Andrew Wommack - Discover the Keys to Staying Full of God

March 24, 2025 | S25:E62

In this teaching, Andrew shares four important truths that keep us full of God.

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - Discover the Keys to Staying Full of God | March 24, 2025

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>> welcome to gospel truth with
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Andrew wommack, celebrating
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25 years of sharing god's
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Unconditional love and
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Grace on television.
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>> thank you, andrew. you've
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Been a dad, you don't even know
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Me, but that's how awesome you
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Are in christ, that's the
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Example of christ you set for
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Others. and you've changed my
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Life, you changed my family's
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Life, and i just appreciate you
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And bless your ministry with
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Every way that i can.
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>> and now, here's andrew.
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>> welcome to our monday's
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Broadcast of the gospel truth.
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Today is the beginning of my
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Fourth and final week teaching
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About how you can stay full of
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God. i've got a 200-page book on
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This, and we're asking for a
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Donation of any amount for this
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Book. i've got a brief summary
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Of this teaching that is about
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50 pages. we're giving this away
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As our gift to you because we
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Know that some people could not
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Or would not send in anything
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For the book. so you can get
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That summary of this for a free
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Gift. and then we also have cds,
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Dvds, a study guide, and a usb
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That will have the audio and the
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Video on it. and so, we've got a
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Lot of ways for you to take
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Advantage of this teaching. as i
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Said, this is my fourth and
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Said, this is my fourth and final week. i haven't got time
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Final week. i haven't got time to go back through everything,
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To go back through everything, but i've been taking this
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But i've been taking this teaching from romans 1:21, and
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Teaching from romans 1:21, and it basically tells you about
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It basically tells you about four progressive steps you have
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Four progressive steps you have to take to turn away from god,
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To take to turn away from god, to stop the flow of his
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To stop the flow of his blessing, joy, peace, power,
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Blessing, joy, peace, power, anointing in your life. god
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Anointing in your life. god never quits transmitting. once
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Never quits transmitting. once you get born again and you
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You get born again and you become a new creature,
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Become a new creature, then the lord will never
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Then the lord will never leave you, nor forsake you.
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Leave you, nor forsake you. everything that he gives you,
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According to romans
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According to romans 11:29, the gifts and the
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11:29, the gifts and the callings of god are without
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Callings of god are without repentance. god never turns it
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Off. god never quits
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Off. god never quits transmitting, but we can quit
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Transmitting, but we can quit receiving. and so, how do you
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Receiving. and so, how do you stop this? well you find out
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Stop this? well you find out what it is that causes what god
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What it is that causes what god wants to do in your life not to
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Wants to do in your life not to work and you do the opposite of
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Work and you do the opposite of it. and so, this is what i was
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It. and so, this is what i was basing it on, on romans 1:21,
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Basing it on, on romans 1:21, where it says the first thing
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Where it says the first thing that people do to stop the
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That people do to stop the flow of god in their life,
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They quit glorifying him
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They quit glorifying him as god. i spent an entire
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As god. i spent an entire week talking about what
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It means to put value on
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It means to put value on the things of god and exalt him
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The things of god and exalt him above anything else. the second
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Thing was they quit being
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Thing was they quit being thankful, which it says in
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Thankful, which it says in psalms, chapter 69, and verse
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Psalms, chapter 69, and verse 30, that you magnify, you make
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30, that you magnify, you make god bigger with thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving will increase god
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Thanksgiving will increase god in your life. it doesn't
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In your life. it doesn't actually change him, who he is,
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Actually change him, who he is, but it will change your
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But it will change your perception of him and what he
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Perception of him and what he does in your life. the third
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Does in your life. the third thing that i spent all last
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Thing that i spent all last week talking about is,
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It says, they became vain
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It says, they became vain in their imaginations.
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In their imaginations. and i spent a whole
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Week talking about
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Week talking about imagination. i've actually got a
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Imagination. i've actually got a teaching on the power of
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Teaching on the power of imagination that covers about
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Imagination that covers about six weeks. so i just gave kind
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Six weeks. so i just gave kind of a brief overview of it, but
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Of a brief overview of it, but this is something that is way,
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This is something that is way, way, way overlooked. most people
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Way, way overlooked. most people don't understand that we have a
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Don't understand that we have a image, a mental image on the
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Image, a mental image on the inside of who we are and what we
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Inside of who we are and what we can do and what our future is
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Can do and what our future is going to be like and everything
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Going to be like and everything else, and it becomes a
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Else, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. and if
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Self-fulfilling prophecy. and if you aren't putting the proper
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You aren't putting the proper value on god and his word, if
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Value on god and his word, if you aren't being thankful and
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You aren't being thankful and magnifying him with
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Magnifying him with thanksgiving, well, then you...
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Thanksgiving, well, then you... you will just automatically have
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You will just automatically have your imagination begin to start
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Your imagination begin to start moving you towards defeat. you
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Moving you towards defeat. you will start imagining failure
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Will start imagining failure instead of success. and so,
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Instead of success. and so, these are progressive steps. and
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These are progressive steps. and let me just say this, that for
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Let me just say this, that for the purpose of discussion, i've
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The purpose of discussion, i've separated these four things
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Separated these four things listed in romans 1:21, and
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Listed in romans 1:21, and talked about them individually,
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Talked about them individually, but actually they all fit
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But actually they all fit together because, you know, if
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Together because, you know, if you aren't glorifying god, i can
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You aren't glorifying god, i can guarantee you, you aren't
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Guarantee you, you aren't thankful and i can guarantee
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Thankful and i can guarantee you, your imagination is wrong.
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You, your imagination is wrong. and then i can guarantee that
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And then i can guarantee that the last thing there in romans
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The last thing there in romans 1:21, is your foolish heart
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1:21, is your foolish heart becomes darkened. all of these
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Becomes darkened. all of these things are really interrelated,
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Things are really interrelated, and only for the purpose of
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And only for the purpose of analyzing and discussing it can
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Analyzing and discussing it can we separate them, but they all
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We separate them, but they all fit together. and if you aren't
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Fit together. and if you aren't doing one, it will affect all of
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Doing one, it will affect all of the others. the reason i say
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The others. the reason i say that is because as i ended last
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That is because as i ended last friday's program, i was talking
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Friday's program, i was talking about the imagination and how
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About the imagination and how that a... abraham and sarah in
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Hebrews, chapter 11, in verse
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Hebrews, chapter 11, in verse 13, it says, that they saw the
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13, it says, that they saw the promises of god afar off. and
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Promises of god afar off. and that's what i was talking about,
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That's what i was talking about, that you have to be able to see
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That you have to be able to see things on the inside. then they
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Things on the inside. then they were persuaded of them, they
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Were persuaded of them, they embraced them, and they
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Embraced them, and they confessed that they were
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Confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the
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Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. and then i touched on
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Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 15,
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Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 15, and i want to start here because
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And i want to start here because as the... the last thing, the
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As the... the last thing, the fourth thing that was listed in
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Fourth thing that was listed in romans 1:21, the progressive
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Romans 1:21, the progressive steps away from, or the
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Steps away from, or the progressive steps that stop the
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Progressive steps that stop the flow of god in your life. the
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Last thing is that their foolish
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Last thing is that their foolish heart was darkened. what it
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Means when it says darkened, you
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Means when it says darkened, you can't... you can't see with your
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Can't... you can't see with your heart. man, i don't have the
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Heart. man, i don't have the words to describe this any
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Words to describe this any better. i wish i did, but you're
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Better. i wish i did, but you're supposed to live your life from
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Supposed to live your life from your heart, not your head. now
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Your heart, not your head. now your head is... has to be used
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Your head is... has to be used by your heart. you have to
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By your heart. you have to educate it. you have to learn
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Educate it. you have to learn some things. but it should be
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Some things. but it should be your heart that guides us. and
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Your heart that guides us. and there's many, many scriptures on
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This. proverbs, chapter 4, out
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This. proverbs, chapter 4, out of the heart, you know, proceed
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Of the heart, you know, proceed the issues of life. proverbs,
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The issues of life. proverbs, chapter 3, trust in the lord
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Chapter 3, trust in the lord with all of your heart; and lean
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With all of your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.
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Jesus said, out of the heart
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Jesus said, out of the heart proceed all of these issues of
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Proceed all of these issues of life, comes ad... adultery,
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Life, comes ad... adultery, fornication, and all of these
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Fornication, and all of these bad things. our heart is
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Bad things. our heart is actually the core of us. now we
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Actually the core of us. now we have to use our thinking, you
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Have to use our thinking, you have to educate yourself, but
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Have to educate yourself, but ultimately, it's your heart
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Ultimately, it's your heart that makes the difference.
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That makes the difference. as scripture says in
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Romans, chapter 10, verse
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Romans, chapter 10, verse 10, for with the heart man
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10, for with the heart man believes unto righteousness;
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Believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession
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And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. faith
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Has to come out of our heart.
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Has to come out of our heart. and... and the sad fact
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And... and the sad fact is, so many people aren't
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Is, so many people aren't living from their heart. they're
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Living from their heart. they're living from their head. they're
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Living from their head. they're living from their emotions. but
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Living from their emotions. but we should be letting our heart
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We should be letting our heart dominate us. so the last thing
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Dominate us. so the last thing in f... in romans 1:21, about
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In f... in romans 1:21, about our foolish heart being
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Our foolish heart being darkened, if you don't use your
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Darkened, if you don't use your imagination properly, well, then
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Imagination properly, well, then your heart will just
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Your heart will just automatically become to where
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Automatically become to where you can't see things. you won't
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You can't see things. you won't be able to have a clear vision
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Be able to have a clear vision of who you are and what you can
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Of who you are and what you can do. all of these things are
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Do. all of these things are interrelated. so let me go back
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To this verse 15, and it's
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To this verse 15, and it's talking about abraham and sarah,
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Talking about abraham and sarah, and it says in verse 15, and
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And it says in verse 15, and truly, if they had been mindful
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Truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they
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Of that country from whence they came out, they might have had
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Came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
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And i said this on last friday's
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And i said this on last friday's program, but this is one of the
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Program, but this is one of the most important things i've ever
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Most important things i've ever learned from scripture, and that
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Learned from scripture, and that is that you can't be tempted
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Is that you can't be tempted with something that you don't
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With something that you don't think. now, that's a radical
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Think. now, that's a radical statement, and there's a lot of
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Statement, and there's a lot of people that they've never even
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People that they've never even thought about this. but that's
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Thought about this. but that's what this verse is saying, it's
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What this verse is saying, it's just a different way of saying
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Just a different way of saying it. for them, god told them to
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It. for them, god told them to leave ur of the chaldees, he
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Leave ur of the chaldees, he told them not to look back, he
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Told them not to look back, he told them to look forward. and
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Told them to look forward. and it says here, that if they had
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It says here, that if they had been mindful of the country that
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Been mindful of the country that they came out of, they would
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They came out of, they would have been tempted to return. for
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Have been tempted to return. for them, returning was sin. so you
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Them, returning was sin. so you could say that their temptation
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Could say that their temptation was linked to what they thought.
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Was linked to what they thought. if they never thought about what
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If they never thought about what god told them to leave, then
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God told them to leave, then they wouldn't be tempted with
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They wouldn't be tempted with it. now that is profound. did
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It. now that is profound. did you know you can't go anywhere
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You know you can't go anywhere in your body that you haven't
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In your body that you haven't already been in your mind.
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Again, most people don't think
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Again, most people don't think about this, but it's absolutely
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About this, but it's absolutely true. you know, i'm an example
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True. you know, i'm an example of this because i was raised in
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Of this because i was raised in arlington, texas, back in the
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Arlington, texas, back in the 1950s, and i'm sure that there
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1950s, and i'm sure that there was a lot of ungodliness and
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Was a lot of ungodliness and things going on. but the... the
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Things going on. but the... the realm that i was brought up in,
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Realm that i was brought up in, i was brought up in a christian
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I was brought up in a christian home. i was raised in church. i
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Home. i was raised in church. i was an introvert, so i didn't
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Was an introvert, so i didn't fit in out in the, you know, in
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Fit in out in the, you know, in school and things like this. my
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School and things like this. my whole life revolved around
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Whole life revolved around church and the few friends that
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Church and the few friends that i had. and anyway, because of
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I had. and anyway, because of it, i'm sure that there was
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It, i'm sure that there was things like prostitution and
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Things like prostitution and drugs. honestly, when i was
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Drugs. honestly, when i was growing up, i didn't know a
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Growing up, i didn't know a single person, not one that was
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Single person, not one that was on drugs. there was some people
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On drugs. there was some people that, you know, they smoked and
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That, you know, they smoked and they... they drank liquor, they
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They... they drank liquor, they drank beer or something like
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Drank beer or something like that, but i didn't know. i
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That, but i didn't know. i didn't know that drugs were even
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Didn't know that drugs were even a thing. i was never exposed to
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A thing. i was never exposed to gangs. i just really was... i
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Gangs. i just really was... i grew up, i guess, in a bubble.
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Grew up, i guess, in a bubble. it may not have been, you know,
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It may not have been, you know, for everybody, but i kind of
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For everybody, but i kind of grew up in the leave it to
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Grew up in the leave it to beaver type of thing. anyway, my
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Beaver type of thing. anyway, my point in bringing all of this
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Point in bringing all of this out is that i guess i had heard
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Out is that i guess i had heard about those things, but i hadn't
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About those things, but i hadn't set my heart on it. i had never
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Set my heart on it. i had never thought about those things. i
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Thought about those things. i didn't do that kind of stuff.
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Didn't do that kind of stuff. and when i got turned on to the
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And when i got turned on to the lord march the 23rd, 1968, and i
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Lord march the 23rd, 1968, and i made a total, absolute
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Made a total, absolute unconditional surrender of my
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Unconditional surrender of my life to the lord, my mother
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Life to the lord, my mother thought that i had lost my mind,
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Thought that i had lost my mind, and my mother panicked. and so,
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And my mother panicked. and so, there was a baptist youth group
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There was a baptist youth group that was going to bern,
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That was going to bern, switzerland, to a conference
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Switzerland, to a conference that billy graham was holding.
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That billy graham was holding. and my mother decided to go, her
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And my mother decided to go, her and me, that we would go on this
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And me, that we would go on this trip. and she had a baptist
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Trip. and she had a baptist pastor that she told about what
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Pastor that she told about what i had experienced, and she asked
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I had experienced, and she asked him if he could kind of
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Him if he could kind of straighten me out. so, for three
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Straighten me out. so, for three weeks on this trip, we went to
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Weeks on this trip, we went to bern, switzerland, and all
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Bern, switzerland, and all throughout europe, he just
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Throughout europe, he just stayed on my case the whole
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Stayed on my case the whole time, trying to talk me out of
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Time, trying to talk me out of what god had done. but anyway,
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What god had done. but anyway, the reason i bring that up is to
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The reason i bring that up is to say that when she sent me on
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Say that when she sent me on this trip, we... our very first
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This trip, we... our very first night on this trip to
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Night on this trip to switzerland, was stopping in new
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Switzerland, was stopping in new york city, and we stayed at a
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York city, and we stayed at a place that was right there on
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Place that was right there on times square. and this country
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Times square. and this country hick from arlington, texas, had
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Hick from arlington, texas, had never seen the stuff that i was
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Never seen the stuff that i was seeing there on times square. i
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Seeing there on times square. i mean, they had strip joints
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Mean, they had strip joints that... i was out late at night,
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That... i was out late at night, and they would literally bring
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And they would literally bring the striptease artist out onto
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The striptease artist out onto the streets and... and have them
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The streets and... and have them start stripping and get to the
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Start stripping and get to the place to where it was really
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Place to where it was really interesting, and then they'd go
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Interesting, and then they'd go back in, trying to entice you to
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Back in, trying to entice you to go into their thing. i didn't
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Go into their thing. i didn't know that people did stuff like
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Know that people did stuff like that. i would walk down alleys
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That. i would walk down alleys at one and two o'clock in the
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At one and two o'clock in the morning, and there were gangs
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Morning, and there were gangs there, people wearing all of
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There, people wearing all of this gothic look stuff. i didn't
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This gothic look stuff. i didn't know about that. i'd never heard
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Know about that. i'd never heard about that. and i was just so
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About that. and i was just so naive that it never one time
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Naive that it never one time crossed my mind that these guys
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Crossed my mind that these guys could have hurt me. all i did, i
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Could have hurt me. all i did, i went and i passed out a tract to
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Went and i passed out a tract to every person in this alley. all
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Every person in this alley. all of these guys that, now looking
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Of these guys that, now looking back, this was just weird, but i
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Back, this was just weird, but i passed out a tract and preached
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Passed out a tract and preached to them all, and they just all
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To them all, and they just all dispersed. i remember seeing 100
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Dispersed. i remember seeing 100 prostitutes lined up against the
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Prostitutes lined up against the wall down at 42nd and broadway,
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Wall down at 42nd and broadway, i think it was. and there must
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I think it was. and there must have been 100 prostitutes, or
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Have been 100 prostitutes, or something lined up. i just went
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Something lined up. i just went down the row, passed them all
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Down the row, passed them all out a tract, and preached to
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Out a tract, and preached to them, and i emptied the entire
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Them, and i emptied the entire street in just a brief period of
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Street in just a brief period of time. never dawned on me what
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Time. never dawned on me what they were doing. and i had a
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They were doing. and i had a pimp come up to me, and this guy
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Pimp come up to me, and this guy was trying to sell me one of his
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Was trying to sell me one of his girls, and he just kept... he
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Girls, and he just kept... he kept using this street language
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Kept using this street language that i... people didn't talk
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That i... people didn't talk like that in texas. and he was
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Like that in texas. and he was saying things, and i kept
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Saying things, and i kept saying, what, what? i did not...
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Saying, what, what? i did not... i didn't even understand what
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I didn't even understand what this guy was trying to do. and i
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This guy was trying to do. and i never will forget that this guy,
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Never will forget that this guy, he just turned around and walked
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He just turned around and walked off, shaking his head like this
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Off, shaking his head like this and threw his hands up in the
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And threw his hands up in the air, like what rock has this
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Air, like what rock has this hick crawled out from under? and
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Hick crawled out from under? and so anyway, i went back to the
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So anyway, i went back to the room where i was, you know,
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Room where i was, you know, boarding with a couple of other
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Boarding with a couple of other people that were on the trip.
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People that were on the trip. and i started telling these
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And i started telling these other guys about what this guy
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Other guys about what this guy said, and they had to explain to
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Said, and they had to explain to me that he was a pimp and that
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Me that he was a pimp and that he was trying to sell me one of
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He was trying to sell me one of his prostitutes and stuff. i
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His prostitutes and stuff. i didn't even know what the guy
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Didn't even know what the guy was trying to communicate. but
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Was trying to communicate. but here is my point in relating
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Here is my point in relating that, guess what, i wasn't the
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That, guess what, i wasn't the least bit tempted. you can't be
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Least bit tempted. you can't be tempted with something that you
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Tempted with something that you don't think. because i couldn't
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Don't think. because i couldn't even understand what the guy was
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Even understand what the guy was trying to say, it didn't tempt
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Trying to say, it didn't tempt me, and because i have... you
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Me, and because i have... you know, had never looked at
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Know, had never looked at pornography, i had never thought
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Pornography, i had never thought about it. in my mind i had never
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About it. in my mind i had never gone to a place about committing
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Gone to a place about committing sexual immorality. i didn't
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Sexual immorality. i didn't watch those kind of shows, i
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Watch those kind of shows, i didn't read those kind of books,
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Didn't read those kind of books, i didn't have those kind of
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I didn't have those kind of friends that talked about it.
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Friends that talked about it. matter of fact, i remember some
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Matter of fact, i remember some of my football buddies
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Of my football buddies describing some of their sexual
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Describing some of their sexual escapades, and the moment they
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Escapades, and the moment they got to talking about that, i
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Got to talking about that, i just left. i unplugged from
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Just left. i unplugged from that. that was not who i was.
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That. that was not who i was. and my reason for relating all
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And my reason for relating all of this is to say that i wasn't
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Of this is to say that i wasn't the least bit tempted because i
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The least bit tempted because i had never gone there in my mind.
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Had never gone there in my mind. you can't go anywhere in your
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You can't go anywhere in your mind... or in your body that you
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Mind... or in your body that you haven't already been in your
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Haven't already been in your mind. this is why pornography is
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Mind. this is why pornography is so damaging. actually, your
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So damaging. actually, your mental thought is the biggest
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Mental thought is the biggest sex organ that you have. and if
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Sex organ that you have. and if you start looking at pornography
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You start looking at pornography and in your heart lusting and
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And in your heart lusting and thinking about things, i
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Thinking about things, i guarantee, it's like you are
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Guarantee, it's like you are conceiving something and it's
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Conceiving something and it's just a matter of time until it
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Just a matter of time until it will want to give birth and act
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Will want to give birth and act itself out. but if you never go
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Itself out. but if you never go there in your mind, you never
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There in your mind, you never conceive it, and you don't have
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Conceive it, and you don't have to worry about it. i didn't have
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To worry about it. i didn't have to sit there and just, you know,
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To sit there and just, you know, white knuckle, hold on and say,
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White knuckle, hold on and say, oh god, help me to resist this
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Oh god, help me to resist this temptation. i wasn't even
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Temptation. i wasn't even tempted because i had never gone
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Tempted because i had never gone there in my mind. i didn't know
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There in my mind. i didn't know that people even did things like
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That people even did things like that. it just hadn't dawned on
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That. it just hadn't dawned on me. i was 18 at the time and i
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Me. i was 18 at the time and i just hadn't thought about it. so
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Just hadn't thought about it. so my point is, just like this
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My point is, just like this says, adam... i mean, abraham
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Says, adam... i mean, abraham and sarah had been told to
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And sarah had been told to leave ur of the chaldees
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Leave ur of the chaldees and not to ever go back.
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And it says, be... if they
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And it says, be... if they had been mindful of the
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Had been mindful of the country they came out of, they
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Country they came out of, they might have had opportunity to
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Might have had opportunity to have returned. for them,
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Returning would have been
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Returning would have been rebellion, and god... it would
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Rebellion, and god... it would have been sin. but you can turn
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Have been sin. but you can turn this around and say it this way,
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This around and say it this way, that because they were not
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That because they were not mindful of the country they came
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Mindful of the country they came out of, they didn't even have
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Out of, they didn't even have opportunity to return. you know,
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Opportunity to return. you know, you or i could be a great person
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You or i could be a great person of faith and power if we were
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Of faith and power if we were never tempted to do anything
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Never tempted to do anything else. but the problem is, most
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Else. but the problem is, most of us are so involved in this
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Of us are so involved in this world. we pay lots of money to
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World. we pay lots of money to have, you know, the ungodliness
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Have, you know, the ungodliness of this world piped into our
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Of this world piped into our phone, and we read all of the
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Phone, and we read all of the negative things that are
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Negative things that are happening. you're exposed...
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Happening. you're exposed... even if you can find something
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Even if you can find something good to watch, the commercials
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Good to watch, the commercials will have all kinds of sexual
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Will have all kinds of sexual content in it and all kinds of
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Content in it and all kinds of unbelief, saying it's flu
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Unbelief, saying it's flu season, have you got, and we are
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Season, have you got, and we are just bombarded with unbelief
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Just bombarded with unbelief from every side. and because of
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From every side. and because of that, we are tempted to
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That, we are tempted to disbelieve god. but if we
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Disbelieve god. but if we weren't so plugged into the
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Weren't so plugged into the world, if we weren't thinking on
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World, if we weren't thinking on things contrary to what god told
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Things contrary to what god told us, we wouldn't even have an
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Us, we wouldn't even have an opportunity to return. we
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Opportunity to return. we wouldn't even be tempted to
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Wouldn't even be tempted to go against it. you know,
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Go against it. you know, we have people come to
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Our bible school from
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All over the world, and
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Some of the people, when they
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Come here, the cost of living is
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Come here, the cost of living is higher in colorado than it was
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Higher in colorado than it was where they came from. there's
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Where they came from. there's some people that came from a
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Some people that came from a real, you know, tropical
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Real, you know, tropical climate, and in colorado we have
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Climate, and in colorado we have a lot of snow and cold and
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A lot of snow and cold and things like that. and there's
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Things like that. and there's people that god told them to
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People that god told them to come here, so they come. but
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Come here, so they come. but when they get here, they start
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When they get here, they start experiencing, they're having
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Experiencing, they're having trouble finding a job, they're
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Trouble finding a job, they're having trouble finding a place
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Having trouble finding a place to live. they may not like the
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To live. they may not like the weather. you know, there just
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Weather. you know, there just could be multiple different
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Could be multiple different things. and i've seen this
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Things. and i've seen this before, that people get to
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Before, that people get to thinking about, man, it's warmer
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Thinking about, man, it's warmer back where i came from. back
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Back where i came from. back where i came from, at least i
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Where i came from, at least i had a job, and i had security
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Had a job, and i had security and things like this. and if you
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And things like this. and if you start thinking like that, then
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Start thinking like that, then you'll be tempted to not follow
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You'll be tempted to not follow through with what god tells you
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Through with what god tells you to do. but if god tells you to
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To do. but if god tells you to do something, the right way, the
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Do something, the right way, the right approach is just to burn
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Right approach is just to burn your bridges behind you, and
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Your bridges behind you, and like paul said, forgetting the
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Like paul said, forgetting the things that are behind, i'm
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Things that are behind, i'm going to press on towards the
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Going to press on towards the mark for the prize of the high
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Mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus.
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Calling of god in christ jesus. one of the things that jamie and
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One of the things that jamie and i have been blessed with is that
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I have been blessed with is that we just... we committed
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We just... we committed ourselves to marriage. you know,
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Ourselves to marriage. you know, we were raised in a situation
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We were raised in a situation where divorce was like the
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Where divorce was like the unpardonable sin. and i know
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Unpardonable sin. and i know that that's not true, but that's
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That that's not true, but that's how strong marriage was
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How strong marriage was emphasized to us. and when we
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Emphasized to us. and when we got married, i mean, both of us
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Got married, i mean, both of us felt like this is the most
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Felt like this is the most important decision i will ever
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Important decision i will ever make in my life outside of being
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Make in my life outside of being born again, and boy, we had to
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Born again, and boy, we had to make sure it was god. jamie and
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Make sure it was god. jamie and i were engaged to be married
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I were engaged to be married before we ever held hands. god
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Before we ever held hands. god put us together supernaturally
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Put us together supernaturally and we committed to that
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And we committed to that marriage. in our wedding vows,
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Marriage. in our wedding vows, it was till death do us part. a
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It was till death do us part. a lot of people don't even include
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Lot of people don't even include that today, but we made that
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That today, but we made that commitment. i remember my uncle
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Commitment. i remember my uncle saffy, which his name would tell
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Saffy, which his name would tell you a lot about him. he was
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You a lot about him. he was quite the character. and i
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Quite the character. and i remember right after we got
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Remember right after we got married, i took jamie down to
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Married, i took jamie down to meet all of my family, and he
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Meet all of my family, and he got me aside and he said, boy,
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Got me aside and he said, boy, you're a wommack. wommack's
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You're a wommack. wommack's don't get divorce. and then he
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Don't get divorce. and then he said, this isn't sears and
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Said, this isn't sears and roebuck. if you don't like her,
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Roebuck. if you don't like her, you can't bring her back. that
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You can't bring her back. that was his old homespun way of
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Was his old homespun way of saying that this is forever. you
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Saying that this is forever. you need to make sure, and jamie and
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Need to make sure, and jamie and i, that's... see, because we
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I, that's... see, because we committed ourself to it and we
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Committed ourself to it and we burned our bridges, we've never,
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Burned our bridges, we've never, ever, ever considered divorce. i
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Ever, ever considered divorce. i mean, we might have contemplated
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Mean, we might have contemplated murder a time or two, but not
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Murder a time or two, but not divorce. i'm just kidding. amen.
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Divorce. i'm just kidding. amen. jamie and i... we got a great
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Jamie and i... we got a great relationship. but i'm saying, if
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Relationship. but i'm saying, if you... these people that are
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You... these people that are getting married and they have
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Getting married and they have prenuptial agreements, where if
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Prenuptial agreements, where if the marriage doesn't work out,
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The marriage doesn't work out, they've already decided how they
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They've already decided how they will split up the assets, i
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Will split up the assets, i guarantee you, you are going to
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Guarantee you, you are going to be tempted if that's something
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Be tempted if that's something that you consider. but we just
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That you consider. but we just burned our bridges behind us.
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Burned our bridges behind us. same thing when i got into
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Same thing when i got into ministry. i bet you for the
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Ministry. i bet you for the first six years that jamie and i
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First six years that jamie and i were in ministry, there wasn't
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Were in ministry, there wasn't any evidence that god had called
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Any evidence that god had called us to do it. nothing was
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Us to do it. nothing was working. we were struggling
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Working. we were struggling financially. people were staying
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Financially. people were staying away from our churches by the
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Away from our churches by the thousands. but you know what? we
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Thousands. but you know what? we had just committed ourself, and
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Had just committed ourself, and there was no quit. we were going
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There was no quit. we were going to die. we were starved to death
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To die. we were starved to death if we have to, but we would not
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If we have to, but we would not go back on what god called us to
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Go back on what god called us to do. and so, this... this is what
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Do. and so, this... this is what this is saying about abraham,
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This is saying about abraham, that you have to commit yourself
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That you have to commit yourself and you can't be tempted with
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And you can't be tempted with what you don't think. so if you
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What you don't think. so if you never think of quitting, if you
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Never think of quitting, if you never think of failure, if all
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Never think of failure, if all you do is take the promises of
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You do is take the promises of god's word and you use your
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God's word and you use your imagination to see that i am
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Imagination to see that i am healed, i am healed, and i will
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Healed, i am healed, and i will see this healing in my body. i
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See this healing in my body. i am blessed by god, and i
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Am blessed by god, and i will prosper, and i will
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Will prosper, and i will get these things done.
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You know, we're in the midst
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Of trying to build out all
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Of the campus for our charis
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Bible college, and i don't know
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Exactly how much money it's
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Going to be, but my ceo says it
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Could be as much as $1 billion
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To build a student activity
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Center, all of the student
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Housing, a athletic center, a
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Performing arts center, a hotel
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And conference center, and all
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Of these things. and he's
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Estimating it could be $1
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Estimating it could be $1 billion. i don't know, but you
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Billion. i don't know, but you know what, i'm not considering,
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Know what, i'm not considering, well, if it doesn't work,
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Well, if it doesn't work, what... what else could i do?
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You know, right now we have
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Probably 160 or $70 million
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Worth of assets that are all
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Paid for. i could go get a loan.
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I could probably take out a $100
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I could probably take out a $100 million loan, and i'd have
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Million loan, and i'd have people fight over me to give me
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People fight over me to give me that money, and we could start
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That money, and we could start using it. but you know what?
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Using it. but you know what? i've just made a decision that
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I've just made a decision that that's... i'm not going there.
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That's... i'm not going there. and so because i've already made
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And so because i've already made a decision, it says in psalms,
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Chapter 15, verse 4, i believe
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Chapter 15, verse 4, i believe it is, that a godly man will
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It is, that a godly man will swear to his own hurt, and
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Swear to his own hurt, and change not. i've made a quality
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Decision that this is the way
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Decision that this is the way i'm going, and this is how we're
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I'm going, and this is how we're going to get there, and i am not
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Going to get there, and i am not considering anything else. if
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Considering anything else. if somebody came to me today and
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Somebody came to me today and says i'll loan you $50 million,
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Says i'll loan you $50 million, that ought to get you started on
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That ought to get you started on all of this, i wouldn't accept
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All of this, i wouldn't accept it. i've already dealt with
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It. i've already dealt with that, and so i won't be tempted
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That, and so i won't be tempted by it. but see, there's some
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By it. but see, there's some people that they may not want to
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People that they may not want to go out and commit a sexual sin,
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Go out and commit a sexual sin, they may not want to turn away
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They may not want to turn away from the lord, but they've not
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From the lord, but they've not committed themself. their heart
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Committed themself. their heart is still pliable to that because
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Is still pliable to that because they're thinking, you can't be
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They're thinking, you can't be tempted with something that you
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Tempted with something that you don't think. you're thinking on
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Don't think. you're thinking on things that you shouldn't be
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Things that you shouldn't be thinking of. you need to go to
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Thinking of. you need to go to the word of god, find out
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The word of god, find out exactly what god wants you to
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Exactly what god wants you to do, and once you get that, you
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Do, and once you get that, you just drive a stake in the ground
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Just drive a stake in the ground and you say, i'm not moving from
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And you say, i'm not moving from here. i am not going to go off
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Here. i am not going to go off of this, and i don't care what
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Of this, and i don't care what the results are. so many people
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The results are. so many people determine god's will for their
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Determine god's will for their life by what the potential
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Life by what the potential results are, and so they take
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Results are, and so they take all of these different paths
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All of these different paths and... and imagine what's going
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And... and imagine what's going to happen if i go this way?
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To happen if i go this way? that's not the way to find out
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That's not the way to find out the will of god. you just hear
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The will of god. you just hear from god, and you do it, i don't
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From god, and you do it, i don't care if it harelips the devil.
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Care if it harelips the devil. regardless of what it costs you,
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Regardless of what it costs you, you do what god calls you to do.
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You do what god calls you to do. this is how you keep your heart
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This is how you keep your heart sensitive to god. you don't
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Sensitive to god. you don't consider any other thing. you
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Consider any other thing. you put value on god. you praise him
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Put value on god. you praise him for what he's done. you use your
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For what he's done. you use your imagination to see his will
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Imagination to see his will coming to pass, and if you'll do
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Coming to pass, and if you'll do that, your heart will stay
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That, your heart will stay sensitive to god. i've got a lot
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Sensitive to god. i've got a lot more to share on this, and i'm
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Wommack into practice by
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Speaking to her body.
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>> my body had to respond
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To my words again. i started to
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Room just speaking them,
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The words of the lord. i can
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Just walk the dog and i'm
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>> hello, i'm andrew
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Wommack and you have
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You will be blessed.
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Andrew Wommack - Discover the Keys to Staying Full of God

March 24, 2025 | S25:E62

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