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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. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your line.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this husband and wife. They were celebrating their sixtieth

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Speaker 2: birthdays together when an angel suddenly appeared and said that

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Speaker 2: God was going to grant them each one special request,

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Speaker 2: and they were so excited. The wife said, my request

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Speaker 2: is that we'd be able to travel all over the

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Speaker 2: world and proof when the smoke cleared, she had tickets

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Speaker 2: in her hand. Well, her husband put his head down

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Speaker 2: in shame and said, my request is that I would

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Speaker 2: be married to a woman thirty years younger than me

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Speaker 2: and poof when the smoke cleared, he was ninety years old,

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Speaker 2: all right, y'all say it.

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Speaker 1: Like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is 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: taught to word of God. I boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about clothed with love.

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Speaker 2: There's so much noise in our society.

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Speaker 1: Opinions can become like weapons. People that are argumentative, judgmental, divisive.

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Speaker 2: Everyone has a platform through social media. You can speak

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Speaker 2: your mind, set people's strength, call them out, insult them.

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Speaker 2: Being harsh, rude, shocking can become normal to us. The

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Speaker 2: more we see it, the more desensitized we are. If

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Speaker 2: we're not careful, we'll be like what's around us. We'll

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Speaker 2: think it's okay to attack, belittle, insult.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's doing it.

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Speaker 2: But God has called us to live by a higher standard,

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Speaker 2: to be the exception.

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Speaker 1: Don't let all the noise, the hate, the disrespect.

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Speaker 2: People who are loud and abrasive, don't let that poison

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Speaker 2: get in you. Don't become like your environment and Colossians

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Speaker 2: three says you must clothe yourself with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness.

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Speaker 1: And patience.

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Speaker 2: Make allowances for people's faults, and forgive the person who offends.

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Speaker 1: As Christ has forgiven you.

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Speaker 2: Paul was saying, you have to get dressed each morning

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Speaker 2: in the right clothes, clothe yourself.

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Speaker 1: Clothes don't jump on you. You have to choose to

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Speaker 1: put them on. Put on kindness.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be nice and friendly today. Put on gentleness.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be easy going and understanding. Put on mercy.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make allowances when people don't perform perfectly.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them grace when they make mistakes. Put

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Speaker 1: on humility.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go around arrogant, looking down on people.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna treat everyone with respect. Put on patience.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay in peace when things don't go my way.

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Speaker 1: Put on forgiveness.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna hold a grudge living offended. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: forgive those that do me wrong. After Paul listed all

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Speaker 2: these qualities that we need to put on each day,

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Speaker 2: he finished by saying, and the most important piece of

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Speaker 2: clothing you must wear is love.

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Speaker 1: You would think.

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Speaker 2: He would say, the most important thing is faith. You

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Speaker 2: can't please God without faith or truth. It's the truth

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Speaker 2: that sets people free, or justice. You have to stand

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Speaker 2: up for those that don't have a voice, help the

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Speaker 2: less fortunate. Those are all good, we should put them on.

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Speaker 2: But the most important piece of clothing you must wear

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Speaker 2: is love, because without love, the others aren't as effective.

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Speaker 2: You can be right, you know the other person is wrong.

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Speaker 2: You have the facts, here's the truth. But without love,

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Speaker 2: If I speak with the tongue of men or the

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Speaker 2: tongue of angels, and have not love, I am only

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Speaker 2: a loud, clinging symbol.

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Speaker 2: He was saying, you can be gifted, articulate, powerful, have

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Speaker 2: all this impressive knowledge, but without love, you're just a

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Speaker 2: lot of noise, just a lot of clinging, not effective,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Are sincere, they're passionate, but they're not speaking the truth

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Speaker 2: They become offended, argumentative, disrespectful. They wonder why they're not effective,

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Speaker 2: Why now they don't have more influence.

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Speaker 1: There's no love.

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Speaker 2: It's ego, pride, competition, making others look bad so they'll

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Speaker 2: look good. Those are not things God is going to bless.

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Speaker 2: You may be right, but where's the love? Where's the kindness?

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Speaker 2: Where is being merciful and understanding? You can be gentle

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Speaker 2: without being weak. You can be kind and strong at

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Speaker 2: the same time. You don't have to be harsh and

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Speaker 1: Love is more powerful than loudness.

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Speaker 2: Truth spoken softly is more powerful than yelling at someone,

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Speaker 2: being offensive, insulting to prove a point, criticizing someone back.

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Speaker 2: That's sinking down to their level. Do yourself a favor,

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Speaker 2: put on your code of love.

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Speaker 1: See Jesus was strong, but he was kind. He had

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Speaker 2: He was God better than any of us, never made

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Speaker 2: a mistake, but he walked in humility. He washed people's

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Speaker 2: And yes he got upset he threw people out of

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Speaker 2: the temple, but it wasn't out of bitterness and hatred.

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Speaker 2: Down he didn't want to see people being taken advantage of. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying to not be passionate and to never

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Speaker 2: stand strong, but you should do it out of love

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Speaker 2: and not out of anger and ego and competition. If

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Speaker 2: you don't have love, your good intentions are going to

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Speaker 2: turn into claning symbols, a lot of noise but little impact.

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Speaker 2: Being loud doesn't equate to being effective, Being harsh, argumentative,

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Speaker 2: trying to force your opinion. You may be right, you

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Speaker 2: have the truth, but you can do it the wrong

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Speaker 2: way and still be wrong. And I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: How about in your marriage? How about with your children,

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Speaker 2: Are you putting on love, making allowances for their weaknesses

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Speaker 2: prove that you're right? Are you forgiving the wrongs as

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Speaker 2: Christ forgave us? Are you holding a grudge making them pay,

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Speaker 1: The cold shoulder? After all, they were at fault, they

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Speaker 1: deserve it. How about putting on some mercy?

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Speaker 2: How about putting on some gentleness, being understanding. The mercy

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Speaker 2: show you. I was in my backyard one afternoon watering

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Speaker 1: Rode my bike.

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Speaker 2: Victoria came out and said, Joe, we need to run

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Speaker 2: up to the store and pick something up, piece of

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Speaker 2: equipment she had ordered. Well, I was in my workout clothes,

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Speaker 2: my gym shortz and this blue T shirt.

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Speaker 1: That I always wear. My children kid me that it's

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Speaker 1: my uniform. I've had it like forty seven years.

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Speaker 2: The collars all stretched out, faded straggly on one side.

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Speaker 1: And I have other shirts, but that's the one I like.

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Speaker 2: And I told Victoria I can't go anywhere I'm not dressed.

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Speaker 2: I'd have to go in, take a shower and put

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Speaker 2: some better clothes on. She said, no, Joel, you don't

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Speaker 1: Of the car. They're going to put it in the

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Speaker 1: back for us. So we got there. They loaded it

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Speaker 2: As we were driving away, Victoria saw this other store.

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Speaker 2: When she gets close to a mall, there's an unseen force.

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Speaker 1: That tries to pull her in. She said, Joel, let's

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Speaker 2: I've been wanting to there's something I really want to see.

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Speaker 2: I said, no, Victoria, I am not dressed. That's a

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Speaker 2: nice place. I'll go in home Depot, I'll go to Walmart,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not going in there.

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Speaker 1: She said, Joel, you're fine. You look great. I'm either

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Speaker 1: We walked in and it was a nice store.

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Speaker 2: There were three salespeople there to greet us, two men

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Speaker 2: and an old woman. The men were in the finest suits,

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Speaker 2: impeccable shoeshine. The woman was in a beautiful pantsuit, elegant, sophisticated,

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Speaker 2: looked like they had just stepped out of a fashion magazine,

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Speaker 2: and looked like I just stepped out of a farming magazine.

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Speaker 2: And the first thing the man said was all, Pastor, Joel,

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Speaker 2: we've never seen you like this. Now.

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Speaker 1: We all laughed and laughed.

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Speaker 2: I thought, yeah, and you're about to have never seen

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Speaker 1: Here's my point. When I walked in.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't said a word, but my clothes sent a message.

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Speaker 2: What I was wearing communicated something to them, not only

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Speaker 2: that what I had on was affecting me. I didn't

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Speaker 2: feel good good about going in. I knew I wasn't

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Speaker 2: dressed appropriately. People read your clothing before you say a word.

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Speaker 2: They form impressions before you open your mouth.

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Speaker 1: Depending on how you dress.

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Speaker 2: Casually, fond, sophisticated dressing, that's.

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Speaker 1: All communicating something.

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Speaker 2: If you dress sloppy, close, wrinkled, don't fit out of style, risk, gay.

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Speaker 1: Those are all sending a message about you.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the physical in the scene, but it's the

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Speaker 2: same in the unseen. When you put on kindness, gentleness, humility, mercy,

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Speaker 2: you're sending a message to people before you say a word.

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Speaker 1: They can sense who you are.

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Speaker 2: It's creating this impression love, goodness, respect that draws people in,

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Speaker 2: that gives you favor, that brings healthy relationships.

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Speaker 1: And sure the opposite is true.

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Speaker 2: If you get dressed with pride, competition, bitterness, sarcasm, that's how.

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Speaker 1: People are reading you. You're projecting it without saying in

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Speaker 1: a word. You know how it is. You can sense

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Speaker 1: when someone is arrogant, when they're unfriendly, when they have

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Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulder.

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Speaker 2: You can sum them up in no time by the

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Speaker 2: feeling and how they carrying themselves. In the same way,

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Speaker 2: knew my shirt was old, I knew my gym shorts

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Speaker 2: were dirty. It's the same way in the unseen. You

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Speaker 2: know when you have a bad attitude, when you're condescending,

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Speaker 2: a message to others, but it doesn't feel right to you.

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Speaker 1: You don't like who you are.

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Speaker 2: You may get used to it, talk yourself into it,

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Speaker 2: but deep down there's an unrest and uneasiness.

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Speaker 1: It's because that's not who you were created to be.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of division, strife, people arguing.

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Speaker 2: All through the scripture we can see how Jesus didn't

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Speaker 2: When he saw zach Kiss, a despised tax collector. They

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Speaker 2: Or how about when the leper came to Jesus, fell

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Speaker 1: Lepers were unclean, contagious.

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Speaker 2: They were supposed to keep their distance. Hear this man

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Speaker 1: Can you believe it? He's gonna get lepers set.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says instantly, the men's skin was made whole

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Speaker 2: We're not going to be judged by how right we are,

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Speaker 1: Just like you get dressed each morning physically, you need

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