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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. Listen, without Jesus we've all

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been bound to something and some of our struggles as a Christian is the

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revisitation of those strong holes and we have to remind ourselves I have been

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set free by the blood of Jesus Christ, by the resurrected Lord, the empty

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tomb, God keeps His Word and I'm not the same person. I'm a brand new person.

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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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life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us

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that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your

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hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jackhibbs. So when I read a moment ago

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what Jesus had said give your life you'll save it. If you hang on to your life you're going to

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lose it. I asked myself these questions here maybe you can ask yourself the same. What is it

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to me to desire to come after Jesus? Am I Jack coming after Jesus? I have to answer this question.

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You have to answer this question. Even if you ignore it you're still answering the question. Am I Jack

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pursuing Jesus? And then I had to ask myself what am I denying? You need to ask yourself that.

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Listen when do you say to you? No. When do you say to you? Nope because you're flesh. Listen your

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flesh will say I want that. I want that. I want four scoops of it.

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I had this battle. Do you know why this is one of my breakdowns of this verse?

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I'll tell you. Don't tell anybody. This is between us. It happened just the other day. We've

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been out of power for so long but inside their freezer the power is out. The ice cream

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that the talismic, the melky moon, melky moon, it's still frozen. It's full. We've lost power could

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be gone for days. There'd be a very waste of money if I let all of that melt. What do I do?

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What do I do? Should I pray about it? No. He started eating it because you want to be a good

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steward. Not waste anything. You see the justification? I know how to get all this ice cream

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under the guise of sorry somebody had to do it. We ain't got no power because Newsom doesn't

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know anything about this kind of stuff. Life is like all of our flesh does that. I want I want

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we've got to be able to say thank God is through his power. No flesh sit down. I deny you. What?

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You are denied but I want sit down and we deny. Well he's richer. She's younger denied.

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What about that? What about that denied? Can we do that? Jesus says you must do that.

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And then he says to carry your cross. Jesus says for each of us as believers that we are to carry

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our own cross. By the way our own cross means you can't carry my cross. I can't carry yours.

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Did you know that? Let's make this clear. Jesus carried his cross to die on that cross for all

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of our sins. This is not a salvation issue. For you and I to pick up our cross and to follow him

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means that we pick up all of the stuff of our lives that we have to deal with in association with

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Jesus. In other words we count the cost and the cost is absolutely. I'm following you Jesus.

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Come what may and we go with him when people spit mock ridicule beat us whatever it is. It's okay.

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I'm walking with you Jesus and then to follow him the word to follow him is a beautiful word and

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you've even seen posters of this which is in some ways illustrated the truth of it but some ways

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maybe made it too common but it actually means to walk in the footsteps of him and you see the

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you'll see the video play on the internet where there's somebody walking in the sand and the

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ocean and the little kids feet footsteps and the parents step that's very sweet that's exactly

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what the word means. Somebody will say that when I walked through this dynamic of life you know

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on the sand there was two two sets of footprints but there was nobody with me but of course it was

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Jesus. I understand the pictorial side of all of that but the fact of the matter is

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that to follow him is to walk in his footsteps. We can't do that on our own so we ask him Lord

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use me and church this brings us to the issue of hope faith yes hope it says that we will be

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for him holy acceptable to God I won't be labor this other than to say this holy means set apart for

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God that doesn't mean you wear black clothes and have a bun your hair pulled back in a bun and

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you don't wear makeup and you have a carriage with a horse and are you hearing me that holy

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doesn't mean that holy means you're set apart. I remember you guys know I resigned my job to come

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and start this church and when I did that I was really sad because I loved the corporation

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our workforce incredible and I had no plans to leave I planned on retiring from there

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but you was awesome about it did you know that when you were hired they had for you to sign what

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is known as a fiduciary agreement you know what that is you may know what that is. Raise your

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hand if you don't know what that is it's nothing to be ashamed about I didn't know what it was

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until I got hired there a fiduciary agreement is that we're not we're not playing to the legal side

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of this but if you're going to be one of our employees we're asking we're appealing to your

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to to to better angels so to speak within you because we have you as an employee we pick our

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employees very very rigorously when you're off the clock we want you to conduct yourself in

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such a way as though you were on the clock take care of your body this is a this is a corporation

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global take care of your body on your days off refrain from using profanity on the clock and off

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the clock remember that if you wear any of our apparel you're representing this corporation globally

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and then finally live your best life healthy and wise so that each and every Monday you can get

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back to giving 100% to our customers after I read that I want to design it if if the world says

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things like that and it's honorable what about God saying just be set aside for me

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and acceptable and the word acceptable means we already are acceptable

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Jesus made us acceptable do you trust Christ you believe Jesus died on the cross you believe

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He rose again from the dead listen you may believe all that that's great

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but is it a reality of faith and hope in your life don't say anything right now in this room but

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can you testify to the fact that you know that God dwells in you internally that there's a perpetual

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conversation going on in your life between you and God regarding all matters big and small

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God has called us to bring hope I tell you our world needs hope right now like like never before you're

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the agent of hope you think the government's going to bring hope listen I'm not bashing government

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government's not designed to bring hope if any government if any politicians is you can put your

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hope in me does that just sound like vomitous I mean this is grotesque no no human should say that

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the closest is we can come and say I promise even that's risky because somebody with the best

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intentions with the greatest resources can still fail in the promise because no one's got the

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ability to actually keep a promise we did a wedding here was so perfect yesterday in between

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windstorms that was a perfect wedding and those two beautiful people stood there and I said now

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to the family and the audience and I said we're about to recite or I'm about to give you the vows I

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gave the background from ancient Hebrew of the origin of vows what it meant God's hearing them

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and the whole thing was each of them giving promises to one another but I stress the fact that

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Jesus had been welcomed into their lives a long time ago as lord and savior it's not so much that

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they will keep the promises it's that Christ will keep the promises through them he's so good

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but friends today there is a world out there that has caused people to be completely bound up

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and I think of Joseph who did no wrong Joseph in the Bible Joseph in Genesis 37 Joseph he was taken

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memories taken by his brothers and they bound him up and they threw him in a hole because they hated

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him they were jealous of him and then they're going to kill him a rubin head second thoughts about

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it he said malicious seldom here comes a caravan a bunch of media nights they're on their way to

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Egypt we'll just sell them Joseph who in the Old Testament is a type of Christ Joseph was sold by

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his brothers for silver pieces into slavery and all the while in Egypt God was preparing Joseph to

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be the deliver of the nation Israel some familiar Joseph was human trafficked human trafficking

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it's evil it's on a scale like it's never been for what reason book a revelation tells you that in

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the last days there will be those who will stand in damnation before God who trafficked in the souls

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of men did you know that's the grand play of what's going on even here right now your soul

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God wants you to have hope I told that couple in that wedding I said you know we're also formal

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we all have our suits on and even I was wearing a tie everybody's dressed up flowers gorgeous

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and I said you know if we were really doing a wedding like they did in Cana or in the Galilee

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it'd be nothing like this it would be noisy it would be laughing there would be cheering there

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would be look there would it'd be it's amazing but we have formalized so much of such a joyous thing

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did you know the Bible tells us in the book of Zephaniah that God when you arrive in heaven he's

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going to spend the world the word in Hebrew is twirl this is hard for us to handle the God of the

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Bible when you show up Christian into heaven he is going to twirl around you it says with singing

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I think it's chapter three verse seven don't quote me on it but look it up later in the book of

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Zephaniah can you imagine I can't handle that well then everybody else is going to be very

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loud and happy and you're going to be the only party pooper as the Lord welcomes you into heaven he's

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going to think it's fantastic you know he is from the Middle East you know Jesus didn't come from

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eternity to Canada or to you know Connecticut where they're so proper no man he came from Israel

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they can't even talk without passion he's going to see you and he's going to say awesome clear come

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here can we be like in shock what don't be surprised if he gives you a kiss

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many times you have been trafficked in this world and sin maybe some of you are hearing this

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for the first time ever and Jesus wants to sit you free listen in the in the days of Jesus and

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the days of Paul in the first century and it had gone on for a couple thousand years previously

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did you know that when Paul was writing to the church at Rome did you know that you could go down to

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the augura because a new shipment of slaves have arrived from some of Rome's conquests

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and this is how they came in male or female alike they were stripped completely naked before

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they took the platform but first they came in because they've walked hundreds if not a thousand

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miles over the course of six months like this a fish hook in your bottom lip pierced through

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tied to the back of the neck of the person in front of you and you were marched into Rome

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then they would disconnect the lanyard from the back neck piece you'd stand on this platform with

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this hook in your lip the string dangling down naked you were asked to present yourself a living

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sacrifice for inspection some time was given whereby the buyers would come up and feel touched

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how strong are you examine you and then the bidding would begin and based upon your particular

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potentiality be it sex or labor the bidding started can you imagine 20 shackles are 20 pieces

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30 pieces 50 pieces 50 pieces do I hear more than many more than 50 pieces

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so old to the man for 50 pieces all of a sudden Jesus steps on to the platform then comes in Jesus

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excuse me how much 50 here's your 50

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I'll take them based on what economy my life maybe they would say your life means nothing

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to us who are you I'm the son of God yeah well so is everybody else in this town

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my kingdom I give my kingdom an eternal kingdom where I come from we use gold for asphalt

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I give my life for them

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Jesus sets us free you may have think that you've been free all your life and yet you've been

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bound to pornography you've been bound to drink you've been bound to pride you've been bound to

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I don't know what bound to fear listen without Jesus we've all been bound to something

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and some of our struggles as a Christian is the revisitation of those strong holes

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and we have to remind ourselves I have been set free by the blood of Jesus Christ by the

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resurrected Lord the empty tomb God keeps his word and I'm not the same person I'm a brand new

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person and then we end here and I really mean it we end with this it is the fact that when it says

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your reasonable service that you you are to present yourself to God in a reasonable service

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the translation of the word reasonable is where we get the word logic the translation of the

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word service is where we get the word proscaneo you say what yeah proscaneo is an awesome word

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proscaneo means it means this if you were speaking the Greek language and if your child came up

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to you and grabbed onto your hand and held your hand like so or if your dog came up and started

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looking your hand that word in Greek is proscaneo because Jesus provides you salvation from all

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damnation and all of your sins and gives you as a gift eternal life to all those who would say

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I'm a sinner and I need you to save me Lord Jesus our reasonable logical response to that

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is worship service proscaneo it means to lick the hand like a puppy if you notice how fun it is

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to be around the puppy they just lick everything they're just lick and lick and lick and they're

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little licking machines and they have that amazing puppy breath ladies you should invent a perfume

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called poodle or something I don't know isn't it just a beautiful why would God use these words

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if he didn't love you why didn't he use these words he wrote the Bible why did he use these words

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it's present your life to me I want you to live it's logical it's worship and to worship is to

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