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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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This is the physical world you are born into.

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To enter into the family of God, you've got to be born into the spiritual realm.

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That's the second birth.

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Jesus said that to him.

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What's born of this earth is earthly.

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What's born down from heaven is of heaven.

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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.

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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 Hibbs.

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Right now, according to the Bible, this book is written to Christians, book of Romans,

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we suffer in this world.

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It's amazing about Christian suffering is, it makes us more like Jesus.

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I don't know how that's going to work in eternity, but it's really going to matter.

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It is a big deal.

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What you and I suffer in this world for being a Christian is going to really matter in

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the day of eternity.

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You have to take that carefully as a mature believer you can't run away from controversy,

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but at the same time, you shouldn't go looking for it.

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The Bible says if you're persecuted for Jesus' sake, you're going to receive a great reward

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in heaven that doesn't mean you're running into a crowd of Jews or Muslims or atheists

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and say, hey, you're all going to go to hell and they beat you up.

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You shouldn't get beat up.

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That's not right.

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It means that if you and I are going to live like Jesus, go figure it.

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If you and I are going to live like Jesus, people are going to hate us.

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Jesus is the most hated individual on this planet today.

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Why?

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Because he raised the dead.

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Why?

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Because he cleansed the lepers.

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Why?

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Because he said if he dies in the cross, he'll die for your sins.

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He's so hated.

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He's hated because he rose from the dead.

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See, Jack, that's not making any sense.

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Exactly my point.

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Your rejection of Jesus is a spiritual issue.

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It's not intellectual.

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What did Jesus do to upset you?

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You and I can get in line and tabulate all the people that hurt us.

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They didn't die for us.

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And they're not, listen, they're not getting us into heaven.

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Jesus was the one who when he was beaten and when he was subject to grotesque suffering,

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the Bible says he opened his mouth not once in defense.

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Why?

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Because if he would have, then he would have not fulfilled his plan to redeem you.

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See, our sins needed to be paid for.

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God is holy.

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He can't just say, well, we'll just forget that.

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He can't.

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God cannot do that.

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Someone has to pay.

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I'd remove this from my vocabulary a long time ago and it's this, God, that's not fair.

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I never use that word anymore, ever, no way.

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Because you know what?

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Strange thing about forgiveness.

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The only way forgiveness works is if the innocent person issues forgiveness.

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It gets worse.

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The person that was sinned against is the person that has to pay the price.

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That's not fair.

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Fair is you sinned against me.

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I punch you out.

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That's fair.

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Fair is you do this the wrong thing, you get in a noise cream for you.

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Right?

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That's fair.

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God's not fair.

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God is extravagant.

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God says, all of mankind has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God that means this.

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All of mankind has sinned and by default cannot go to heaven.

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But I have a plan.

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I will send my son in the likeness of human flesh, he'll be born just like you were born.

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He'll feel exactly what you feel except he'll feel it perfectly.

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He will feel perfect pain.

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He will feel absolute total rejection.

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None of us have been rejected like Jesus has been rejected.

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When somebody drops a brick on their foot in the world, nobody cusses in your name.

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It's a spiritual issue, friends.

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So church, it's this, life fully lived.

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That's when it's going to happen is when this fallen age finally fails and it's going

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to come to its end.

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It says, for we know that the whole creation groans in labor is verse 22 with birth pains

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together until now, suffering, physically, emotionally, in a non-physical sense even

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the spiritual realm.

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It's remarkable to me and I wrote it down.

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I just wrote it down so I wouldn't flood it up, but I'll read it to you.

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It's just a thought that it's remarkable to me.

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It's a remarkable word that's defined here.

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The word groans in the Greek language is stenazzo and it means to exhibit pain.

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Listen to this or to show evidence of pain.

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Think about not only Jesus, not only you, but think about this observable world right

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now.

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The physical, emotional, non-physical worlds that's the spirit realm are out of sorts.

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The word means that it's disjointed or misaligned or skewed.

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Friends listen.

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That means if your bicycle tires are a little out of whack, it's no big deal.

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But if you have a centrifuge and something's out of whack, it's a big deal.

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Are you hearing me?

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Can you imagine the engine on a jet plane?

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You know that.

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Those planes.

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When you're cruising along eating your chips and sandwich on the flight, you're just sitting

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up there.

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You know, the technology that's monitoring those motors, if something goes off just ever

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so slightly, it's constantly, constantly monitoring.

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Why?

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Because it could be catastrophic.

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Why?

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Because something is stenazzo.

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It's out of joint or it's out of place and it causes something to go into like a wobble

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and eventually fly apart at the seams.

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Watch this.

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This is cool.

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We're almost done.

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The Bible says the earth and the universe has suffered stenazzo.

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It's out of sync and it's, imagine a V8 only firing on six of the cylinders that your

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car is shaking.

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Imagine, listen, listen up, physicists, astronomers, listen.

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The universe is so finely tuned to the instigree, you moved Jupiter, we're dead.

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Did you know that?

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We're 93 million miles from the Sun.

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Five miles closer, we fry.

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Five miles back, we freeze to death.

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Doesn't that have a Lucian spectacular?

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God did that.

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And he said he sent them in their orders and he keeps them in their order.

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And then there's the world and there's what we call chaos and it's hurting.

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We call it death.

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In a uniform fashion, death throughout cells, death throughout atoms, atoms are dying.

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They're slowing down.

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Death and life, we'll get this.

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The thing is, the book of Colossians tells us that the only reason why it doesn't fly

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apart is because Jesus by the word of His power is holding it together.

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That is awesome.

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There's going to come a time when this all that's dead and dying and worn out and pooped

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out is going to come to its end and it's a good day for the believer.

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It's a fantastic time.

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The only church is this is when suffering comes to its end.

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It says in verse 23 that not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the

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spirit, even we ourselves, grown within ourselves eagerly waiting.

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This is describing the daily life of the believer.

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I'm going to give you some scripture references.

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We don't have the time to cover them all, but or you can download all the notes online

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if you would.

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But you see that word, first fruits, can you circle it?

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In most of your Bibles, the more accurate translation, you look at the Old King James

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or maybe the New King James, it will have first fruits as one word.

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The English word, we flub it, first fruits, it causes a problem.

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It simply means this.

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It comes out of the book of Leviticus chapter 23.

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It's also in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 26, but it's this you guys.

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That says here that not only that, but we also who have the, look, the first fruits of

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the spirit, follow me, Jesus Christ rose again from the dead, right?

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It says by the power of the Holy Spirit, Christ was risen from the dead.

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Watch this, Jesus being resurrected from the dead, all those who believe in Him shall

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be resurrected from the dead also.

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He is the first fruit.

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Those who believe in Him, trust Him, are also partakers or they, we are also first

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fruits.

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What's his first fruit stuff?

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When man did a work when he plowed his field, Leviticus 23 says, or if you had your vineyard

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or your cattle or whatever it might be, the first born or the first harvested, the first

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bunch, the bushel, was presented by you or your family to the Lord and the priest would

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take it and he would wave it.

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It says it's a wave offering before the Lord.

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What's the deal about that?

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It's to remind you that God provided this for you, that God is good and that God deserves

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the best off the top for this reason.

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It's great because the Bible says, does God need it?

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He doesn't need it.

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So what is he taking?

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He doesn't take it.

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He'll never take it.

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You have to offer it.

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I want to keep all the money I make, keep it.

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Other people will read this and say, I get it.

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God gets the first fruits of what He's allowed me to do.

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You know what that does to you?

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It does something to you that money can't buy.

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It causes you to be thankful.

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It causes you to be appreciative.

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All the stuff you're trying to teach your kids?

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Dad, it needs the money.

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I don't have any.

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Just go to the debit machine, the ATM.

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That's what kids think.

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What do you mean you don't have any money?

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That little box always spits money out.

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Go get it.

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And that's not how it works.

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When we give to God, it sets our heart right.

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It sets our heart straight.

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It's a good thing.

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But the point is, first fruits, according to the work of Jesus

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on the cross, the reward that Christ is given is you.

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Jesus suffers all of that, goes through all of it.

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Dies is resurrected.

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And the Bible says, for the joy that was set before him,

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he endured the cross, putting up with the shame of it all.

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Why?

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Because it says that he, the joy that he inherits

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is the joy of our salvation.

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Jesus pays for it.

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And then he's the one that's all excited that we're saved.

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See, wait, don't you have that in your way?

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He paid for it, but shouldn't we be excited?

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Yeah, you'd think, right?

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If that were true, we would never complain again,

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or gripe again.

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If that were true, we would break down the doors

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of the church to get in before worship started.

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It's like, whoa, man, come on, let's just,

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let's just break down the doors and get in there.

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Heck, if the band's not playing,

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we'll get up there and play it ourselves.

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Let's give God glory.

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You can't stop this and you can't stop somebody like that.

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When they start to realize, wait a minute,

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God's giving me breath right now, the O2 and all.

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Yep, my heart's beating because of his goodness.

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Yep, then give your first heart beat to God.

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Give your first breath to God.

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It's not the money thing.

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God doesn't want our Mercedes.

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He doesn't want our yacht, he doesn't want our,

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whatever it is, are you hearing me?

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You get this, right?

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He wants your heart.

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Any love relationship demands intimacy.

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Otherwise, it's not a good word.

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And then finally, we end with this.

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It's here.

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It's when we become, finally, thank God,

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we become the redeemed you and me.

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Jesus said, you must be born again

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to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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And remember, Nicodemus went into this conibction.

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He couldn't figure it out.

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I'm an old man, my mom, she's older than me.

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How do I get back inside of my mom

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and come out a second time, Jesus?

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What are you saying?

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And Jesus says, aren't you the teacher of all Israel?

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You know what I'm talking about?

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It's spiritual.

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If I were writing the Bible, I would have said,

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it's spiritual, you knucklehead.

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What's wrong with you?

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You got to, Nic, too much smarts.

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You're not thinking this through.

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This is the physical world you were born into.

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To enter into the family of God,

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you've got to be born into the spiritual realm.

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That's a second birth.

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Jesus said that to him.

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What's born of this earth is earthly.

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What's born down from heaven is of heaven.

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And so in this, we find out when we read,

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that God says in eternity,

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he knew that you would say yes to him

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when you heard the gospel.

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You've heard the gospel three times today, by the way.

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I don't know if you're counting.

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Three times you've heard it, that he loves you,

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died on the cross for you and rose again from the dead.

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Three times you've heard this.

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God is good and he invented you with the ability to choose

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because God's not Elon Musk who makes robots.

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He made you in his likeness

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and you can choose whatever you want.

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And if you want to go to heaven, God says,

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great, here's the ticket.

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This is the way you go.

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And if you don't, then like Spurgeon said,

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every human will have at least one prayer answered.

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Isn't that a scary statement?

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I don't want God in my life than you won't.

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Don't worry about it.

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You won't have to.

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He won't make you.

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That would be rape.

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Put you in a headlock and say, tell me you love me

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and tell me I'm Lord.

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Tell me I'm the best God ever.

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He's not gonna do that.

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Just like you wouldn't do that.

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And the Bible tells us he adopted us.

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I love that.

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When you're born into a family, you're born into a family.

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What are you gonna do?

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The kid comes out, I guess he's ours.

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What are you gonna do?

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He can't send him back.

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See, is there like a Amazon sticker

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we can put on this guy?

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He's yours.

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God, on the other hand, picks.

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He adopts.

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That's better, it's better for us.

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See, well, Jack, I mean, I love that,

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but how do I know God picked me?

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It's very simple.

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Do you want him?

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Do you want him?

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Do you want to know him personally every day 24, 7,

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literally for real?

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We're not talking about religion.

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You happen to be in a church right now

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that has these walls.

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That's just to pull this thing off.

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Keep us from getting sunburned or rained on.

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Seriously, beyond this is not the church.

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You're the church, and here's the thing,

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we could pack up and go to the,

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on a side of a hill and have church just like this

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because you are the church.

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But it's a choice that you make,

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but it's an opportunity that God gives you.

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Religion says, keep these 10 steps and sign this thing

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and do the other and you'll be accepted.

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God's not into that.

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That's what man does.

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God says, you wanna love me?

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Here's the deal.

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I died for you.

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You think about this.

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You are in a fireball planet heading toward

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into Oblivion and God is saying,

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you can jump now.

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I've given you a parachute.

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Jump and notice little kids in heart.

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They jump just like that.

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You put a little kid up in a wall, watch him jump.

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And they'll say, do it again.

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Aren't they amazing?

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You put me on a wall and you're gonna catch me?

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I'm not jumping.

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Think about that.

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Little kids, very believing at heart,

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very precious.

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And Jesus says, your heart must become

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like the heart of a child to enter the kingdom of heaven.

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What does that mean?

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Be believing.

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You're a person and you appreciate a real relationship.

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Why would you have God be less when He made you?

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You didn't make Him.

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And He wants to know you personally and He adept it.

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So you say, how do I know?

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If you want Him, it's because He knew an eternity

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that when you would hear the gospel, you would say, yes.

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If you're sitting here today,

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if you're watching right now and you're saying,

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I don't care a word about what you're saying,

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that's because He didn't pick you.

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Well, what's that based off of?

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For knowledge.

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He knew an eternity before time ever began

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that when you were presented with the option,

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you would say no.

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So He didn't pick you.

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Why would you go to a horse race

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and pick a horse that's gonna lose?

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Why would you go to the Indianapolis 500

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or the Long Beach Grand Prix and pick a loser?

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Right, think about that.

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You pick who's gonna win.

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Well, the Christian is not the winner.

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We benefit, but the truth of the matter is this.

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God knew an eternity that you would say yes to His offer

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or no to His offer.

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And to say no, you continue on that fireball crash

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into eternity that's called hell.

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And the Bible says everyone's there,

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who is there has no one to blame but themselves.

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But everybody who's in heaven gives God thanks

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for getting them there.

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Isn't that beautiful?

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