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

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

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Well, don't bless you. It's great to be

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Speaker 1: with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with

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Speaker 1: us during the week through our daily podcast or YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: social media, and you can come visit us in person.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 1: of our services. But I like to start with something

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Speaker 1: funny and don't be offended. It's just a joe. But

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Speaker 1: I heard about these three people, a Russian, an American

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Speaker 1: and a blonde. They were talking together. The Russian proudly said,

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Speaker 1: we were the first ones in space. The Americans said, well,

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Speaker 1: we were the first ones on the moon. The blonde said,

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Speaker 1: that's nothing. We're gonna be the first ones on the sun.

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Speaker 1: The American the Russian they laugh, and you can't go

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Speaker 1: to the sun. It's too hot to be burned up.

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Speaker 1: The blonde said, we know that, we're not that dumb.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go at night, all right. Y'all. I'm married

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Speaker 1: to a beautiful, smart, intelligent blonde. But I don't need

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Speaker 1: a ride home. But here we go, y'all. This is

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

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Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what

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Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about being the authentic you. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to go through life trying to protect our image and

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Speaker 1: always look good and impress people, and we can't let

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Speaker 1: them see our flaws, our shortcomings, or they may think

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Speaker 1: less of us. So we live with this pressure to

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Speaker 1: perform and to pretend and to wear a mask. But

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Speaker 1: the people we're trying to impress, the ones that look

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Speaker 1: like they have it all together, they have issues too.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is struggling with something, and the scripture says God's

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Speaker 1: power shows up greatest in our weaknesses, not in our strengths,

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Speaker 1: not in the areas we excel, but in our struggles,

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Speaker 1: our flaws, the things we're trying to hide. God is

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Speaker 1: not looking for the fake you to pretend you to

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Speaker 1: cover up you. He's looking for the real you, the

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Speaker 1: you that's not perfect, the you that can get jealous, angry, afraid,

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Speaker 1: the you that doesn't always feel worthy or good enough.

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Speaker 1: When you get honest with yourself and you don't try

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Speaker 1: to camouflaws your struggles and live wearing masks to keep

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Speaker 1: up your image, that's when God will step in and

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Speaker 1: help you to change instead of hiding what we're struggling with.

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Speaker 1: When we go to God and admit our dependence on him,

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Speaker 1: say God, I need you. I don't like being this way.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid, angry, or i don't feel like i'm good enough.

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Speaker 1: Help me to change. It's not a weakness to admit

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Speaker 1: you don't have it all together. It's a strength. When

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Speaker 1: you take off the mask and you're open before God,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't fault you, that's when his power shows up

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Speaker 1: to change you. When Jesus saw Peter out fishing, he

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Speaker 1: called him to be his first disciple. He said, from

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Speaker 1: his knees and said, Lord, go away from me. I'm

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Speaker 1: not worthy. I'm a sinful man. He was saying, Lord,

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Speaker 1: I have flaws. I'm hot tempered, I use bad language,

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Speaker 1: was protect his image. He was honest, he was vulnerable.

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Speaker 1: Jesus didn't say thanks, Peter, I didn't realize how messed

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Speaker 1: up you were. I chose the wrong man. No, after

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Speaker 1: Peter told him all his flaws and weaknesses, Jesus said later, Peter,

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Speaker 1: you are a rock, and upon you I will build

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Speaker 1: my church. He was saying, Peter, I know everything about you,

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Speaker 1: the good, the bad, the ugly, And because you're open,

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Speaker 1: because you're vulnerable, not wearing a mask, I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: you into something more than you've ever imagined. God has

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Speaker 1: not faulting you for having weaknesses areas that just struggle

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Speaker 1: in can be pride, jealousy, and compromising. He knows what

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Speaker 1: you're dealing with. He didn't choose you because you have

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Speaker 1: it altogether. He chose you because of what you can become.

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Speaker 1: God would rather work with someone like Peter that's open

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Speaker 1: the temple and chosen one of the Pharisees, the religious

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Speaker 1: leaders to become disciples. They looked the part. They worked

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Speaker 1: in the temple, they wore long robes and prayed in

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Speaker 1: why he didn't choose them. They wore masks, They were pretenders.

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Speaker 1: They acted one way, nice, holy kind, but on the

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Speaker 1: inside it was a different story. They didn't care about people.

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Speaker 1: They were arrogant, harsh, putting rules on people that they

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Speaker 1: in Matthew twenty three, you are like whitewashed tombs. You

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Speaker 1: full of dead men's bones. He was saying, you're a fake,

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Speaker 1: you're a pretender. You go around, we're in masks, acting

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Speaker 1: one way, but your motives are wrong. He called them

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Speaker 1: hypocrites because they were too faced, projecting one thing, when

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Speaker 1: in reality they were just the opposite. It's significant Jesus

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Speaker 1: didn't call Peter a hypocrite. Why Peter admitted he was

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Speaker 1: a sinner, unworthy, not making good choices. He didn't try

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Speaker 1: to hide it. He was open and the problem with

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Speaker 1: the Pharisees wasn't that they had issues. They were dealing

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Speaker 1: with pride and wrong motives. We all have some kind

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Speaker 1: of issue. The problem was they acted like they had

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Speaker 1: it all together. They put on masks to pretend and

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Speaker 1: cover up the issues they were dealing with. This temptation

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Speaker 1: comes to us all to be a pharisees. I gotta

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Speaker 1: protect my image, make sure I look good, nobody sees

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Speaker 1: my weaknesses. We have to wear this mask for our friends,

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Speaker 1: and this mask at work, and a mask for relatives,

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Speaker 1: They got a mask for every situation. But it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of pressure to be fake. Have to camouflage and

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Speaker 1: perform so we'll be well thought of and invited into

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Speaker 1: their group. If people can't accept you for who you are,

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Speaker 1: then you don't need them. If you have to perform

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Speaker 1: perfectly and be pressured into being something you're not, do

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Speaker 1: yourself a favor. Take off that mask, Quit being a

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Speaker 1: lesser version of who you are, and be the authentic you.

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Speaker 1: If they can't handle it, they fault you because you're

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Speaker 1: not perfect, then move on with your life. Your time

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Speaker 1: is too valuable to be a fake you, a pretend you,

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Speaker 1: a you that has to play up to people, or

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Speaker 1: may act like a Pharisee, like they have it all together,

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Speaker 1: but they have issues too. None of us are a

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Speaker 1: finished product. The Apostle Paul wrote over half of the

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Speaker 1: books in the New Testament. He was a brilliant scholar,

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Speaker 1: Roman seven, the good I know I should do, I

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Speaker 1: don't do it. But the bad I don't want to do,

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Speaker 1: I keep doing it. He said in Philippians, I'm still

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Speaker 1: not all that I should be. He wasn't ashamed to

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Speaker 1: admit that he still had flaws. He still didn't perform

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Speaker 1: a mask and just let us see his greatness. Man,

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Speaker 1: I've written books of the Bible. I've changed history. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I got it all together. Admitting your shortcomings isn't weak,

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Speaker 1: it's strength. You're showing God that you're depending on him

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Speaker 1: when you try to handle it all on your own,

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Speaker 1: dealing with. God will step back. His power doesn't show

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Speaker 1: up as much in our strengths, but in our weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: The mistake we can make it. We try to hide

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Speaker 1: the weakness. We can't be vulnerable. People may think less

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Speaker 1: of us. We have to protect our image. No, you

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Speaker 1: have to take your image off the throne. Your image

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Speaker 1: is not gonna get you to your destiny. Having people

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Speaker 1: you to your purpose. Paul was more accomplished than anyone,

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Speaker 1: but he was vulnerable enough to say, I still don't

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Speaker 1: have it altogether. I'm still depending on God's grace and

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Speaker 1: mercy and favor. That's why God could use him in

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Speaker 1: such a great way. There's power in being the real you,

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Speaker 1: not the fake you. To pretend you the Pharisee you,

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Speaker 1: that's a trap to keep you from seeing the favor

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Speaker 1: of God in a greater way. A friend of mine

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Speaker 1: is a pastor, and years ago he was on drugs

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Speaker 1: freed him, turned his life around. He became a minister,

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Speaker 1: was pastoring his church and telling his story, helping so

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Speaker 1: violent outbreaks. He'd harm people and throw things and be

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Speaker 1: He was a pastor, he was supposed to have it

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Speaker 1: What's significant was he was a good man. He was

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Speaker 1: the enemy lives in darkness. Anything we keep in the

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Speaker 1: dark is in the enemy's territory. As long as it's hidden,

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Speaker 1: That's his domain. But first John One says, if you

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Speaker 1: walk in the light as God is in delight, then

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Speaker 1: the blood of his son Jesus purifies us from all sin.

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Speaker 1: When you bring into the light what you're struggling with,

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Speaker 1: you come into God's territory. In the light. When you're

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Speaker 1: That's why the enemy works so hard with shame, guilt,

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Speaker 1: What people will think, how our image is going to

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Speaker 1: there's freedom. In the light, there's deliverance, there's wholeness, there's victory.

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Speaker 1: The enemy will tell you just the opposite, and ho

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Speaker 1: you'll be looked down on, you'll be ashamed. In the light,

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Speaker 1: there is no condemnation. There is mercy for mistakes. There

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Speaker 1: Get out of the enemy's domain and come over into

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