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Speaker 3: There's something in our heart God that says, speak to us,

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Speaker 3: Let your life flow through it all, and we thank

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Speaker 3: you with this. Welcome to the Springs Church and Pastor Gary.

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Speaker 3: We want to take a few moments to go into

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Speaker 3: Years ago, probably ten years ago I was living in

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Speaker 4: and you see people in division, and you see the

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Speaker 4: people who are who are living in blatant sin without

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Speaker 4: any call to repentance.

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Speaker 3: It's not right, my friends, It's not God's order. And

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Speaker 3: we are called to be set apart from a sin

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Speaker 3: saturated church. But not just a sin saturated church. But folks,

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Speaker 3: let's look at ourselves as well and say, God sent

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Speaker 3: me apart from a sin saturated life. Let me not

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Speaker 3: call myself a believer and then live like the world

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Speaker 3: help me to be set apart from these things. Number three,

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Speaker 3: to be set apart not just from a sin saturated church,

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Speaker 3: but to be set apart from a compromised church. This

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Speaker 3: is not only the sons of Eli who were committing sin,

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Speaker 3: but Eli himself. But his was very different. You see,

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Speaker 3: with his sons, the sons of Eli were going out

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Speaker 3: and they were practicing wickedness. They were committing what we

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Speaker 3: call sins of commission, that means they were committing acts

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Speaker 3: of sin. But Eli had a compromise in his heart

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Speaker 3: where he was not doing the same things his sons

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Speaker 3: were doing. He was not stealing from the altar and

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Speaker 3: from the animal sacrifices. He was not going out of

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Speaker 3: committing adultery. He was not living in drunkenness like his

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Speaker 3: sons were. But yet God had something against him. There

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Speaker 3: was still something in his heart that God was after,

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Speaker 3: chasing after to redeem him. It says in First Samuel,

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Speaker 3: chapter two, if you have your bible's turn their chapter

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Speaker 3: two and verse twenty two. Now Eli was very old,

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Speaker 3: and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing,

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Speaker 3: and how they lay with women who were serving at

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Speaker 3: the entrance to the table, and then if you skip

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Speaker 3: ahead of chapter three in verse thirteen, it says this

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Speaker 3: for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were

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Speaker 3: blasphemy to God and he did not restrain them. You see,

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Speaker 3: his sin was a sin of apathy. His sin, it

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Speaker 3: wasn't going on committing adultery, but other people around him.

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Speaker 3: He had no voice from the Lord. He had no

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Speaker 3: spiritual authority in him to call out sin and to

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Speaker 3: believe that God was using him as a priest in

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Speaker 3: the house, to believe that people could be set free

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Speaker 3: from sin. And he didn't even mention it. He just

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Speaker 3: winked at it. He just turned the other eye to it.

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Speaker 3: There was a spiritual apathy in him. There was a

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Speaker 3: lack of spiritual hunger. There was lack of zeal for

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Speaker 3: holiness in his heart, and it caused him to lose

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Speaker 3: sight of the things of God. The Bible says, his

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Speaker 3: eyes grew dim. The light had almost God burned out.

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Speaker 3: In the temple, there was no there was a Bible says,

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Speaker 3: there was very little word of the Lord in that day,

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Speaker 3: very infrequent and infrequent vision. Hardly ever, a vision would

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Speaker 3: come from the Lord about direction or spiritual guidance. Have

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Speaker 3: you ever noticed that in your life, where the passion

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Speaker 3: is missing, the hatred of sin is no longer there

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Speaker 3: in your heart, the willingness to hear, the hunger to

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Speaker 3: hear the voice of the Lord. You go days without

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Speaker 3: number without hearing the Lord, and it doesn't even bother you.

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Speaker 3: There's no vision in your life. There's a lack of

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Speaker 3: hearing God about direction in your life. So you're just

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Speaker 3: chasing whatever comes along, and you find yourself making mistake

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Speaker 3: after mistake, and you're not hearing the word of the Lord.

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Speaker 3: This is the condition of a compromised church, a compromised

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Speaker 3: person within a compromised church. It's the Eli church. When

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Speaker 3: you don't have that place of fervency in the Lord's presence,

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Speaker 3: the next thing you're going to lose. Listen carefully is

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Speaker 3: your spiritual desernment. The Bible says that the people would

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Speaker 3: call good evil and evil good. They were so spiritually confused,

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Speaker 3: they were so out of touch with spiritual desernment. They

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Speaker 3: could look at something that's evil and call it good,

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Speaker 3: and they could look at something good and say that's

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Speaker 3: out of order, that's too much. And here's what Samuel,

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Speaker 3: excuse me, here's what Eli does. The Bible says he

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Speaker 3: doesn't restrain his own sons who are drunk, adulterers and thieves.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't strain of it at all. But he comes

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Speaker 3: into the temple one day and there's a woman and

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Speaker 3: she's kneeling down and she's crying out from her heart.

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Speaker 3: She's a pure woman, a holy woman, a woman of

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Speaker 3: zeal and passion. And she gets on her knees before

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Speaker 3: the Lord and tears are filling her face, and she's

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Speaker 3: crying out, giving me a son, God, birth a son,

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Speaker 3: and not GONI be a son devoted and dedicated to you,

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Speaker 3: and have the heart after God. This is what I want.

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Speaker 3: This is what I cried. And he looks at her

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Speaker 3: and he goes Eli looks at her and says she's drunk,

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Speaker 3: and he actually comes up to her and he rebukes her.

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Speaker 3: How can you be drunk in the house of the Lord. Now,

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Speaker 3: I'm a little bit cynical at times. I think if

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Speaker 3: you asked me that question, I say, yeah, your sons

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Speaker 3: gave me some of their extra you know, That's that's

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Speaker 3: where I got it. Why don't you look at your

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Speaker 3: own household? See, his desernment was so gone that that

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Speaker 3: which was evil in his own house he ignored, and

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Speaker 3: that which was pure he missed. He didn't see it,

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Speaker 3: he was blind to it. And I tell you we

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Speaker 3: are in a dangerous place when we look at a

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Speaker 3: young man or a young woman or a grandmother or

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Speaker 3: grandfather who's on fire for God, who speaks the word

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Speaker 3: of God, and you start thinking about them and there

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Speaker 3: so they just talk about Jesus all the time, and

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Speaker 3: they just want to pray for you all the time,

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Speaker 3: and they have words from the Lord for you, and

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Speaker 3: you kind of feel like they are so over the top.

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Speaker 3: They're just too radical. They're just too into the just.

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Speaker 3: They're Jesus freaks. And we know, and we desern and

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Speaker 3: we look at those sometimes we look at those people

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Speaker 3: and we say, it's just, you know, they need to

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Speaker 3: get moderate. If you're a young believer in here and

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Speaker 3: you just met Jesus and you're on fire for God,

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Speaker 3: and when you read this Bible and it says you

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Speaker 3: shall pray for the sick and they'll be healed, and

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Speaker 3: you start praying for the sick and they get healed.

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Speaker 3: And you get around an older Christian who tells you

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Speaker 3: you just need to mature, You need to mellow out.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell them this that your pastor gave you

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Speaker 3: permission to rebuke them in the name of Jesus, and

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Speaker 3: then you just you tell the young people, old people,

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Speaker 3: if you are on zeal for God and someone tries

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Speaker 3: to quench that quench the Holy Spirit in you, you

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Speaker 3: resist that word from them. Don't allow the old Eli

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Speaker 3: prophet who doesn't know the desernment of the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 3: to try to quench the spirit of God in your life.

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Speaker 3: A young man came into my office this week. We're

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Speaker 3: at a missions meeting, and I almost fell into the

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Speaker 3: Eli trapped myself. Lord always does this. Whatever I'm preaching,

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Speaker 3: he kind of like shows it to me in my

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Speaker 3: own heart. And a young man came into our office day.

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Speaker 3: He just got back from Mexico and he was there

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Speaker 3: for about two weeks. And you ever seen somebody that

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Speaker 3: comes back from mission trip. They're always like oooh, you know,

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Speaker 3: they're all excited, and I mean this guy was like,

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Speaker 3: you know, flames coming out of his nostrils. It was

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Speaker 3: like he was arm on fire. I forgot and he

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Speaker 3: began to give us a report of his experience, and

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Speaker 3: it was an amazing experience. He was there for two weeks,

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Speaker 3: and on one day alone he was there, he helped

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Speaker 3: lead twenty two people to Jesus Christ. Not amazing. One day,

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Speaker 3: just through personal evangelism, he walked into a hut and

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Speaker 3: there was a woman there. Through her idolatry had become

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Speaker 3: demon possessed, and she was feverish and totally out of

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Speaker 3: her mind. And they laid hands on her and prayed

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Speaker 3: for her and she was delivered instantaneously to serve and

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Speaker 3: loved Jesus. He said that they prayed for a person

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Speaker 3: who was blind and the blind eyes open and that

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Speaker 3: person could see that awesome. And I'm sitting there in

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Speaker 3: the office here and as he was talking, he was saying,

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Speaker 3: and we need to kind of do this in America.

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Speaker 3: You know, we did our and I kind of I

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Speaker 3: was almost started to go, like, settle down. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's okay, you know you need to just you know this,

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Speaker 3: not every day twenty two people are gonna get saved,

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Speaker 3: and not every day, you know. I didn't say this,

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Speaker 3: but I was kind of thinking it. And then the

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Speaker 3: Lord rebuked me, don't quench that fire and don't put

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Speaker 3: out that thing that God's doing in his life as

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Speaker 3: a matter of fact, get some of that yourself, see

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Speaker 3: and our descernment. When when we don't, we're no longer

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Speaker 3: in that prayer closet. We lose that desernment, and we

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Speaker 3: also lose our anointing. See Hannah had an anointing God.

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Speaker 3: I'm barren, but she had an anointing to bring forth

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Speaker 3: birth of something new, this new thing that God was

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Speaker 3: doing in a generation. She could bring it forth because

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Speaker 3: she had an anointing, because she was seeking the face

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Speaker 3: of God. Eli was not seeking the face of God,

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Speaker 3: and not only did not have deserment, he had no anointing.

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Speaker 3: Even if he weren't to speak to his sons, they

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Speaker 3: wouldn't repent because there's no power in his life.

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Speaker 1: You will be like God.

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Speaker 3: Human unity. God was severed and through it all God's

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Speaker 3: promise remain true.

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Speaker 1: Follow me apron and I would make it great.

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Speaker 2: This is the Chosen People.

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Speaker 3: Listen to the Chosen People at the Chosen.

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