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This Paris situation just got 
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Immediately after billions of 
people chose to laugh at Jesus 

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Christ at the Olympics, some 
pretty insane things have been 

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happening in Paris. 
New information has just emerged

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about how an Olympic surfer was 
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Jesus from his board or else 
he'd be disqualified from the 

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competition. 
There is more to the story, but 

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first, did you see the footage 
of the total blackout of the 

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city of Paris the night after 
the opening ceremony? 

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You tell me, is this a 
coincidence? 

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Because one thing no one can 
deny and it's this. 

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Christians will not be silent. 
Thousands of believers arrived 

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on the streets of Paris on 
Sunday praising the name of 

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Jesus Christ. 
And I am going to make a strong 

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statement now. 
I believe millions are currently

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boycotting the Olympics and I 
want to know are you one of 

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them? 
If you are, please tell me in 

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the comments. 
And if you are new to the 

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channel, please do subscribe. 
OK, back to our Christian 

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surfer. 
His name is Joao Chianka and he 

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is from Brazil. 
In a post that he has since 

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deleted on Instagram, Chianko 
claimed that two weeks before 

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the Games, he received an order 
to remove an image of Jesus 

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Christ from his surfboard or 
else he will be excluded from 

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the competition. 
Their reason? 

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I quote Christ is a religious 
figure and the Games have strict

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rules and focus on total 
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Am I the only one who finds this
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So you can exclude 2.4 billion 
people who hold Christian values

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to express your own agendas and 
to help your own communities, 

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but a surfer is somehow not 
allowed to express his faith 

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through a bit of artwork on his 
board? 

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Now, I know that some of my 
longtime subscribers are 

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probably thinking you don't even
like pictures of Jesus Christ or

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any representations of actors. 
Joe, why are you talking about 

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this? 
Well, you are right. 

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My personal conviction and, and 
this is just me, is when I'm 

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praying, I want to make sure 
that I don't have any images, 

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any preconceived ideas of what 
Jesus looks like, just so that I

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know when I'm praying, I'm 
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Now, this is just my opinion, 
but that isn't the point. 

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The point is this. 
Listen very carefully to the 

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words of Paris's spokeswoman 
when she talks about why 

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Christians shouldn't really be 
that sad about the opening 

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ceremony. 
Clearly there was never an 

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intention to to show disrespect 
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On the contrary, I think that to
imagine he really tried to 

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really intend to to celebrate 
community tolerance. 

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That was his word yesterday. 
And looking at the result of the

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polls that we shared, we believe
that this ambition was was 

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achieved. 
If people have taken any 

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offence, we are of course 
really, really sorry. 

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Did you catch that? 
So the Paris Olympics are 

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telling us that they believe in 
tolerance, that they are big 

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believers in let's let everyone 
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everybody be included. 
And yet a Christian surfer is 

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told that he cannot express his 
faith by having an image of 

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Jesus on his board. 
How is that tolerance? 

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But is it all doom and gloom? 
No, a 16 year old skateboarder 

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again from Brazil chose to use 
the moment when she won a bronze

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medal. 
Instead of putting all of the 

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attention on herself, she chose 
to bring it all back to Jesus. 

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Using sign language, she went up
on camera and she said Jesus is 

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the way, the truth and the life 
and he is there is only one way.

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And that is why all of these 
people, all of these organisers 

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are going after Jesus because 
there is only one way to heaven 

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and it's through him. 
But guys, listen to me. 

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If you read one thing into this 
power outage, read this. 

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It's almost as if a message was 
sent out to the Olympics. 

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Paris, if you want darkness to 
reign in your world, fine, you 

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can have it. 
You see, my dear friends, as we 

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live in these last days, it 
really does feel like everyday 

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badder and badder things are 
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Every day it feels like things 
are happening that 10 years ago 

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just one of these things would 
have made massive headlines and 

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now they're happening day after 
day and I am really struggling 

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to come to terms with a lot of 
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It almost feels like God could 
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restrainer and evil. 
That restrainer that has held 

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everything in place for so long 
could slowly be being lifted as 

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we speak. 
You see right now as I film this

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very video, many of you, you've 
seen me preaching in Southport 

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many times on my street 
preaching channel. 

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And yet, as we speak right now, 
something unspeakable has just 

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happened in Southport. 
Just 2-3 days ago in Manchester,

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again, there was great unrest. 
You've seen me preaching in 

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Manchester in America. 
What happened to America at the 

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beginning of this month, July 
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A lot of big, big things have 
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And my dear friends, it does 
make you wonder, what days are 

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we about to answer? 
Because the Bible did say, did 

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it not, that in the very final 
moments of earth, this world 

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will see things that it has 
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It will experience evil that has
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history. 
And my dear friend, that is 

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precisely why we cannot be 
neutral any longer. 

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That is precisely why you must 
choose a side right now. 

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You must make a decision. 
And know this, choosing Christ 

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will be very costly. 
We are as Christians always 

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called to turn the other cheek. 
We are always called and, and I 

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need to emphasize this in 
capital letters and underline it

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in red. 
We are always called to say God.

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No. 
We leave this in your hands. 

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We commit this situation in your
hands. 

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You alone have the right to take
action. 

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We do not have the right and we 
just let the Lord look after us,

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for He alone is our shelter. 
Now please don't misunderstand 

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me. 
That doesn't mean that we are be

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silent. 
As you know, I'm speaking very, 

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very loud about this situation. 
I'm being very public that I 

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will be boycotting the Olympics.
As much as I love sports, I 

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cannot endorse it. 
I cannot partake in it and right

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now I believe you and I. 
As Christians, we do need to be 

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loud. 
We do need to raise the name of 

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the Lord Jesus Christ. 
But remember this, we must know 

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that as we seek to be lights for
the Lord Jesus Christ, it will 

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not be easy. 
Christ did not promise us an 

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easy Rd. 
Have we forgotten what happened 

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to the early church? 
Have we forgotten about the 

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lions? 
Have we forgotten about our 

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brothers and sisters around the 
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We are called as Christians to 
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And yes, we've had so much 
peace, we've had so much 

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comfort, we've had so much ease 
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But we must be ready because as 
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July, just in the last few days,
things are heating up and things

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can turn just like that. 
So what will it be? 

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Who will you stand with today? 
Are you going to stand with the 

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world and partake and endorse 
all the wrongdoing that they're 

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doing? 
Or will you stand with the Lord 

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Jesus Christ? 
Will you be prepared to be 

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separate as the scripture says? 
Because right now put the let's 

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just move the Olympics aside for
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The music that many Christians 
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not be sharing in that evil. 
The films, Netflix, the things, 

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what you watch all alone, all of
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It has to stop immediately 
because we need the Lord Jesus 

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Christ. 
We need him to be our shelter. 

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We need Him to be our 
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As things heat up more and more,
we cannot afford to step out, to

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cross that invisible line and 
walk into the evil ones 

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territory. 
Because once we walk in those 

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that lines, once we walk behind 
that scene, suddenly we don't 

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have the same protection 
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Suddenly we've removed ourselves
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So stay close to the Lord Jesus 
Christ, Abide in the vine and 

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soak up the scriptures. 
Pray and seek to look at what is

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happening in this world. 
Seek to know the signs, but seek

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above all things to be ready for
when the Lord Jesus Christ comes

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for his church. 
And maybe, maybe, just maybe, as

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I've been speaking, you're not 
saved, but it is waking you up 

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this situation. 
What verse would I share with 

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you right now? 
Perhaps you're afraid. 

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Well, let me share a Bible verse
with you, John 14 verse one 

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says, let not your heart be 
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You believe in God, believe also
in me. 

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Now perhaps I'm the wrong person
to give this message because as 

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you know about me, many of you, 
I am afraid when I look at the 

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world, I am thinking how can so 
much go wrong in such a short 

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space of time? 
Literally from 2020, it's been 

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like a movie, everything that's 
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But yet what does the Bible say?
We are not to be troubled. 

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There is a sovereign one who 
sits on the throne, and he 

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laughs at the wickedness. 
He laughs at when these men plot

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their evil schemes against him 
and he says no, I am God, You 

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are but dust and ashes. 
And when these men shake their 

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fists and think they can mock 
and laugh at the Saviour, they 

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have nothing. 
Compared to God, they are 

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nothing. 
They're just weak, fragile human

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beings. 
And if you recognize that you 

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are a weak, fragile human being,
I would say believe in the Lord 

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Jesus Christ, believe in him, 
come to the cross where he did 

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die, that death, just like the 
Last Supper that we've been 

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considering the last few days. 
He said I must drink this cup, 

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only I can drink it. 
And when he drank that cup, he 

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drank the wrath of God for our 
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He drank it and only he alone 
could pay the price for my sin 

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and your sin, for the sins of 
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So come to him, the one who died
on the cross, the one who had 

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his body broken on that cross, 
so that you and I could be 

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forgiven and have salvation. 
And come to the One who has 

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conquered the powers of 
darkness, the light of the 

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world, who could not even be 
held down by death itself, but 

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rose from the dead. 
So follow Him, put your trust in

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Him, repent, turn from all of 
this wrongdoing and put your 

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faith in the Son of God, for He 
is coming back and He will 

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create a new world where we do 
not have to fear, where we do 

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not have to be afraid, where 
wicked men will no longer reign.

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No Christ will reign, and we 
will follow Him and live with 

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Him for all of eternity. 
I want to be there and I wonder,

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do you also? 
By the way guys, it's actually 

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not the first time that a 
sporting company has tried to 

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silence Christians. 
A few years ago, FIFA tried to 

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silence the footballer Neymar 
Junior's faith and well, it 

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actually worked. 
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