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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Well guess what? God wants to be

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with you, God likes you, God loves you. I don't know how to say it. He died for you.

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He rose again from the dead for you and for any man, woman, boy or girl who

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puts their trust in him, there should never again be the cloud of condemnation

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suspended over your life.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Number one, mark it down if you wouldn't you guys. It's this. The declaration of dependence

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is that there's now this absolute freedom that's available to us.

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Now I'm going to really lay it down to you guys because I have to. I'm very excited about

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this portion of scripture because it transformed my life personally.

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When he says there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,

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we all start with this right here right now. It's because that coming out of this condemnation,

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there's a great weight that is lifted. Mark that down. That our declaration is from condemnation

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and its weight. condemnation is and I'm going to give you the definition of it here from the

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Bible in a moment. condemnation is this overwhelming sense of hopelessness that there's no there's no

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hope for you. There's no hope and you can't find the answer and you're struggling and you know

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what's wrong but you can't fix it. There's no place to go and there's a big weight. condemnation

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is a great weight that weighs upon so many people today and people choose how to deal with it.

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Listen up everybody. The reason why there's drug addiction, the reason why there are these

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personality issues and violence and and drunkenness and the pursuit of materialism. Think of it.

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All of these pursuits literally come back to one single point of the human soul and that is that

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there's something wrong. Somewhere along the route there's something wrong that somebody realized

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I got to find an answer for my life and they go on the pursuit of money. They go on the pursuit of

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power or drugs or sex or violence or whatever it is and they're empty and this is universal. No

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matter where you're at in the nation or in the world. It's the language of the soul. The Bible

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says our souls are separated from God and we're wondering without God and we know that what we're

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doing is wrong and the condemnation comes. The word as we'll see here condemnation and I'm going

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to ask you a question so get ready. It's going to be a true question condemnation. This is the

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Greek meaning to the word to be under the sentence of I talked to a young man two weeks ago

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and he said pastor I want you to pray for me watch this I want you to pray for me I committed some

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crimes and I got arrested and there's a court hearing there's a trial all this well now I'm going

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to go be sent my sentence in this coming but during that time I realized I'm too young to run

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my life and he said I started watching your messages online that I started coming to the church

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I gave my life to Christ and I'm ready to face the judgment he said I'm going to go I'm guilty

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but now I'm a new creation but I'm still responsible for the things I did to people so I'm going

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to go to jail and I'm going to find out for how long but I'm new God has forgiven me I'm going

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in there I pray God uses me you know what's happened he was condemned but Christ said him free

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you and I were condemned in our sins but Christ has listen I trust Christ has set you free watch

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this man this young man every unbeliever and I you certainly once had this issue to be under

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the sentence of to be pronounced guilty to be worthy of all penalties all judgments all leans all

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warrants all ordinances against you resulting in condemnation to bring you what to the place where

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there's no hope of being delivered now this guy in a sense it doesn't exactly apply because he's

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been forgiven in heaven this young man is free are you with me and inside he's free but he's going

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or he's in jail and into prison his body will not be walking the streets of LA anymore

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but he's free sounds like a contradiction but listen you can be walking the streets of LA and

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think you're completely free but inside you're completely imprisoned by guilt and by condemnation

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and by shame but the grand declaration is this there is therefore now these are emphatics in the

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Greek language it's an announcement Paul the Apostle is you can almost see him jumping with glee

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there is therefore now he's so excited about the announcement listen this is a message of hope today

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but I want to make sure you have it that you have hope don't say you're a good person you're not

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going to have it this i'm going to tell you a little story here real quick condemnation the world

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when it's condemned when that when an individual is experiencing the condemnation and they don't

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respond to it they harden their heart against it until they don't feel it anymore and then they

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live life thinking watch this they live life thinking they're okay but you're the problem you know

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what you know what's happened to them in fact if you know somebody who's very religious but they're

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good you're the problem you're talking about a person who does not understand any longer the

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sense of condemnation that this world heaps upon them they've hardened their heart you see

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Jack you see you can be a religious person with a hardened heart yeah totally completely

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but as we've mentioned in previous studies when you look into the word of God that word of God looks

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inside of you and reveals who you are and it causes you to either harden your heart or to melt your

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heart so i'm going to ask you this question to trick question tell me the difference of feelings

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between condemnation and conviction i've studied this for 46 years in my own life

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number one condemnation is the sense of heaviness guilt-ambusted condemnation conviction is

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heavy guilt conviction condemnation i'm in trouble i'm convicted what i did was wrong and it needs

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to be reckoned with what i'm submitting to you is this the feelings are exactly the same condemnation

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conviction you see wait a minute pastor Jack they have different wait wait no no no watch watch

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when a believer is convicted that sense of heaviness is weighing upon the believer i'm talking to

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you don't look at me like that i'm talking to you when you and i sin we displease God as a child

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of God our names are written down in heaven we're going to heaven he's our God we're his child but when

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we sin we break fellowship with God and there's a sense of big heaviness guilt shame i just want you

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to know it's the will of God that you experienced that literally for the duration of seconds

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did you know that she said what do you mean by that if you have a bad thought

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you look look at me right now i could be look at me look you would never think look at him he's

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having a bad thought you're judging me from the outside look so angelic

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hands lifted praying doesn't that look holy my mind could be a thousand miles away from my outward

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appearance if i'm a Christian God will say what are you doing Jack knock it off bad thought

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that is not approved and then i say Lord you are so right i'm busted God please forgive me that's

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exactly what put you on the cross i'm so sorry Jesus and the Bible says in first on one

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nine if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us

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from all in righteousness all right so that's what the believer does so when you sin Christian you

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don't plan on it but when you do that's how you deal with it and so look that weight should only

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be on you for seconds don't let it sit there don't let it don't get away get it done the non-believer

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the condemnation is there and either a they wind up groping as it were searching for an answer

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they find Christ or they harden their heart against it today you and i live in a world that is

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hardened their heart against God harden their heart against conviction and against condemnation

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and so the world that's hardened looks and says you're the problem you're the issue it's that

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group it's this government it's that person it's that thing and they do not see they cannot see

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that they themselves are completely without feelings and that is manifested by justification self

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justification not biblical justification and that weighs on them the Bible tells us in Psalm 91

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verse 14 because listen to this this is God speaking to you i trust as a believer in fact

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you you should mark up your bibles always mark up your bibles and i'm going to show you how in a

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moment this is kind of fun so in your Bible you should do this because he jack put in your name

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Sue or whatever your name is because you you've said because he has said his love upon me

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you want to love God therefore i will deliver him this is God talking do you like that kind of

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i like it i will set him on high because he has known my name like dear friends listen i'm a

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bumbling nincompo but verse 14 that's me is it you you should be able to say today that's me

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i love him only the believer can experience this verse 15 he shall call upon me and i will answer him

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i will be with him in trouble aren't you glad about that

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i will deliver him and honor him with long life i will satisfy him and show him my salvation

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that's an awesome verse that's my verse i'll let you have it but it's my verse and you should

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have in your Bible your name written next to that passage and say well it's my verse as well

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condemnation will lift from you the christian should never be walking around in the sense of

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condemnation oh i'm never good enough to please god oh i think i've upset him oh i don't know

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you know i know god is supposed to love me you ever feel like that well god has to love me he's

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god he said he loves everybody but basically what you're saying is god has to love me but i don't

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think he likes me well guess what god wants to be with you god likes you god loves you i don't

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know how to say it he died for you he rose again from the dead for you and for any man woman boy

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or girl who puts their trust in him there should never again be the cloud of condemnation suspended

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over your life now if you're not a christian you should be worried sick and if you're worried sick

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you should thank god that you care enough about your own soul to cry out to him because god

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helped the man or woman who is so callous who says things like i'm fine i don't need any of this

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god stuff i'm better than most people your past feeling and that's a tragedy in proverbs

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chapter 28 verse 13 the bible says he who covers his sins will not prosper

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so nobody knows god knows you have had nothing's ever happened to me just wait

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he loves you he's not going to let you continue like that

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are you flirting around with the secretary or are you you flirting around with the boss

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is it the neighbor is it the husband's wife she's something or the wife's neighbor the what what's

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going what has got telling you right now you see pastor who told you nobody nobody told me

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is it the money they won't know they won't miss it little decimal point here or there listen god knows

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and listen if he loves you and he does if you can hear him and i hope that's the case

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you feel a little bit of a sting right now and i highly recommend you talk to him about it don't

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talk to anybody else about it talk to him about it go to him about it because here's what will happen

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he will forgive you if you bury it look at this verse he who covers his sin will not prosper

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but whatever but whoever confesses and for sakes them will have mercy happy as the man who

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is always reverent or mindful of god but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity

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listen the bible god is so kind i'm talking just to the believer right now

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if the believer doesn't take it to god if in that 30 seconds you're convicted it's best i don't

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you talk i don't understand i have a pretty good life so get in your car if you have any doubts

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getting a car go drive go drive right now to like LAX or downtown LA that ought to bring out the flesh

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if you think you're so saintly i dare you drive drive to LAX circle around it and come back and

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see if you're see if your temper is not touched and when that listen when you cross the line and

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god says jack uh for sake it in that instant lord forgive me in Jesus name it doesn't have to

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go any further but if you bury it and bury it and bury it you and god says in the book of numbers

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he says if you don't forsake it i'm going to shout it Jesus by the way referred to that in the

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gospels he says if you everything that you do if it's not covered by the blood of christ he said

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i'm going to someday shout it from the rooftop the bible says be sure of this if you don't forsake

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your sin it will call you out you know how people get caught exactly what god said would happy

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so nobody knows next thing you know there's a big red sign with a finger on it at the point

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right over your head why would he do that he loves you he wants you to go to heaven and the Christian

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he wants you to be forgiven because you are going to heaven he wants to have that communication open

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and then listen conviction itself we learn that from conviction after it takes hold conviction

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is a beautiful thing one of the scariest things ever is if you can commit some crime against god

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in thought or deed and have no feelings about it oh my goodness that would be the worst thing

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in the world but the sad thing is the people who feel that don't know that it's the worst thing

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in the world because they can't feel it we look at a world right now that we're coping and trying

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to do our best with a culture of self-mutilation not sure if you're aware of this but how many young

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people today because of pain and sorrow and abuse are self-mutilating they're cutting up their

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torsos they're cutting their inner thighs they're cutting their buttocks with razor blades they're

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cutting their arms why because they'll tell you I had my life taken from me by some way shape

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or form and I lost all contact with myself in this feeling is the only thing I can feel it allows

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me to have some sort of say about my life it makes no sense unless you feel so lost and that

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happens because of man's soul and god changes our lives he transforms us he gets us out of that

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just that act alone and that burden and that pain and the conviction of it all upon your life

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should tell you that god is real we talked about darkness recently but we would never know darkness

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unless we knew what light was run to the hope run to him

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