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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.

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Do you find yourself hurting yourself, so to speak, self-inflicted worms, trying to

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do your life without Jesus? You don't have to do that anymore. But concerning the

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times in which you and I live in, think for a moment. God wants to deliver you instantly

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from sin that plagued your life. He wants to give you a new life and he also wants to

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turn you on to eternity because glory be to God. This time in this timeline is not all there is.

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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 life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying,

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amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what

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God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Regarding salvation, Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

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Technically, what? He died on the cross and rose again from the dead for our justification,

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okay? What does that mean? It means Jesus died in the cross for our sins, rose again from the dead

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for our justification, meaning that none of our past life is no longer held accountable to us

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if we repent of our sins to him. He's the great justifier. Well, what could be better than that?

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The next word is sanctification. The moment you come to Christ, you're justified and from that

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moment on, you live like you and I are living right now called sanctification. See what does that

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mean? It means a spirit of God every day in your life is working out more and more the image of

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Jesus in you. So think about you. Are you more like Jesus than you were five years ago?

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Are you more like Jesus than you were 10 years ago? Three years ago? Think of it.

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Because I know how it is. We all know how this is. We kind of feel like we're not growing.

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And we get frustrated. Man, I wish I was growing. You know you're little kids. You know the door. Do

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you guys have a door at your house that's got all the markings of your kids having grown up and

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now the grandkids are doing it. Carving into the wall, setting dates. You notice when you're around

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them all the time, you don't see them growing. They're just there. But if they're gone for a month

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and they come back, you go, whoa! And they go, what? To them? Nothing's happened. To you? A lot's

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happened. I think that's true regarding our spiritual growth too. I think we look at each other

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and say, man, you should have grown up by now. I should have come along a little further with you.

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I think God someday is going to look at us and say, man, look what my spirit has done in your life

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with my word to the glory of my son. Look how much you've grown and you graduate. You graduate.

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I believe this. The Bible says, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints,

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his believers. I think when you and I die in this world, it's because we outlive our body.

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It's like, you know what, spiritually the insight comes out too big. Time to go. I gotta die. I

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gotta keep growing. I gotta die. I've grown. Can't go anymore. Time to go to heaven. We all walk

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around this world so and so dark. And like, what are you crying for? Are you in the heaven?

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If we only knew, we would have hung on to her, hung on to him and gone with him.

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Listen, for those of you who are followers of Jesus Christ, Jesus said, you're born again by

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the Spirit of God. Listen, this is as close to hell as we'll ever get right here. This world.

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If you're feeling a little leapt out right now, then you can join us any time now.

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You can believe in him too. Trust him too. I want to reach you. I'm saying Augustine. Augustine

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of Hippo. I want you to hear him. This is, we're going back nearly what, 17, 1600 years ago.

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Oh, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. How can I free myself from these terrible urges within me that

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drive me to the things that hurt me? I want you to look at that for a moment. This is coming from

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one of the greatest theologians of all time. And he cries out tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.

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What about tomorrow? Have you noticed if you put it off until tomorrow, it never happens.

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I'm going to get on that tomorrow. I'll take care of that tomorrow. And then tomorrow you say,

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I'll do it first thing in the morning. Have you noticed that? I'm going to start my diet tomorrow.

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How can I free myself from these terrible urges? You cannot. That's what he learned. You can't.

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The urges that drive me to the things that hurt me. Do you find yourself hurting yourself?

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So to speak, self-inflicted wounds. Trying to do your life without Jesus. You don't have to do

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that anymore. But concerning the times in which you and I live in, think for a moment. God wants to

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deliver you instantly from sin that plagued your life. He wants to give you a new life.

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And he also wants to turn you on to eternity because glory be to God this time and this timeline

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is not all there is. Have you talked to any new age people? They're always around.

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If you're missing, if you've never seen one, you can at least, you can go to Laguna Beach. You'll

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see some there. If you really want to see them in full color, go to Sedona, Arizona. Beautiful place.

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But people are walking around pyramids on their head and they're putting crystals in their navel

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in their belly button in the lotus position on a rock and they're going hum hum hum and it's like hum hum

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and what are you doing? I'm converging with the harmonics of the world of the universe.

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Great. Awesome. So what are we doing? What's going to happen next? We're going to become one

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with the universe. Okay. Are we going to feel it? When is it going to happen?

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Oh, you have to imagine it. You have to imagine it. Okay. And then what's going to happen? The world's

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going to get better. That's the message. What's happening? The world's getting better. It's just

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getting better. It is? Yes. Don't you see it? Try and real hard. And they'll say it's getting better.

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It's all getting better. And then what is going to happen? We're going to reach this level

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of man becoming one and everything becomes great. Isn't it interesting the same people that do that

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because they don't have the gospel of Jesus Christ liberating them in their heart?

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They do their harmonic convergence and then they self-medicate. Have you noticed the correlation

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between the two? Peace with the world. All is one. Give me some drugs.

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Have you noticed it's true? All is love. It's all peace. I need drugs. It's so funny. Sad. But funny.

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Jesus says, you don't need drugs. Well, am I going to cope? Oh, he'll get you through, friend.

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He'll give you a peace. The Bible says that passes all human understanding.

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And we get ready to meet him. Christ is coming. The Bible is telling us here in these two verses

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that it's all about the night being far spent. What a great word. It means all of these

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millennia of time man has suffered and the world has suffered under the yoke of sin.

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The night's almost over. Isn't it beautiful news? Christ is coming. The night is almost over.

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And for the believer, either we go up in the Lord together in the rapture or we die

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individually. It doesn't matter. We still go home. The night is far spent, everybody. It's almost over.

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Gloria waits. My daughter showed me the other day. This young man, he's texting while he's driving.

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And he blows an intersection. And it's so graphic. It is so powerful. It really, really

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bothered me. And then I said to my daughter, I said, everybody has to see this because it's really

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disgusting. This kid graduating from school, he's free, right? All right, it's the summer. Texting,

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looking down, looking down and gets teaboned. And it's in a vegetative state for the rest of his life.

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Texting. In a second, as it were, in a twinkling of an eye, it ended for him. While in a twinkling of an eye,

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the Bible says it's going to begin for us. But we need to be ready and understand what the

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scriptures announcing to us. God came because the mission was for him to be our atonement or sacrifice.

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For all the sins of the world, the Bible said, the second time he comes, he will not be disguised.

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The Bible tells us that the sun will flee from his presence. It will diminish

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from the brightness of his face. Can you imagine that? When the spiritual eternal meets the temporal

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physical, everything that you and I think in field that is stable, real and lasting turns into dust.

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In eternity arrives. And I'll leave you with this. The attention you and I owe one another

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is in verse 12 and we're to help each other to be looking up.

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To be looking up, it's okay to live life in the here and now, of course. Just keep your eye on

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eternity. The Bible says the day is at hand. Wow. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness.

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Throw them off. Heave is the word. Heave it off. What is? What? The things of darkness,

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the things that have a tendency to wrap around your ankles and pull you into dark places.

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The Bible says, cast them off. Heave them off from you. Violently seize them. Whatever it might be.

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Anything that would keep you from looking up. Can you don't answer, please, out loud. Can you

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with all assurance knowing that we're not perfect? None of us are perfect. But down deep inside,

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if you could choose perfect, you would be perfect. You strive to be perfect for this one reason.

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You love him and you don't want to offend him. And because we're not, God's grace comes in. Do

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you hear me? His grace mitigates all that for us. But we love him. We don't do it to earn his

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favor. We've got it through Christ. We don't do it because it's the moral thing to do.

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Or it's the law. We don't do it for that reason. We do it because he first loved us and he gave

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himself for us. And that he purchased for us the ticket to eternity.

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Lisa and I were dating. So that puts it back in late 1870s.

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And we went to the universal amphitheater in those days. And some guy

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was an opening band for the band we went to go see. And I think his name always get this

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next up. So don't hold me to this because I've lost track. But I think his name was either Eddie

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Money or Eddie Rabbit or Bunny Money or Bunny Rabbit. But he had a song called Two Tickets to Paradise.

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And you know that song now, but nobody knew it back then except a little bit. He was the

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opening act and the guy they introduced him like, you know, there's like 10,000 people there,

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but they introduced the guy. By the way, what is his real name? Eddie Money. Ladies and gentlemen,

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you know, too live in Los Angeles tonight. Eddie Money. And people like,

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he was really embarrassing. So the music starts up and he comes running out from behind the stage,

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grabs the microphone and he sings this song called Two Tickets to Paradise. I think that's the guy.

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Is it still the guy? And he opens up with that song. I've got Two Tickets to Paradise.

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And he, good evening L.A.

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He wraps himself up in the cord of the microphone, falls flat in his face. The crowd goes crazy

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screaming and applauding. The guy had Two Tickets to Paradise, but he couldn't even keep himself

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up the floor. It was so comically amazing. Listen, Jesus has Two Tickets to Paradise.

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He was crucified to buy the ticket. And he gives it to you. He's got more than Two Tickets.

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And the fact of the matter is, if you would only look to him, as the prophet Isaiah said,

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look unto him. Look unto the Lord. Look unto him. And be saved all year. Wow. Can you look?

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So I'm not going to look. Come on, look. Nope. I'm going to do it. Just give him a look.

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And maybe your heart today would be one where you're maybe willing to look. I encourage it to open

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your eyes. The very one who you've argued, you've tried to argue out of your life is the very one

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that is your healing. He is your joy. He is your salvation.

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And the fact of the matter is, is that all those works of darkness, they don't have to own you

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anymore. The stuff that you're shamed of. Give it to him. And then the scripture says, but put on

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the armor of light. I'm going to ask you to stand. We're going to do this right now in our

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prayer and our closing time together. You say, Jack, how do I do this? You just said it. How do I

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do it? Oh, this is a good question. This is what we're going to do. You know how you put off

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the darkness is only one way. You pray it off. And by the way, that doesn't mean you have to,

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you know, you have to pray 21 hours a day. And then it, no, no, no, no. You cry out to him.

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Every time a temptation comes into your life, every time that thing starts to rise in your mind,

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you can say, Lord, in Jesus' name, I'm asking you to take it away from me. God, I'm not strong enough

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for it. Jesus, help me now. I need you to help me. Call upon his name. Call upon his name.

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So let's pray together. Heavenly Father, we come before you now as one people.

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And we're asking you, Lord, that you would now come down upon our lives

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as we, right now, in all clumsiness and with all awkwardness, Lord, we would lift up to you and

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pray off from ourselves to you. Lord, take it. Please remove it. And that is, Lord, these things

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of darkness that have plagued our lives, thinking that either it's too bad for you to forgive or as

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a Christian, it's just something I guess I have to put up with till the day I die. Not true.

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Lord, you said right here in your word, we cast the works of darkness to you. And Lord,

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we also put on the armor of light. We ask you, Father, God, as we pray off one and pray on the other.

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We pray for the helmet of salvation. We pray for the sword of the Spirit. We pray, Lord,

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God now for the shield of faith. We pray for the belt of truth. We pray, Lord, God, for our feet

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to be prepared with the gospel of peace. We pray, Lord, God, the breastplate of righteousness

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upon our lives. God, please, we pray from this moment on. May we walk, live, move, breathe,

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in being a people of prayer to experience the constant push enough of the darkness,

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drawing closer to the light and being ready to oh one another always love, attention,

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you. May we love each other just as though we were loving you. In Jesus' name and all God's people

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said, Amen. God bless you church. God bless you.