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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I'm so glad you're watching

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Speaker 1: Real America's Voice, and I want to encourage you today

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Speaker 1: to know that Normally, I know you're used to seeing

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Speaker 1: the news being broadcast twenty four hours a day all

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Speaker 1: over the world, but the founder of this network wanted

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Speaker 1: to take some time on this Sunday and bring some

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Speaker 1: good news to all the other news. What you do

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Speaker 1: with the next few moments can affect the years ahead

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Speaker 1: of your life. Selean in, listen to this message. I

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Speaker 1: believe it's going to speak to you, and you're going

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Speaker 1: to encounter a God who loves you and cares about

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Speaker 1: you this very moment. First Samuel chapter four begins with

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Speaker 1: verse one. Now Israel went out to battle against the

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Speaker 1: Philistines and encamp side that Ebenezer. Everybody say Ebeneze or police,

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Speaker 1: that's a good word, Ebenezer, that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: I don't ever, I want you to forget it.

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Speaker 1: All you think that is is a Baptist church, but boy,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna know what it is before.

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Speaker 2: You leave here.

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Speaker 1: I'm preaching today on the Ebernezer principle. The Ebernezer principal,

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Speaker 1: the Felistines encamped beside Ebenezer and the Phelistines encamped in

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Speaker 1: a fact, Israel and the Philistines would fight a horrific

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Speaker 1: battle at a place called Ebenezer. And I don't have

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Speaker 1: time to point it all out, but verse ten tells

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Speaker 1: us that thirty thousand Israeli soldiers were killed, and the

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Speaker 1: one verse before four thousand were killed in another place.

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Speaker 1: In that one chapter, thirty four thousand of Israel's greatest

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Speaker 1: warriors were slain at called Ebenezer. And then it begins

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Speaker 1: to open up what happened that same day, the Philistines

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Speaker 1: stole the Ark of the Covenant. For the first time

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Speaker 1: in human history. Pagan hands had the Ark of the Covenant,

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Speaker 1: which was the symbol of God's presence under the Old Covenant.

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Speaker 1: Pagan hands had captured it. Never had any not even

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Speaker 1: the Israelites could touch it, only the priests. And if

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Speaker 1: they touched it, they couldn't touch the ark. They had

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Speaker 1: to use a beam on their shoulder, and if they

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Speaker 1: touched it, they died. But pagan hands stole the presence

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Speaker 1: of God.

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Speaker 2: Didn't steal it. God let them take him. He didn't.

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Speaker 2: No man takes my life.

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Speaker 1: I lay it down freely, and they take it back

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Speaker 1: to the hometown of the Philistines and take it into

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Speaker 1: the temple of day Gone.

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Speaker 2: And when that.

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Speaker 1: Battle at Ebenezer happened, Verse thirteen tells us that they

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Speaker 1: took the ark of God, and the people's hearts trembled.

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Speaker 1: And there was an old priest named Eli and verse fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and he was ninety eight years old, and we're told

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Speaker 1: that his sons were killed in the battle. And when

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Speaker 1: he fell backwards and broke his neck.

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Speaker 2: The High Priest of Israel is dead.

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Speaker 1: The two sons are dead, and now his daughter in

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Speaker 1: And as she's having the baby, she starts dying. It's

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Speaker 1: evident to her and everyone that she is dying giving

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Speaker 1: birth to a child. And she says, with her dying

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Speaker 1: passing words, named this child Ichabod for the glory of

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Speaker 1: the Lord has departed from Israel. This is a this

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Speaker 1: is where the thirty four thousand, then two sons, then

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Speaker 1: mother and the daughter in law is dead. Think about it.

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Speaker 1: This baby is born into a world. It does not

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Speaker 1: does not have a grandfather, It does not have a God,

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Speaker 1: even God under the old Covenant, the ark of the Covenant.

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Speaker 1: For the first time ever, they Israel sing, God abandoned,

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Speaker 2: As a memorial of this horrible, horrible day in our lives.

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Speaker 2: Same book.

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Speaker 1: Go over from four to chapter seven, and we are

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Speaker 1: in the same spot where the war took place. Something

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Speaker 1: miraculous has happened, something supernatural has happened. Israel was called

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Speaker 1: help us, the Bible said that God thundered from heaven.

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Speaker 1: The phlictings were coming to attack them one last time

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Speaker 1: Sheen and called its name Ebenezer. And here's the meaning.

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Speaker 1: Here's the translation. This is what this word literally in

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Speaker 1: the Hebrew language translates over into when you say that

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Speaker 1: word Ebenezer, this is what you're saying hitherto, which is

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Speaker 1: not that's an old English classic language word, hitherto, which

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Speaker 1: means right up to this moment, up to here, up

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Speaker 1: to now, right to this very point that we are at.

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Speaker 1: The Lord has helped us. This stone is the stone

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Speaker 1: of help. And we will never never forget, no matter

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Speaker 1: what we face from this day forward, that everything we

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Speaker 1: and would have and could have taken us out. We're

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Speaker 1: putting a large stone here as a memorial to say,

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Speaker 1: up to this point, I want to declare to our enemies,

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Speaker 1: and I want to declare to a faithful God, and

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Speaker 1: I want to declare to any of the people who

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Speaker 1: thought that we were finished. Up to this point, the

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Speaker 1: Lord has helped us. When I think about this church

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Speaker 1: and I think about all the stuff for almost too long,

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Speaker 1: a lot of decades, all I can say is, up

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Speaker 1: no matter what the crisis, no matter what the emergency,

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Speaker 1: no matter what the need, no matter what the complexion

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Speaker 1: of the problem was, and the and the and the simple.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. Moments, I can.

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Speaker 1: Tell you I love it because while I preach this message,

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Speaker 1: I'm preaching it to myself.

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Speaker 2: Up there was there been hundreds.

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Speaker 1: Of times I've walked to this pool pit with almost

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Speaker 1: nothing to say, didn't know what I was going to preach.

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Speaker 1: Nothing I had studied moved me, and I just walked

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Speaker 1: into this pool pit. And all I can say sometimes

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Speaker 1: is up to this very moment, the Lord, unless he

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Speaker 1: wants to mess this perfect record up, up until this

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Speaker 1: very moment, the Lord has helped me.

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Speaker 2: Glory to God. Howdelu y'all don't need another thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't worry about next week, next Sunday.

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Speaker 2: All I can worry about is right.

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Speaker 1: Here, right now, and I feel His help in this moment,

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Speaker 1: and you do too. And sometimes you need to build

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Speaker 1: a memorial. Joshua did this all through the Book of Joshua.

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Speaker 1: Every time they would win a victory or some great

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Speaker 1: miraculous thing would happen, God would open up the Jordan

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Speaker 1: stones and build a memorial. And he said this in

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Speaker 1: the scripture, in the twenty fourth chapter. He said, and

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Speaker 1: this shall be, and this shall be a witness.

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Speaker 2: Unto us, that.

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Speaker 1: This stone shall be a witness unto us that he

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Speaker 1: has heard all the words which the Lord spoke unto us.

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Speaker 1: And this stone is a witness that God said it.

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Speaker 1: And this is the completion of the miracle. We're putting

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Speaker 1: stones right here to say. He told us he would

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Speaker 1: bring us in to the promised land. He told us

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Speaker 1: he would defeat our enemies. He told us he would

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Speaker 1: watch over us as the apple of us eye. He

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Speaker 1: told us he would feed us in the wilderness with

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Speaker 1: manna from heaven and water out of rocks. He told

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Speaker 1: us he would be all that we would ever need.

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Speaker 1: And I'm putting a memorial right here as a silent

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Speaker 1: witness that every time, for generations they'd look and they

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Speaker 1: see these stones piled up, that God has been faithful.

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Speaker 1: And boy, if let me tell you something, if these

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Speaker 1: walls could talk, if this church could talk, if we

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Speaker 1: could go back to the other building and the other building,

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Speaker 1: if I could tell you the stories of the times,

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Speaker 1: that God would give prophecies, and God would give words,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes I would preach things, and sometimes in prayer meetings,

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Speaker 1: God would give forth a message and a word or

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Speaker 1: just a thought that would come a strong impression, and.

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Speaker 2: It would be a prophetic thing.

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Speaker 1: And God has promised it, and God has done it.

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Speaker 1: And Ebenezer, all I have to do to feel good

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Speaker 1: this moment. Now I'm not speaking in tones, but if

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Speaker 1: the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Has been my help, my God. He has been with me.

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Speaker 1: He's parted every Jordan and every red sea.

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Speaker 2: He's fought every enemy.

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Speaker 1: If they came one way, they have fleed seven it.

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Speaker 1: No weapon formed against us has prospered.

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Speaker 2: And we ought to be thankful.

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Speaker 1: And understand that if these walls could talk.

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Speaker 2: They are a silent witness. Up until this moment, the

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Speaker 2: Lord has helped that people.

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Speaker 1: Same in your home, same in your family. If your

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Speaker 1: and you cried and you prayed, if those walls could talk,

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Speaker 1: the bed you turned and tossed in, worrying and praying

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad, I'm at the age I am. I'm

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Speaker 1: so glad that me and Jeries have been married thirty

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Speaker 1: eight years.

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Speaker 2: This year, and we made it.

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Speaker 1: We made it, my Lord, through many dangers, tools and snares.

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Speaker 1: I have already come twas grace that brought me safe

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Speaker 1: this far, and say, and grace will lead me home

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Speaker 1: hitherto has the Lord me? Everybody take a praise break.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to behave. I know you brought your neighbor,

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Speaker 1: and I know you brought your unsaved friend, but they

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Speaker 1: feel God right now. You should have been killed in

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Speaker 1: a bar. Somebody should have been killed in a car wreck.

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Speaker 1: Somebody should have got shot and killed. All the shady

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Speaker 1: stuff you've been in bight up.

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Speaker 2: Until this moment. Here you are.

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Speaker 1: God preserved you, God kept you, God held you. God

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Speaker 1: has signed his angels around you like a ring of fire,

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Speaker 1: keeping you day and night. The drugs couldn't kill you,

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Speaker 1: the overdose couldn't kill you.

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Speaker 2: The gun shot couldn't kill you. The car wreck couldn't

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Speaker 2: kill you. Because God said, I'm not done with him yet.

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Speaker 1: Hadelujah, All right, come.

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Speaker 3: Down, morny honey, Loujah.

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Speaker 2: Hello.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you to

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Speaker 1: Real America's voice.

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Speaker 2: There's something that's going to happen. I believe.

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Speaker 1: As you watch this program, lean in, listen, and let's

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Speaker 1: see what God can do in your life. I want

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Speaker 1: you to think with me for just a moment, that

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Speaker 1: in the same place, in the same place where they

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Speaker 1: had one of their most.

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Speaker 2: Horrific defeats.

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Speaker 1: In Ebenezer, where in one day they lost thirty four

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Speaker 1: thousand of their men. In one day, the high priest

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Speaker 1: of the apostles and prophets, and Jesus Christ himself being

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Speaker 1: the chief cornerstone stone.

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Speaker 2: My stone of help is Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 1: He helps me in my family, he helps me in

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Speaker 1: my marriage, he helps me in this church. He helps

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Speaker 1: me do what He's called me to do. He helps

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Speaker 1: me in my health. He helps me in every area,

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Speaker 1: in every decision.

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Speaker 2: He is my stone of help. And who am I?

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Speaker 2: So powerful? Was this house that God built David?

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Speaker 1: That in Matthew chapter one, in verse one, this is

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Speaker 1: the book of the genus, the generations of Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 1: the son of David.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about building.

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Speaker 1: Jesus came through that house, said I'm gonna build you

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Speaker 1: a house, and then I'm gonna make sure Jesus goes

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Speaker 1: right through that house to the world. Who am I?

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Speaker 1: Do you know how many people are lost? Do you

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Speaker 1: know how many people who have never sat in a

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Speaker 1: service and felt the presence of God? Do you know

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Speaker 1: how many people who think they have everything and they

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Speaker 1: have nothing?

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Speaker 2: And one day they will perish and go into each other?

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Speaker 2: But who am I?

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Speaker 1: And who is my family? That God would bring me

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Speaker 1: to this very point? We're gonna be all right. God

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Speaker 1: has been our help, my stone of help.

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Speaker 2: I close with this.

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Speaker 1: I was in my office yesterday morning and I heard

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Speaker 1: this verse come up in my spirit. And you don't

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Speaker 1: want to miss this, because I know when the Lord

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Speaker 1: speaks to me, and this verse came up this scripture.

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Speaker 1: I knew the scripture. I didn't know where it was.

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Speaker 2: As usual.

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Speaker 1: In First Samuel eleven, in verse nine, Israel was in

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Speaker 1: a mess again, and the Bible said, the prophet said,

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Speaker 1: by the time tomorrow, about this time, by the time

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Speaker 1: the sun gets.

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Speaker 2: Hot, you shall have help.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? By the time the sun gets hot.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes God waits on it to get hot. That's when

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Speaker 1: you grow. That's when you really learn how to trust Him.

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Speaker 1: Not when everything's perfect all the time, but by the

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Speaker 1: time the trial gets hot, by the time the sun

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Speaker 1: gets hot, I know how much you can bear. I

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Speaker 1: won't put more on you than you're able to bear.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna step in just in the nick of time,

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Speaker 1: and I will you shall have help. Up until this moment,

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Speaker 1: the Lord has helped me. Throw your hands up and

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Speaker 1: begin to praise, and just take a moment and praise

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Speaker 1: Him personally and say these words, thank you Lord, that

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Speaker 1: up until this very moment, it hadn't been perfect, It

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Speaker 1: hadn't been everything I wanted.

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Speaker 2: But the Lord has helped me.

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Speaker 1: Now you know what I feel, And I felt it

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Speaker 1: this morning, and I feel real peace right now, just

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Speaker 1: powerful release of God's annoying is coming into this room.

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Speaker 2: And I felt.

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Speaker 1: Like there were, there would be people here and in

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Speaker 1: every campus.

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Speaker 2: Who need help, who.

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Speaker 5: Need to vote the.

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Speaker 1: Ebenezer principal and turn your word of testimony into tomorrow

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Speaker 1: this and what's coming and I feel this and I

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Speaker 1: dread this, and I'm afraid of this.

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Speaker 2: And oh God, it's getting worse.

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Speaker 1: That you need to invoke the Ebenezer principle and make

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Speaker 1: the word of your testimony up until this very moment,

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Speaker 1: right here, right now, I'm in God's house hearing a

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Speaker 1: fresh word, a now word for my life. Why would

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Speaker 1: I go back to fearing and worrying and doubting him now?

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Speaker 1: And if that's you, if it's going on in your family,

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Speaker 1: you need to raise a stone of Ebenezer right here,

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Speaker 1: right now and say, I'm gonna look back in the

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Speaker 1: very place of one of my greatest defeats seemingly will

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Speaker 1: become one of the greatest victories I've ever seen in

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Speaker 1: my life and in my family. And who am I

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Speaker 1: in my family that you will bring me up to

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Speaker 1: this point like you've had it.

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Speaker 2: And if that's you, if that's you.

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Speaker 1: And you know the sermon is for you, I want

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Speaker 1: you to get out of your seat, and I want

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Speaker 1: you to walk down here. If you know it's for

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Speaker 1: your family, if you know it's for your marriage, if

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Speaker 1: you know it's for your your health, if you know

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Speaker 1: it's for your finances, if you know it's.

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Speaker 2: For your life. Right now, you're.

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Speaker 1: In a place where you really need help.

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Speaker 2: This sermon was sent to you.

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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you

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Speaker 1: to Real America's voice. Maybe you've been going through some

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Speaker 1: things and you've had moments that have discouraged you, or

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Speaker 1: maybe you just feel like you've messed up and you

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Speaker 1: can't recover. This message is for you. I believe it's

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Speaker 1: going to speak to you this very moment. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do today all day what they did.

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Speaker 2: When God brought that great victory.

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Speaker 1: But if you need God's help, throw up your hands

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Speaker 1: and look at look at the people.

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Speaker 2: Just throw up.

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Speaker 1: If you're come on, come on, come on, this is

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Speaker 1: your moment. Throw up your hands and just say, Lord, I.

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Speaker 2: Turn to you now. I turn to you in repentance.

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Speaker 2: I turn to you.

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Speaker 1: And I cry out, help help me, Lord, help me,

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Speaker 1: help me.

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Speaker 2: Jesus. I need you.

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Speaker 1: I need your help, I need your hand, I need

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Speaker 1: your touch. I know you're faithful and just make your

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Speaker 1: testimony up until this moment. The Lord has helped me

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Speaker 1: and begin to stir yourself. He has never abandoned you.

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Speaker 1: That's when you stood at the grave someone you loves.

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Speaker 1: So he was there. In the emergency room, he was there.

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Speaker 5: So that's why trust.

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Speaker 2: In the court room, he was there. Not put to

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Speaker 2: this old woo. The Lord has help. I will not

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Speaker 2: fier tonight, no matter what comes. We'll be all right.

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Speaker 2: We'll be all right no matter what comes.

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Speaker 1: If the Lord it's your stone of death, worship him

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Speaker 1: all over the rim. Some of you need to just

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Speaker 1: forget about people around you.

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Speaker 2: Now enter it to his presence. That's why I sus God.

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Speaker 1: I want our pastors to lay hands on people this morning,

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Speaker 1: on our old teams. Just to lay your hands on people.

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Speaker 1: Pray for him this morning. Let's believe God. Let's believe God.

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Speaker 1: He is our stole of help. I just God, my saves,

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Speaker 1: no matter the diagnosis, no matter the trouble. Take a

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Speaker 1: little time and worship him this morning. He says, that's

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Speaker 1: the stolen of help.

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Speaker 6: Who never figure he will never fail.

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Speaker 5: Trusting I trusting I said.

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Speaker 6: The world you you will never.

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Speaker 5: Face you something.

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Speaker 6: Sopping answer that spa the answer as that's why I trust.

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Speaker 6: I trust on as I so the answer neither can answer.

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Speaker 6: I saw the look, That's why I'm trusting. That's why

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Speaker 6: I trusted.

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Speaker 7: I saw the.

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Speaker 6: Answer as the manswer song the menswer That's why I'm trusting.

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Speaker 6: That's why I'm trusted God.

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Speaker 5: Listen your.

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Speaker 7: Woe. You will never say.

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Speaker 5: I trust God musten said, not trust God.

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Speaker 7: Must who he will never say.

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Speaker 5: When I talk, stop trust.

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Speaker 7: Me God.

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Speaker 4: Passy, not trust to God.

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Speaker 7: The same you.

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Speaker 2: Who will man.

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Speaker 6: Say you.

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Speaker 5: Trusting?

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Speaker 6: He's Messiveddio.

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Speaker 2: Not for a moment, not for a moment, not for

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Speaker 2: a moment, not for all.

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Speaker 4: Was forcys please?

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Speaker 5: Lord, is he please?

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Speaker 2: Didn't he help you?

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Speaker 4: Come?

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Speaker 8: He speak trap on trap?

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Speaker 5: So what is he his place.

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Speaker 2: Now? For Jesus for sueing.

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Speaker 5: The loss, doing woe the loved.

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Speaker 2: From the voice you shall have help me.

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Speaker 7: Speaks not for me?

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Speaker 2: Was I ever forsake us?

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Speaker 1: Right after this very lines, the Lord has kept the looses.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna leave, You're.

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Speaker 2: Gonna make you speak. I'm not gonna shoot you down.

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Speaker 1: You're coming up, said the Lord whom the name of

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Speaker 1: Jesus whisper long.

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Speaker 6: Bo said, the rods stream, the longs plays step shock,

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Speaker 6: the words speak.

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Speaker 7: The na.

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Speaker 8: Unless you come, will you mean?

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Speaker 2: Singing? Church is a prayer?

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Speaker 8: Oh, Caso, it's all you are. Will you meet me

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Speaker 8: here again?

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Speaker 5: I'm not enough, I'm naughty. No, unless you come?

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Speaker 8: Will you mean me here?

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Speaker 5: Cass, He's all you. Will you be be here?

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Speaker 7: Okay?

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Speaker 5: Will you not enough?

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Speaker 7: Unless you come?

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Speaker 2: I mean your help.

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Speaker 1: You to.

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Speaker 5: So will.

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Speaker 6: That was.

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Speaker 5: For SA.

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Speaker 8: The bo.

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Speaker 6: Loop become he speak, try.

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Speaker 2: Cold wonder time.

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Speaker 5: Snata was not the circuit Sep miscas.

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Speaker 6: Who was for sas n s Mister yess question.

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Speaker 5: Speak, truck cho Lord speak.

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Speaker 7: Came h.

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Speaker 1: H the.

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Speaker 7: D cann came sir care