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Jesus was three years, at least, on this earth.
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Right? and He was walking.
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Still, Jesus had only 12 disciples.
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If I ask you now if you would follow Him,
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would you follow Him if He was here?
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You would go to Him, right?
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"Wherever You go, I go."
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You would say.
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"I don't care about my job", you would say.
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"I don't care about my house, my family."
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"I don't care if they will follow You or not."
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"Me, I will follow You."
That's what you would say?
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Let me tell you,
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you would not do that. You would say,
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"Tomorrow what will I eat?"
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You would worry about tomorrow.
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Are you ready to die for Him?
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If you are ready to live for Him,
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and He deserves to deliver your life to Him,
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so, He deserves to die for Him.
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Do you know that there is someone that died for you,
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in your place?
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Even though He was God, sitting on His throne,
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still, He came.
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Still, they embarrassed Him,
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they spit on Him, they punched Him,
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they put a bag on His face,
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on His head,
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and they were punching Him, and saying to Him:
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"Prophesy! Who hit You?"
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He was receiving humiliation, He was receiving-
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we are talking about God, now.
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I want to remind you.
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You, if you receive humiliation,
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your pride would talk:
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"Who are you to talk to me like that?"
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Imagine, our pride.
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Someone is doing something to us
that is very wrong,
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and we are thinking how we will take revenge.
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How?
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If all of this happened to God,
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What race do you run today?
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If the relationship you keep with
God is not great,
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you will never do great things.
It's impossible.
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You need the help of the Holy Spirit to do His will.
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Otherwise, it's impossible.
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Today, there are Christians
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that think they do His will.
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You're not serious with God.
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Instead of you to say,
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"In the mighty name of Jesus,"
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"Anything that is not of Jesus in my life, out!"
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"In Jesus' mighty name."
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To pray, to fight the good fight.
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This is the fight we are talking about here.
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This is the fight you should give
every single day.
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Whatever you see, it's a sin.
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Whatever you see in this world, it's dirty and sin.
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Whatever you see.
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Did you know that when you sin,
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you have pain and discomfort in
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areas of your life?
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You have pain and discomfort
because of your sin.
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Did you know that?
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You created this problem.
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It's not that God created it or that God is testing you.
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You did it. You created it by yourself.
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If now, you go and beat this man,
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break his nose,
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you kill him.
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"Oh, God is testing me to go to jail now."
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"It's a test, I'm going to jail."
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"It's a test."
Which test are you talking about?
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You just created your situation, here.
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And if you create your situation,
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and you find yourself
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in a place that you should not be,
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God is not with you.
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Because God didn't send you there.
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This is why the seven sons of Sceva,
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God was not with them. Even though
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they were saying, "in the name of Jesus that Paul preached,
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I command you, evil spirit,
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come out of the person."
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And the evil spirit said to them,
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"Sorry, Paul I know. Jesus I know. who are you?"
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That means, God is not with you.
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He's not supporting your position.
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Whatever you do, you are doing it by yourself.
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You don't have the Lord in your life.
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"Come here!",
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and he beat them. The seven of them.
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So, if God is not with you,
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then everything can be against you,
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everybody can destroy you, steal from you.
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Today you have money in your pocket,
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and tomorrow it disappears.
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You say, "What happened? How'd I spend my money?"
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"Where did it go? What is happening?"
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"Why?!"
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Do you know how? You will go,
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you will go to a store,
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"Wow, they have nice food."
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"Let's go and eat with your friends."
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Right away, someone is telling you,
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"Pay for everything!" You pay for everything.
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You give $200, $300,
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and then you go to your house.
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Your friends have money to spend,
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but you don't have.
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You don't have money to pay your rent,
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You don't have money to buy something that
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you really need. You say,
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"Where is my money? Where is my money?"
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Your money, someone stole from you without you understanding.
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You see what I'm telling you?
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That you should have a great relationship with God,
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so you can stop the destruction in your life.
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Are you ready to fight the good fight?
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This is the title of today's message.
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Are you fighting the good fight?
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Our battle is not against flesh and blood.
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It's against evil spirits, my friends.
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Are you fighting evil spirits?
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What are you doing? You're fighting with your neighbor?
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Where is your fight?
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Let me tell you,
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nobody can convince you that you're not a child of God.
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Remember that for the rest of your life.
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If someone comes to you and tells you
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that you're not a child of God,
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he's such a liar. The greatest liar of all.
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Let's open our Bibles
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1 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 24.
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Do you not know that those who run in a race all run,
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but one receives the prize?"
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Oh my God, what is the word of God saying here?
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They all run! Be careful.
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They are all Christians, and they run.
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But what? It says only one will receive the prize.
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Can you imagine how well you should run?
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"Run in such a way that you may obtain it."
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"And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things."
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Temperate in all things means:
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I'm an athlete, I have to,
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you know, to hold myself.
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I should not eat the cake.
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The other people, they will pass me. For a Christian, it says:
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"The other people,
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they might be lying,
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no problem, but me,
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I want to win the prize, I will not lie."
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Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown,
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but we for an imperishable crown."
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"Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty.
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Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
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But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest,
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when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified."
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Let's see what it also says in 2 Timothy, chapter 4, verse 6.
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"For I am already being poured out as a drink offering,
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and the time of my departure is at hand."
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"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race,
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I have kept the faith."
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What is the title of today's message?
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Fight the Good FIght.
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Fight against principalities of darkness.
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This is your fight today!
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When you don't have a job, what are you saying?
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Are you saying, thank you Jesus,
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for the job that you gave me?
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Can you hear yourself what you're saying, brother?
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You said, "thank you Jesus,
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for the job You gave me?"
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You said that you don't have a job.
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When you are sick, are you saying
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thank you Jesus for my health?
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This is how you keep your faith.
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Did you know that?
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Let the weak say, i'm strong.
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This is a good confession.
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There is a fight you have to give.
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If you fight the good fight,
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you will have good results.
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If you fight the evil fight,
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you will find yourself outside
of the will of God.
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Today, you want good results,
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but you are not fighting the good fight.
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You will say to 10 different people
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that you are looking for a job,
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but you will never say to God
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10 times that you need a job.
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You will tell Him only one time.
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But you have the time to talk to the people.
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So again, where are we going?
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To the great relationship that you must have with God. Again, we go there.
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Then you don't find, and nobody wants you in their job.
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And then you start changing your confession:
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"I will never find a job."
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"I will never succeed."
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"You will never have this."
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Someone is talking to you.
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"You will never this, you will never that."
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Do you know which God you serve?
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The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob.
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The God of Moses.
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This God, we are talking about here.
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The God of the impossible.
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If your situation is impossible,
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This is exactly the God you need in your life.
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The God of the impossible.
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And let me tell you something:
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by the time you will have hope in the reliability of God,
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you will receive the impossible.
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By the time you will have hope, to where?
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To the reliability of God Almighty,
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at the same time, at this appointed time,
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you will receive the impossible.
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For you to fight Satan, you need the invisible God,
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because Satan is invisible.
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You cannot see him.
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This is why you say, "What is happening?"
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"I don't understand."
You don't understand
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because you cannot see what is happening.
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You need God's eyes to see what is happening.
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Do you know what is the name of God's eyes?
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Faith.
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You need faith.
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Faith is that God, for sure,
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He will do what He promised.
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That's faith.
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Are you going to fight now the good fight?
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Forget about what the other people do.
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What matters is your relationship that you keep with God.
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This is why I told you, forget about what the people are doing.
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Do you know that when you are in front of Him,
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when you are about to be in front of Him,
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He will tell you, "come here."
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"You won the race."
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What can stop you?
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What can stop you to receive the medal?
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Yourself only!
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I want to tell you that satan cannot stop you.
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I'm telling you now. Satan,
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your enemies, cannot stop you.
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An angel from Heaven cannot stop you.
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The only person that can stop you
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from receiving the medal of honor, is yourself!