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foreign [Music]
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the Bible says that blessed are poor in spirit
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for theirs is a kingdom of heaven
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healing and I talked about this so I will go through it very quickly and then go to
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the second one who belong to the kingdom of heaven
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a lot of times we look at people and we imagine that because maybe of
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their status because of how much they have because of how much they know we
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imagine that they are closer to God because people in this life
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value many things but there are three key things that the Bible talks about
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that people value a lot if you read in the book of Jeremiah
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and chapter 9 and verse 23 and verse 24 the Bible talks about three things that
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people pursue in this life well when you are total of Cuba
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the first thing that people fight for and run to very much is education
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they want to be the most educated because
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[Music]
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[Music] those people the billionaires of this
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world and they put them in a category and think that these are very special
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people and many of us aspire to get many riches foreign
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people and there is no question about it some of these things are good and
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important and we are not saying that they're wrong it's good for you to be educated that's the reason you want our
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children to be in school it is good for you to have money because money answered
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a lot of things it is good for you to have a power and to have position because this
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things are good but the Bible says in the book of Jeremiah that let not the
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rich man boast because of his religion let not know the wise man boast because
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of his wisdom let note the powerful man boast because of his power and position
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but he says this let him who boasts boost in what
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boasting hot that they know me ghost in the lord busted they understand
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God those that they know the things of God and your support
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the beatitude that we are talking about right now is
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the Kingdom of Heaven belong to those who are what
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who are in the spirit and now we talked about that and I want to remind you what
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it means to be poor in spirit when you think about a poor man when you
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think about a poor person named
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so to speak we think sometimes that we are we are poor okay
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I'm not as poor as I actually thought but the poor that the Bible is talking
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about here when you think about that word poor it is in reference to those
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who absolutely have nothing and they are entirely completely dependent on someone
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else so that they can survive even for a day even for a moment those are the poor
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that the Bible is talking about but they are not talking about the poor even financially as you can say what money
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keeping the downward as we know it we're not talking about people who cannot pay their bills here we're not talking about
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people who cannot pay school fees we are not talking about people who do not have property and resources because Jesus
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qualifies this poverty and he calls it the poverty of the spirit and the
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poverty of the spirit is the realization and appreciation that you are
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spiritually completely bankrupt
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there is something that you can do in and of yourself to deserve or to qualify
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for the kingdom of God at that particular moment you have lost it
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because you do not have any means whatsoever you do not have any power
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whatsoever you do not have any resources whatsoever that can qualify you for the
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kingdom of God the kingdom of God belongs to the bearers who go to God and
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appreciate God unless you save me I cannot I have no way of becoming
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a particle the Kingdom of Heaven praise God the kingdom of God who founded
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so that they can be able to qualify for that Kingdom and today I want to talk
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about the second beatitude because we talked about what I've just mentioned
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last week blessed are those who mourn for they
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shall be comforted
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yeah how to live in the Kingdom of Heaven the
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first thing that we have talked about is how to enter into that Kingdom
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blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted now I want you to
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appreciate something here when we talk about morning right now I'm in that space of mourning
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my deserted Fred and Pastor now
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morning because
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[Music]
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[Music] he's not talking about people who are
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mourning because they have lost a loved one in death or because they have lost
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their money or because their house was burned down we are talking about a
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deeper kind of morning that is because of our sinfulness we are talking about
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the recognition that we have seen greatly again is God we recover organize
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that when we stand before God we do not have even the audacity to look up to him
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because
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Romans chapter 3 and verse number 23 that all have sinned and fall short of
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the glory of God foreign
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stand before God we are condemned and we are judged because of our sinfulness
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in fact introduces mourning in our hearts if you want to understand this kind of
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modding Isaiah chapter 6 and verse 1 and following
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the Bible says that in the year that King Uzziah died I also saw the Lord high and lived there
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and the train of his glory filled the temple and the Bible says that at that
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moment when a Isaiah saw the Lord and the glory of God he fell as tall dead
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and he cried to God and he said war is me for I am undone for my eyes of
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seeing the king of glory
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because
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the moment you see and understand who God is and you see his Holiness and you
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seize greatness and you see his um his amazing love the first thing that
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happens and the immediate thing that must happen is that you get to realize
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how sinful you are
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the sinfulness of sin we do not appreciate even the gravity and the
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seriousness of sinuses
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we are always swimming in our sins and we end up being so comfortable in those
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sins and we keep on wondering what's the big deal
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and you easily say yes I know what's a big deal because
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the moment you get to appreciate what God is the moment you get to appreciate
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the Holiness of God they start like just standing in front of a mirror Olivio
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and suddenly you realize I need to do something about the way I look
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so you come outside
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you're very smart or you're coming to church and you're walking very comfortably and then you meet someone
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foreign
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foreign
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stands before us and that's when we suddenly realize we are not worthy
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they don't even know whether even right now that is the case with religious education
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but that's the truth we we think we are presentable we think
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we are okay you think you're doing well in fact you look at the people around
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you know what happened
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you need to do something about your life but as soon as you look at the mirror of
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the word of God and you Focus On Christ and his Holiness you realize how much
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you've been minimizing your own sinfulness and you realize that indeed you know this this serving even to stand
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before God because you are full of sin even though you're better than a
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thousand or a million people who are around you do you know why it is so easy for us to
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judge other people just because it's very difficult to look at ourselves
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if wants to feel better [Music]
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in your sin because your focus is wrong you're focusing on other Sinners who are
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definitely worse than you who are more Grievous than you but the call here is
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to focus not on the sinfulness of the other people but to focus on the
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Holiness of your maker and therefore suddenly when you do that it brings you
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to the place of blessedness why because immediately you begin to mourn
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immediately you begin to realize I cannot live with this sin any longer I
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cannot allow these lies to continue being part of my life I cannot allow
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this small small Pete you know moving around and picking Corners so that you
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get your way I cannot allow it anymore in my life and you realize that actually
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your sins are Grievous because of who you have seen against but not because of
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how your brain compared to other people and so what do you do you get to a place of money that's why
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the Bible says in first John chapter 1 and verse 8 and 9. the TV confess our
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sins what God is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from one righteousness let me help you here and I
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want you to understand this the more you get to know God the more you mourn for
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your sins
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but this is the beauty you are not left at the place of money
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because
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God is so precious and he is so merciful that immediately you get on your knees
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because of the conviction of that sin that you have committed against God the
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moment you open your mouth in confession the Bible says that you are comforted
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immediately there is a comfort that God releases in your heart and in your mind
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because you have confessed your sin now covers
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in as far as dealing with sin is concerned the one and the easier one is
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now this is water did you come on
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two things to happen more than two things will happen but at least
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so that you sustain the fast life so what happens is that you know when you
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speak a lie then you have introduced a line of a a a line of doing things that
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would be mad because no one like and start on its own again
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but when you lie to me you will need to prepare another line so
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that you can sustain the fast life and so it becomes a cycle but you know the other thing that
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happens when you you you commit sin or when you lie is that you are going to
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look for a few other sins so that you can survive
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and that's one of the ways that you deal with sin okay and a lot of times we keep on
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covering up covering up covering up before you know it you have a pile you
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know yes that is the only way to sustain it but
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Jesus is giving another Avenue this is the way to live in a kingdom and he's
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saying you know what the moment you identify a sin deal with it immediately by way of confession and repentance turn
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away from me and immediately it's gone it's forgiven it is raised completely
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from the record and so you start on a clean slate again but you see the
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problem is this
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is
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you know let me just be I mean nobody can be perfect
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but you know what Jesus has made a promise and a commitment that when you
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confess your sins he is faithful and just he is going to forgive you you cleanse You from One righteousness and I
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want you to know that God does not keep a record of wrongs when you have
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confessed them [Music] because
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historical and historical questions [Music]
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[Music]
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and it's 17 years ago that is how we deal with each other but God does not
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deal with us like that the moment you have confessed your sin like this he has forgiven he has arrested and he has
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opened a new chapter for you and you're starting a flesh it doesn't mean that you cannot commit that same sin again
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but it means that he is not going to be historical and keep on reminding you the things that you did ever since you are
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young and what your fathers and grandfathers did even before you were born he has completely gotten rid of it
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and that is the faithfulness of God that we are talking about you must confess
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your sin and you get rid of it and expect that God will cleanse You from One righteousness and this is what
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happens is that the more you do that raise it becomes for you to overcome sin
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then you know the things and I'll be talking
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about this in future but the things that you struggle with in accordance
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um foreign
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let me tell you there is Victory that God has promised victory over sin is a promise that God
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has made for all of us but this is the deal number one you must
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be sure that you're in Christ that's the reason we started by talking about the point spilling so unless you are
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helpless completely God cannot help you you know there are people who quote a
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scripture that does not exist and they keep on telling us God helps us to help himself themselves and you can always
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scare your own scripture quoted from the book of I don't know who yeah if you can help yourself why do you
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need God she would like with this idea God helps those who are helpless God helps those who are poor in spirit
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you can't do anything you cannot move you cannot do anything for yourself and
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so you cry to him God rescue me and he helps you but then number two confess those sins
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put it in front of God and say I'm not hiding anymore
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you are and this is what I'll finish with because my time is up
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you know what there are people keep on thinking
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I thank God see what happened um
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come on now if you can do that don't come here because here we have a group of people
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who are very poor in spirit desperate for God to help us
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and if you get perfect when you're here please leave us alone
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if you're perfect please just pack your wings go to some other place and probably the best place for you to go is
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Heavenly you can say again so don't imagine that there is going to
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be a time a couple whoever says
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because I have very many faults and failures of my own what I need is people
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who are broken people who are sensitive to sin and immediately you realize that
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I have done it again you go on your knees and cry to God for forgiveness and
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come here like someone who can pray with you confess that sin to him or to her
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pray together breathe because of those sins and once again you're forgiven and you're
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Sanctified but I promise you what even tomorrow it is going to be another sin
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that you have in trouble with because that is our life and I'm not trying to say that we are encouraging sin don't
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get me wrong I'm not trying to say because
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that is not what I'm talking about because if you are True Believer if you
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are true Christian then it's going to be progress praise God if you are truly
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born again
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you come with a testimony look what God has done I have been able to overcome this I've been able to overcome that
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there is
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progression one two three
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one two you know I have made progress
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but most of us it is to step backward but you're not where
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you started you're making progress and we have testimonies we have
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stories of people gaining Victory but they only gain Victory because they hate
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sin so much and therefore every day they are mourning because of those sins and
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every day they are being comforted and every day we are making progress that is
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how to live in the kingdom of God and I want to encourage you who is listening to me today maybe you have lived with a
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lot of condemnation
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let me tell you there is no sin
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that you have committed or you will ever commit to shock God
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you know why is this one coming from that God is surprisingly hell yeah I've
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never seen I they are sinners but this one hey and then he's calling the ages
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to try and do a survey and investigation to find out did I create this one or
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wedding no no everything that you are struggling with
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today it was accounted for when Jesus went to
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the cross and he brought Victory even concerning
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that particular sin and so for that reason all you need is to take it to the Lord God Almighty in prayer he said God
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please forgive me and sanctify me from one righteousness blessed are those who
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known for they shall be confronted my prayer and my desire is
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that God will cause us to have that desire that Spirit of mourning and
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grieving because of our sins
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that we are going to confess now I want to finish and pray with us but I want to
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encourage you to do this you know just look at your life
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and identify those things that you're struggling with some of them are struggles that you have
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had for years them has struggles that maybe I have directed the name
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but just to fight fight this in your heart
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the commitment and the desire to confess those sins to God
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and I want to encourage you there is something I I have you know a lot that I
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don't agree with in the in the Catholic doctors and teachings but there's one translation in the Catholic Church
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the third mind that the talking
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in the tradition of confession and then people go to the priests
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but they stand there and talk to the priests about the things that they have done
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that are struggling with the truth is that is go to Roman Catholic field it's a Biblical thing the
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Bible says confess your sins one another and you'll be healed and I want to encourage you
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something that you're struggling with don't hide it don't cover up for it you know people
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come to church and they begin to think you know for me to be accepted and for me to survive in that environment then I
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will cover up for things people never know the things that are happening behind here Monday Sunday Tuesday Friday
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those things you know the secret and therefore you know you don't you don't want to deal with them
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but the encouragement that I want to give you Trust
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someone with those deep hidden secrets
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let me tell you the power of sin is in secrecy
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then he that means
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so you can only steal your story there was a boy and a girl there were
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siblings and then um it was a taboo in their Community for
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girls to catch bugs slaughter them and eat
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but this girl used to keep on seeing boys do that and she was wondering why can't I do this
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and so one day because she needs a taboo one day this girl goes to the forest and she caught the bad
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came home with it and hit somewhere slaughtered
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roasted so when this girl was eating of course
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in a very hidden Place believing that nobody would see nobody will know just
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before she finished she saw the Prada
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watching and so the brother
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working and grabbed the opportunity you know what is grabbed the opportunity because I'm gonna tell him you know what
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hey what is this okay okay so let's have a deal
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you want me to expose you you want me to tell people because of course is no no
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no please don't and it's let's let's have a deal now if you don't want me to say what you have done you know what
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Chrome when it is my turn you do it for me
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when Mama says go and fetch water you wake up go and do it and I'm not
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available
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you will refuse then I will say that guy said okay let it be so first
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day so like Mama says so until blind fetch
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water and then the god the boy looks at the guard he said no good I will tell Mama and then I got runs and does it and
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this girl continued doing that and she continued doing this a week in the next
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week the last week and she was getting married and she's saying oh I can't do this anymore
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then one day the boy raises up and sees
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go ahead search water for me so if God looks at the boy and looks at the mother he says
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when I ate the bird's meat did I kill anybody
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and suddenly the secret to us is closed
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you know what the mother looked at a girl
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and she said my daughter you know that day
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when you are slaughtering and eating that back I was standing in a corner somewhere and
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I was watching it and I saw everything that you did
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she has never been a secret I have always known what you did however
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because you chose to keep it to yourself give your brother the power
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to control you to take advantage of you until now
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