luke chapter 15. 

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You know, we we've taught we 
know this story. 

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And I'm not going to get into 
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I want you to fast forward to 
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pigs, okay? 
A terrible job for a Jewish boy,

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I want you to fast forward the 
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the where he was with the pigs. 
The Bible says that he would 

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have eaten the husks. 
That were fed to the pigs. 

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You know what the husks do I 
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The husks kill the appetite. 
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taste. 
Now, he said I would have eaten 

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that. 
But they wouldn't even give me 

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that. 
Stay with me on this. 

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We're talking about feeding on 
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That's good for you as opposed 
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you. 
A husk destroys the appetite. 

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It also perverts. 
The Taste. 

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What I'm getting at is this, if 
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okay, I don't care who you are. 
If you fill your mind with 

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garbage, it's going to destroy 
your appetite for the word of 

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God. 
And it's going to pervert. 

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The Taste and confuse you. 
I'm going to give you Bible for 

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that. 
I'm just come up with them and 

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give you a Bible. 
Notice with me a couple things 

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about that. 
What about the first Timothy 

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chapter? 
1 verse 4, the King James calls 

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it myths and endless 
genealogies. 

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The new King James has rights 
rights it like this. 

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Listen, neither give heed to 
fables and endless genealogies, 

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which minister questions rather 
than Godly edifying which is in 

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faith. 
In other words, instead of Godly

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edifying to the word of God 
don't feed on that garbage. 

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I'm going to tell you something 
right now. 

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People sometimes get confused. 
Because they divert their 

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attention from that, which is 
wholesome, and that which is 

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right, and that which is good 
and that which comes from God. 

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And they do all of their 
investigating in other avenues, 

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with other books, with other 
authors with other others. 

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And they're so confused. 
They're so confused. 

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And you know what they start 
doing? 

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They start saying this. 
Well I just can't see how a 

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loving God would do this or I 
just can't see that. 

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It really does matter. 
You know why? 

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Because they heard somebody say 
that. 

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How important is it when you 
come from? 

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The Waters of baptism, have a 
burning desire for the word of 

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God. 
I'm going to give you some more 

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Paul is saying that we must 
avoid the things that corrupt 

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our clear minds and assault and 
attack biblical truth in first. 

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Timothy 6 and 20, listen to this
Timothy guard. 

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What was committed to your 
trust. 

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Avoiding the profane and idle 
babblings and contradictions of 

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what is falsely called 
knowledge. 

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In other words stay away from 
them you know the phrase their 

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Vain babblings is from the King.
James actually means something 

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outside, the sacred Temple. 
It is contradictions of what is 

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falsely called, knowledge. 
So a practical way that I might 

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say that, don't let your mind be
corrupted, don't do that. 

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Don't let your mind be 
corrupted. 

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Don't focus on those kind of 
things. 

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I'll say this too. 
There's going to come a time in 

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your life. when you obey the 
gospel and perhaps you were 

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raised in the church, And maybe 
your entire life you were 

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brought to the church. 
And you worshipped in the Church

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of Christ, all your life. 
And you were brought up that way

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and you were baptized for the 
remission of your sins and and 

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all of that. 
And I do believe that there does

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come a time in a person's life 
when they have to own their 

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faith. 
In other words, their faith has 

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to become their own. 
That's true, no problem. 

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No problem yet. 
And then there comes time when 

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there are questions that people 
have and sometimes people start 

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questioning things again so far.
No problem, how do we know that?

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Because Paul prays those in 
Berea, why they heard even the 

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great Apostle Paul preached, and
they didn't take his word for 

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it. 
They searched the Scriptures 

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Daily to see if those things 
were so So the question we know 

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from the Bible is not wrong. 
Here's the problem. 

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What's the source of the answer?
If you have a question okay have

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it pick up the Bible and find 
the answer? 

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Don't pick up some books, 
somewhere that some man wrote? 

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Don't ask your friends at no 
less about the Bible than you 

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do. 
Don't do that. 

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Seriously, pick up the word of 
God. 

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If you don't understand 
something, go to someone that 

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can help teach you the word of 
God. 

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But keep your mind free and rid 
your mind of all the garbage 

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that exist in the world today. 
So notice what it is. 

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Let's talk a little bit more 
about the word of God. 

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So it says, as newborn, babes 
are earliest infancy, have a 

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burning desire for the word of 
God. 

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The new King James says, pure 
and the old King James says 

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sincere, and the word sincere is
from the word. 

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That means, guileless or 
unadulterated, it is the word. 

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That's often times in its 
Origins referred to as without 

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wax, okay. 
Now. 

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Couple painters in here. 
Remember what we used to say, I 

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was a painting contractor for 24
years. 

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We always said this a painter's 
putty and paint make a 

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carpenter. 
What he ain't or a carpenter 

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Works in strives to do his best 
in the painter. 

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Comes in Cox the wrist. 
Right. 

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You know what this word means 
hear this phrase without wax. 

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It was referred to a sculpture 
or a carpenter. 

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And when the carpenter would 
build something and it would 

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have imperfections and flaws in 
it, they'd had wax when a 

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sculptor would sculpt something 
out and it would have an 

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imperfection or a flowing it, 
you know, they do it, put it in 

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a little wax. 
But if the man actually 

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performed great work and turned 
out a mess, your piece and it 

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didn't have flaws in it. 
You know what they called it. 

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They called it without wax. 
That is the word sincere. 

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It is without wax. 
That's what the word of God is. 

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Against all the garbage in the 
world. 

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The word of God is pure. 
It's without wax. 

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You don't need anything else. 
It is straightforward. 

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Christian's can feed upon it. 
Notice verse 3, verse 3 now. 

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And what this is this is a 
summation of what he just said. 

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In other words going to give a 
reason why do you do it. 

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Why do you cast aside all those 
simple things. 

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Why do you have a burning desire
for the word of God? 

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God, because in this verse, it 
says, if indeed, and if indeed 

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literally means since So he's 
sewing it up. 

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He says, since you have tasted 
what that the Lord is gracious, 

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you've perceived the flavor, 
you've enjoyed the Lord is 

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gracious, Hebrews, 6 and 5, same
idea and have tasted the good 

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word of God and the powers of 
the age to come. 

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The Lord is gracious. 
The word gracious means kind and

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benevolent. 
Here's the point. 

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Why do it since you received at 
the Lord is gracious and you've 

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tasted the beauty of that cast 
aside, the sinful things in your

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life and have a burning desire 
for the word of God to grow. 

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That's what that means. 
That's what that means in 

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conclusion, and I'm finished. 
We've learned the following. 

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In 1st Peter 2 and verse 1, 
through 3. 

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We lay aside. 
Malice deceit hypocrisy Envy 

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evil speaking and we're going to
be as newborn babes are, and 

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we're gonna have a burning 
desire for the Pure or sincere 

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milk of the word. 
Why? 

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That we may grow, that we may 
grow one final passage in my 

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conclusion, get this. 
I have an entire sermon, by the 

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way, on this passes. 
I'm going to show you. 

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So I'm not going to preach the 
whole sermon now, but I'm just 

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going to show you something 
here. 

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Okay, I love practical stuff. 
In First Peter 1 beginning in 

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verse 13 13, you want to be 
successful in living the 

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Christian Life. 
You got to understand, I'm in a 

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battle him in a fight, okay? 
So what I'm going to do, I'm 

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going to gird their loins of my 
mind. 

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I'm going to get my mind, right,
I'm going to get prepared for 

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Action, that's what I'm going to
do. 

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That's what I'm going to do. 
I'm not going to let these 

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peripheral issues derail me. 
I'm going to get my mind, right?

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I'm going to be focused on that.
What else am I going to do? 

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I'm going to be sober, simply 
meaning this, I'm going to be 

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serious minded about my 
Christianity. 

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That's all that. 
It's what else am I going to do?

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I'm going to get my mind fixed. 
I'm going to get my mind fixed 

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on when Jesus is going to come 
back and I'll make decisions 

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based on how is this going to 
affect? 

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When the Lord comes back? 
In my relationship with him as 

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obedient children, I'm not going
to conform myself to the former 

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lust, as in my ignorance. 
I'm not gonna do that. 

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I'm not going to fall back. 
But I'm going to live a holy 

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life. 
I'm going to live a Godly life. 

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In all my conduct. 
And may I say this? 

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Just because we know, we're not 
perfect, and we know we're going

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to stumble and sin. 
Doesn't mean that we cannot make

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the affirmation that I am not 
going to be anything other than 

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a faithful Christian for the 
rest of my life. 

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You mess up. 
All right, get back. 

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Get right straighten up. 
That's okay. 

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Let's go get back in there. 
But you have to make the 

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determine resolve in your mind. 
I'm not going to be anything but

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a faithful Christian for the 
rest of my life. 

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If you're thinking in the back 
of your mind well we'll see how 

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it goes. 
Yeah. 

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We'll see how it goes. 
It's kind of like getting 

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married you stand there with 
that person. 

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You're making the choice. 
I'm going to be with you for the

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rest of my life. 
It's a choice. 

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It's a choice in advance, make 
that in your life. 

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And serve God all the days of 
your life. 

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I'm finished this morning. 
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