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

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture.

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So what's truth, biblical faith? Let's find out about it right now.

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

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

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Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Kibs.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast.

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And we are going to be talking about right now.

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Today, the issue of faith.

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There's a lot of naturally so a lot of opinion, a lot of conversation about what

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faith is and the more you listen to people talk about faith, the more you realize people

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don't really know much about what they're talking about.

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What I mean by that is there is faith that we don't think of as faith or being faith

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where there's this general dependence, even an unconscious dependence on things that we

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actually put faith in.

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So example, one of those unconscious actions by us to exercise faith is getting in your

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car and starting the engine.

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You assume without you normally have to worry about your engine starting.

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You put on your seatbelt, you never even think about it.

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At least I don't think about it until the alarm goes off when I'm halfway down the road

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because I don't have my seatbelt on.

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But once you put it on, you are now assuming this thing is going to provide for me a pretty

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decent level of protection and the event of an accident.

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We get on an airplane.

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Nobody is thinking.

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Man, I hope this thing makes it off the end of the runway.

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You already have become so accustomed to putting trust and reliance upon and dependence

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upon so many things in life, but little would you ever think of if ever calling it faith.

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You would not example get into that car and say, hey, everybody just want to make an announcement.

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I have absolute faith in my seatbelts or nobody sits down in an airplane and says, hey,

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I just want everybody to know I got total faith that the thrust of these engines are going

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to produce enough power and speed to overcome the issue of drag and we are going to lift off

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by the end of the runway.

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It's going to be spectacular.

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Everybody hang on.

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It's going to be great.

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Nobody says that because everybody assumes it.

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But when it comes to true faith in the context of eternity, right, because everything I

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just mentioned to you has nothing to do about eternity.

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But the Bible says that without faith is impossible to please God.

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The Bible tells us, in fact, listen, later on, read the entire book of Hebrews chapter

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11.

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Hebrews chapter 11 is the chapter of the lifestyles of the righteous and faithful.

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And it's all based on their relationship with God.

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And all of those mentioned are commended for their great dependence upon God.

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You might be quite shocked, by the way, as to who is appearing in the hall of faith.

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They are listed there.

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Some of them are pretty shady characters, which is very encouraging, right?

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But in Hebrews chapter 11, verse 6, check this out, 11, verse 6 says this, but without faith

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it is impossible to please him that is God, for he that comes to God must believe that

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he is and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

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So faith is the key, but watch this.

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Today we live in an age where we've got false teachers saying, you just need more faith.

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If you had enough faith, and they put the burden upon you in the area of the magnitude

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of your faith.

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Now I want you to know something.

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This has answered people's requests, even when he told them, if your faith is the size

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of a mustard seed, he's speaking parabolically, of course, but he's saying, there's just

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about nothing as small, it's smaller than a grain of sand than a mustard seed.

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If you've got that amount of faith, we can work with that.

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So when somebody says you don't have enough faith, notice what they're saying.

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You are lacking in knowing the operation of God or your true relationship to this faith

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issue.

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If you had, listen, what's implied is if you have a lot of faith and God's got to move,

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God's got to do what you're going to say because you've got a lot of faith.

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That is insane.

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You can have gigantic true biblical faith, but if it's against the will of God, it's

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not going to happen.

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And nobody's a greater example than Jesus Christ himself when he prayed in the Garden

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of Gethsemane to his father, father, if there's any way that this cup can pass for me, let

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it pass.

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Let's find out another way for man to be saved.

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But there was no answer.

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It was silent.

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Then the Bible says the father dispatched angels to minister to Jesus.

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And by the way, I am a firm believer that when you look at the, the night that Jesus was

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in the Garden of Gethsemane and to the cross and post resurrection, it is easy to conclude

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that our salvation was literally determined, determined.

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It was in the mind of God, it was done at or in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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And Jesus said, if there's any other way for man to be saved, let's do that instead.

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When there was no answer back from the father, then Jesus was under orders by the Word of

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God to proceed, Psalm 138 says, I've astained my word above my own name, God said, wow.

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So Jesus preceded with the prophetic plan that he would die in the cross for a sins.

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But notice that after the Garden of Gethsemane moment, he's no longer wavering.

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He's no longer in the, in the, in the, in the Gathsemane, in the place of crushing is what

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it means.

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He's no longer in there anymore.

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He takes charge, he takes control from that moment on.

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It's forward to the cross.

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I believe our salvation was determined in the Garden of Gethsemane by his obedience.

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And then it was paid for at the cross and then it was justified that is your salvation

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at the resurrection.

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So having said that, when the Bible tells us in Habakkuk 4.2 that the just shall live

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by faith, what does this mean?

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And when it talks about us that without faith is impossible to please God, it all comes

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down to us going to God believing who and what he is and what he has revealed himself

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to be.

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It's not our great faith.

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It's who and how great he is.

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So when we think about this stuff, think of this, how does faith operate?

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What does it look like when it moves?

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And I really like that because faith is a verb.

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It's active.

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Now some of you are going to get upset with me but you're going to get upset with me because

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you're about ready to get hit with some truth.

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Are you ready?

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It's going to sting.

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It's going to smack you a little bit and you're going to, you're not going to like this.

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But if you're Christianity, okay, so you call yourself a Christian, I get that.

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But if you call yourself a Christian, then I have to ask you and you have to ask me,

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if we're Christians who around us, who do we know, who are the others that are dependent

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upon my faith in Jesus?

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I'm going to say that again.

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If tonight or today you say you're a Christian, then I am supposed to come back to you and say,

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you've named the name of Christ, you declared that you're a Christian, that all of it

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is wrapped around a verb regarding faith in Him.

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So what does that look like among those in your family and those that you know?

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And that will determine if your faith is actually real.

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You can shout all day long, you can have tambourines and twirl around with little ribbons and

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shout faith, faith, faith means absolutely zero until there are people in your world that

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are able to report back to any stranger or any reporter or any fellow Christian that

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asks, hey, what about Jack's faith?

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Is it for real?

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What do you know about it?

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And now to be able to tell you something, that is called a testimony or a witness.

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So be very careful.

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If you say today that you have faith in Jesus, do you really have faith in Jesus, meaning

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this bluntly put, are there others dependent upon your faith?

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In other words, if you don't show up on church on Wednesday or Sunday or whatever is going

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on in your church world, if you don't show up, is anyone going to miss you?

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Is anyone going to say, oh, man, we got a gaping hole tonight.

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Mike didn't show up, he couldn't make it tonight.

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If you can go to church and nobody knows you're there, listen, listen carefully.

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If you can go to church and nobody knows you're there, then you're not doing church.

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I know this is a smack, but check it out.

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You might say, well, that's why I don't go to a big church.

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Guess what?

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Size of the church is irrelevant.

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It's not optics.

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It's not that the pastor is passing a church of 25 people and notices on this Sunday, there's

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24 people because you're not there.

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That's not what I'm talking about.

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It's not size of the church.

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Forget that stuff.

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It's your involvement in the church that makes your faith real.

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There can be a real church of 25 people or a fake church of 25 people.

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There can be a real church of 25,000 people or there could be a real church of 25,000

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fake people.

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How do we know?

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How do we proclaim faith in Jesus?

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Is it active enough to make a difference in people's lives so whereby they become dependent

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upon our interaction in the ongoing life of the church?

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In other words, if a drummer doesn't show up, no, look, I happen to pastor an extremely

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large church, but I can tell you this.

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The only way that that happens is because there's, it's probably safe to say, with all

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of the ministries that go on here, there's probably, oh, I mean, I'm just being ignorant

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right now.

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There's got to be a thousand or a couple of thousand volunteers that make things happen

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in all ministries, okay?

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So for example, if the drummer doesn't show up, you got sick at 4 a.m. before Sunday

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morning service, then they call up another drummer.

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You say, wow, it's amazing to have multiple drums.

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We've got a lineup of drummers.

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We've got a lineup of singers.

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We've got a lineup of guitarists.

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At the point, the point is we've got people to depend upon.

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Are you with me?

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And if somebody is sick, we know that.

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So the love team goes, the care bears go in love on him or her because they're sick.

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And then somebody calls up or moves over from the other worship ministry activity, the

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other drummer.

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That's how church works.

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What about children's ministry?

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Same thing.

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If somebody can't show up at children's ministry, we call up reinforcements.

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Point is, is someone dependent?

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Is the church that you attend?

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Are they dependent upon you being there?

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And if that's not true, then you've got to get involved now, okay?

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Because faith is an active.

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It's a verb.

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It's engaging.

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It's not a confession.

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It's an action, okay?

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So watch this.

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How much faith is enough faith?

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Well, as I said earlier, very, very little.

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God will take it.

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Do you remember the man that Jesus said stood on the corner when he saw the Pharisee

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praying and the Pharisee said, thank you, God, as he looked up to heaven and said, thank

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you that I am who I am and I'm not like those sinners over there, the sinners across

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the street.

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And Jesus said, then there was the man who wouldn't even look toward heaven but look down

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and beat upon his chest and said, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.

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And Jesus said, I tell you guys which one went away justified in the sight of God.

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It wasn't the Pharisee.

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So Jesus will take a little bit of faith.

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The point is where's your faith gravitating?

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Where is the, if your faith was a compass and you know the tip of a compass needle is

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usually fluorescent green or red and as you move around through the woods of the desert,

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that needle heads north, right, always north.

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And so when you do that, that's a good picture of your faith.

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Is your faith always pointing towards Jesus?

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In other words, is Jesus like the needle in the compass always attracted to north?

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Is your life always attracted to faith in Jesus, not faith in you, not faith in your abilities,

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not faith in the team, not faith in money, not faith in anything else but faith in Jesus?

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So it goes like this, how do you know if your faith's for real?

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When God says to you, I want you to step out and do something, listen up everybody.

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There must be an element of faith in action.

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You see, what do you mean by that?

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I'll tell you what I don't mean.

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I'm going to answer this by showing you what I'm not saying.

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All of us have experienced what I'm about to say.

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And that is when somebody comes to you and I and they say, the Lord told me to tell you

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you need to quit your job, you need to marry Billy and you need to buy a donkey and you

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need to get pink tennis shoes.

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That's what God told me to tell you.

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Okay, number one, if you're a believer, let God tell you Himself.

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All right?

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Because I mean, who's going to wear pink tennis shoes?

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But if God tells you to wear them, then wear them.

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But don't have somebody else tell you because now what's happening is that you are now

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putting your faith in what someone else said rather than going to God.

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But watch this.

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No matter what anybody says, you've got to get it from God because you've got to exercise

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faith and until you exercise faith, you're just doing what people a told you to do or be

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what you think you ought to do.

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You said, what image, see, are you in plain that see is God told me to do this?

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Yes, but listen, this is radical.

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I have been so blessed in my life to have heard the Lord.

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Now I can say regarding the things the past, I heard God leading me, but I didn't know

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it was fully Him until after I took the step.

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And is that scary?

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Scary.

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Is that terrifying?

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It's terrifying.

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Is it gut-wrenching totally?

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Don't tell me that when Moses got to the Red Sea, that he was not petrified.

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In fact, he gets to the Red Sea and all the children of Israel are behind him and he stands

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up in a rock, the Bible tells, and he says, stand still and see the salvation of God.

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And God says, Moses, what in the world are you doing talking?

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Don't talk.

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Put your foot in the water.

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Go, Pharaoh's right behind you guys.

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I love that scene.

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I kind of view it this way, stand still and see the salvation of God, translation.

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What the heck am I going to do next?

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What's going on?

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And God told him, go into the water.

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Moses had to put his foot in.

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He exercised faith then the water opened up.

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By the way, round two was with Joshua crossing the Jordan.

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They had to do the same thing.

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Put your foot in the water and then I'll part it.

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No, no, no, God.

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Open it up first.

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Then I'll go.

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God says, good luck.

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Made the luck of the Lord be with you because I'm not going to roll that way.

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It's got to be by faith whereby you are humbled.

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You are gutted, true walking with God, I mean, let's be honest.

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It guts you of yourself, which is a really good thing, okay?

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And then you become radically dependent upon God.

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I hope you get this plan off the end of the runway.

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I think you're going to keep me safe in this chariot.

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It's got to be by faith or else it's not faith.

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If you say, hey, listen, I heard God say to do this, do that with perfect detail.

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I personally doubt it's God.

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There's no element of faith in that.

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But when God says like he did with Abraham, watch this.

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Again, he was 11, by the way, 11, 8, Abraham went out following God,

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not knowing where he was going.

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Boom, I've got to tell you that describes my life.

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When I think God is leading and guiding, I sit still.

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I read more of the word and I let, I know this, I can never, I can never, never

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outweigh God as long as I'm listening.

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I can never outweigh him.

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I'm not talking about procrastination.

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That's a sin.

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I'm talking about I can never outweigh God.

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I can outrun him and that's not a good thing to do.

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Joshua did that in the book of Joshua at the Battle of AI and learned a big lesson.

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People died because he ran ahead of God and he didn't consult the Lord.

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But I know this.

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There's a sweet spot where God has shown me enough whereby now watch this.

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Watch this.

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Don't miss this.

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Please has God shown you enough that if you don't proceed,

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you will know that you're disobeying what he has revealed to you thus far.

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Has he shown you enough for you to make the next step that if you don't

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do it, you will be disobedient.

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Once you know that, then you take that step and your foot goes in the water.

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And then it begins to open up.

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You go across humbly.

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You know that God is holding up the water.

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You go across the issue on dry ground.

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You get to the other side and you stand there in shock.

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Not because you didn't think God was that big,

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but because faith works like that.

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When I see people on religious programs,

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boast about their faith, I turn it off.

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If I see people talking about how great their faith is and you need to have faith like me,

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or you're a loser, I turn it off.

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If people are saying, listen, have faith, man, come on, brother, come on, brother,

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just have faith.

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You need to stop and say, hey, shut up, everybody.

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What is this?

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Quiet zip it.

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Faith in what?

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Listen, Oprah Winfrey in that clan, they're very, very big on, you need to have faith in faith.

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You need to have faith in faith.

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Do never, do not ever put your faith in faith.

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Because that's putting faith in you and you're going to listen, buddy,

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it's going to be a bad nasty fall.

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You're going to be disillusioned.

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You're going to think God misled you and you're going to be completely messed up.

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But when you put your faith in him to do what you believe he's telling you to do,

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your actions must be by faith.

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He will not tell you everything or else it's not by faith,

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but he'll give you enough for you to step.

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And as you step one foot in front of the other, like Abraham did going,

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following God, not knowing where he was going, that's wild.

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That's amazing.

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Can you imagine?

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I understand to a point if it was just Abraham.

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Look, if you get about five guys, three to five guys together and they get their pickup trucks

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and start heading off somewhere, where are we going?

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I don't know, dude, let's go.

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Um, that's just kind of like a guy thing.

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Um, but when it comes to God, God gives us these partners in life in our, in most cases.

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And if, if not all cases, uh, it's a husband or a wife.

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An Amos three verse three says, how can two walk together unless they're in agreement?

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So if you're married and you're seeking God about a decision, okay?

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Then you guys need to be in agreement.

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It's quite amazing.

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Imagine Sarah.

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At some point, Sarah had to say, or Sarah, I at the time had to say, Hey, Abram,

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you've been talking to this God.

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You say you met this.

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What's his name?

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Yah, Yahweh, God.

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That is told you to leave our home in ear of the Caldys and follow him.

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He's going to show you some place where we're supposed to inherit.

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Well, Abram, I've loved you all these years.

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You're a good man and you've, you know, you're very committed to this.

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I see the importance of this.

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Um, all right, let's do this.

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Uh, you could argue it took more faith in Sarah than they did with Abraham,

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but the point is they walked in agreement.

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So my friend, listen, make sure that your faith is in the Lord Jesus Christ and in his word to lead you into

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guide you.

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Do not put faith in faith.

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Do not put faith in other people.

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Do not put faith in yourself and do not put faith in your own logic or your thinking.

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There is a way.

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That seems right to a man, but that way ends in death.

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So says the Bible.

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