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Welcome to Enjoying Everyday Life

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with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer.

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On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her

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series The Book of Ephesians. When

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we look at the Book of Ephesians, Paul's words

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are foundational for every believer.

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They help us to understand who we are in how

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much he loves us, and how we can grow

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a stronger, more intimate relationship with

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God. So today let's go deeper

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in God's Word. Listen as Joyce walks

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through Ephesians by chapter, showing

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us how we can apply

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its truths to our lives. Now

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here's Joyce with today's series on the

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book of Ephesians. Now

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verse 31 and 32 goes

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back to the mouth again and

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anger and a few other things. So

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we're going to read through this real quick. If you need any

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of you can just take it and then we'll go on by and

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go do something that maybe you will need if you

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don't need this. I'm joking. need

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this. You're supposed

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to laugh at my jokes. It makes me feel better.

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Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath, passion,

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rage, bad temper, resentment, anger, animosity,

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quarreling, brawling, clamor, contention.

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Anybody found anything the list yet that suits

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you? Slander.

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That means talking about about other people,

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evil speaking, abusive, blasphemous

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language, let it be banished

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from you. Get

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it as far away from you as you can possibly

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get it away from you with all malice, spite,

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ill will or baseness of any kind and instead

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become useful and helpful and kind

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to one another. Tender

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hearted, compassionate, understanding,

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loving hearted, forgiving one another. You

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women want to be understood especially.

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And let me tell you something, men. The

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best that you can do when

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your wife is having a hormone fit is

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to just say, honey, I understand. Now,

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you don't understand. You will never understand.

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somehow What makes us feel better if

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you say, I understand you

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don't want to look at a woman who has

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got every hormone going in a different direction

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and say, what is the matter with you?

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Those are two very

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powerful words. I

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understand.

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I remember when I used to be like that and Dave

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would give me logic. There

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is nothing that an emotional

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woman hates worse than male logic.

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So please don't give it to us. Amen.

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Just say, I

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understand honey. I understand.

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I know you had a rough day. I understand.

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Come and get a hug. Just

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a little free advice for the men there. Now

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I want to say something to you before I go on to chapter

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five. It's easy to

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hear teaching that is easy

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to hear. But

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in order to receive teaching

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like I'm doing here tonight and going to do

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again tomorrow, you have to know

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who you are in Christ. Because if you don't know

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who you are in Christ, it will make you feel condemned.

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And

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I have no interest sending all of you

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out of here feeling guilty because you've

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located about 25 behaviors that

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need to change. I

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so much remember when I first started

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sitting under the teaching of the word and

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I told

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them, I said, I'm, I've got a problem. If

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I don't drink water, my throat gets dry. And if

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I do, then I got to the bathroom all the time. So

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anyway, aren't Aren't you glad I share all my secrets

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with you? And

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I can remember sitting in church services like

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you're sitting in the night and when. Somebody

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would teach on something that confronted my behavior.

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I would always just go home condemned

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because I did not know who I was in Christ.

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I didn't understand chapters one, two and

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three yet.

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So it was hard for me to hear chapter four, five

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and six. Are you with me? And

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if you don't know who you are in Christ, if you don't

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know that you've been made right with God

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through the blood of Jesus, then

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every time that God tries to convict

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you. the devil will take it

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and turn it into condemnation. Every

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time anybody tries to correct you, it's

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going to turn into you trying to defend

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yourself

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and condemnation. Only

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a fool hates correction.

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And the word of God is going to bring correction

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to a lot of our lives as

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we continue on tonight and

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tomorrow. And don't you stay home tomorrow

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just because I told you that because

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that is the silliest thing that you can do. Don't

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avoid something that you're gonna have to go

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through anyway later on.

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And so I want us to look at Hebrews chapter five

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for just a minute

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so I can show you something important before we

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move on. Hebrews five, 12 through 14.

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For even though by this time

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you ought to be teaching others, you

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actually need somebody to teach you

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over again The very first

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principles of God's word. You have

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come to need milk

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and not solid food. For

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everyone who continues to feed on milk is

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obviously inexperienced in

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the doctrine of righteousness. I

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love that. He's saying, if the only

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kind of word that we can hear is

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stuff that pats us on the head and makes us

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feel great about ourselves, anybody

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can hear a message on forgiveness. Anybody

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can hear a message on God's mercy, on God's

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grace, anybody can hear a message about

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how much God loves you.

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And I'm not downplaying that. I

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teach on that all the time, and it is some of the most powerful

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things that we can teach. But you can't

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just have that. You

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got to have the other side of it too. We

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need the whole counsel of

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the Word of God.

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And let me say again, when you know

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who you are in Christ,

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being corrected by the Holy Spirit is something

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you appreciate. It's

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not something that makes you feel bad about yourself.

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And let me tell you, the Holy Spirit corrects me on

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a regular basis about different things here

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and there. And I have learned

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finally to say, thank

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you that you love me enough that

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you will not leave me in the mess that I'm

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in, but you will keep working

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with me

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until Jesus comes back. Amen.

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Now, chapter five,

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just before I get into it, I want

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to read a couple of scriptures to you. Timothy

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four, three and four. Okay.

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I want you to listen to this because we're living in these times

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right now for the time is coming when people

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will not tolerate

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and endure sound and wholesome

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instruction, but having

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ears itching for something pleasing

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and gratifying. They

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will gather to themselves one teacher

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after another to a considerable

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number chosen to satisfy

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their own liking and to foster

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the errors that they hold.

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Isn't that pretty amazing? You know,

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if you don't like what I'm saying on TV,

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you can flip the channel and find somebody that you

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like what they're saying. That's not hard to do, but

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don't ever not listen to somebody because

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what they say to you kind

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of makes you a little bit uncomfortable

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in your seat. In 2

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Timothy 4.2, Paul told Timothy,

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Harold and preach the word, keep

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your sense of urgency. Stand

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by.

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Be at hand and ready.

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the opportunity seems to be. favorable

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or unfavorable, whether it's convenient or inconvenient,

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whether it's welcome or unwelcome. Now listen

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to this. You as a preacher

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of the word are to show

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people in what way their lives are wrong

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and convince

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them rebuking, correcting,

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warning, urging, and

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encouraging them. Not just encouraging

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them,

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but all of it. And can I

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tell you the ministers

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that you have who really love

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you will take a chance

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on you getting aggravated

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at them. If that's what it takes to

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get the truth through to you, that will make

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the changes in your life that you need

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that are going to bring you the things you say that you

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want. And

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And I feel so strongly about that.

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It's not my job to make sure you don't get mad

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at me.

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It's my job to make sure when I stand before

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God that

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I've done what he wanted me to

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do. And that's your job too. Amen.

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So having said

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that, let us press on. In

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Ephesians five, the first

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nine verses talk

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about pursuing clean living.

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Pursue means to crave

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and to go after with all of

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your strength.

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If you want to be an excellent person,

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you're going to have to really want

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it bad because we live in a very

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mediocre world

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and people will fight you on it. If

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you want to be a really honest person, it's

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possible you could lose your job. Because

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somebody out there is going to want you to help them cheat,

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help them lie. They're going to want you to

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do immoral things. But your

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responsibility is first and foremost

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to God. It's not to them. And

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if you do watch.

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right. Listen to me. God will get you a

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better job than the one that you're

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being threatened to lose.

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If you want to get out in the world that we live in today and serve

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God, I might as well tell you it's going to cost

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you something.

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But here's the thing. Romans 14 12 says, every

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man will stand before God and given account of his

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life. Every man. And

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I don't know about But that brings the reverential

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fear and awe to my life This

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is going to be over Things

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are not gonna stay the way they are here forever Everybody

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gets old

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Everybody dies. There's nobody that can get

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away from that and

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I know you don't think much about it when you're 15 or 20 or even 30 But

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let me tell you I've been thinking about it a whole lot more lately.

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I Mean

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I'm serious I had this eye-opening

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revelation a few years ago that

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I've already lived a good

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two-thirds of my life and

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I don't have any time to mess around and

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Let me tell you something a lot of you don't either and

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The day is gonna come and we're gonna all stand before

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God and give an account of our lives And I

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am spending my time now getting ready

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so I don't have to be ashamed then

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Amen

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Matter

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of fact, I love the scriptures and I became very

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aware of them last year. There are several places

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in the Bible where Paul talks to people

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about their behavior and he follows it

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up with this statement, for the Lord is near.

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For the Lord is near. So can I just say to you

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tonight, it's time to behave

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a lot better because Jesus is coming

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back soon.

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I think I'll say it to this group over here. I

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mean, think about that. Think

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about that. It's time to

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make those decisions that you know

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you need to make, but you keep putting

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all

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that

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still don't know Jesus. Together

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we can do so much more than what we can do

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by ourselves. So please become a brand

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you so much.

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Thanks again for listening to Enjoying

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