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You're listening to KFI AM sixty on
demand. So we move forward into the

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new year, and I know that
you kind of pad your day and the

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newness of it all with resolutions and
all these things, but you can't help

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looking back at your reminisce about both
the good and the bad. There's even

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programs right around the end of the
year. You probably saw some of them,

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news clips, even some of the
pop channels will look at the trends

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or the music, and people get
caught up in that. It's very easy

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for you to look back and just
say, oh, gosh, this is

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what took place. The thing that
I want you to move from. And

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this happens all the time, is
that it becomes too easy to forget about

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any wonderful thing that happened, or
any good thing that God has done in

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your life and simply focus on the
bad things that may have happened during the

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last year as well. And Scripture
covers some of this. In Deuteronomy chapter

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eleven. Moses points out how new
generations often forget from where they came,

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and that some need reminders of God's
past miracles or things that have gone on,

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and this is very common to go
through a year and only mark down

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those bad things that took place.
And I realize when you talk about finances,

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when you talk about personal instances and
circumstances that changed that it's hard to

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see God's face in those things.
But even when God is present, even

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when God does miracles, it seems
the reaction is quite the same. Sooner

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or later they wear off. Sooner
or later you get caught up in the

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circumstances and those things lose their luster. And Moses knew this, but he

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also knew the truth. In Deuteronomy
eleven, verse twelve, as he speaks

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to the Israelites and the end he's
reminding them that, hey, your children

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may not know. Your children may
not remember because they weren't there or they

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were too young, but you know
you've seen things. And verse twelve says,

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a land for which the Lord your
God cares. The eyes of the

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Lord your God are always on it
from the beginning even to the end of

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the year, showing that God,
if your focus is God, if your

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focus truly is God in the things
of God, and God will be watching

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throughout the entirety of the year.
It's not like he takes time off.

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Starting now in verse one. Deuteronomy
eleven, Verse one, it says,

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you shall therefore love the Lord your
God, and always keep his charge,

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his statutes, his ordinances, and
his commandments. Know this day that I

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am not speaking with your sons who
have not known and who have not seen

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the discipline of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,

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and his outstretched arm, and his
signs, and his works, which he

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did in the midst of Egypt to
Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, and

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to all his land, And what
he did to Egypt's army, to its

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horses, to its chariots, when
he made the water of the Red Sea

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to engulf them will they were pursuing
you, and the Lord completely destroyed them,

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and what he did to you in
the wilderness until you came to this

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place, Moving on to verse seven. But your own eyes have seen all

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the great work of the Lord which
he did. You shall therefore keep every

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commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and

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go in and possess the land into
which you are about to cross, to

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possess it, so that you may
prolong your days on the land which the

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Lord swore to your fathers. To
give to them and to their descendants,

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a land flowing with milk and honey. For the land into which you are

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entering to possess it is not like
the land of Egypt from which you came,

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where you used to sow your seed
and water it from your foot like

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a vegetable garden. But the land
into which you are about to cross to

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possess it, a land of hills
and valleys, drinks water from the rain

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of heaven. Now how beautiful this
statement is God reminding through Moses realize to

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remember what they've seen, to remind
them that God watches over if they focus

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on God, if they keep the
commandments, his ordinance, his statutes,

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his charges. Focusing on the things
of God brings God into the picture.

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In verse twelve, it says that
God will watch from the beginning of the

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year to the end of the year
in constant communication, constant observation of what's

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going on in your life, making
God first. And it's very easy to

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forget. It's very easy to look
at just the bad things, the negative

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things. And I will tell you
that those negative things have a purpose,

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Those negative things can become benefits.
But only focusing on those things that were

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ugly or frustrat rating or saddening during
the last year or the last ten years

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won't help. As a person of
faith, you should always move forward into

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the future, trusting God, not
the circumstances. We say on the program.

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Quite often its circumstances change, and
they do, but it's become kind

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of the norm to complain. And
what you see in the United States right

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now is the entirety of the nation
being less hopeful, if nothing else.

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If nothing else, the United States
has always been a country of hope in

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times of war, in times of
peace, regardless of the administration, didn't

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matter who in that always the individuals
that made up the whole of the country

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were hopeful. And that's where the
strength lies. And now, as you

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are still in that kind of straddling
stage of looking back at all the things

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that have taken place, focus not
on just the old for the purpose of

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the reminiscing, but those propellants that
move you forward, those things that help

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you learn and say, Okay,
I'm not going to make this same mistake.

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Now. I have a clean slate, if not in reality, at

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least mentally, this clean slate of
starting over, beginning again scripture is nothing

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if it's not about beginnings. And
with this new year, you can actually

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see the hope. My desire for
you is to is to propel you into

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that place of hope where you are
not only going, okay, I'm looking

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forward, but you're actually seeing goals, desires, things that you want to

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do. Don't wait for them to
happen to you. The interesting thing about

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the economy and the things that go
on financially with people is a lot of

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times people just wait, and you've
probably heard that a lot. Well,

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I'm just gonna wait to see how
this goes, or wait to see how

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that goes. Move with waiting,
not much comes. And as you move

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forward using the past, the past
should always be like a rearview mirror.

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You look into it to see what's
behind you, to help you move forward,

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to change lanes, make better decisions. But you never drive staring in

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the rearview mirror, you'd crash.
Moving into the future, moving in and

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forward, a lot of you are
saying thank Heaven. But as you look

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back, my desire for you is
to as you reminisce about the good and

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bad is don't have that selective memory
and you know those people in your life

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that seem to only remember the bad
things. They have selective memory. Nothing

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good seems to be retained in their
memory. And then you have to kind

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of poke at it a little bit
and go, oh no, but don't

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you remember, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that was good. But

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they'll also see kind of the negative
in that. Don't be that way.

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And there were those that would see
my very miracles, would see things in

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front of their eyes and then all
of a sudden it goes away and Moses

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dealt with that. You know,
didn't you just see what the Father did?

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And now, well, we kinda
would like some quail would be nice.

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I know there's you know, heavenly
bread coming out of the skies,

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but you know, quail would be
nice. And it's very easy to get

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lost in the negative or the bad
things that took place and forget, forget

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all the good godly things, and
just because they feel bad, or just

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because it seems negative, doesn't mean
that it is negative. Do you see

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how the circumstances sometimes are there to
allow you to see a greater picture the

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beauty in a circumstance or situation.
And I don't want you to get lost

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in the negative memories should propel you
forward, not keep you shackled to the

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past. Christopher, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hi Jesus, Hi

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Christopher, How can I help you? As is known as Israel, and

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their pastor, Peter is known as
Time Minute Time. Are you also known

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as another name, perhaps a Michael
the arch Angel. No, No,

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that's a belief. There's a group
and often they come to the doors,

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come to your door on a weekend
looking to talk to you about me and

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about God. But really their vision
of me is is not correct, and

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they talk about me being in three
different forms. Really there's a Premi,

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or there is a Michael previous to
birth, and there's then I'm Jesus when

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I'm on earth, and then I
become Michael again after the resurrection. And

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it's really quite convoluted as to what
lengths they'll go to to kind of remove

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me from the equation of being God, although they'll use the term God with

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a little g at times that honestly, Christopher, they are trying to skirt

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the reality in scripture that I claim
to be God. The interesting thing is

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is that in Jude nine, Michael
the art arch Angel says that he wouldn't

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even rebuke the devil. He says, I don't rebuke you, but the

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Lord does. Yet I do.
And many times in Scripture, including Luke

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four, So not there isn't the
continuity of being one and the same.

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Also in Hebrews, it talks about
me not being an angel, talks about

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that I'm glad that I didn't come
as an angel. So it really doesn't

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jive scripturally with you know, truly
with the truth of Scripture. But there

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are groups like that that will come
to your door and are pitching a particular

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idea or thought in really their counterfeits. They may use similar language, they

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may speak similar things, and you
go, oh, well, this sounds

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like Christianity, but it is not. And so the important thing is to

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have discernment and not to treat them
poorly or ugly or anything like that,

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because I've heard people treating them very
poorly, and it's not about that,

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but lovingly and show them correction to
the best of your ability. But many

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of them are so caught up in
the process of learning that their particular churches

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and or groups do that it's hard
for them to break from them. And

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it's not just pointing out a particular
scripture. Hopefully you plant the seed.

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But it gets very difficult, and
they're going in looking at you differently as

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if you can't interpret scripture to begin
with, and you can't know certain things.

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So it's quite difficult to really get
into it with them because you know

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sometimes you're going to go back and
forth, and they're incredibly well trained.

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But no, was not am not
will never be Michael the archangel, nor

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an angel at all. That would
fly in the face of what you know

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about me and scripture. Bill.
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi.

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Bill. Let you know how much
I truly appreciate your show and the

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work that you do. Thank you, Jesus. I overcame when I accepted

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you into my heart. I overcame
an addiction that was terrifying to me in

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the twinkling of an eye, and
I'm so grateful for that. It's been

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three and a half months now and
I don't even think about it anymore.

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But now it's the new year,
and i'd like to overcome another addiction,

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and that cigarette smoking. And I
am more afraid of it overcoming this one

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than I was overcoming the other addiction. I was wondering if you had any

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advice for me. Well, the
addictions are going to be similar as far

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as the emotional aspects. The physical
aspects can be different depending on how they

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interact with your body, so the
needs may be very different. The fact

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that you're just getting over one addiction
in three months, I'm all four you

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clipping these things out of your life
as they are anchors or weights and keeping

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you from doing things that you want
to do. But that seems like a

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very quick transition to go from one
and then jump into another. So I'm

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hopeful that you've kind of looked weight
at everything and said, okay, this

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is the time, so that it
doesn't become so burdensome that you throw up

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your hands and go, okay,
see I couldn't do it. Now they're

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both back. But I've seen so
much evidence in my life over the last

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six months and particularly the last three
and a half months that just you know,

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by a concerted effort on my part, I can handle it. But

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excellent. But cigarette smoking bothers me
because you know, it seems like such

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a temptation to pick it up again, and you know I have already lost

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so far. Well, there's and
I'm not saying that you can't do it.

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I believe you can. What I
don't want you to get to is

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a place of discouragement because it's you
know, there's so many outside elements as

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it is, and the enemy loves
to sit there and tell you how much

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you can't do. And so going
in, moving forward and going into it,

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I want you to look at it
realistically and say, okay, well

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this is what I want to do. I want to if you want to

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cut it off completely, that's a
pretty difficult thing to do, and sometimes

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to slowly weed it out of your
life because you've got a lot going on

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with that type of addiction. When
you're talking about smoking, you have a

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physical addiction and a chemical addiction that's
attached to the physical habitual addiction. So

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you sit there and this is not
a show about you know, medical procedures

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or medicine in any way, shape
or form, but even spiritually in your

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life, you'll see how if you
make something a habit, that habit becomes

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difficult to break. Creating a new
habit now is just going to be leveled,

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consistent. It's a matter of one
breaking that that physical desire, and

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that's something that you may want to
talk to your physician about. And then

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the the habit, the actual physical
habit of picking something up and putting it

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in your mouth, or taking the
time out of the work day or whatever

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you might be doing to go outside
to smoke, becomes part of your habit.

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So depending on how you used it
and how many cigarettes, would you

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say you smoked about a pack and
a half day. Okay, that's quite

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a bit of cigarettes, yeah it
is. So that's a lot of your

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day that is separated by those little
cigarettes. Like they they come. They

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they're a vision of sorts that you're
used to and that absence. A lot

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of people this sounds strange, but
will feel a loneliness when they're not smoking

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because it's almost like they have a
visitor that comes every so often, once

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an hour, once every couple hours, whatever it might be. So really

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you're tackling it in parts and you're
going to have to find something to accommodate

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that physical need to hold something or
and a lot of people that's why a

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lot of people get heavy when they're
not smoking, because they start eating and

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that kind of fills that first part. But it's a matter of doing the

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exact same thing you did with the
other addiction, that is applying it to

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your life, just doing it,
and we can get one Jesus with the

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other addiction. I literally just put
it down and I've never picked it up

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again, and it's just gone from
my heart. Now. I hear stories

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like that every day, and a
lot of people say it's not possible,

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but it can be done. And
as we talked about earlier, being with

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you always, and if you put
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I'm going to be with you throughout
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you. But then I'll lean on
you when I need a cigarette. How

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about that? That's always a good
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of understanding the process and knowing that
every moment you stop, or every moment

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you're not doing it is a moment
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You created this habit. It's not
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a half a day immediately you would
have coughed and hacked and vomited. It

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was a process that you taught your
body to accept and to consume and to

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enjoy. And now you're gonna have
to rethink this, and this goes for

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all kinds of things, and people
get caught up in addictions saying, oh,

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well, how can I do this? But you've trained your body into

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accepting these things that are foreign.
How much how much more difficult do you

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think that is? Have you ever
tried to feed a child something that they

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don't want to eat. You're training
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You can train it to give those
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There is nothing wrong with saying hey, I need help. I'm with you

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through the totality of it. And
if you are one of those people that

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are designed in such a way that
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done with it, then amen,
do it and pass that glory along to

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God and make sure that people know
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I know you can do it,
Bill, and you've already proved to yourself

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that you can. Pauline, Welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi,

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good morning, Jesus. How are
you? I am? Well? Thank

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you very good. You know I
just accepted you and was baptized this past

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summer. All right, that's wonderful
news, A lot of it because of

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your show that used to listen to
when I couldn't get radio reception on my

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long dress on Fundaine warnings. Oh, that's wonderful news. I have a

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coworker who makes it very difficult for
me to My new year's resolution has been

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to try to deal with her in
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makes it very difficult, though,
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coworker and I were looking for guidance
in Ephesions four and five. Can you

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give us any advice as far as
unity. We both just want to be

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able to love her, and she
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love her as a sister in Christ. Okay, well, well, Chapter

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four of Ephesians, verse four is
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okay, where it talks about it
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fact, Chapter four is a wonderful
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and it starts there saying there is
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also you were called in one hope
of your calling, one Lord, one

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faith, one baptism, one God
and Father of all, who is over

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and all, through all and in
all. And that kind of sets you

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up for going okay. And this
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of it simply is by saying,
well, I love all my brothers and

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sisters in Christ, but I don't
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comes to someone that you're working with, understand that you're not in church necessarily

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unless you work at a church.
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to be different work etiquette then would
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what kind of things manifest this person? What what do they do that rubs

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you the wrong way or makes it
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starts conflict. She goes and talks
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to another person behind in their back, and then walks up to you and

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gives you a hug while she's telling
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five minutes earlier, and she just
she deliberately starts conflict. And why do

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you why do you think that she
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think she's a little mentally unstable.
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the best thing to do, especially
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understand what they're going on, is
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of someone to you. I don't, okay, So to head that off

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at the past, and if all
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are working with her do that,
it will limit her contact or her ability

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to do those things. By saying, Okay, you know what, if

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it doesn't pertain directly to me,
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I really don't want to get into
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you about this or about that,
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want to talk to you about this
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they're if they're doing something wrong,
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If they continue, excellent because that
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for these things. And then secondly, Scripture says that if you have an

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issue with a brother or sister in
christ you're to go to them. You're

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to go to them and say,
hey, I have an issue with you.

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This is the issue, and one
be ready for reprove yourself in case

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you're wrong, but if not,
to hopefully propel them into an understanding that

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they're that they're doing something wrong.
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situation. If they don't, then
you kind of have to be done with

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them and find a way around it
at work, whether it's changing positions or

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moving your position or whatever it might
be. But you don't have to deal

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with somebody who's a pain or is
difficult, or is causing havoc or hostility

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in your workplace just because they claim
to be a Christian. That doesn't make

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sense. Brenda, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello, jes Hi,

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Brenda, I would like to hear
the Ten Commandments? Please sure the

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decalogue that is the big fancy word
for the Ten Commandments. Now, the

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Ten Commandments are They can be found
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primarily when people reference or quote them, they're looking at Exodus twenty, verses

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two through seventeen. So that's what
we'll look at today. Is there a

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particular reason you want to hear the
Ten Commandments? I just no, you

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just want to hear them? Yes, okay, Well they're broken down differently

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depending on the group. The Jewish
breakdown of the ten the Anglican, Orthodox,

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Catholic, Lutheran, they tend to
break them off differently, So I'm

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just going to go down them for
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You shall have no other gods before
me. You shall not make for yourself

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an idol. You shall not make
wrongful use of the name of your God.

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Don't take God's name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.

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Honor your father and mother. You
shall not murder, you shall not

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commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against

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your neighbor. You shall not covet
your neighbor's wife. You shall not cover

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it, covet anything that belongs to
your neighbor. So, depending on how

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you break them up, some people
will combine some of those or separate other

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parts of them and make them into
the ten. So sometimes you might read

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if you read the Ten Commandments in
a Catholic Bible, it would be different

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from other Christian Bibles. So those
types of things can get mixed up.

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But really it's not about the labeling
them as ten, because that's not how

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it's not how it comes out.
I know a lot of you get caught

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up in scripture now and you see
the chapters and verses and you say,

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oh, well, they labeled it
differently, but really there was no chapter

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in verse, not in that context, not in the same way, in

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the same sense. It was more
about getting the entirety of scripture out and

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the purpose of scripture. So the
truth is, regardless of how you label

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them one through ten, or if
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that the importance lies in not having
any other gods before God, not having

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any idols, honoring your father and
mother, not murdering, not committing adultery.

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These things are what's important. Steve, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Hello, Jesus, how are you
doing this morning? I am well,

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how can I help you? A
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I had my daughter had her first
grandchild about ten months ago and they and

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up until that point my church life, I've really never attended church, you

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know, as far as just never
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Maybe a little bit, but not
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church. Anyways, I've been going
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my daughter, and you know,
I reading through the Bible, and like

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say, Matthew, Matthew Ford,
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spirit into the desert to be tempted
by the devil. And the doubt,

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the doubt I have is what you
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why would why would he be tempted? Well, you keep in mind,

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I'm one hundred percent God and one
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fifty to fifty or something like that, and the only way for that to

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be legitimate, the man part would
need to be tested and tempted. If

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you put a murderer in jail with
no other people, he doesn't murder,

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but that doesn't make him morally better
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is no one for him to murder. Therefore there is no murder. But

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it doesn't mean that his heart is
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to the cause and the moral cause. So in this case, if I'm

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not tempted at all in the flesh, then there then there then I'm not

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refraining from anything, and then there's
no moral judgment there. The key has

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to be the moral judgment, and
the moral judgment comes from being tempted,

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having those things put in front of
me, dealing with pride and the desires

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of the eyes and lust and these
types of things and saying no, kf

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I am sixty on demand