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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Father, We've blessed the name of Jesus Amen.

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Speaker 2: I was at the Worthm Center watching a theatrical play

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Speaker 2: with about five of my friends. We decided to go

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Speaker 2: kind of at the last minute, and our seats were

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Speaker 2: way back in the back. They weren't good seats at all,

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Speaker 2: So there was five of us in bad seats with

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Speaker 2: one pair of binoculars. Yeah, that's really interesting, one pair

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Speaker 2: of binoculars among five people.

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Speaker 2: I can remember watching the play and I felt so

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Speaker 2: disconnected from the story because I really couldn't see the

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Speaker 2: stage well enough. And I don't know if you're over

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Speaker 2: forty in here today, but you know, when you can't see,

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Speaker 2: you feel like you can here. So I was waiting

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Speaker 2: and waiting and waiting for those binoculars to make their

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Speaker 2: way into my hands, and when they finally did, I

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Speaker 2: was so excited. I pulled those binoculars up to my

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Speaker 2: face and focused in on the stage, and it was amazing.

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Speaker 2: I could see the expression on the actor's faces.

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Speaker 3: I could hear so well.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I felt like I was on the stage

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Speaker 2: with them and part of the story.

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Speaker 3: You see, my perspective had.

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Speaker 2: Totally changed because the distance between my seat and the

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Speaker 2: stage was closed. See, once which was far away, became

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Speaker 2: near to me. Ephesians two thirteen says this, in Christ,

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Speaker 2: you who were once far away, have been brought near

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Speaker 2: by the blood of Jesus. You see, we've all been

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Speaker 2: far away from God. We've all experienced bad seats, so

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Speaker 2: to speak. But can I tell you this that through

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Speaker 2: the binoculars of Jesus Christ, God has drawn us near

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Speaker 2: to him. He has closed the gap between God the

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Speaker 2: Father and us through the binoculars of Jesus Christ. See,

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Speaker 2: God is an up close and personal God today, and

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Speaker 2: he wants to draw you unto himself. He wants you

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Speaker 2: to know that there doesn't have to be distance between you.

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Speaker 2: He wants you to know today that there may be

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Speaker 2: seven billion people on this planet, and it's easy to

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Speaker 2: think God, out of all these people, how do you

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Speaker 2: see little O me.

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Speaker 3: You've heard my prayers.

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Speaker 2: God, I feel like things aren't changing quick enough. I'm

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Speaker 2: still in this situation. God, have you forgotten or.

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Speaker 3: Can you even see me?

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Speaker 2: We've all had those thoughts, we've all felt that doubt.

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Speaker 2: But that doesn't stop God, that doesn't chase God off.

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Speaker 3: God is right there with us. He is in our story,

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Speaker 3: he is on our stage.

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Speaker 2: We've just got to recognize that He's as close as

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Speaker 2: the very breath that we breathe, and that the distance

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Speaker 3: Been closed through Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: You see, some people think that they need to change

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Speaker 2: their life before they can draw near to God. They

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Speaker 2: need to clean up a few things. You know, sometimes

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Speaker 2: just the way we live our life makes us feel

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Speaker 2: distant from Almighty God. But can I tell you today

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Speaker 2: that you can't clean your own life up. You can't

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Speaker 2: bring the change that God wants to bring in your

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Speaker 2: you accept Him into your life and you go to

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Speaker 2: him daily. Because it's God who works in us and

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Speaker 2: through us. You see, the gap has been closed. There

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Speaker 2: is nothing that God cannot do.

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Speaker 3: For you through Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: There's no mess that you made that he can't help

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Speaker 2: you clean up. There's nothing on the inside of you

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Speaker 3: You see, he loves you just the way you are.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the.

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Speaker 2: Bible says, when we were still sinners, we were far

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Speaker 2: away because that gap was full of sin. He came

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Speaker 2: to us through Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 3: He came to us. We didn't come to him. Today,

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Speaker 2: He's drawing you. Don't let anything stand between you and

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Speaker 2: God the Father. He wants a relationship with you today.

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Speaker 2: It's as easy as that. Every single day, no matter

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Speaker 2: There's a beautiful story in John four, Jesus was coming

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Speaker 3: With his disciples. He said, I have need.

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Speaker 2: To go to Samaria. Now, Samaria was on the way

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Speaker 2: But he told his disciple, I have to break protocol,

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Speaker 2: He needed to go to Samaria because he had an

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Speaker 2: appointment with a woman at the well. The woman came

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Speaker 2: She did not realize that she had an appointment with

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Speaker 2: Have you ever had an earthly perspective. I'm just going

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Speaker 3: She came that day with an earthly perspective.

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Speaker 2: She didn't realize she was gonna leave with a heavenly perspective.

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Speaker 3: You see, Jesus drew her unto himself.

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Speaker 2: She thought she was just drawing water, something that would

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Speaker 2: be a temporary fix for the day. But he offered

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Speaker 2: her something greater than that. He offered her living water.

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Speaker 2: So she got a little closer to him. Now you

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Speaker 2: have to realize this woman came to the well at noon,

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Speaker 2: and the story is this. She wanted to avoid the

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Speaker 2: other women that came in the morning at the cool

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Speaker 3: You see, the.

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Speaker 2: Enemy wants us to be isolated. But Jesus said, you

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Speaker 2: don't have to be isolated. I'm going to give you

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Speaker 2: this gift of living water. And as they begin to

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Speaker 2: have a conversation, he said to her, go get your husband.

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Speaker 2: She paused, and she said, I don't have a husband.

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Speaker 3: And he said that's the truth.

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Speaker 2: He said, you've had five husbands and the man that

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Speaker 3: Well that really got her.

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Speaker 2: Attention because she's thinking, this guy knows all about me

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Speaker 2: and he's still talking to me. Hey, there's people that

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Speaker 2: he still wants to have a conversation with me. He

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Speaker 2: still wants to give me this living water. Because see,

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Speaker 2: she thought he was going to say, oh, you don't

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Speaker 2: don't deserve the living water. You're not living right. Only

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Speaker 2: perfect people deserve the living water. But Jesus said, when

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Speaker 2: you drink from this water, from this fountain, You'll never

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Speaker 3: You see, he was giving her perspective.

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Speaker 2: She didn't understand all of what he was saying, but

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Speaker 2: she certainly got to know him a little better and realize,

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Speaker 2: this man is different. This man is drawing me unto himself.

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Speaker 2: This man is breaking protocol. This man is offering me

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Speaker 2: living water. Do you know what I love about this man? Jesus,

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Speaker 2: we can come to him just like we are. You see,

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Speaker 2: he had a need.

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Speaker 3: To go to this woman, and he.

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Speaker 2: Broke protocol to get to her. Jesus has a need

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Speaker 2: to get to you. He is offering you living water.

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Speaker 2: But all we have to do is say yes and

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Speaker 2: drink that water.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: She came to the realization that this was the Messiah

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Speaker 2: offering her salvation. Her people have talked about the Messiah

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Speaker 2: for years. She literally left there and ran to the

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Speaker 2: right in the middle of them and started saying, come

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Speaker 2: meet a man that knows everything.

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Speaker 3: About me, and he still likes me. In fact, he

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Speaker 2: He be the Messiah because he's suing like you. You see,

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Speaker 2: the Bible goes on about Jesus talking about people who

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Speaker 2: will be worshippers, worshippers in spirit and in truth.

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Speaker 3: That's who God is seeking.

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Speaker 2: What I want us to see today, that God is

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Speaker 2: looking at us through his binoculars of Jesus. The distance

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Speaker 3: He's brought us close.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't brought us close because we're perfect, because we

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Speaker 2: do everything right. He's looking for people who will worship

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Speaker 2: to him, he said, that's right, and then she continued

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Speaker 2: he said, these are the people I'm looking for, people

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Speaker 2: of who they are. People who will take this living

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Speaker 2: the Bible says that we are to work out our salvation.

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Speaker 2: See when you say yes to Jesus, you may be saved,

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Speaker 2: but you've got some.

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Speaker 2: And God is saying, this living water is available to

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Speaker 3: You don't have to run from me, you can run

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Speaker 2: You don't have to try to quench your thirst by

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Speaker 2: going to other people, by bad heads, by things of

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Speaker 2: Which will bubble up out of you, be the pool

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Speaker 2: of refreshing for you for your thirsty soul. Listen, if

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Speaker 3: Mighty quick.

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Speaker 2: Listen, there's a lot of thirst going on. But Jesus said,

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Speaker 2: when you drink from this living water, it will be

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Speaker 2: a continual spring.

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Speaker 3: It will wash you.

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Speaker 2: It will wash away the desires that you really.

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Speaker 3: Don't want any more anyway.

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Speaker 2: But you gotta be that person who is willing to

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Speaker 2: worship him in spirit, his spirit, and in the truth

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Speaker 2: of who you are, the truth of who you are becoming.

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Speaker 2: You see when you are one with Him, which you are.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says that he may the two out of one,

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Speaker 2: Jesus and Us became one. He is the binocular that

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Speaker 2: God is looking at us through. He doesn't see your failures,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't see your mistakes.

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Speaker 3: He sees you in Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: He sees you as righteous, he sees you as who

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Speaker 2: from letting that refreshing come to you every day. Because

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Speaker 2: within you is a heavenly perspective. You've just got to

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Speaker 2: working in you to will and to do his good pleasure. Listen,

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