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Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 5: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 3: Oh God, bless you. It is always a joy to

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Speaker 5: We come with good news, knowing that God is on

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Speaker 3: He rewards people that seek after him.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for tuning in today, And if you're

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Speaker 5: this one. A professor told his college class that he

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Speaker 5: was going to prove that God was not real. He said, God,

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Speaker 5: if you're real, knock me off this platform, and I'll

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Speaker 5: give you fifteen minutes to do it. With every minute

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Speaker 5: that went by. He kept taunting God, saying here I

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Speaker 5: The professor got up in a daze and said, what'd

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Speaker 5: you do that for? The football player replied, God said,

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Speaker 3: So he sent me.

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Speaker 5: All right, hold up your bibles and say it like

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Speaker 3: Ready, this is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 3: I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 3: bless you. You sound great as usual.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about the legacy

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Speaker 3: Is that we break free from all the.

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Speaker 3: But no, that is not God's best. You can be free.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to live under the curse. You can

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Speaker 5: all kinds of junk in your family's bloodline. It's been

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Speaker 5: I've always been negative. Everybody in my family has had

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Speaker 5: these same addictions. Joel, No, your attitude should be This

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Speaker 5: to live under the blessing and not the curse. We're

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Speaker 5: I am reaping many benefits because of the way my

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Speaker 5: Deuteronomy thirty verse nineteen, I set before you life and death,

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Speaker 5: blessings and curses. Therefore, choose life so that you and

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Speaker 5: your descendants may live. Notice the choices you make don't

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Speaker 5: What kind of legacy am I leaving? Greed, selfishness, defeat,

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Speaker 3: Am I kind to people? Do I have a positive outlook?

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Speaker 5: Am I really making a difference with my life? I

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Speaker 5: read a story about a man by the name of

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Speaker 5: Alfred Nobel. He was the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize,

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Speaker 5: and it's kind of interesting how it all came about.

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Speaker 5: Mister Nobel was a sweetish chemist, and he invented dynamite

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Speaker 5: And he made a fortune off of this invention millions

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Speaker 5: and so he took his fortune and created the Nobel Prize.

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Speaker 3: And still to this day.

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Speaker 5: That prize rewards people for making positive accomplishments that benefit mankind.

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Speaker 5: we could read our obituaries today. Friends, this is a

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Speaker 5: That's the easy way out. But what a shame to

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Speaker 5: And I realize we all struggle in different areas, and

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Speaker 5: Do it for the future generations. Remember, people are watching

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Speaker 5: Some of you have had divorce in your family line

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Speaker 5: not going to continue. In eighteen seventy four, a member

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Speaker 5: That's exactly what my father did. Daddy's family they were

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Speaker 3: Put his foot down and did something about it. The friends,

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Speaker 5: family line mercy. That means your children or your grandchildren,

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Speaker 5: they may get off course a little bit, they may

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Speaker 5: go down the wrong path, but because of the life

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Speaker 5: you have lived, God promises he will not deal with

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Speaker 5: them like somebody that did not have a godly heritage.

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Speaker 5: He will show mercy because of the life you've lived.

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Speaker 3: I think about David.

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Speaker 5: He had this same promise that a thousand generations would

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Speaker 5: see God's mercy and that someone from his family line

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Speaker 5: would all sit upon the throne of Israel. Well, what's

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Speaker 5: interesting is twenty three years after David died, his son

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Speaker 5: Solomon was living very foolishly. He wasn't making good choices,

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Speaker 5: and God came to him and said, in effect, Solomon,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna have mercy on you, not because of anything

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Speaker 5: you've done, but because of the life your father.

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Speaker 3: David lived fifty.

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Speaker 5: Seven years after David was gone, his great grandson was

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Speaker 5: in a terrible time of crisis. He could have easily

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Speaker 5: been killed, but God showed mercy, spared his life and

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Speaker 5: protected him. And once again, it was because of the

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Speaker 5: promise he made to his great grandfather David. Three hundred

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Speaker 5: and five years after David had died, Hezekiah was being

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Speaker 5: threatened by all these enemies in the natural. He could

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Speaker 5: have been wiped out, but God showed up and turned

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Speaker 5: it all around, and he said, Hezeki, I'm not really

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Speaker 5: doing it because anything you've done. I'm doing it because

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Speaker 5: of the covenant of mercy I made with David. Who

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Speaker 5: knows how many times God God has shown us mercy

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Speaker 5: because we had a praying mother, or because we had

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Speaker 5: a father that loved God, or maybe we had a

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Speaker 5: great great great grandfather somewhere that lived a holy.

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Speaker 3: Godly life.

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Speaker 5: I think about this friend we know years ago he

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Speaker 5: was in an outlaw biker game. His mind was so

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Speaker 5: messed up. He was addicted to every kind of drug

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Speaker 5: you can imagine. He was just living a very rebellious life,

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Speaker 5: always in trouble with the law, and in the natural

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Speaker 5: you wouldn't think there's any hope for him.

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Speaker 3: But this young man had a mother that was always praying.

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Speaker 5: She was always saying, God, you remember you promised to

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Speaker 5: show my children mercy.

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Speaker 3: Well, one day this young man got so desperate and.

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Speaker 5: He sunk so low he decided he was just going

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Speaker 5: to end his life. He was standing in front of

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Speaker 5: a mirror staring at himself. He had this bottle of

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Speaker 5: pills and he's just ready to overdose. But something down

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Speaker 5: in here told him, don't do it. Go to church

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Speaker 5: one more time.

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Speaker 3: He hadn't been to church in years and years.

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Speaker 5: He didn't even know why he did it, but he

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Speaker 5: got on his motorcide and he pulled up to Lakewood.

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Speaker 5: He came into the service so high he couldn't remember

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Speaker 5: anything he said. All he could remember is that he

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Speaker 5: felt a love down in here that it had never

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Speaker 5: really felt before. He left the service that day and

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Speaker 5: out in the parking lot in front of his motorcycle.

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Speaker 5: He got down on his knees and he said, God,

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Speaker 5: if you're real, come into my life. And do you

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Speaker 5: know that very moment, his life was changed. All those

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Speaker 5: addictions were broken off of him. He got his life

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Speaker 5: cleaned up, and today he's a pastor of a church

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Speaker 5: in town, helping other young people that.

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Speaker 3: Were just like them.

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Speaker 5: But I believe that happened in part because he had

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Speaker 5: a mother that was praying. God showed mercy on him

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Speaker 5: because of the life she lived. That's the promise God

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Speaker 5: has made to us up to a thousand generations.

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Speaker 3: I loved the story of Rahab in the Bible.

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Speaker 5: She was a harlot. She came from a long line

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Speaker 5: of immorality. He studied the people of Canaan. You'll see

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Speaker 5: that they had no regard for God, and.

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Speaker 3: It just kept going from generation to generation.

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Speaker 5: But one day, Joshua and the people of Israel were

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Speaker 5: about to attack her city of Jericho, and so Joshua

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Speaker 5: was sent two men in to spy out the land,

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Speaker 5: and long story short, they ended up needing a place

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Speaker 5: to stay, and so Rahab took them into her home

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Speaker 5: and she hid them from her countrymen.

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Speaker 3: In other words, she took a stand for what was right.

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Speaker 5: She made a decision that day that she was going

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Speaker 5: to serve the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

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Speaker 5: and the God of Jacob. And because of her simple

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Speaker 5: act of faith, not only was she and all of

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Speaker 5: her family spared.

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Speaker 3: But she broke that curse that had.

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Speaker 5: Drug her family down for so many generations.

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Speaker 3: And I love what happened.

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Speaker 5: Rahab ended up marrying a Jewish man and they had

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Speaker 5: a child named Boaz. Boaz married Ruth and they had

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Speaker 5: a son named Obed. Obed had a son named Jesse.

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Speaker 5: Jesse had a son.

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Speaker 3: Named David, and as you know, David became the king.

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Speaker 5: And if you look back today, you'll see that Rahab,

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Speaker 5: the former Prospersude, is in the lineage of Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 5: The point I'm making today is no matter what family

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Speaker 5: you come from, there may be a long line of addictions, abuse,

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Speaker 5: bad choice is negativity. But if you will start making

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Speaker 5: good choices, if you will take a stand for what's right,

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Speaker 5: then you can break that curse over your family. And

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Speaker 5: just like Rayhab, you'll begin to see God's blessings and

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Speaker 5: favor on you and on your descendants. And so my

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Speaker 5: message to you today is to dig your heels in

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Speaker 5: and make a decision that you're going to live under

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Speaker 5: the blessing and not the curse. Amen, don't be passing,

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Speaker 5: don't make excuses. You got to rise up and take

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Speaker 5: authority over every negative thing that's trying to hold you back.

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Speaker 5: And remember every right choice you make. You're so in

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Speaker 5: a seed for later on. Think generationally, pass down good things,

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Speaker 5: leave a legacy of faith, a legacy of serving God

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Speaker 5: with your whole heart. If you do that, not only

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Speaker 5: will you see God's mercy see for a thousand generations

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Speaker 5: to your family line, but God will pour out his

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Speaker 5: blessings in your own life and you'll experience his victories.

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Speaker 3: Amen. He Amen. Well, let's pray together today, and we

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Speaker 3: never like to.

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Speaker 5: Close on broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 5: just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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