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Real life presents the Jack Hibb's podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Some of you have religion and

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you're so tired. You've been pushing your religion and you're just you you

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don't feel you don't feel love you don't feel defended you don't feel accepted

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because it's all on you. Not being a believer in Christ it's not he's done it

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all and he gives the Holy Spirit to get you and I through this world and this

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wonderful thing of sanctification where we are living life bumps and all pains and

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all we have a purpose you can get the outlines of this podcast by going to

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jackhibbs.com slash podcast today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you

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to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those

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five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will

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encourage others to listen now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you

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here is jackhibbs. The word here in Romans 828 is the Greek word

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edu and it means this and listen as we read this it's not future it's already

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it's already happened it's now for us in the past tense it means now we have seen

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have you now we have perceived you need to ask yourself that are you really a believer

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now we have experienced or now we have the knowledge of you know what it is can you define

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to somebody what it is to be a Christian to be a witness to can you bear testimony of the fact

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to be able to testify like you are in court for example of having come to know something of course

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this something is someone having come to the discovery and you circle the word discovery that

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is very important because we launched from the word discovery because the word discovery in Hebrew

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is the Hebrew word yadah y a d a in your notes and it's found in Psalm 46 10 be still and yadah

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discover that in the circumstances of your life as a believer wherever you're at as a believer

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no matter what's going on as a believer God says be still and know discover that I'm right there

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in the midst of everything taking place you say pastor that cannot be true my friends I'm telling you

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thank God it is true he is a God that is with us at all times the worst of times that we could be

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and for us you know look life is life and then it gets tough sometimes bumpy okay fine oh oh no

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really difficult and then it's some way shape or form either if we get raptured then awesome

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if not it's going to get very painful and guess what our God shows up in the pain

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it's the God of the Bible who has told us in advance that when everything is coming to what you

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think is an absolute end that's when all things come together and we're for good to those who love

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God to those who are called according to his purposes God's got a plan and you're going to see

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that plan today but you've got to apply it to your own life heaven is working for us we're not alone

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God's doing something the great scholar the great pastor of Westminster chapel in London, England

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in 1929 Dr. D Martin Lloyd Jones if you can buy any book by Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones

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buy it he's a wonderful plus he's dead so he can't change his mind I love that he never went

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woke so you're safe and reading him because he can't go woke he's already dead so this is good news

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we're safe here look what he says about this he said it is to be noted that our text begins with a

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conjunction this means that the truth of this section is linked with what has already been set

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forth as we have seen the Holy Spirit dwells within the believer and makes intercession prayers for him

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according to the will of God thus God's Holy Spirit is directing each believer say amen to that

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I mean come on that is great news oh according to a predetermined and definite defined plan

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Lloyd Jones says he's right God's got the blueprint for your life God knows what's next God knows

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exactly in this fallen world even though it's fallen God knows exactly what needs to happen in your

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life next somebody might say I'm having a moment well from this moment on when you're having a

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moment you need to stop as a believer and understand wait a minute if I'm having a moment right

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now that means God knows about it you don't hear me I don't know why I said y'all I haven't been

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in Texas in a couple months but did you all hear me say that God knows about it in advance he knows

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things are not falling apart they're falling together but a little feel like it he never asks

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this what we felt like I don't understand it you're not supposed to it's called faith God says I

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know what I'm doing he says follow me yeah but it hurts yeah let's go eventually it's not going to

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hurt we're going somewhere listen you have a choice today to stay where you're at hurting or to

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pick up your hurt and follow him I highly recommend you pick up your hurt and follow him none of us need

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to spend time telling you how valuable and how powerful he is with what he does with our hurt all I

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can tell you and I'm telling you now before God angels you in this Bible looking back now after

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60 almost 66 years of my life I would not change one thing in my life now that it's been placed

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in the hands of God none of this stuff none of the things that I came to learn about my life

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what I could not be what I was what this how come I can't why this how can you don't

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and all the things that only I know and God knows and then that day when God says I know

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there's a moment in your life for you you're they're going to go run and hide with Adam or you're

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going to say Lord I surrender don't run anymore from the one that loves you the most

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his Bible is communicating to you his great love for you Dr. Gray Barnhouse the great theologian he

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too is safely read as he is dead as well he's in heaven rejoicing with Lloyd Jones all things

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work together for the good eat listen to this even the fall of Lucifer in eternity past stop

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right there for a second have you ever had someone tell you oh what about your God of love if

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God if your God is a God of love then how come he invented the devil he never invented the devil

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I thought you got invented everything now there's some stuff on us and there's some stuff on the

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devil watch this it's brilliant actually I wish I would have thought about it but he thought about

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it even the fall of Lucifer in eternity past was for the greater purposes of God to establish

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good that's a deep sentence a great question does arise here did God create Lucifer or did God

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create Satan I'm going to pause for effect because this is pretty cataclysmic if you have the

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wrong answer the Bible says Jesus Christ himself created all angels did you know that the creator

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of Lucifer was Jesus Christ himself says the Bible well that means Jesus made a bad angel I didn't

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angels can worship God that means they have free moral agency just like you and I do now we're

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not angels right now we are subversion of what we will be in eternity right now angels are

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greater than us but the Bible tells us that when you and I enter heaven we will be greater than the

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angels wow so did God create Lucifer did God create Satan the answer is according to Dr.

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Barnhouse and I agree with him God created Lucifer it was Lucifer who chose to become Satan by the

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choice he made is that not what Isaiah tells us that it was Lucifer who said I want to be like God

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I want to be worship I want all the attention I want everything to be about me

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and the Bible tells us in Ezekiel chapter 28 that evil sin was found in his heart and in that

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day he fell from heaven remarkable according to Psalm 139 listen to this I want all of you to just

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really enjoy this let this wash over you this is the Psalmist writing Lord you have searched me and

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known me number one as a believer I'm refreshed by this if you're not a believer that makes you

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nervous God knows what you did last night now what you do with what you did last night is between

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you and God are you hearing me God searches me and he knows me verse two you know my sitting down you

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know my rising up you understand my thought of far off you comprehend my path and my lying down

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and are acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word on my tongue but behold O Lord you know

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it all together verse five I love this one this is the God squeeze you have hedged me behind and before

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just I love it and laid your hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me it is high I cannot

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attain to it where can I go from your spirit or where can I flee from your presence if I send

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into heaven you are there if I make my bed and held behold you are there if I take the wings of

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the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea even there your hand shall lead me

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and your right hand shall hold me listen to this anybody fighting depression in life listen to this

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if I say that's us if you say if I say surely the darkness shall fall on me have you ever been depressed

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it feels like darkness is choking you you can hardly catch your breath it's like somebody has

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punched you right in the middle of the gut and you've lost all year have you ever had the wind

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knocked out of you people you know there's brothers and sisters in Christ and there's people

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of the world predominantly maybe most of them that feel like the wind has gotten knocked out of

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their lungs and when you get the wind knocked out of your lungs you feel like you're dying I guess

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because when it happens you can't feel your lungs up and you just you just gotta wait you think

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you're dying but you're not well emotionally you think you're dying but God is saying you're not

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so if you say to yourself surely the darkness shall fall on me listen to God says about that

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even the night shall be light about me indeed the darkness shall not hide from you but the night

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shines as the day the darkness and the light are both alike to you now wonder what you want to

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hang out with God with all that's been thrown at you in the world get close to God draw closer to

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there's no excuse we all need to make our way close to him yeah but you don't know pastor I don't

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want to know I can't do a thing about it besides you don't know I don't know but we know him

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press into God and he'll never let you down heaven is working church for us and God is bringing all

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things together for us we remember this regarding Jesus's promise we must never forget this the

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Bible says in John 14 verse 16 and I will pray the Father so it's not only the Holy Spirit that

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prays for us the Bible says Jesus is praying for us and he says I will give you another helper

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that is the Holy Spirit that he may abide with you forever even the spirit of truth whom the world

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cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him but you know him for he dwells with you

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and will be in you listen what Jesus said I will not leave you orphans I will come to you the way

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that Christ comes to you is by the person of the Holy Spirit during worship this morning you

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were singing praises to God and what was happening is if you mint it the Holy Spirit was ministering

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through you to the very Son of God and to the Father Himself and you are caught in between that's

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the best place to be caught in between of the intercourse of God he's the savior of your soul

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and he loves you but he requires that you come that you run out of the burning home the burning

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house and you run to him salvation is waiting as it were at the curb but you got to go to him

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he will not make you he will not force you John 16 verse 12 tells us and still Jesus says I have

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many things to say to you imagine talking to Jesus personally and he says that to you I have a

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lot of things that I need to say to you don't you don't you think you would say to him okay tell me

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all of it tell me what you want to say he knows how frail we are he says but you cannot bear them now

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you can't handle it verse 13 however when he can you circle the word he and your Bible

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this does not may the force be with you Luke this is not an it our our Jehovah witness friends

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that say the the spirit is an it it's not a person there is no Trinity well the Bible says there

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is a Trinity in the Bible says the Holy Spirit is a person Jesus calls him a he

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when he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth

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for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak

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and he will tell you things to come you want to know what's up next you don't need to read the

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paper talk to God ask the spirit of God what do I need to know next for my family what do I need

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to know next about my home or about the world or about my state or about my kids about my husband

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or my wife what do I need to know God he will tell you things to come what do I need to know about

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the future what's going on with the world in the Middle East right now how is this going to play

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out now God's not going to answer you like you know some ticker tape things spitting out the

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information that way he's going to give you discernment to unpack the times and you won't be caught

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off guard you won't get sucked up in the lunacy of the world let him speak to you Jesus went on to

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say that verse 14 he will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you notice we've

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got several persons involved here we've got Jesus speaking that's God the son we've got the Holy

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Spirit who's been promised to be the minister to us and then we're talking about here in a moment

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the Father he will glorify me for he will take of what is mine and declare it to you verse 15

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all things that the Father has our mind therefore I said that he the Holy Spirit will take of mine

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and declare it to you God the Father God the Son and one person is the Holy Trinity of God

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Ephesians chapter 4 verse 30 says and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed

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for the day of redemption there's a lot there in that verse number one again my friends

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the Spirit of God is not an it how do you upset an it can you upset an it may the force be with you

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no no no maybe you not me I don't want the force I want God the Holy Spirit in my life

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think about that for a moment the power may the power be what is this power you know what if you

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sit right here and you move in this direction and you put this crystal in your navel don't

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don't laugh you'll offend somebody who's watching from Sedona Arizona or Laguna Beach

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oh is that too close sorry but you know wait face in this direction put your hands up put it put

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the little receiver oracle and your navel and then start to chant and you'll get the you'll get

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the power really really no listen to grieve the Holy Spirit is to upset hurt the Holy Spirit you

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can't hurt an it you can go yell at the fire hydrant outside all you want knocking it's not

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you don't have to hurt his feelings doesn't have any feelings I saw a guy this true story last night

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he was pushing his Tesla and the battery was so low there was not even emergency blinkers on it was

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just gone and the poor guy is pushing it and I thought for a moment wow this is a great picture

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but but I was driving and I didn't want to endanger anybody but I just I just saw about there is

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a vehicle that is very fast when it has the power but when there is no power you got to push it

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and some of you have religion and you're so tired you've been pushing your religion

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and you're just you you don't feel you don't feel love you don't feel defended you don't feel

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accepted because it's all on you not being a believer in Christ it's not he's done it all

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and he gives the Holy Spirit to get you and I through this world and this wonderful thing

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of sanctification where we are living life bumps and all pains and all we have a purpose

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we know what's coming and we don't have to worry about how this ends we know how it ends we

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