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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.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: And so grateful today that God calls us just the

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Speaker 2: way we are. He doesn't call us when we're perfect,

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Speaker 2: when we've got ourselves looking good, when.

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Speaker 3: We're just like we think we should be. God calls

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Speaker 3: each and every one of us just the way we are.

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Speaker 2: And when he calls us, he calls us from that

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Speaker 2: place of love and commitment to us. You know, it

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Speaker 2: would be so free to live a life where you

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Speaker 2: felt like everybody loved you.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't it.

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Speaker 2: It'd be like you'd be so free from thinking of

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Speaker 2: saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing. You

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Speaker 2: would be so free to live out of a place

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Speaker 2: of abundance not judgment.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if lately people get so uptight about

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Speaker 2: things because of Instagram and Facebook. You know, it's interesting

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Speaker 2: because the way we present ourself is so important. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they've got filters to make things look better.

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Speaker 3: We've got apps to give us the right curves. We've

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Speaker 3: got things to make our eyes more green or more blue.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we present ourself so that we can have

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Speaker 2: the approval of other people. You know, you can get

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Speaker 2: caught up in all that can I tell you this, though,

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Speaker 2: God doesn't need you to put a filter on your life.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't need you to download it out to make

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Speaker 3: yourself look better. God likes you. He loves you just

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Speaker 3: the way you are.

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Speaker 2: Live in the freedom that God loves you unconditionally. You see,

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Speaker 2: if we'll build our life on this foundation, each and

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Speaker 2: every day, if we'll get up and we'll truly say God,

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna condemn myself. I don't believe you're condemning me.

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Speaker 2: I believe that you love me with an everlasting love.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out those doors being my very best today,

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Speaker 2: honoring you, knowing that I'm not perfect, but you are,

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Speaker 2: and that there's nothing you can't do through me. I

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Speaker 2: believe when we live our life like that, will be steady,

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Speaker 2: We'll be strong.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we fall into the thinking that God loves us

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Speaker 2: according to our performance. If we do everything right, then

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Speaker 3: But that is not true.

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Speaker 2: That couldn't be further from the truth. See, God loves

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Speaker 2: us unconditionally. The Bible says he loves us.

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Speaker 2: If you're basing God's love on your actions, that's conditional.

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Speaker 2: See you're saying, God, when I do right, you love me.

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Speaker 2: When I miss the mark, you get mad at me.

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Speaker 2: See God does love us like that. God loves us

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Speaker 2: because of Jesus Christ. You can't work for God's love.

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Speaker 2: You See when we start thinking like that, when we

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Speaker 2: have attitudes like God, I have been so good lately.

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Speaker 2: You know I'm gonna do this God, because I want

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Speaker 2: your blessing. I want you to be proud of me

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Speaker 2: and love me even more. You know what you're doing.

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Speaker 2: You're shifting yourself from a place of unconditional love to

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Speaker 2: a place of works.

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Speaker 3: And it's so easy to get caught up in works.

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Speaker 3: Because when you get caught up in works, you know

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Speaker 2: You begin to look at other people and say, you

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Speaker 2: know what, God, they're not as good as me, they're

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Speaker 2: not acting as good as me, they're not doing as

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Speaker 2: well as I am. Why are they getting all the blessings?

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Speaker 2: We begin to shift our perspective and we begin to

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Speaker 2: see through these eyes of who deserves it and who doesn't?

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Speaker 2: And why should you have it? And why do I not?

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Speaker 2: The work has been done. You can't work for God's

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Speaker 3: You know what, You can only receive it. It's a

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Speaker 2: You can only receive it. It's only what you believe.

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Speaker 2: If you believe that Jesus died for you, if you

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Speaker 2: believe that he closed the gap between heaven and earth,

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Speaker 2: and now you are this way with God. You are

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Speaker 2: in God's favor, you are in God's grace, and you

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Speaker 2: are in God's love.

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Speaker 3: You can only receive that.

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Speaker 2: You can't work for it. The price was too great.

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Speaker 2: You could never pay the price that Jesus paid. Joel

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Speaker 2: and I have been married about thirty years now, almost

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Speaker 2: thirty years. And it's interesting because I can look back

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Speaker 2: over our marriage and we have a great marriage. But

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Speaker 2: our marriage was built on unconditional love.

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Speaker 3: See, our marriage wasn't built.

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Speaker 2: On Joel being perfect. I know y'all think he is,

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Speaker 2: he almost is. It wasn't built on Joel being perfect.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't built on us a green on everything. It

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Speaker 2: was built on a commitment of knowing. We go back

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Speaker 2: to the place that we love each other unconditionally. See,

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Speaker 2: we don't get up in the morning and we don't

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Speaker 3: You did wrong, so I don't love you as much.

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Speaker 2: You didn't agree with me, you didn't meet all my needs,

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Speaker 2: So you know what, I don't quite.

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Speaker 3: Love you as much today as I did yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if I would come into Joel's presence

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Speaker 2: and I would feel all low because maybe I didn't

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Speaker 3: Maybe I didn't meet an expectation he had.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I burned the dinner, I didn't balance the check book,

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Speaker 2: I spent too much money. Can you imagine if I

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Speaker 3: That, how I would feel. I would feel so worthless.

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Speaker 2: I would feel like you know, I would project my

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Speaker 2: worthlessness on him.

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Speaker 3: I would think, if I feel bad.

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Speaker 2: If I'm inadequate, you must think I am bad and inadequate.

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Speaker 2: You see, I would project that on him and he

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Speaker 2: may not even be thinking that, he may not even care.

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Speaker 2: But I would think he doesn't love me because I did.

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Speaker 3: All these things.

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Speaker 2: You know what. That wouldn't make me grow, It wouldn't

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Speaker 2: make me flourish, It wouldn't make our marriage strong.

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Speaker 3: But if I come in and I say, amen, I

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Speaker 3: spend a little too much money today, but I did get.

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Speaker 2: It on sale. Hey, I'm sorry, I'll do better next time.

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Speaker 2: And I come in with an attitude of you know what,

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Speaker 2: he loves me unconditionally.

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Speaker 3: It empowers me to do better.

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Speaker 2: And do you know when you build your life on

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Speaker 3: Only way you're gonna get better.

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Speaker 2: Then you're gonna say God, I'm sorry, rested up big time,

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Speaker 2: But thank you that you still love me, thank you

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Speaker 2: that I can do better, thank you that.

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Speaker 2: Children grow develop and become everything when they're in a

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Speaker 2: nurturing and loving environment, not when they're in a harsh

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Speaker 2: and critical place. And see, we have to understand that

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Speaker 2: what was done on the cross was a demonstration of

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Speaker 2: love to us, way before we ever accepted Jesus. The

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Speaker 2: Bible says it like this, while you were yet sinners,

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Speaker 2: Christ died for you. He gave, he demonstrated the greatest

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Speaker 2: knowing that what He did for you is all there

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Speaker 2: needs to be done. So I just want to encourage us.

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Speaker 2: Don't take your own faults and your own inadequacies and

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Speaker 2: put them on God. Decide if I can't forgive myself,

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Speaker 2: if I don't like myself, I guess God doesn't either.

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Speaker 2: And we walk around with this mentality of I've got

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Speaker 2: a work for God. If I'm ever gonna be anything,

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Speaker 2: I've got to show God. I was talking to a

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Speaker 2: really nice young man the other day, and he told me,

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Speaker 2: I used to tell God, God, why do all these

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Speaker 3: What's wrong with me?

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Speaker 4: God?

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Speaker 2: Why what have I done to deserve all these crazy

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Speaker 2: things that have gone on in my life. I've been divorced,

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Speaker 2: lost my children. I just I'm just struggling all the time.

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Speaker 2: He was looking at what was going on in his

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Speaker 2: was worth about that much. Until one day he shift

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Speaker 2: all through Jesus Christ. Somehow that message came through to him,

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Speaker 2: and he said, it was interesting when I began to

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Speaker 2: change my perspective and I begin to say, God, show

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Speaker 2: me your love.

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Speaker 3: God, teach me.

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Speaker 2: What is it you want me to learn from these situations?

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Speaker 2: He said, my whole life changed. My whole life opened up.

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Speaker 2: He said, I wasn't disappointed all the time, but God

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Speaker 3: He had been through many trials.

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Speaker 2: He'd been shipwrecked, he'd been persecuted, he'd been beaten, he'd

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Speaker 2: in romans Ad. He says, what can separate us from

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Speaker 2: he was saying, what I'm going through right now. That

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean God doesn't love me. There is no separation

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Speaker 2: in God's love. But can I ask you this question,

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Speaker 2: Can we make that separation in our own mind when

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Speaker 2: it's not true. And when we separate ourselves in our

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Speaker 2: How do we believe in the Cross? How do we

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Speaker 3: Thinks you're not worthy. And can I tell you got

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Speaker 3: to point yourself back to the Cross because you don't

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Speaker 3: deserve it. No, you don't deserve it.

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Speaker 2: I don't deserve it, but Jesus thinks we do. And

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Speaker 2: He paid it all for us.

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Speaker 3: He paid it all for us.

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Speaker 2: Listen, as long as you're alive, as long as you're

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Speaker 2: be doubt, there's going to be plenty of times that

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Speaker 2: you can feel worthless.

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Speaker 2: You this, God made you worthy. You've got to build

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Speaker 2: foundation of unconditional love and approval forgiveness. See all of

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Speaker 2: that God gave you on the Cross. He accepted you,

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Speaker 2: He forgave you. He approved you.

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Speaker 3: When you live under the umbrella of God's grace, guess

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Speaker 3: what you not.

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Speaker 2: Only will improve your life, but you will have so

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Speaker 2: much love in your life that you'll begin to give

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