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Speaker 1: Help me to move with critical obedience when you give

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Speaker 2: Sodom and Gomorrah. Before this story, we learned about how

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Speaker 3: City for its wickedness. Abraham asked again and again about

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Speaker 4: Last time, we heard about God's visit to Abraham and

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Speaker 4: But how often do we keep sin close, cherishing it

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Speaker 4: When God gives you an escape, a chance to sever

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Speaker 4: don't go there again, for the old life of sin

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