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He good evening, good evening,
and good evening, and welcome to

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another evening and of dialogue and conversation
and information and just relief and release.

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Thank you for joining us. They're
my beautiful co hosts. Pastor Miguel coming

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in from the left side over here
to my left, and I have missed

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tray tray from all the way from
Virginia. How are you all this evening?

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Y'all are well doing? Amen?
Well, we're gonna change it up

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a little bit tonight. Pastor,
would you please be so kind as to

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lead us in prayer and then you
can go straight into what you need the

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Lord needs us to know. Thank
you. Heavenly follow us so grateful for

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this day that you have blessed us
with. We thank you for life and

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Lord giving us the work that we
need to do for your kingdom. Lord,

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as we prepare for today's show,
we want to place it in your

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hands. Lord, we pray for
your will to be done. And Lord,

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we also want to take this opportunity
to pray for Miss Gray's friend Arlene,

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who has been being attacked with her
health. And Lord, you are

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the great physician. You know exactly
what is going on with Arlen. And

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Lord, we pray in your mighty
name to bring healing and Lord to have

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Arlen begin the recovery that she needs
to recover to overcome this pneumonia that she

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has been diagnosed with. And Lord, we know that you are the there's

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no problem bigger than you. You
are the answer to everything. You are

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the solution. And Lord Jesus,
we just turned this time over to you,

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for you are our Lord of lords
and King of kings. And we

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pray all this in the mighty name
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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So I guess when I was given
this assignment. At one point in time,

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I said to myself, this was
pretty much a slam dunk. But

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that goes to show my ignorance even
though I'm a pastor, because you know,

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you're talking about a very important week
of the year for a Christian,

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for one who follows and walks in
the walk of Christ. And I know

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that we are in Holy Week and
probably one of the busiest days in churches

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as well as as the activities that
goes on after the services. And one

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of the things that I was asked
to touch on is how do we handle

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Easter in today's time? And that
was something that we really have to take

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into consideration, because for us to
really understand and appreciate what Easter is all

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about, we really have to understand
what's involved. It's not really Jesus died

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on the cross and three days later
he resurrected from the tomb and he repeated

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death. But there's a there's a
lot more to it than just that,

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because there's a big difference between back
then and today. And one of the

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things that we have to kind take
into consideration is that when Jesus was walking

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on earth during his ministry, many
people, many Israelites, were waiting for

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their king. It's been prophesied that
the king was going to be riding in

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and entering into Jerusalem and taking over
and relieving the tyranny that the Israelites were

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going through. So they were expecting
Jesus to come in as a king with

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bright shiny armor on a white horse, being led by armed guards and everything.

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And here you have a humble man
riding in on a pony and people

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screaming out Hosanna. And here they
were expecting someone like Saul to be tall

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and a good looking and not afraid
of anything. And here you have a

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humble man walking being led into Jerusalem
with the cult. You know, it's

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interesting because here we're seeing Jesus ride. We read that Jesus rides into Jerusalem

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as a king and five days later
crucified as a criminal. So who is

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this king of glory? You know, if you really read the story,

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Jesus didn't have a home except for
when he was a young a young boy.

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He didn't have a home during his
ministry. He lived from house to

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house or even from woods to woods. He was always traveling, and he

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was always surrounded by twelve men.
But what's so essential here is that these

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are twelve men he picked and what's
so interesting is that during the three and

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a half years that Jesus conducted his
ministry, he was always teaching. But

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the question is for what now?
Before I answer that, I kind of

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want us to get into a mindset
of what this is all about. You

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know, if you reading the Synoptic
Gospels, which is Matthew, Mark,

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Luke, and John, we read
of all the healing, We read about

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all the feeding, We read about
all the guiding, the teaching, and

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the miracles. And I really want
to touch on that because the disciples witnessed

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many miracles, and we're not just
talking a handful. If you look in

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the Book of John, chapter twenty
one, verse twenty five, it says

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that Jesus also did many other things
if they were all written down, And

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this is what John is saying.
I suppose the whole world couldnot contain the

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books that would be written. Just
imagine that for a moment, the world

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could not contain the books. What
could that possibly mean to us today?

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Because we know what was written,
but we don't know what happened after And

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what was John talking about? What
occurred during Jesus's ministry or are we talking

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over all? Is John kind of
peering into the future of all the miracles

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that have that will occur after the
resurrection of Jesus. And the more I

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kept preparing for this, the more
I kept saying, wait a minute,

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Not only was Jesus preparing the disciples, he was preparing all of us.

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Now, why why do I arrive
to that? Well, if you look

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in John chapter twenty one, where
we have the conversation where Jesus was talking

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to Peter, this is where Jesus
asked Peter three separate times, do you

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love me? And this is where
we get Peter's response when he said,

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yes, Lord, I do love
you, and Jesus said feed my lambs.

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And then on the second time he
said take care of my sheep.

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And then the third time was feed
my sheep. There's a great significance there,

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because if you didn't know, lambs
are baby sheep. And if we

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look at new Christians, Christians are
baby lambs. I mean, I'm sorry,

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baby sheep. So here we are
being asked do you love me?

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Jesus is asking us do we love
him? And here Jesus is telling us

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or instructing us to feed his lambs. I'm sure that we have all walked

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this path. Once we've accepted Christ, we just don't know what needs to

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be done. And this is where
we have to because we've walked that walk

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before. Now we know we must
be able to feed his children, feed

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the baby Christians so they can be
able to grow. And again we go

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to how were we fed when we
were lambs? Was there someone who walked

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us through? Who guided us?
Or did we go through the Here's a

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bible, Read the book of John
and you'll get it, you know,

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Is it all about that? No, that's not what Jesus was talking about,

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because Jesus did things out of love, not just because we had to

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check off a box. And as
we continue to grow, this is how

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we're able to understand what others are
experiencing in their young walk. And this

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is why we are wise. This
is why when we've experienced certain things,

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we are to help those as well. You know. Another thing that we

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have to take into consideration is that
as we're walking, and as we are

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christ followers, we have to understand
something significant out of the whole thing.

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Just as Jesus picked the twelve,
we as Christians have been chosen because if

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you look at John chapter fifteen,
verse sixteen. Jesus said, you didn't

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choose me. I appointed you to
go and produce lasting fruit so that the

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Father will give you whatever you ask
for using my name. This is very

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significant because as we have been chosen, we have been chosen with a specific

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purpose for the kingdom. And this
is a message that probably is not being

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delivered in the churches today because we
have to focus on the Kingdom and not

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on earth. On us and the
reason why it the reason why Jesus chose

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us, and this is significant.
It's because he wants a relationship with us.

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So now what do we do?
You know, it's it's interesting when

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I when I say that that Jesus
wants a relationship. I remember talking to

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my children when when they're saying,
well, how how do you how do

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you become so close to God?
And I said, how did you get

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into your relationship that you're in today? How did you? How did how

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did you know that the person that
you were dating was going to be your

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spouse? You went through a process, you started, okay, I'm a

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salesman, okay, and I close
the deal with my wife. And basically

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what I did was I invested time
with my future wife. I spent I

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wanted to know my future wife.
I would talk to her, I would

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listen to what she has to say. I would do things that would make

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her happy. And when I didn't
make her happy, I knew not to

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do it again because I knew that
that did not please her. So how

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do we go about doing that?
Well, we invest time with christ and

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how do we spend time with Christ? I mean, let's face it,

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time is a commodity that's a short
supply. We're all busy, we really

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are. But I have a question
that I want to ask you. You

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know, I was kind of I
was kind of preparing what I was going

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to say, and then I said
to myself, who are the most popular

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people in the world today? It
was a pretty interesting list because when I

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saw the name Kim Kardashian, I
thought of my youngest daughter, because she

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caught every episode of the Kardashians.
But I'm sure that if she would have

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found out that Kim Kardashian was going
to her house, she would stop the

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world to make sure that that house
was spotless. So this way the Kim

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Kardashian can walk into her house.
But she would she would stop everything to

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make that happen. And what's interesting
is her boyfriend is a big fan of

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soccer, and I said, wow, Christian Ronaldo was going to his house,

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what would happen there? What if
Barack Obama was calling and saying,

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hey, miss Gray, I'm going
to be in your house on Friday at

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three o'clock. Trust me, Miss
Gray would would have the whole neighborhood help

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her get the house ready. No, I would have him meet me at

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the hotel, at the Ritz Carlton, the Something. No, you ain't

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covered to my house. The streets
are not wide enough for your enterprise.

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But as you can see, that's
that's what we would do. But why

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not have that same type of thinking
for the one who paid the price for

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your soul? And why did I
use the word soul? Because if there's

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no soul in the body, we're
a big old pile of mush. That's

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why. And I've done a couple
of few rules where you see the body

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and it's not moving because there's no
spirit in it. There's no soul.

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And that's why we have to understand
that Christ paid for the spirit inside of

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us, and we can't take that
lightly. And because Jesus chose us.

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We have to prepare as Christ followers. We have the Holy Spirit living inside

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of us. This is important to
know. The Bible says, but you

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have received the Holy Spirit. This
is when we accept Christ. Christ now

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lives inside of us. That's one
of the prayers that I every morning,

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my wife and I pray and we
close out our prayer. It is no

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longer Gina and I who live,
but Christ who lives inside of me.

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Or as I say, Christ lives
inside of us. And that's because we

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don't want to live for ourselves.
But the Bible also says that the Holy

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Spirit lives within us, so you
don't need anyone to teach you what is

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true. That's a very powerful statement
because there are too many people out there

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who are going to give you their
opinions. But who would you rather hear

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the truth from than the Holy Spirit
who is connected to God the Father.

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Excuse me, I just want to
say this. I want to acknowledge Country

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City and Misty. We're going to
get to your question, but I want

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him to Okay, just you'll hear
it, but we'll get definitely come break

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around if we need to. Y'all
hang in there. Now now the reason

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why it's so important to understand that
the Holy Spirit is going to teach us,

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and it's clearly states it that the
Spirit teaches you everything you need to

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know, for what he teaches is
true and is not a lie. So

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just as he taught you, remain
in fellowship with Christ. And again this

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is from first John. And for
some sort of reason, I was picking

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John, and every verse I picked
was from the Book of John in his

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letter. But the last sentence is
to me very crucial and key, and

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that is to remain in fellowship with
Christ. And the reason why it's crucial,

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it's because this is coming from an
eye witness who was there from the

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beginning all the way to the end, all the way to the point where

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Christ ascended to the throne. This
is so important because of his eyewitness testimony.

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And its just like in a relationship, like with my wife. I'm

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in fellowship with my wife because I
want to make sure we're going in the

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same direction, where we're doing things
the way the Lord has guided us,

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and we don't do things separately thinking
that the other person's going to do it.

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No, we want to remain in
communication. That's why prayer is so

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important because while you're praying, the
Spirit's going to be speaking for you.

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But then the spirit, the Holy
Spirit will say, uh, this is

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what you need to do, and
now you are in communication with Christ.

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And that's what's so important, and
and and and I just I I find

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that to be so important to be
in fellowship because whenever I don't, whenever

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I go through a period where I'm
not in my Bible and and I'm and

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I'm not listening to worship music,
and I'm kind of like drifting off from

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from what I do on a daily
on a daily basis, my demeanor changes,

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my attitude changes. I'm not as
I'm not as as as patient,

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I'm not as forgiving. I can
be a little grumpier. My my wife

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says that I'm angry all the time, when when I'm I'm I'm doing that,

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I'm like, you're right, I'm
hungry for the Word. And and

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and when I get back into aligning
myself with the Holy Spirit, everything changes,

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and just as and and and and
that's why being in fellowship is so

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crucial when you're developing your relationship with
Christ. But now I get to answer

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the question why, why, what
are we preparing for Well. The reason

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why we must prepare just like the
disciples is that eventually the disciples had to

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face their cross. Now, I
know I kind of jumped ahead a little

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bit, but I wanted to kind
of give you a preview because I want

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to share with you how Christ was
preparing the disciples. If we look at

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the last miracle that Jesus performed,
that was during the time when Lazarus died,

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and before that occurred, we have
to understand what happened. And when

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Lazarus died, we have to understand
that Lazarus was dead four days and the

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disciples are like, wow, four
days, Hey, Jesus, dude,

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this guy is dead, and you
don't want to roll the stone because I

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can smell him from here, and
and and and this is where I asked.

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All the miracles and all the healings
that the disciples saw and witnessed,

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they question Jesus, and do you
find yourself going through certain periods of your

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life where you've seen many miracles and
you find yourself in a situation where you're

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saying, Wow, God, I
don't think this could be salvageable. This

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is not going to happen. But
I want to really emphasize two words that

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you'll find in John chapter eleven,
verse thirty five. These are two of

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the most significant heart ripping words that
were ever documented. Jesus wept. Jesus

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cried. He didn't cry because of
Lazarus's passing. He was heartbroken. The

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twelve men that he taught allowed them
to witness see everything that is possible through

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God the Father, and they didn't
get it. They didn't understand it.

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So I ask what miracles occurred in
your life and have been forgotten? What

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miracles did God perform in your life
to let you know that He lives?

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And you're saying, too far gone, this is not going to happen.

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What we need to understand is that
after that miracle of Lazarus coming out of

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the tomb, Jesus knew he had
to face the cross. That was the

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last one. That was the beginning
of the end in the ministry of Christ.

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Understanding the crow was just the beginning
of what had to transpire. And

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this is where I heard a message
delivered and it impacted me so much that

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I finally understood what the cross really
meant. And not to go into a

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lengthly sermon for Jesus to become fully
man, he had to be separated from

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God the Father, give up his
glory, step down from the throne so

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he can go into the womb of
Mary. You have God the Father,

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God the Son, God the Holy
Spirit from the beginning of time, and

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God the Father knew that Christ needed
to be separated from him to pay the

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price for our sins. Just thinking
of the separation is heart wrenching, because

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even in the when Jesus got baptized
from John the Baptist, God the Father

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said, this is my son whom
I'm pleased. He loved Jesus so much

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that the fact that he had to
be separated from him was painful to pay

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for our sins. How often have
we been worried about what's going to happen

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or what could happen. How often
have we told God we didn't want to

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go because of what might happen.
People are going to laugh at us.

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We're gonna get ridiculed, we're gonna
get judged, we're gonna get rejected.

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Isn't that what Jesus went through.
They didn't want to accept him because the

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religious leaders had to give up their
title. Jesus wasn't after a title.

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We have to walk away understanding that
we've been designed to complete an assignment given

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to each of us for the Kingdom's
purpose. But we sometimes make choice is

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to satisfy our own personal desires.
Do we follow Christ to the cross or

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do we continue in the world's darkness. Part of our preparation is that each

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of us are going to face our
cross, and every time we face the

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cross, we will always be against
the world because we will stand for Christ.

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We will do the work for the
kingdom. What is that going to

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cost us. We'll have fewer friends, our family will turn against us,

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we will be judged, and you
know what, we will even be hated.

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There are people in the Middle East
who are dying because they believe in

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Jesus Christ, and they hate them
so much that they will persecute them.

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They will die for the name of
Christ. But understand that Jesus didn't hide

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anything from us. Jesus prepared us. He didn't keep anything away from us,

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because he made it very clear when
he said, if the world hates

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you, remember that it hated me
first. This Easter. We have to

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understand what it cost. It's not
going out to Easter lunch after the service.

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It's not having people coming over for
Easter dinner. That's all good.

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I'm not going to discount that.
It's always good to be around family.

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But we have to understand that we
too have been resurrected by the blood of

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Jesus Christ, and that because of
what Jesus did, we will never taste

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death. And this was very This
was proven by what Jesus told Martha that

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everyone who lives in me and believes
in Me will never die. So what

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does Easter mean today? As Christ
followers? We're never going to die.

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Our flesh will be dead, but
our spirits will be alive and in the

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presence of Christ. And that's what
we have to understand. The price was

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paid so we don't have to taste
death. The resurrection of Jesus is an

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indication that death has been defeated.
And because we won't taste death, we

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get to hear these words, Miguel, come out, and it's not just

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me, it's all of you out
there. You're no longer dead, that

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you can change the name from mine
to yours. And here Christ's say,

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come out, you belong to me. You don't have to die death has

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been defeated. Sting is gone,
and we have eternal life with Christ,

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and without him we will continue to
be in darkness. But God loved Jesus

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so much that in the book in
John chapter ten, he says it very

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clearly, everyone you gave to me
I returned back to you, except the

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son of tradition. So as a
Christ follower, you are in the hands

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of God the Father, and no
one is going to take you out of

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his hands. So you have been
chosen, you have been prepared, and

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the minute you die on the cross
confessing your sins to God the Father that

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you are a sinner, you have
been resurrected and you will not see death.

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So we have a reason to celebrate, and that is that we're going

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to be in the presence of our
Lord and Savior for eternity. Amen and

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amen and amen. And I hope
along the way I know along the way,

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Misty and country Sea, you heard
some answers to your question and into

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your comments. The best way I
can tell you to strengthen your relationship in

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God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Study him, pick up your word.

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Start in the New Testament. First, start in the New Testament.

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First, you don't have to get
the King James. You can get the

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New International. I wouldn't get too
many Bibles that are all solo English and

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everything, because Hebrew and Greek it
changes up a little bit. But get

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a student Bible, get a youth
Bible if you're intimidated. I was intimidated

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by the Bible, did not want
to study it, read it. Are

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you crazy? No, amen,
I was intimidated. But I walked out

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of a church, a primitive Baptist
church, one Sunday. I love the

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pastor. He'd give you, He'd
love to give you a couple of dollars

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out of his pocket, make sure
you were eating. But I walked out

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as a long foyer and like twelve
flights a stair, twelve stairs. And

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as I'm walking down to the sidewalk, I said, that didn't sound right.

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Something just did not sound right.
And I said, Lord, don't

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tell me I have to go and
read this book. I said it just

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like that. I got to go
read this book because I'm not gonna go

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back in and tell the pastor of
the Northern Division, sir, what you're

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saying. It doesn't line up,
It doesn't That don't sound right, And

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I'm telling you, I'm so happy
that it drove me. Because I was

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a praised worshiper. You couldn't be
I was humming and hit, you know,

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and people wouldn't there say anything to
me, Well you humming, They

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never said anything. I was singing
a new song. And I came from

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that Catholic background, so you know, the Catholic's got those hymnals. There's

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this thick okay, even though I
was a Catholic, but you know,

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I was a praise of worshipper.
You couldn't tell me nothing because I'm a

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singer to the Lord. Then I
started reading the Word of like what and

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I would read four chapters a day, one out of Genesis, one out

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of Psalms, one out of Proverbs, and one out of the New Testament

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out of Matthew. Because if they
didn't have well, the Daily Word has

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the if you want to read the
Bible in the year, you could follow

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that. You've got the one year
Bible now literally pick it up. It's

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at the Christian bookstores. Uh,
it's at Amazon. It's on Amazon.

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So they didn't have those resources.
I had to get and I had an

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old King James Version Bible. So
I had the cancer that that was said

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that. Yeah, I was just
getting tongue tied, you know. So

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that's why the if I may suggest, I like the New Living Translation,

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the New Living Translation is really use
this everyday word to help you understand.

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You know, you can read Soul
Journal, and in the New Living Translation

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it's Foreigner, so it really helps
you understand what it's saying as you mature.

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As you mature, then you can
do cross references and see how words

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change and how a word can change
the whole outlook. And that's a good

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example. In the English Standard Version
it says brothers, and in the New

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Living Translation it's brothers and sisters.
So here it's showing that it's not just

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men that they're talking to. So
these are those little things that you pick

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up and you're like, oh,
I got it now. So that yeah,

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and that's when you know, people
get so held up on the little

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stuff. Oh well, Paul,
women are not supposed to preach in the

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church, and and and men not. You know, I mean, come

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on, you know, so if
you if if that's gonna you know,

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you're gonna, you know, get
kind of held up. Get the n

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LT the New Living Translation, get
the NLT. You know, I would

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get a Bible that you know that
has maybe the amplified it or has a

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concordance in it. That's another thing. A concordance is the Greek and Hebrew

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translation and also where other similar scriptures
are found. So if you want to

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do that on my phone, I
got that, I can just click it

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the little astro and I'll have three
other verses that's dealing with that one verse.

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So the first step is to want
to do it, you know what,

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Lord, Just like in that dating
phase, I want to get to

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know you. I'm a block out
everything I've been taught, everything i've been

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told. I need to get to
know you. Once upon a time,

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I was hearing six voices. One
was my own, one of them on

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my was my own. And finally
I said, you know what. That's

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after I moved up here, so
I've been in Orlando for twenty two years,

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I said, God, I am
not praying anymore. I'm not studying

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my word anymore. I'm not singing
a new song. I'm not moving until

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I know your voice. I'm not
doing another thing. I'm not going to

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church. I'm not moving literally because
I was like, oh, this is

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this is too much, this is
too much. I got to know your

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voice, Jesus, I gotta know
your presence, Holy Spirit. You know

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I need to know. And guess
what, guys, five years ago,

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when I was in the hospital coming
out of that coma, I was confused

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because nobody told me what had happened
to me? What's going on? And

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I forgot about the conversation God that
I had in August just too much prior

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what is this? What's going on? What did y'all do to me?

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What happened to me? And I
was like, God, Jesus, I

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don't know who to talk to.
Who am I talking to? Jesus?

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And I don't even I don't even
know how to tell you that what to

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heal? Holy Spirit? Where are
you giving me guided? I mean,

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if you'd have walked in my room, you would have heard me auto saying

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this. The nurse was just And
when I came out of that dialogue and

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that that whole thing, my nurse
was standing in the corner like she was

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not moving because she said, I
don't know what she is going through,

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but I am not moving. And
then that's a religious hospital. I was

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in but I couldn't. I that's
it, God, Where are you?

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Where are you? Jesus? Is
this you is? Just? Holy Spirit?

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Who do I talk to right now? Who do I talk I don't

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need another human being, I don't
need nobody. It's gonna be no,

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No, it's not gonna be okay. I'm in trouble. I'm off the

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grid. I'm a prayer warrior.
You don't know who I am. My

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kids are going through stuff. I
don't know what's going on. Why is

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it I can't move? Jesus,
where are you? And the Lord said,

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calm down? He said, calm
down, warrior. Don't you remember

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our conversation in August when he said
that I was quiet? I never had

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an episode again. I said,
oh tears. My nurse is standing in

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there like she got she was getting
ready of the baby. She's got the

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towel on the head. But she
said, I'm not moving to you till

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you look at me, miss Gray
and let me know it's okay. But

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I'm right here. And I said, oh God, this is what you

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were talking about. And I'm looking
at my bandage, hands, at my

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bandage. This is what you Oh
Lord Jesus, it didn't matter if I

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was going to go home, It
didn't matter about tomorrow. Okay, I'm

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sorry, and I had to repent
because I forgot. He warned me.

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He didn't have to tell me what
it was, he warned me. And

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I panicked because I didn't know who
to pray to, who I need to

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talk to about this. So I
hope and pray that you all have a

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deeper understanding of what this whole this
is Holy Week. People are so quick

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to say, oh, this is
a Holy Week, Well what does that

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mean for you? And hopefully you're
gonna do some changing, Hopefully you're gonna

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be doing some thinking. Hopefully you're
gonna be doing some repenting. You're gonna

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be doing some renewal of the mind. All these scriptures that you've been raised

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around and with, hopefully you're gonna
apply. Can you apply them now?

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Or? Unfortunately? Are you gonna
get paid on Friday? Go get your

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hair done and nails, get the
kids an outfit for Easter Sunday service,

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and try to be at church at
six am, six thirty five am,

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and forget about the reason what this
is all about. And then you wake

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up, you go home, and
you may go out to the Golden Correct

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Red Lobster. Everybody from there.
All the restaurants will be full Sunday,

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all of them be fulled until they
close. I hope they've gotten I hope

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they get trucks in. They should
really close up on Friday and get all

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their inventory in because people are gonna
be hitting y'all Saturday and Sunday. You

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got the Seven Day Adventures on Saturday
coming after six pm? They coming.

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But what's the reason when you could
turn around on Monday and life as we

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know it has changed. We don't
know what's coming. It's here. Stay

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prayerful, stay focused, stay unmoving. And I can say this, and

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this is just miss Gray talking,
This is just me and Trey. You're

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gonna come on in if you can't, you don't think you can. You

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don't think this is what you want
out of life. I don't want to

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live the rest of your life,
you know, learning about God and waiting

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for him to give you answers and
directions and all that. Then you know

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what, It's okay, it's okay. Maybe you're just called. But right

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now you're looking at three four chosen
folk. Well you can't see rebel,

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but she's back there. You're looking
at four chosen people. We don't have

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a choice. We don't have a
choice. Go ahead, try well.

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Everything was so eloquent, and he
said, I just want to add my

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couple of sense to this, just
finding time being quiet and just listening.

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I'm still trying to find that voice
and just making sure that I'm moving in

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his purpose. But I find myself
struggling with prayer, trying to find out

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what to pray for. And so
I would tell him, Lord, I

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don't I don't have the word words, but no, my heart know what

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I'm trying to say. And you
be surprised the way he moves even when

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you have that I'm having that little
anxiety or that uneasiness sometimes in the morning,

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Lord, just wrap your arms around
me, let me know it's gonna

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be okay. And I'm just still, and you can feel a presence and

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it makes a difference. And so
I'm not where Mss Gray and where pastor

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Miguel are, but I'm moving towards
that. And so I think I'm going

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in the right direction and being around
the right folks that are gonna lead you

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in the right way. And so
I think that's part of it too,

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and be prayer for and trust God
he's gonna move. Sometimes it seems like

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he's not listening, but he is. And there's room at this end.

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I am in. There's room.
So we wait on you, and we'll

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leave the light on for you too. We'll leave the light on. Well.

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This is the last Monday night of
March. April is just around the

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corner. This is where we're at. We'll see you next week. Say

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prayerful, stay safe out there,
Please be determined, be unmovable, abounding

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in the Lord. We love you
all. We love you all and wish

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you all well. We'll see you
next week, same time, same station.

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Night night, good night,