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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Oh God, bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: can come visit us in person. We'd love for you

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Speaker 1: to be a part of one of our services. But

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and in Texas

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Speaker 1: we're known for everything being bigger. There was this Texan

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Speaker 1: farmer that loved to brag about the size of his ranch.

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Speaker 1: He was in England and he met this English farmer

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Speaker 1: and he asked him how big his ranch was, knowing

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Speaker 1: that he'd probably ask about his. The Englishman said, my

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Speaker 1: ranch is thirty five acres. How big is yours? The

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Speaker 1: Texans said, let's just put it this way. If I

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Speaker 1: got in my truck at sunrise and started driving across

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Speaker 1: my property at sunset, I'd still be on my ranch.

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Speaker 1: The Englishman said, yeah, I used to have a truck

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Speaker 1: like that. Say it like you mean it. 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 the lion and the lamb. On

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Speaker 1: the inside of each one of us is both. There's

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Speaker 1: a lion. It's there to protect, to defend, to conquer.

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Speaker 1: The lion is courageous, aggressive and helps us accomplish our dreams.

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Speaker 1: There's also a lamb in us. It's there to stay

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Speaker 1: in peace, to overlook offenses, to not respond to every circumstance,

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Speaker 1: to let God fight our battles. When we see this

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Speaker 1: with Jesus, he was called the lion of the tribe

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Speaker 1: of Judah. As the lion, he overturned the tables in

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Speaker 1: As the lion, he spoke strongly to the Pharisees, the

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Speaker 1: religious leaders who had impure motives and called them hypocrites,

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Speaker 1: said they had dead men's bones. He was also called

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Speaker 1: the lamb of God. As the lamb, he didn't respond

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Speaker 1: to his critics when they brought him before Pilot for

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Speaker 1: all these false accusations. The scripture says he answered them

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Speaker 1: not a word. He didn't defend himself. On the way

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Speaker 1: to the cross, the soldiers and others mocked him, made fun, Hey,

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Speaker 1: if you're so great, if you're really the king, why

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Speaker 1: don't you come down save yourself? He said, I could

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Speaker 1: have called ten thousand angels to rescue me, but he

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Speaker 1: didn't do it. He had a purpose to fulfill. He

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Speaker 1: knew it was all a part of God's plan. It's

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Speaker 1: not are you a lion or are you a lamb?

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Speaker 1: You're both. The key is knowing which one is supposed

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Speaker 1: to come out. Ecclesiastes says there is a time and

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Speaker 1: season for every purpose. There is a time for war

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Speaker 1: and a time for peace, a time to fight and

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Speaker 1: a time to hold back. You won't reach your destiny

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Speaker 1: being all lion fighting all the time, or being all

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Speaker 1: lamb retreating all the time. And some people are good

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Speaker 1: at being the lion. You look at them wrong and

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Speaker 1: they'll roar. They love arguing, getting even speaking their mind.

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Speaker 1: They're easily offended, always trying to pay people back. Someone

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Speaker 1: cuts them off in traffic, they're trying to catch them.

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Speaker 1: They'll drive five miles past their exit because they want

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Speaker 1: to show them here's something important. You're not supposed to

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Speaker 1: fight every battle. Many of the things that come against

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Speaker 1: us are simply distractions. It's the enemy trying to waste

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Speaker 1: your time, your energy, your emotions, getting you engaged in

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Speaker 1: conflict that doesn't matter. When someone does us wrong, they

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Speaker 1: say hurtful things. That lion naturally comes out here. I

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Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself, if you win that battle,

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Speaker 1: what's it going to accomplish? Is it between you and

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Speaker 1: your destiny? Is it going to move you forward? Or

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Speaker 1: is it just going to feed your ego, make you

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Speaker 1: That's a distraction. Your time is too valuable, your assignment

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Speaker 1: too important to get sidetracked fighting battles that don't matter.

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Speaker 1: You're not just the lion. There's a lamb in you.

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Speaker 1: The lamb stays in peace. The lamb is not annoyed

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Speaker 1: away from conflict, and in the life of Jesus, he

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Speaker 1: was the lamb many more times than he was the lion.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if the reason we get stressed, frustrat it

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Speaker 1: can't seem to make progress is we're letting the lion dominate.

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Speaker 1: We're always trying to defend and prove and control. And

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Speaker 1: show them that I'm okay. Some people, no matter what

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Speaker 1: you do convince them, two more will come along that

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Speaker 1: don't like you. It's a trap where you always have

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Speaker 1: to live in this fight. Mom, look what they said,

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Speaker 1: and my boss left me out and I got caught

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Speaker 1: in traffic again. Everything's a fight. Do yourself a favor.

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Speaker 1: Let the lamb come out. Let God fight your battles. Well, Joe,

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Speaker 1: they're talking about me. They're making me look bad. Can

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Speaker 1: I encourage you. God con vindicate you better than you

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Speaker 1: convindicate yourself. If you will say in peace, God said,

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Speaker 1: he will prepare a table before you in the presence

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Speaker 1: of your enemies. He will promote you in front of

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Speaker 1: the people that are trying to push you down. And

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Speaker 1: yes we need the lion. There are times we need

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Speaker 1: to fight, but most of the things that come against

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Speaker 1: us are pity little things that seem big to us.

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Speaker 1: They misunderstand me, They said things that weren't true. This

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Speaker 1: is not fair. I know it's hurtful. None of us

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Speaker 1: like it, but it's not going to keep you from

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Speaker 1: your purpose. When Jesus hung on the cross and refused

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Speaker 1: to have the angels come rescue him, he was saying,

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Speaker 1: in effect, to reach your destiny, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: put up with some things. You're gonna have to be

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Speaker 1: the bigger person and overlook some insults and not defend

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Speaker 1: yourself every time, not have to have the last word. Now,

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Speaker 1: spend your energy roaring trying to straighten people out. You're

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Speaker 1: God fight your battles. Put your reputation in his hands.

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Speaker 1: You have to trust the purpose of God for your

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Speaker 1: life that what he's doing doesn't need you to correct

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Speaker 1: along the way. Straighten every person out, fix this one

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Speaker 1: over here, control that one over there. Your lyon is

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Speaker 1: going to have a nervous breakdown. He told me to

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Speaker 1: tell you, give me a day off there's a lamb

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Speaker 1: in you that's ready to rise up. The lamb is

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Speaker 1: a place of peace. The lamb is knowing that God

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Speaker 1: is your vindicator, that nothing can stop what he is

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Speaker 1: purpose for your life. When you're in peace, you're in

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Speaker 1: a position of power. Seems like being loud, force full, aggressive,

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Speaker 1: and you'll know that he is God. And it's interesting,

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Speaker 1: out of all the animals that God could have compared

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Speaker 1: us to, there's the lion and the lamb. The lamb

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Speaker 1: is one of the most peaceful, calm, unbothered animals you

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Speaker 1: know they have a shepherd. They're confident that someone is

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Speaker 1: stay in peace. And sometimes we're trying to make it

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Speaker 1: so to speak the opportunity and kick the door opening.

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Speaker 1: just up to us. We have a shepherd. We have

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Speaker 1: a deliverer. But if you live in a fight mode,

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Speaker 1: thinking the lion always has to rise up, you won't

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Speaker 1: be able to say with David, the Lord is my shepherd,

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Speaker 1: I shall not want one translation says I have everything

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Speaker 1: as a lamb we have a shepherd watching over us.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to connive, manipulate, defend. We can live

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Speaker 1: in peace knowing that the good shepherd is in control

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Speaker 1: of our life. Victoria and I were in Colorado a

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Speaker 1: while back riding four wheelers, and we're out in the

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Speaker 1: National Forest and it was very beautiful. We came around

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Speaker 1: their peace. We need to take a lesson from them.

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Speaker 1: Next time someone reps their engine at you, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: peace to have a productive day. No one can take

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Speaker 1: in control of your peace. You can't control what other

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Speaker 1: but you can control how you respond. I know sometimes

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Speaker 1: we do have to confront and the lion needs to roar,

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Speaker 1: older brother Eliab saw David, he said, in front of

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Speaker 1: all the soldiers, what are you doing here, David? And

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Speaker 1: what did you do with those few sheep you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be taking care of. He tried to be little

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Speaker 1: David and make him feel small here. David had done

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Speaker 1: a good deed and traveled all day. He could have

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Speaker 1: been offended. I'm sure the lion rose up his emotion

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Speaker 1: The scripture says David turned and walked away. He had

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Speaker 1: To be the lamb, you have to swallow your pride.

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Speaker 1: You can't let your ego get the best of you.

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Speaker 1: lot of times we want to rule other people, control

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Speaker 1: how we're treated, control what they say, their opinion. We

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Speaker 1: can't control those things. What you can control is your

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Speaker 1: own spirit. You get to choose the lion or the lamb.

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Speaker 1: Your emotions will choose the lion. They want to engage, payback, defend.

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Speaker 1: That's not always the right choice. If you're the lion

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Speaker 1: all the time, you'll get distracted fighting battles that don't

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Speaker 1: matter what significant is. A few minutes later, David heard

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Speaker 1: Goliath taunting the Israelites. He came out on the side

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