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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry.

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God to very best

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Speaker 1: in your life. Will God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's a joy to come into your homes and if

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Speaker 2: you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a

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Speaker 2: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll make.

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Speaker 1: You feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and one Sunday morning,

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Speaker 2: this man walked in church.

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Speaker 1: We're in old.

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Speaker 2: Blue jeans, an old T shirt, beat up cowboy hat.

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Speaker 1: Some of the members were appalled.

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Speaker 2: They sent notes to the pastor expressing their concerns. Afterwards,

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Speaker 2: the pastor told the man that he needed to pray

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Speaker 2: and ask God what he should wear before he came

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Speaker 2: back to his church. The next Sunday, the man walked

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Speaker 2: in dressed exactly the same. Pastor said, I told you

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Speaker 2: to ask God what to wear before you came back

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Speaker 2: to my church. The man said, I did ask God,

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Speaker 2: but he told me he didn't know what to wear

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Speaker 2: because he's never been here before.

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Speaker 1: All right, say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about when God doesn't listen.

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Speaker 2: We know that God is omnipresent. He's everywhere at the

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Speaker 2: same time. He can see everything and he can hear everything.

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Speaker 2: But there's a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is unintentional.

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Speaker 2: You can be asleep and hear your alarm. You weren't listening.

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Speaker 2: You are simply hearing. Means you've tuned in, You've given

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Speaker 2: your attention, you're interested. A while back, I asked Victoria

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Speaker 2: if she had gone to the grocery store. I was

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Speaker 2: looking for the short answer, but Victoria is much more expressive.

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Speaker 1: Than I am. She likes to give the details.

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Speaker 2: She told how she had gone and who she ran into,

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Speaker 2: and what they had been doing, and how their cousins

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Speaker 2: next door neighbors, grandfather's best friend had just had a baby.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't looking for any of that. I just wanted

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Speaker 2: to know, did you get the chicken wings? The whole

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Speaker 2: time she was telling the story, I was hearing it,

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Speaker 2: but I wasn't listening.

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Speaker 1: I was there, but I wasn't tuned in.

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Speaker 2: It may surprise you that even though God hears everything, he.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't always listen.

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Speaker 2: There are certain things the scripture tells us that God doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Now, I wonder if we're talking to God about something

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Speaker 2: that he's hearing but he's not tuned in.

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Speaker 1: He's right there, but he's not listening. Luke fifteen. There's

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Speaker 1: a story of two sons.

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Speaker 2: The younger son asked his father for his inheritance early.

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Speaker 2: He knew it belonged to him and he wanted it right.

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Speaker 2: His father agreed. The young man took the funds and

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Speaker 2: spending it on all kinds of wrong things. Well, eventually

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Speaker 2: to survive. It was nobody's fault except his own. He

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Speaker 2: He had his big speech all lined up. He had

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Speaker 2: have sinned against you and against God. I am no

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Speaker 2: longer worthy to be called your son. I don't deserve

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Speaker 1: Now it was the son's big moment to give his speech.

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Speaker 2: He started off, Father, I'm unworthy to be called your son.

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Speaker 2: more paying attention. He looked over at his staff and said, quick,

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Speaker 1: We're going to have a party. My son was lost,

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Speaker 2: tell you how unworthy I feel, how sorry I am.

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Speaker 1: But you're not even listening.

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Speaker 2: Are you telling God everything wrong with you, how many

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Speaker 2: mistakes you've made, how you don't deserve to be blessed God.

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Speaker 1: God? Is not listening. You are wasting your breath.

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Speaker 2: This can save you a lot of time and emotional energy.

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Speaker 2: You are not worthy because of what you did or

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Speaker 2: didn't do. You're worthy because of what Jesus did. You

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Speaker 2: don't have to go to God and try to convince

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Speaker 2: him to forgive you.

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Speaker 1: Convince him that.

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Speaker 2: You know you're not good enough, You're just a weak

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Speaker 1: He tunes all that out.

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Speaker 2: If you want God to not only hear, but to listen,

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Speaker 2: thank you that your mercy is bigger than my mistakes.

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Speaker 2: Thank you that I'm forgiven, that I'm redeemed. Don't go

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Speaker 2: The moment you ask God to forgive you, he forgave

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Speaker 2: you. You don't have to keep going back to God and saying,

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Speaker 2: I know I don't deserve your goodness. I can imagine

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Speaker 2: When you're telling God all the times you failed, how

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Speaker 2: you don't deserve to be blessed. God is not saying good,

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Speaker 2: It's keeping you from expecting his favor. That's why the

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Speaker 2: scripture says, come boldly to the Throne of Grace to

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Speaker 2: obtain mercy.

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Speaker 1: When you need mercy.

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Speaker 2: Don't go to God guilty, condemned, weak, Go boldly, go

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Speaker 2: with confidence, knowing that you're forgiven, knowing that God is

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Speaker 2: for you. Yes, you may have blown it, but like

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Speaker 2: this young man, God is running towards you right now,

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Speaker 2: not to condemn you, not to make you feel guilty,

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Speaker 2: but to love you. Well, Joel, shouldn't I tell God

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Speaker 2: how bad I was and how unworthy I feel? You can,

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Speaker 2: but he's not listening. God listens to the language of faith.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't listen when we're beating ourselves up, telling him

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Speaker 1: The enemy would love for you to live feeling condemned.

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Speaker 2: He'll remind you of all the times you haven't measured up.

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Speaker 1: It may not be.

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Speaker 2: Something big, but even small things. You didn't spend enough

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Speaker 2: time with your children last week, you should have worked out.

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Speaker 2: You got mad at your neighbor, you were late to school.

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Speaker 1: We can feel bad about who we are. If you

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Speaker 2: Lies, you'll go through life feeling wrong on the inside. Now,

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Speaker 2: I've found most people accept condemnation easier than they accept mercy.

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Speaker 2: They believe the lies from the accuser more than they

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Speaker 2: believe what God says about them. That they're forgiven, that

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Speaker 2: you're redeemed, that you're made worthy. When you make a mistake,

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Speaker 2: He don't keep asking again and again, bringing up the

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Speaker 2: same failures. First time you ask God to forgive you,

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Speaker 2: When you go back and ask God again and again,

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Speaker 2: he says, what are you talking about? I have no

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Speaker 2: account of that. When God forgave you, he deleted your files.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't have a big server up in heaven, or

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Speaker 2: He has no account of what you keep asking him

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Speaker 2: for forgiveness for now.

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Speaker 1: You know who is keeping a record. You know who

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Speaker 1: has forty seven backup copies. The enemy he's called the

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Speaker 1: accuser of the Brethren.

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Speaker 2: He'll remind you of everything you've done wrong for the

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Speaker 2: last thirty years. If someone is bringing up negative things

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Speaker 1: Be assured it is not God. In this story of.

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Speaker 2: The prodigal the young man didn't even ask for forgiveness.

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Speaker 2: Just the fact that he turned from his old way,

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Speaker 2: that was enough for his father to forgive him. You

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Speaker 1: But just the fact that you're here, just the fact that.

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Speaker 2: It's a sign that you've headed toward the father's house.

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Speaker 1: Right now, the Father is.

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Speaker 2: Running towards you. You may have your big speech all

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Speaker 2: lined up. You're ready to tell God how unworthy you are,

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Speaker 2: how you don't deserve to be blessed. Save your speech.

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Speaker 1: He's not listening.

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Speaker 2: There's no use beating yourself up, living condemned.

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Speaker 1: God's mercy has covered everything you've done wrong.

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Speaker 2: language of faith.

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Speaker 1: Father.

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Speaker 2: Thank you that my files have been deleted. Thank you

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Speaker 2: that you're not counting my sins against me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you that I'm covered by your mercy. Too often

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Speaker 1: we think we have to pay God back for our mistakes.

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Speaker 1: If it's something big, we.

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Speaker 2: Have to beat ourselves up for six months lost my temper.

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Speaker 2: Told my coworker off, that's a medium sized sin. I

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Speaker 2: Plead with God again and again. God, I blew it.

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Speaker 1: For all this trouble. The father would have said, what

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Speaker 2: He was saying, yes, I've made mistakes, Yes I brought

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Speaker 2: I believe one reason this young man had the boldness

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Speaker 2: You weren't created to live condemned, guilty, defeated. God created

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Speaker 2: know he's made me worthy. So I'm going to arise

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Speaker 2: The son came back home, his father never once brought

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Speaker 1: When you come back, there'll be a party, there'll be

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Speaker 2: You know God's calling is on your life. You can

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Speaker 2: Let today be a new beginning. No more living guilty,

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Speaker 2: When the prodigal son returned home, imagine the next week

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Speaker 2: God, you said I'm forgiven, So I'm going to get

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Speaker 2: All during the day he would go through the woods

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Speaker 2: He ran over as quick as he could, grabbed the duck,

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Speaker 1: I accidentally killed your pet duck with muslim shot, and

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Speaker 2: The good news is he's already forgiven you. He's not

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Speaker 1: How long are you going.

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Speaker 2: To live with that guilt, believing that you've blown your future.

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Speaker 2: How long are you gonna ask forgiveness for the same things.

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Speaker 1: My declaration is no more. This is a new day.

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Speaker 2: I've made some mistakes, but I'm not gonna go through

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Speaker 1: I'm going to arise. You can still become all you

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Speaker 2: No mistake you've made is too much for the mercy

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Speaker 2: lies that it's too late. You made too many poor choices.

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Speaker 2: If you want to get God's attention, go to him

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Speaker 1: Dare to ask him for favor. Dare to ask him

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Speaker 2: He had lived his whole life being dishonest, cheating people.

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Speaker 1: He left there a different person. But think of the

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Speaker 2: He should have been living guilty, feeling unworthy. But somehow

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Speaker 1: I think God would say, come on, Jacob, are you kidding?

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Speaker 2: But God said, in effect, Jacob, I like your boldness.

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Speaker 2: I like the fact that you're not telling me how

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Speaker 1: But you're asking me to be good to you, Jacob.

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Speaker 1: If you're bold enough to ask, then I'm bold enough

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Speaker 2: If God will bless Jacob after living that kind of life,

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Speaker 2: Quit telling God all about that and go to him

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to bless me, not because of how

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Speaker 2: That's what gets God's attention, That's what he listens to.

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Speaker 1: And it takes faith not to just believe for your dreams.

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Speaker 2: This, I believe and declare God is about to show

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