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You're not going to believe 
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secular music for over 10 years 
now and very often as a 

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bible-believing preacher. 
I get asked this question. 

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Can Christians Listen to 
non-Christian music and I 

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thought instead of just going 
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Let's listen to the top five 
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on April, the 20th, plus listen 
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And let's see, has music 
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And is it a safe place for 
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non Christian artists? 
Okay, let's get started. 

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Stood number-one rap star by 
Polo G. 

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So I've just finished listening 
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heard of him before. 
So, it was quite an educated 

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experienced. 
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I don't really think musics 
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was younger and I used to listen
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listen to Young Buck, you know, 
a lot of swearing lot of girls, 

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lot of fast cars. 
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way was encouragement, the same 
time discouraged in was he 

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actually refers to praying to 
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Back to being, like he wasn't 
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next line you swearing again 
using the f word an awful lot. 

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Now, he's not calling himself an
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He's actually saying I call upon
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it could send out mixed messages
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acceptable to swear on the 
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we should let all of our words, 
be seasoned, with Grace, and 

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soul. 
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Number two, Montero by little 
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So it's 56 seconds in. 
In and I decide I'm going to 

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stop the video if I'm completely
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I feel like I could cry right 
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That was demonic, and it was 
satanic, taking a complete 

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mockery of out of the Bible. 
The whole imagery of Satan 

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trying to tempt Adam in the 
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There was the third eye picture.
I honestly after I'm sweating. 

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I don't feel comfortable. 
I feel really worried and it's 

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concerning me because I know 
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top for a long, long time and it
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it says 149 million. 
People have watched that how 

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Many Souls have been 
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demonic things through watching 
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I wouldn't become too with 
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personally don't want to offend 
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But I would say, I would avoid 
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Okay, number three, leave the 
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So I feel a little bit more 
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Now out of the three and I've 
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one so far. 
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was no swear words and Bruno 
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They all have beautiful voices 
of Useful harmonies, the only 

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criticism I might have is were 
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marriage? 
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the Bible condemns that, but if 
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wife, leaving the door open and 
they're going to have romance 

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with their wife. 
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And, that's a wonderful thing. 
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Justin Bieber. 
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Are this really, I just feel a 
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So, every line basically was a 
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There's also a referral to weed 
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Why does that upset me so much. 
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spot for Justin Bieber. 
I remember seeing him as a Young

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Man, a little boy. 
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songs. 
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interview on saying that job was
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He arrived all the people in the
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Servant job was his hero. 
I've heard him talk about Jesus.

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I know that he does want to live
that Christian Life, That's What

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I feel. 
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with me, but I just think we've 
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the famous. 
The riches, the women, all of 

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these Temptations. 
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He is in some ways. 
He's got it a lot harder than 

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you. 
And I have, when we walk down 

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the street and no one even 
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So, pray for Justin. 
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him back. 
And number five, save your tears

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by the weekend. 
So, I've just finished listening

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to the weekend to save your 
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the videos. 
This one has the most views with

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293 million to the date. 
That we're watching this on, 

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right? 
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Now, I feel like I need to watch
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think it through, what were the 
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seemed kind of harmless and just
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then it went dark, very quickly 
with a gun and some quite creepy

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masks. 
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I'd be comfortable with my 
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Listening to that, probably not.
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better than some of the other 
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There is one type of music that 
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and that's Christian worship. 
Songs and sometimes people ask 

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me, Joe. 
Would you mind sharing some of 

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the favorite songs? 
You have some Christian artists 

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that I could listen to too. 
So, in this video, I've decided 

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at the end of the video. 
I'm going to give you my 

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favorite playlist of all of the 
Christian songs that I listen to

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on YouTube. 
So make sure you stick around 

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till then over to you. 
Now after everything I've seen 

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today after everything I've 
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What do you think? 
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It's a sin to listen to secular 
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Isaac over to you personally. 
I still don't think it is a sin 

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to listen to secular music, but 
you do need to remember this 

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Bible verse. 
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be a friend of the world makes 
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So here's how it works. 
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God's spirit came and lived 
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The Bible says, your body is a 
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God doesn't dwell in buildings 
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you and I if we are believers 
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Lord, Jesus Christ. 
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Holy Spirit should convict you. 
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helpful or this is terrible, get
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God's spirit will grieve as a 
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her wrong song, a sinful song. 
I know, I need to turn that off.

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That's what the voice of God is 
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get away from it, but the same 
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Christian, you could listen to 
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Songs quite happily and enjoy 
them, but then the Bible on the 

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other hand, which now, you 
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Now, you get a piece from now, 
you know, that's what God's 

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spirit wants you to do before, 
when you didn't have the spirit 

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of God. 
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Does that make sense? 
So my dear friends, it's not for

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me to say which artist you 
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should avoid. 
No rather listen to the spirit 

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of God and he will guide you 
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I had to remember when I was a 
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I also struggled with this 
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Jin. 
Should I never ever listen to 

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non-Christian music? 
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He said, sometimes when he's 
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want to tap into the culture. 
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in the world. 
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station and starts listening to 
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first day. 
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It's interesting. 
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I'm learning a lot. 
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day to comes and he starts to 
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Not sure. 
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this and then day 3. 
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longer. 
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exactly the same way. 
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the cinema or when I hear on 
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contaminated. 
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Harden your heart. 
But listen just be so sensitive.

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It's the holy spirit because he 
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he will guide you into what 
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what songs you should avoid. 
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little bit embarrassing about 
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I actually used to take an awful
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I'll hear songs psychedelic 
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when I used to get high and you 
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these years later, when I hear 
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Memories come back into my mind 
and my flesh almost longs to go 

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back into that sin. 
Once again, he see, music can be

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dangerous because music bypasses
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into the inner being and touches
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into different things. 
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embarrassing about myself when I
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me to backslide was dance music 
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She ate it with nightclubs. 
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music on the radio, it made me 
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nightclubs. 
It made me want to go back and 

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party thinking I'm missing out 
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I'm missing out on fun, but I 
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And what did the devil done? 
He'd use, those sort of seducing

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sounds to Lead Me Away into sin.
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apologize to you. 
I've been very, very negative 

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about music all the way through 
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forget. 
Something absolutely. 

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Crucial music is a tremendous 
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through the Bible. 
We read about people, singing, 

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the Angels Sing, the heavens, 
sing creation, sings Paul, and 

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Silas when they were locked up 
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What did they do? 
They began to sing the people of

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Israel seeing? 
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And I to do, he commands us to 
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him. 
You see what God wants us to do.

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Is he wants us to be happy. 
He Answers to rejoice and sing 

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songs of worship to him. 
And if you're ever been attacked

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in your mind, perhaps with 
depression, perhaps with 

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temptation to know what you 
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You should sing because the 
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terrified. 
When you start singing, Praise 

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songs, the Lord Jesus Christ, 
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cockroaches to when the light is
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So my dear friends, what am I 
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you end this video? 
I want you to sing and I'm going

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to go away and I need to do some
singing too, but Obviously off 

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camera, in case I scare some of 
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forever. 
So without further Ado, if you'd

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like to hear the songs that I 
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And my favorite Christian 
artist, please click this 

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playlist here and have a look 
through some of those. 

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