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Oh excuse me, good evening, good evening, good evening. I
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was directing the orchestra. You just feel like that, you know,
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good evening and everybody, and welcome to another segment of
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Setting it Straight with Miss Gray. Fabulous co hosts and
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we have a guest. But before we go any further,
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we're gonna take it to the throne room because we
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need we need the strength, we need the power, we
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need the authority, we need the clarification and the discovery
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and the discussion. Father God, we just love you so
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much and we thank you for everything. Father, We just
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thank you for everything. Thank you for this week. We
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thank you Father God for the revelation, the uh, the
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strength and and and the the the clarification you clarified,
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and a lot of things you made clear of the path,
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Father God, you answered the questions Father God, that we're
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not even prayed for and about. And we just thank you, Father,
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We just thank you.
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Uh.
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We we're praying for the people in near San Diego
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that experience that earthquake. We're not sure. I don't know
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the proximities and stuff. I don't know if there was
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any losses, but please Father, here our prayer. Father, we
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also asked a special prayer. We're just learning of a loss.
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Where are our I t our engineer and our technician lives,
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really where she works, and please be with this that
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person's family. We don't we're not going to understand it.
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We're not going to understand it. We just we just
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pray that the family is strengthened and that they're going
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to persevere despite all. Now tonight, Father God, this is
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one of your special topics of talking about your son
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and all that he had to go through and in
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three days and what the how significant, what the significance
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is to us today and what we need to be
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doing today as always, we stand behind the cross. We're
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gonna peak, We're gonna listen as you set the captors free.
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In your most holiest name, we pray. Amen and Amen, Amen,
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amy to everybody, and please help me. Welcome Pastor Michelle
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Fears all the way from Knoxville, Tennis.
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Same, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I we appreciate that. I'm gonna give you a chance
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to talk about prayers. Thank you and the station. Amen. Pastor,
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I want you to take the lead, but we're gonna
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talk about you know what does resurrection Sunday? This whole week?
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We got good Friday on Friday, and we've had Palm
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Sunday yesterday, and you know what all of this means
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and why is it still significant. I'm gonna mute myself
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because you'll hear me. Amen. Okay, you'll hear me, So
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I'll mute myself out of respect. Give us some give
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us a little introduction to you. How long you you
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know you've been pastor at Knoxville at Bitley Street Church,
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very new, very.
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New, and it's just going into my fourth year at
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Bentley Street and Knoxville, Tennessee Disciples of Christ Church. So
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I'm very very new but have been in ordained since
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nineteen ninety eight and then called in to be a
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pastor in twenty twenty one. So it's all good.
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Amen, Amen and amen. So yeah, the listening, the faithful
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listeners and my co hosts already know our history. It
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is beautiful. Okay, nick A, thank you.
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All right, all right, it is it is.
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Yes, I may have a peak, you know, do a
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sneaking peak, you know, may have to help Trade me waiting.
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We're waiting. We have the whole Knoxville on alert for
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you coming. But she thinks she's gonna know when we're
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gonna arrive in the spirit.
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In the spirit, that's what we're gonna say, Okay.
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Asking God please let us know. But I'm trying to
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tell her. I gave us some hints. I'm gonna surprise,
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may interrupt the flow of service because I'm gonna wait
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till everybody's inside. Gave us some hints, give us some hints.
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That's all I could do. But yeah, Trade, you may
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need to think about meeting me halfway because you all
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the way up there. You gop on the plane and
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meet me in Tennessee. That yeah you can. And we
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look at and we looking. We can charge it off.
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We can charge it off.
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Holliday like, yeah, you're welcome to come to let's let's
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do the whole.
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I'm there.
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Well, he is always so busy, he's always doing foreign
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missionary work. We the you know, check the calendars with him,
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so you know. But yeah, we've been to roll up
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and surprise you and everything. You all have been so
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faithful and so supportive of me and just being there
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and praying for me. And I could tell when prayers
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are coming up from the northern outside the state, and
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it really means a lot to me, It really does.
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But you know, I know this is a week where
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traditionally and in some cultures, especially black culture, so I
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can only speak from that perspective. You know, already, you know,
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people are looking at what kind of money they have.
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And already every salon and barber shop is going to
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be jumping from Saturday night. The most retail busy season
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will occur Friday and Saturday because we got to go
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get the outfits. We've got to go get the hair done.
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Now we're adding you have a right and hands and suits.
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A mean.
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And you know I was I was thinking about that
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the other day. And it has to do with the newness.
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You know, we're going into newness and you know, receiving
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a new life. And I think that, I mean, you know,
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I'm even want to do something new.
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It doesn't have to be on a.
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Big scale, but just something new, you know, for this
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new life that Jesus Christ has so sacrificially given us.
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You know, I just want to do it because hey,
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I have new life.
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You know, a new you get something new, you start
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getting a new mind. I mean it's like, oh, I
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got this dress on, you know, and I got my
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nails dead and all of that stuff, you know, but
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it gives you a different attitude about about you know, yourself.
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Not that it all of that, but we need to
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be to be happy with who we are in Christ,
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Jesus Man, and that's where the freedom comes.
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So yeah, I think I'm gonna I'm gonna buy me something.
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I I am definitely gonna buy me something new for
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u this new life, celebrate new life that I have
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received because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Yeah, So that's a great segue because of the importance
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and the significance beyond the shopping, beyond being made over
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beyond the makeover, beyond getting something new, beyond getting the
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hair done and the suits and the clothing and everything.
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Like I said, retail is gonna be I hope they
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know what's coming. And I hope the stores because I mean,
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I'm sure folks in retail have been so discombobulated with
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everything happening, you know, stores closing and all this kind
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of stuff that those that are still fighting to stay
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open this weekend, give it your best. Put your best
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on that front line as they're coming in the door.
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Forget about clearance, get just just get your nice stuff
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on the front line. I promise you. You know, hair stores,
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get all the hair ready, get all the not the
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wild looking wigs, get you know this this. They're coming
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in and they're gonna buy. They're gonna buy now. Some
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gonna take the bill money and do this, and you
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know they're sacrificing and they're trying to get you know,
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and hopefully those who have family nearby, they're gonna celebrate
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and eat. Then they're probably gonna be a couple of
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places that's gonna have an Easter egg hunt. And I
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was doing some research and I was surprised how the
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Easter egg piece of it. They're trying to weave that
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in into Christian thought and say that you know, the eggs,
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I guess like you just said about the life and
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and the celebration of newness, you know, uh, they're they're
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they're weaving that in and and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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So finding the eggs. I still haven't known how they
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bridge that together, but that's they're trying to weave that
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in a and poor Ai, you know, it's just trying
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to go on what it's got. But Ai is like,
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I really don't know how to get pictures up here, right,
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So talk to us a little bit more. Now you've
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open up that door very nicely, you know, just celebrating
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who we are. We've got to It's not I don't
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know how much more longer we as the teachers and
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the preachers and the evangelists and the prophets and the
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apostles are going to be able to keep trying to
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convince people to give God a try and and and
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and and not for the things God's gonna do. The
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thing it's already in the word. I mean, you know,
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don't feel bad if you ask him for something. Are
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you're giving him right, right, you're giving him, So you
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go ahead, you do.
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I just think that that that there's going to come
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a time in the near future when we don't have
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to go after they that they're going to be running
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to us.
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They're going to be running to us. You know. The
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harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
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I think that situations happen in order to draw people,
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not unto God uh And so I think that what
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we're dealing with in our world, not along in the
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United States, but it's all over that people are looking
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for hope and the only hope, the only.
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True hope, is in Christ Jesus.
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So I think I think it's going to be a fire,
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there's going to be lit uh in the earth atmosphere
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for those that want to uh to to flock to
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the truth.
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A man finding the truth doors the doors of the church.
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You know, honest believe the people are going their hearts
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are going to be right to receive the word or
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the truth.
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Well, one of our faithful viewers, Charles uh typed in,
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you know, is is it another opportunity? Is a tradition
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or another reason for to dress fancy for holidays? And
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people have made it both, Charles. I mean, you know
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they've made it both. And we talked about we were
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talking about that earlier. You know, it's a time to
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go get the fancy is they look the best, so
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we can go to church, you know, and to celebrate
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that way. But we want after Sunday is over, there's Monday.
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You got to go back to work. You know, did
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your life change over the weekend? Was the message? Uh,
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one that you can say, you know what, I'm just
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gonna let go and really let God on this one,
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because I don't know about tomorrow, and we don't want
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to scare you to Christ that now. We're not doing that.
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We're just talking about real life stuff and we really
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want you to catch you on because Jesus says, come
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to me as you are, so you know, just come
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to me as you are. I don't need to fancy nothing.
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I know your heart. I know what you're thinking as
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you're walking into this anxiu wary. I know what you're
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thinking about that you don't know when you get your
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next paycheck, you know, how do you split it? Do
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you pay the bills or do you pay the licen?
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Do you get some grocery or you know, what do
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I do? And we don't know what may not be available.
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I know everybody's already looking at the egg costs and
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and and how we're gonna die them, and you know,
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and things like that.
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It's just a time for you to.
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Really sit back and think about just to think where
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am I in Christ? Do I will I have access
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to eternal life? What does that mean for me? Have
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I done everything I can to this day? Have I
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done everything today? And I was thinking about that all
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day to day as I was doing my nonprofit work,
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you know, doing my following my nine ninety and and
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getting the solicitation charitable forms done, and I just God
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wouldn't let me stop. I was just just zoo and
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it was not my plan that I really want to
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really be prepared for tonight. But God said, ye, get
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her done and and everything fell into place, and I'm like, whoa, wow,
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and be honest on things. And I was just thinking
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about that and just really excited that you're going to
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be on tonight and and and we are hoping and
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praying that we all will experience a newness. We're never
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too delivered, We're never too uh. This is our best
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we're not at our best, right Okay, you know, I know, Pastor,
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you know, Miguel's got the sermon coming up. He's like, okay,
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a few people did respond as he'll look back and
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they'll be like, okay, you know, but it's beyond that.