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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blessings are often accompanied by battles.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.17,0:00:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is a battle to this flesh may well be beneficial to your spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.00,0:00:19.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is hard for the flesh is often helpful for your spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.23,0:00:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you serve God only at your convenience, then your service will lack commitment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.13,0:00:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying there will not be any commitment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.13,0:00:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be partial commitment, not total commitment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.77,0:00:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know the problem here?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.37,0:00:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your commitment to God is partial -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.13,0:00:57.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you’re serving God only at your convenience -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.80,0:01:07.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you are confronted with a situation where your faith in Christ conflicts
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.63,0:01:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with traditional belief,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.80,0:01:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with cultural expectations,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.23,0:01:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the pressures of position,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.70,0:01:23.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the affairs of this world...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.97,0:01:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your commitment to God is partial and you face such a conflict,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.97,0:01:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are likely to remain indifferent, to try and sit on the fence
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.03,0:01:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially when holding to your faith involves some pain, some sacrifice.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.57,0:02:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you try to avoid pain in the flesh, you will soon invite pain in the spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.13,0:02:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what starts with complacency will soon end with compromise.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.97,0:02:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's only a matter of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.13,0:02:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The road of compromise is never ending and ever widening.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.90,0:02:29.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why when it comes to the things of God, the service of God -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.53,0:02:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must be wholehearted.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.40,0:02:36.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Total commitment, not partial.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.23,0:02:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't just serve God when it's convenient for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.60,0:02:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't just serve God when times are good. No!