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oh here we are once again book by book
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and we're studying the book of Proverbs
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in the Bible and we invite you to share
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with us in this study that is myself
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rich abuse poor blacken and our special
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guest today
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Jorge Vera the founder of Operation
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mobilization we're at the Quinta
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Christian Center here in Shropshire
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England and we're looking forward not
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very much to chapters 13 to 15 instead
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of number five will start at chapter 13
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and maybe verse 9 the light of the
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righteous shines brightly and really in
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his wise speech and fear of the Lord we
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could say that Jesus is our example of a
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bright shining fountain of life let's
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read verse 9 them and of this and then I
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gone to 12 to 14 the light of the
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righteous shines brightly but the lamp
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of the wicked is snuffed out first 12
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Hope deferred makes the heart sick but a
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longing fulfilled is a tree of life
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verse 14 the teaching of the wise is a
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function of life turning a man from the
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snares of death and many more of course
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we can look at to in just a moment or
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two at least you first how the righteous
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have nothing to do with what is false
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let's note the constant sharp division
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once again between the wise and the
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foolish that's basic right the way
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through Proverbs why are a love of
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violence verse to George look at this
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and verse for laziness the slug it comes
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up again pride verse 10 dishonesty verse
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them
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they're very sharing something
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absolutely it's playing havoc throughout
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the world even as we sit here and it's
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one of the most discouraging things as
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we look at the behavior the valley
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people willing to go and kill and behead
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and things that we read in the paper now
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every day it should stir God's people
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into action to try to do something about
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it and often we have to start one person
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at a time and it's the love of violence
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isn't it because as well even people who
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like claiming to follow Jesus will
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play games and watch films that are just
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a celebration of violence and that
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literally engage in violence for
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entertainments sake and then size
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doesn't matter it's only entertainment
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no to love violence is evil and evil I'm
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not going to actually go and do it yeah
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but you love it that's evil no it's not
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too much has changed from the point of
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view of violence since the days of the
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Roman Empire and they're persecuting of
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Christians
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well since Cain killed Abel I think it's
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been pretty well yeah and any space
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laziness violence pride to some see all
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of them are linked together as all roots
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of this foolishness well let's think
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then of how that verse 9 that light and
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verse 14 a fountain a light in the
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fountain how they display the Lord and
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supremely as Christians today we think
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of the Lord Jesus Christ as the
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perfectly wise and righteous one would
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you not know it's right and when we're
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reading these there's that sense in
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which we're like that is how life should
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be that is how life should be the
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righteous money's like this the wise one
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is like this and then but all too often
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when I'm reading all these I'm thinking
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no I'm not like that I'm not like that
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I'm not like that but there is the the
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point is when we read these we go but
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Jesus is like that he is the wise man
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filled with the spirit and he does have
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integrity and he does have right justice
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impurity in everything he does of course
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it is important to remember as we were
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thinking about he dies he's killed by
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the wicked at a young age and he never
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really had any money or prosperity or
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everything so we again it reminds us to
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think what is the prosperity and the
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blessing and everything that is being
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promised here so that's important but I
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always like that verse 9 and verse 14
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that the light of the right just shines
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brightly and then verse 14 the teaching
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the wise is a fountain of life turning a
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man from the snares of death so I always
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think about that with the Lord Jesus he
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has that massive integrity and purity
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and righteousness of affection but what
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he doesn't do is go around to everybody
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and goes so like I condemn you I condemn
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you I condemn you he doesn't do that he
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were already condemned he comes to bring
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us life and forgiveness so he's a
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fountain of life he shares his life and
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he always says to us look I'll forgive
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your sins I'll give you a new beginning
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new mercies so that's what I love about
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it both his perfection but also he's
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absolute merci and grace it's terrific
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in a series of contrasts we're getting
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an actually I didn't like moving on so
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fast but chapter 14 key verse I think 27
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the fear of the Lord is a function of
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life so a constant theme of the proverbs
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is the generosity and kindness of the
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righteous in a world where the wicked
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put themselves first and ignore the poor
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sir verse 21 the study yeah 21 and 31
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show this contrast how do we respond Oh
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George fella in a world with so much
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need well when I think of this word
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light it's one of my favorite words
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before we ever had the name operation
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mobilization the little organization I
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started in Mexico we were call send the
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light from that old hymn and I think
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something that's just on my heart as I
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read these verses as a lot of people
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today are getting quite negative
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especially people who live in Europe
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where the church is seemingly weaker in
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certain ways though there's a lot of
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growth globally and we need that we need
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to see this because we need
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encouragement globally the light is
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shining greater than ever in history
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there is no comparison
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I mean 70 to 80 million new believers in
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China tens of millions of new believers
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in Latin America tens of millions of new
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believers you see it oh yeah and of
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course the negative side is all also
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there but people are getting discouraged
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because their church is shrinking some
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churches have even closed but in fact
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though Europe is going through maybe
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it's darker period globally which is
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what we should be concerned about the
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whole world of course we're burdened for
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Europe and for me Europe is my number
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one mission field but preached in almost
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every single nation in Europe I just
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come in from Barcelona and preach
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Spanish but globally the light is
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shining more than ever before and when
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people say like in the newspaper
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Christianity is now irrelevant we ought
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to get on their case really quick and I
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think Christians are too silent in
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connection with the press get on the
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phone talk to your
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you know you remember of Parliament in
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your own constituency and and make it
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clear the light is shining big time it's
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they were becoming irrelevant not the
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Lord Jesus and his holy gospel good
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indeed and when you think of every week
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some 1600 new congregations come into
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being around the world that weren't
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there the week before that is hugely
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encouraging of course they're bright
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shining lights everywhere and that is
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good news for the poor that's what I
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like about this chapter 4 where it says
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where he oppresses the poor shows
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contempt for the maker that the church
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all down through history cares for the
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poor that's what we were first known for
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caring for the poor nobody else's
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society there wasn't a welfare state or
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anything like that it was the church
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that picked up the widows and the
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orphans and the needy and everything
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like that and all over the way where the
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church comes really the real and living
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church where we share things with one
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another and share life and he'll picture
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that is always good news for the poor
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when the real church comes and is
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probably 10 times greater today the
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caring and concern for the poor if you
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really study what's going on Christians
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are in the forefront of the sex traffic
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thing Christians in the forefront of the
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battle for hiv/aids
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I personally distributed over a hundred
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thousand books just on those two
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subjects many of them given away all
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different languages and that
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transformation only came in my life
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about 10 years ago and it finally
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realized that that Proclamation which is
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my my first passion church-planting de
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cycling it can come together with social
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action and social concern that's what
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they told us at the great Lausanne
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Congress I was there and I somehow it
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didn't register how're we gonna do that
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you know em but we've seen that and
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right across the world the church is
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doing more for this poor and the
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suffering and it's so sad people pick up
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these little things about missionaries
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there's this new musical going on in
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London attacks missionaries even though
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it's another group indirectly people
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have these wrong ideas about
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missionaries but missionaries aren't out
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there just you know with the totem pole
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gathering up how many souls this is a
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misrepresentation of missionaries that
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are out there in hospitals they're out
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there serving the poor we're not talking
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you know a few hundred thousand we're
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talking millions of people are being
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ministered
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- by the church and brought out of
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poverty and I just thank the Lord for it
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yeah we're not disheartened but look
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here's the other side of it verse 12
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there is a way that seems right to a man
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but in the end it leads to death
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so self-improvement self-help is a sort
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of natural religion of many people
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actually many people would read even
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read these proverbs as a sort of
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etiquette for debutantes so there's a
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book in the 1920 to the book of good
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manners
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now it's strong much stronger than that
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now what do you think about that Capone
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well it's that the verse 27 there in
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chapter 14 the fear of the Lord is a
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fountain of life terming a man from the
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snares of death so if you read this book
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you say oh yeah it's just self-help we
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don't need all that God stuff you aren't
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gonna go nowhere that's not that's not
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going to give you the Fountain of Life
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it's the fear of the Lord that that's
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the Fountain of Life and the thing is
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the way of the Lord doesn't always look
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and feel right the way that feels right
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to us and we might because we might say
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what I think feels right is this
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relationship or I want some more money
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or I want more comfort and that looks
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the right way but the way of the Lord
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can seem to be the opposite of that and
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even in the book of Proverbs we're told
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that the righteous you know that says
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better to be righteous but have nothing
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than be rich and wicked so we're being
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warned that being righteous isn't always
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gonna lead to to having lots and comfort
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and things like that in fact following
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the way of the Lord can often be the
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well it is the way of the cross isn't it
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it's the way of self-denial so we can
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feel we're like no no the way to life is
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to indulge myself and to have a
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comfortable life but no the way that can
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seem right to us and that goes with our
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instincts we're actually being warned it
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literally leads to death in the end if
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you put yourself first you're gonna die
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jesus said if you try to cling on to
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your life you will lose it but if you
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let go of life for my sake you will find
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life that is all the way here on to the
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book of Proverbs we keep getting these
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different things recurring again and
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again through proverbs is not just let's
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do it the fools
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let's now deal with the ants let's not
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deal with us like they keep coming up
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again again as you would in a family
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where you're talking about you know
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not just saying today and now we're
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going to do money no it's always coming
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up here and there that's the style of
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Proverbs of course back to words you see
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I mean in our last study we were talking
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about words now in chapter 15 verse 4
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I'm looking at the tongue that brings
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healing is a tree of life but a
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deceitful tongue crushes the spirit so
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that's brilliant
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I mean verse after verse covers this
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topic give us tips George mr. Hart oh ah
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Howard to govern our mouths well I think
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feasting on these verses memorizing them
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repenting taking them seriously and all
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my life I've wrestled with the sins of
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the tongue and this verse 1 a gentle
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answer that's not the natural thing from
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my kind of background my kind of
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temperament New York City a grandfather
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was a Dutch atheist my other grandfather
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was Scottish Irish and English blood
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basically that's toxic he was in from
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grandmother divorced him so you know I'm
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sort of humanly speaking dead in the
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water to start with without Jesus and
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what he did that night I walked the
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aisle in a Billy Graham meeting but he
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used his word to break me and this verse
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gentle answer turns away wrath but a
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harsh word stirs up anger I can't tell
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you how much it's helped me in my
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leadership to get a handle on that not
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perfection but growth and and reality
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and it's tied together with what we read
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so important in verse 8 but the prayer
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of the upright pleases him it's not a
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lot about prayer in the book of Proverbs
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but it's there and there's a lot about
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prayer in the whole book and I think in
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these struggles with our failures and
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our sins we've got to be men and women
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of Prayer yeah you know Ephesians 6:10
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through 20 everybody ought to memorize
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it the weapons of our warfare including
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prayer the shield of faith so another
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thing that helps in this battle is to be
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accountable this very brother I was with
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last night Dale wrote on we've been
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linked 58 years he wasn't afraid to
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confront me when he saw that something I
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said wasn't truthful or it was
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exaggerated so sad that we as
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evangelicals you know we have this
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expression evangelical speaking we
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should renounce all
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saturation because it's a it's a subtle
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form of lying and it's a deception and
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God had to deal with me on that and I
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found it really helpful to have a Nathan
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in my life somebody and I've always had
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a board that can ask me questions I meet
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with them again next week then you know
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how to ask the hard questions that has
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been a huge help and I think we see
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fallen leaders often have had very
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little accountability of course there's
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so much more we need to use to stand
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strong in this area of temptation no
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that's isn't Church that's what it is
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when we're in church together
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it's a family we hold each other
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accountable at support each other but
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also ask those hard questions of each
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other of course and we have to well it's
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amazing is you have problems exposes the
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human heart I've been looking at verse
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11 here in Chapter 15 however even the
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deepest darkness is open to the Lord so
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the human heart is easier for him to
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read we might imagine the religious
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observance or respectability might
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impress him know the poor help us to see
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how some of these verses like eight or
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26 or even 29 shine the light that's all
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that's it you just quoted from verse
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eight George we but the prayer of the
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upright please in but the Lord detests
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the sacrifice of the wicked so the
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wicked come guy it's okay I'll give the
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Lord a sacrifice that will be all right
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no you detests it you can see what's
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going on you cannot deceive the Lord God
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and that's the in verse 26 he detests
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the thoughts of the wicked and then
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verse 29 the Lord is far from the wicked
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but he hears the prayer of the righteous
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so the wicked won't pray but they know
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unless they're prepared to really pray
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and repent and turn to him properly
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they aren't listening in listening and
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that's so important to know you cannot
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mock God be not deceived so the
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scripture you cannot mock God what you
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reap you so that if you even if you
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pretend at religion you play at religion
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he can see through that Jesus says the
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author you're you say with your lips
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that you're near to me but your hearts
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are far from me we can't play with the
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Living God he always knows what's going
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on in our hearts and minds and I that we
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serve
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truthfully and honestly and purely or
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else forget it he can't be deceived the
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light of the righteous that's been our
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theme and of course we see epitomized in
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Jesus Christ our Lord and you know in
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the West we believe in sort of birthday
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cakes often where you have a birthday
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have a cake and then you product like
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several counters on it to share how many
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years the bus has been and then the word
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is put out see how many candles you can
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light with just one match just one light
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and you could ask yourself that how many
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other lights could I light by my one
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little light for Jesus Christ Oscars of
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that pray about it and I want to do the
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same one light lighting many others
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please meet again with us next time
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