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all right hello beloved well
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um I want to speak today a little bit
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about uh titling my heart is humility
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Holiness and
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brokenheartedness in the light of sexual
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sin among spiritual leaders little tough
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subject but it's also I'm thinking about
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this uh season we kind of end up that
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way I'll give you it's going to end up
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in a good way that in speaking of this
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week when we think about the conception
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of Yeshua in in Miriam that she was the
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in some ways the ultimate victory of
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sexual Pur over sexual sin you usually
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don't think about that but that's where
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we're going so hold on to that for a
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minute so we'll start in um how could we
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not Psalm
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51 Psalm 51 it's a prayer that we really
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ought to be saying every day I try to
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sing it to myself every day
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live but we'll pick it up but Psalm
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51:2 a um a pure heart God created me
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for those who read Hebrew it doesn't say
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it says it's in the imperative forms
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that's in
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crate and um a right Spirit Renew on the
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inside of me
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well you hear the fear of God here do
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not cast me away from
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you and and do not take your holy spirit
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away from me the the fear of God
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um restore to me the joy of of your
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salvation and in a generous Spirit uh uh
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support me lift me up we see him
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repenting at such a deep
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level um David who had killed Goliath
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the great hero and then Fallen before
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Beva I mean incredible contrast there
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and he's so he's so broken and he's
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crying out that he recognizes the
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Holiness of God that he could lose it he
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could lose it all I mean it cast me away
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from you take your holy spirit away from
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me because it's it he's going he's he's
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taking us to a depth of of uh of
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repentance here that I I don't know that
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we find it it's I almost feel that God
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allowed him to go through that sin so he
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could write this Psalm it's to show us
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how to how to get over sin and and
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repentance and guilt but then he goes on
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toward the end sort of finishing it off
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in verse 19 it says
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it says and um sacrifices of God and
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from here I got the title of this
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message are a broken spirit and a broken
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heart and cast down the Lord will not
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despise it and so he's he's looking at
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this sin that he did and he's he's just
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crushed by it he's crushed by it and um
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he's doing that obviously in the light
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of he's it's not just kind of a normal
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person sinning you know he's doing this
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in a light of he recognizes God's
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kingdom he recognizes the Holiness on
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himself his calling the the kingdom of
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God and it's not like he sinned I think
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he's think I sinned okay God conf it's
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like I've blown it for the kingdom of
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God he's he's terrified and he's broken
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and um and he realizes here in the
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middle of that somehow that this is a
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good thing you know we always you know
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Western people we always like to have
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something up it's got to have a happy
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ending you know you got to talk about
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Joy you don't want to talk about
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Holiness or humility so sorry if you
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don't like this message but it's from
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the Bible and uh so but he's saying well
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this is a good thing Lord I you've
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you've taken me to a place that I'm so
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aware of my own
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inability to overcome my own flesh in my
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own sin and he comes he just goes to a
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zero place and somehow in the mid he
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says wow this is I can feel as broken as
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I am you're you're pleased with the
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sacrifice it's almost like you've been
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waiting hey was was some human being
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realize how sinful you are come on
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repent show me where you're at and and
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somehow in the midst of his own fear of
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God I could be Cast Away From God I
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could be destroying the kingdom of God
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he says well God's pleased with this
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place of loneliness and Brokenness that
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I've come to and I'm giving it to you
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God in in the in uh as a as a way of
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worship there's a purity a sweetness
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coming out of his Brokenness notice of
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course the first the first verse up on
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it and it says this is a Psalm of David
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says he says and this is when Nathan
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came to him the prophet after he had
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gone into bcha in other words this is
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his repenting in the light of being
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rebuked uked for having sinned with bcha
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now B the bcha sin was a a pretty
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difficult sin because it was it he he
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committed adultery and then he lied
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about it and then he committed murder to
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try to get the evidence away from him I
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mean pretty bad stuff you know this was
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not like just missed the Holiness of God
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he he he sinned on the the some of the
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big ones you know and uh and he's
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shocked and he's aware of the fact that
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it's not just he did that but he did it
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he was the king of Israel God made an
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eternal Covenant with him he said you
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are the Messiah the Messiah the Savior
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the whole world salvation is going to
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come through your seed and he just
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realized that I may have just blown the
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whole Promises of God by committing
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adultery I've ruined the promises of the
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coming of the Messiah I mean he's he's
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stunned well I'm saying that in the
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light
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of this year has been a difficult year
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for us there's been cases of allegations
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of sexual sin against leaders across the
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world not one not two not three not four
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not five and
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unfortunately a lot of the situations
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seem to get to me somehow but but I uh
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um and they're
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complicated because what happens in a
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situation like this you have you have an
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event that happens usually happens when
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nobody's there there so who's whose
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evidence you you have the the emotional
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response is the exactly opposite usually
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between the men and the women and then
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if you are talking about spiritual
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leaders you have an imbalance of
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emotional
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psychological positioning with it that
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becomes abusive whether the person meant
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for it to be abusive and then you have
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allegations and then what can get proved
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and then what cannot get proved and then
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it's whoa it is so complicated I mean
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I've had to spend hundreds of hours
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this year dealing with these
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situations and none of them are very
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nice and everybody's hurt everybody's
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hurt on all the sides it's it's it's
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kind of like I mean this in a spiritual
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way it's disgusting I mean it's like we
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all just want to vomit it up in in in I
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I mean in a right way God's God's
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dealing with this and you
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realize God is not embarrassed about
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these kind of things we're embarrassed
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but God is like hey you want to sin and
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remember what happened to David that he
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God said will you sin in in
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private I'm going to display it in
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public so his son Rebels against him and
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he commits adultery for all of David's
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wives and concubines on the roof in
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front of everybody puts it on the front
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page of the newspaper I mean it's just
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like it's it's horrible and God somehow
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in God's
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holiness he he desires to have these
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things displayed it's totally humil for
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us human beings to be involved in this
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but it's but it's God is so interested
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in in displaying the wrongness of sin
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that he wants to get this things all
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these things out and it's very hard to
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work with you know now we um with with
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ton our ministry we've put a lot of
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emphasis on you know my book Covenant
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relationships Dan's book due process
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where really into wanting to handle
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these all these situations correctly and
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that's what takes the hundreds of hours
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cuz you got to you got to listen to
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everybody's side and you got to try to
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weigh it objectively it's almost
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impossible cuz the the situation is so
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emotionally Laden they try to get to but
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I want to say with all of our good
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intentions of due process and covenantal
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relationships and all these right forms
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of dealing something I'm saying this as
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the president of tun
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Global no process is going to
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work it doesn't matter how good your
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processes are
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you have to deal with sin you know and
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there's something about this and I've
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heard part of like I said so many
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conversations on this person's right
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this person's wrong and this you know
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what we all just have to be
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brokenhearted about this situation we
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just have to cry we have to it it's we
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have to Humble ourselves we have to
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realize that we're we're not holy and
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we're standing before a holy
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God and and okay we have to listen to
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this person listen to this person who's
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right how much punishment how much do
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what how do we comfort those how do we
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heal everybody's everybody's hurt
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everybody's broken but I'm saying in
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addition to all our right processing
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which I believe in I believe in Covenant
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relationship and and judicial process
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and the right hand but in all of that
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that's not going to work if you don't
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have a brokenheartedness you hear what
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I'm saying you can get through the right
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process and you'll never get to the end
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and on a different issue everybody's
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talking here about in Israel we want to
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have a
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um uh a a governmental uh investigation
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of what went wrong a year and a half ago
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at the beginning of the war the problem
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is that everybody in the country is
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already prejudged as to what side
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they're on you can't you could never
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possibly get to an objective Council
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here who's going to do the investigation
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everybody's screaming and yelling at
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everybody and I'm saying we have to get
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to the point whether you're talking
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about the war here in Israel or judicial
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process of sin in the church is just you
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have to get to the point you know what
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we're all wrong we're all wrong stop in
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in these situations there's no there's
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no reason to come well I'm more
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righteous than you I would okay and it
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it's heartbreaking and so in the ca this
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is not just a regul you're talking about
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a sin with David who is the head of the
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Community of Faith in his
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generation it's
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terrifying it's
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terrifying I'm look at all these things
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I said to myself go Asha what is there
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something you missed here you know did
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did I miss have I missed anything about
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myself it's interesting it says in
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Ephesians 4 that lust of this world um
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are they are deceptive it's like you're
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involved in L you don't even realize it
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you're deceiving yourself while you're
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involved in the lust it's it's aaz you
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don't even see that it's wrong you
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you're justifying yourself while it's
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happening you I ask myself God God have
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I done it what you know the David said
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you know don't let any of my sins be you
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know hidden show Mom I was PR I was
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thinking of a situation I 40 years ago I
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was serving kind of in a youth pastor
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situation gave this girl a hug everybody
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was hugging every gave this girl a hug
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you know and it got a sensual hug you
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know and I'm thinking the Lord brought
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that back to my mind said you know well
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I can excuse it dismiss it no no it was
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disgusting there's no there's no way you
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can justify anything you know you just
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have to realize that we're living in a
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sinful world and we have to get away
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from it let's look at another example
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look with me in uh Ezra chapter 9
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remember Ezra and Nehemiah are kind of
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the last two historical books of the
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Bible Nehemiah is actually after Ezra
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the Book of Esther actually comes first
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the the situation with Esther happened
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before Ezra and that happened before
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Nehemiah but this is one of the last
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last books of the Bible it's an
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incredible situation God has returned
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the people of Israel from Exile they're
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coming back to Jerusalem they're
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rebuilding the altar they're giving
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worship they're I mean it's an
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incredible Victorious moment of the
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restoration of God it's just wonderful I
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mean you can almost learn everything
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about Apostolic Ministry from the book
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of Ezra and Nehemiah it's it's so
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wonderful and the last two chapters did
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you notice that the last two chapters of
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the book of isra are all dedicated to
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repent
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of sexual sin on behalf of the
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leadership well I missed that what was
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that in the Bible let's look at Ezra
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chapter 9 what happens now in their day
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the the sin was they the they they
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married the the Canaanite women this was
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before the time of Yeshua had they had
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they had seed with the Canaanite woman
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they would have ruined the promise of
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the coming of the Holy seed of Yeshua
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and would have basically damned all of
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the human race for eternity with they
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would have ruined the ability for Yeshua
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to come God would have had to wipe us
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all out again like he didn't know but
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but in this case but so I'm not going to
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deal with the fact that they married
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that that situation doesn't apply really
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to anybody here today but it still was a
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a type of sexual sin so we're looking at
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and um so let's look and we're in Ezra
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9
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UM chap chapter 9 verse2 and said second
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half of the verse so that the holy seed
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is mixed with the people of the lands
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and then he says indeed the hand of the
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leaders and the rulers have been
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uppermost in this
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sin
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yo wasn't just the sin of the people
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every was but he said you know he said
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the leaders have been even
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worse Y and then and then how does
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react or I'm saying somebody who's
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leaving a judicial process to help solve
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and deal with all these situations and
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we're into that you know said so I heard
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this thing I tore my garment and my
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robed and plucked out some of my hair
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from my head and my beard I sat down
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astonished and everyone who was trembled
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at the words of the god of Israel
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assembled to me because of the
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transgression of those who have been
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carried away captive and I stand
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astonished and he goes on and all just
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repenting and he says he says he goes on
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and say I'm 're we
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are this is humiliating it's humiliating
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for the whole people of God he said I'm
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ashamed God we're in a generation where
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you're miraculously storing the
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restoring the people of God you're
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rebuilding the altar you I mean we are
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living in that generation we're living
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in the generation of the restoration of
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Israel Jerusalem Israel becoming the
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lead nation in the Middle East the the
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the Messianic Remnant I mean we have
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over 100 congregations in Israel today
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maybe 200 of them if you count the house
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congregations then we have it's this is
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a time of incredible Victory and right
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in the middle of that we have sin in the
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camp it's it's it's humili I mean you
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don't that's you can he said what can I
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say I'm just going to rip out my beard
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rip out my hair I'd rip out my hair if I
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had any left but but we have um but it's
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it's just you see him reacting now after
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he does that then he goes into this long
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the basically all the chapter 10 the
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last chapter is him making a judicial
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process so I'm not against judicial
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we're doing you have to do that that's
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the right thing to do he said now we're
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going to set up we're going to interview
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each person we're going to come through
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this and we're going to we're going to
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check it we got got to hear the evidence
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because remember um Nicodemus said he
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said how can you have righteousness if
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you don't hear both sides of the story
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whenever you hear one side of the story
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it doesn't matter what the allegations
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are on this side or this side if you've
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only heard one side of the story you're
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wrong you be before you start you've got
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the process you got to hear both sides
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you got to compare them you got to work
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it out and he says no we're going to do
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all that the people said yeah that don't
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we're praying first of all we tear our
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heart we tear our garments and then we
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go through this process we've got to go
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through this process to work and he said
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they said it's going to take some time
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for us to hear everybody work person by
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person name by name this in every
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situation make a decision make a
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judgment you have to do that and all I'm
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saying and we for who so dedicate
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ourselves to do that all I'm saying if
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we go right to that and skip over the
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part of tearing our heart and tearing
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our garments and say oh my God what's
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happened this is
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humiliating and people are hurt people
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are hurt on all sides
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it's interesting I noticed that that
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when he did this they said in vers in
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chapter 10 he said it was the 20th day
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of the 9th
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month and he did he said in three days
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from now it'll be the 20 so he did this
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three days before the 20th day of the
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9th month which is in the Hebrew
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calendar
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today amazing
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huh this 3 days before the 20th would be
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the Shabbat this is the three days it's
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the ninth month of it been so I was
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realiz I just felt like the the
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anointing of this the revelation of this
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chapter we're living it you know not
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just the date but you know what I'm
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saying I'm just realizing we he there's
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both the part of the broken heart and
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it's tearing our hearts and then there's
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the part of the judicial process you
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have to do both you know but um but what
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happens is because everybody's
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scrambling because of the allegations
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and people are heard on all different
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sides people are trying to you know what
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I'm saying kind of justify themselves we
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haven't even gotten to the point we all
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need to just stop and start crying and
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just humble ourselves and say got a
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little humility Holiness and and a
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brokenheartedness to be in the right
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process is wherever it goes people say
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to me what do you think about this
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situation this situation you know I'm
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talking about a whole bunch of famous
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situations and and I say I I they don't
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have an opinion because I'm trying to
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serve the process of trying to be trying
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to be humble and objective and we we
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we're hurting for everybody and and
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people have been wounded you know I just
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want to say um one more thing about the
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story of of
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um uh David and Beva I used to say that
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uh was the only passage in the Bible my
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wife and I don't agree about you know as
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a man I read I said can you believe that
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girl taking over Clos in the front of
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the king's window how could she do that
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my wife said are you what are you
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talking about I sure God the king came
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up and you know abducted her what are
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you talking about so and I realized that
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um maybe there's a little truth on both
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sides but Betty was more right than me
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because when you look at after it God's
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judgment comes more on him than it was
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on her you know so it's it's so he was
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more responsible you know she can't well
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she flirted well okay but you're the
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king you know you have to you have to
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deal with it so it's a it's a
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heartbreaking situation and in the
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history of
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Israel the the the sin repeated itself
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over and over and over and over and over
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again and it caused the murder and
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adultery and it just it seemed to
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destroy the kingdom of God every time
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the kingdom of God would come to a high
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point it would get destroyed by these
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things it's a heartbreaking chain of
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events for that to happen now um let's
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skip over all that for a moment I want
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and let's let's come up to the um the
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story of the conception of our beloved
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Messiah who is the son of
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David the great great great great
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grandson of David look what it says here
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this was the angle I mean there's so
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many good things to speak about the
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conception of the Messiah but uh here is
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one it just jumped out at me was Luke
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Chapter
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1:35 of course I read this all the time
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I just kind of went over it but notice
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the word holy is in this verse
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twice it says Luke Chapter 1:35 and it
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says and the angel answered this is
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Gabriel comes to me said it's said you
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know Miriam is there and she says to him
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well how how am I going to be with child
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I mean I'm I'm a virgin you know and and
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you know when if if she's coming from an
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ultra Orthodox Jewish background she
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probably was she may have never even
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talked to a man before she definitely
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never touched a man she never been in
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the same room with a man before I mean
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what what are you talking about you know
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and the angel answered and said to her
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the holy spirit will come upon you and
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the power of the most high will
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overshadow you and therefore the holy
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thing which will be born in you shall be
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called The Son of God here's a different
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angle that I want us to look at
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this they she is the great great great
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great granddaughter and Joseph is also
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the great great great grandson basically
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of of David Bash
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and we're talking about what how many
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generations it is 14 by 14 Generations
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coming up till you get to them of
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generations of of sexual sin that has
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been doing huge damage to the kingdom of
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God and she
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wins she wins she breaks the curse and
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she says look I've kept myself holy and
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you can see it then you can try to get
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the purp purpose of she say look I'm the
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I'm the great great and if we understand
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it correctly on her mom's side she was
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from the the tribe of the Cohen family
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and in the father's side from David and
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probably from Joseph was on David
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David's family so she says she said I'm
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like the I'm the great great great
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granddaughter of of the of the Kings and
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the priests of our people and I have
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determined that I am going to keep
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myself holy in this perverted generation
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and she's looking back at that angel and
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she's like saying I mean you know I'm
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not taking any of this promise from you
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you know I'm I'm watching out for my
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Holiness I don't need your promise I'm
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watching out for my Holiness and you
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could almost feel him smiling so yeah
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you
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know yeah you won you won
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girl now I don't believe Mary was born
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of an Immaculate Conception that's not
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what I'm talking about I'm talking about
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a plain old Jewish Israeli girl here
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that fought against all the forces of
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sexual immorality and stood before
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angels and the forces of Heaven and Hell
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and said I'm going to maintain my Purity
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he says yes and the holy spirit's going
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to come upon you and the child that will
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born will be born of you will be holy
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because you have maintained yourself
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holy and this this holy child is going
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to come and save the universe and it's
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partly because of you dear Miram
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this is the great great great great
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granddaughter of
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Betha he said I want you
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want and and Joseph being the great
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great great grandson of David also
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saying well what am I supposed to do
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here and he says well just you know get
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married get betr while you're betr we'll
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have the child born and then you can get
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married and then it'll be it'll all work
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out well but what a victory the the
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victory of the conception of the Messiah
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is the victory of a people walking in
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Holiness overcoming the carnality and
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the sinfulness of the world around him
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wow what an encouraging thing what a way
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to look at this story look at this in
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the light of Holiness and victory folk
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this is good news good news but despite
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us messing this up all over the place
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Hallelujah Yeshua is a holy Child
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conceived in Holiness by the way you
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know there was as I can tell there's
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nothing miraculous about his
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he had a regular birth the miracle was
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the conception that was when the miracle
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that's why we believe this holiday was
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not his birth but actually the
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conception but that's when the light
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came into the world and she received it
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as a holy vessel the Holy Light came
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into her cuz she maintained herself
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maintained herself holy what a victory
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and she and you got she she went the
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rest of her life being mocked at by
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everybody in her
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City yeah Virgin Mary
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you know they looked at her her
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reputation was a girl that had said got
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pregnant outside of marriage you know
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and she kept her Holiness in the light
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of all that an amazing thing all right
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one last thing I want to share and that
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has a relationship our relationship to
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the world um both John and James speak
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of not loving or not being a friend of
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the world it's in 1 John 2 and then
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James 4 let's look at one of them let's
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look in the uh in James
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4
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um I think it may be a little more
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relevant for although it's the same part
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Point James
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4
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verse4 he says um you adulterers and
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adulteresses do you not know that
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friendship with the world is enmity with
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God whoever therefore would be a friend
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of the world is an enemy of
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godo that's a pretty tough verse the
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verse in first John 2 which says
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something similar is but it says a
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little different in verse in 1 John 2 it
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says don't love the world we know a
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little everybody knows a love Greek to
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know that love is agape so he says don't
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Agape the world the world out there but
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in but in in James he says don't be a
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friend to it which is the fil so he's
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saying in in and and I so I was thinking
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for most of us I'm I'm I'm using the
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James one because I'm saying most of us
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we don't love the world I don't love the
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things of the world even love the things
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world I don't I don't desire them love
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them but there's a part of us you know
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I'd like to be friends a little bit you
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know I mean I want to be have friends I
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want to be part of what's going on you
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kind of want to be friends with human
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society you want to be you know I'd like
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to hang out with the with the synagogue
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in my my neighborhood but I've been
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kicked out of more synagogues than
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you've ever ever been to you know I'd
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like to be friends with the the Israelis
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around us but what you know not we what
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are you going to do you know I'd like to
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watch a TV show every now and then you
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get about 2 minutes and then you got to
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turn off the TV you can't watch it it's
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all it's I don't love it but I'm
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confessing you know I'm saying I don't
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love it but I'd like to at least be
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friends a little bit he says no no no no
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no no you want to be friends with this
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world you're an enemy of God oh no I'm
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sorry Lord you know and what so it comes
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to the place where we have to realize if
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all this is true that that we we can't
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be friends with this world we're you
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have to live as kind of a reject you
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know it's not going to work out you can
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be nice you can smile at everybody and
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you can have grace and favor that
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doesn't mean you want to have grace and
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favor people will appreciate us because
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they see us walking with the Lord but it
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we can't be buddies with him you know
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and uh I'm I'm working on that one I
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really I have no love for the world I
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have no desire for the but I kind of
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would like to you know just be friends
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with them want to be friendly people you
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know but it doesn't that doesn't work
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out you know you can show them love you
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can show people you can be friends to
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them but you can't be friendly with them
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you know and it's it's a different thing
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you know I'm not saying don't be
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friendly don't be loving we we pour the
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love and friendship of Yeshua to the
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people around us but we can't go down to
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try to be accepted on in what they're
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doing and we can't be with them on that
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level as Yeshua said you got to be in
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the world but not of the same spirit and
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and you know that I'm just
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confessing that that's a little it's a
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little because there's something about
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it we're people of love we want to have
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friend we want to be friends with the
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people around you it doesn't work so um
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looking this and and I'm I'm also
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thinking of the the the the sexual sins
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that have been part of the the body not
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just in the leaders but in in
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everyone it you know the people that I
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know they they wasn't people that were
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looking for sin it wasn't that kind of
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things it was just that we live
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particular the western church it's kind
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of like we're Believers but we're also
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just friendly with the world you know
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it's kind of like we're cool we're hip
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we're going over it doesn't work the
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people weren't looking to sin you know
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they were but we were trying to be
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friendly with the world and when you're
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doing that you don't realize that you're
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slowly getting stuck in the in the honey
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and the mud and you're getting and you
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don't realize it and you're getting and
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then all of a sudden you say what
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happened and I realize that we we have
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to have another step of just really
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coming coming to a deep understanding
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that we can't be friends with the values
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that are in the world and we in Israel
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for instance if we go toward the 90% of
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the Orthodox Jewish World
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they hate Jesus even though they don't
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know who he is but I'm saying and we
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can't be Messianic Jews in it and the
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world the rest of Israeli Society is
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saturated in sexual sin and Rebellion
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because we we got to walk in a holy Lane
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in between that and and love everybody
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around us and be a witness you know what
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I'm saying but we have to wake up that
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that we we can't relax in that
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environment and um so that's it I just
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want to
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um pray and let me just go over those
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points again we have to have a deep
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brokenheartedness Holiness and the fear
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of God and humility when we look at the
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sexual sins around us on whatever the
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sides are particularly realizing how
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damaging that could be when those of us
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and all of you were all being trained
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for leadership there's nobody that's a
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Believer that's not being trained for
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leadership you got to realize the more
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you're trained in leadership the more
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prices it's going to have the more bad
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effects it's going to have and it's come
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to ruin the kingdom of God all this time
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but thank
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God Joseph and Mary and the people in
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their generation overcome that she beat
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the World by saying pure and then when
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she gave Yeshua to the world then Yeshua
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is the light he is the he is the Holy
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One she's not the Holy One she just
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maintained her her sexual Purity but
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he's the Holy One and he's coming we
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have Holiness that comes from him and
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the and the the story of of Christmas of
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the conception of Yeshua is also part of
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the victory of the Holiness of God over
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the sinfulness of this world hallelujah
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hallelujah but we have to watch out not
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to just try to be friendly on the same
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level as the world around us and I was
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just uh so I want to pray I just want to
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also pray for this generation the
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younger generation Believers or not
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Believers as I've been tell we've been
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talking about this with our family
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members with their that know the age of
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our children and grandchildren already
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that that that they've been come become
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totally um I'm not trying to overstate
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something but dysfunctional in the
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ability to have any kind of
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interpersonal relationship they they
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nobody can figure out how to get married
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because the young boys and girls today
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can't even talk to one another they
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don't even know what to do well let's
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just get a dog you know I mean just it's
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just it's a it's a difficult world
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because the the generations of this
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sinfulness and worldliness has caused a
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dysfunction not only in not only in
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gender confusion but just in men and
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women don't know how to talk to one
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they're afraid to get married they're
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afraid to have children they're afraid
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to it's nothing the the whole thing is
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falling apart but not with us we need to
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pray for the Holiness of God that can
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result in help healthy normal
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relationships what are you trying to be
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super holy go I'm trying to see if we
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can have some normal relationships
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Hallelujah and
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um okay these were some heavy things so
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let's just pray Lord God just pray with
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me
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and Heavenly Father we ask
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you for humility for Holiness and for
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brokenheartedness in the light of the
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worldliness around us Lord God
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and I realize Lord that none of us has
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walked through this pure there none of
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us that haven't been affected one way or
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another no we we're not pointing fingers
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at everybody Lord we're just saying I we
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all of us Lord we just need to as Ezra
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did
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just tear his shirt tear his heart pull
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out his beard pull out his hair just hey
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God lord we are humiliated and humbled
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before you we're more than humbled Lord
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we're humiliated
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but God we thank you that somehow in
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your sight that's a good sacrifice you
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like that you say hey you got the point
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Lord we just thank you that we would not
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be afraid as a Community of Faith to
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Humble
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ourselves to admit we've all blown it
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and we all just have to have a a broken
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heart and give it to you in this season
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when we talk about this holy child being
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conceived Lord I ask you for right now
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in this week 10 days during hanuka
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lighting the light of hanuka and talking
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about the conception of the of the holy
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Child Lord that we would just let that
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Holiness touch
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us and that we could just have the Heart
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of Mary and Joseph that we can just walk
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in Holiness in this world because that
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holy child is in our hearts we don't
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have to be pregnant we just have to have
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him in our hearts and we thank you for
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Lord that we are walking and above all
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Lord I'm so so sorry God that we have
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embarrassed your name in front of the
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world oh
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God bad enough
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Lord that we would embarrass ourselves
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but Lord we've cause embarrassment to
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your
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name thank you God in all your Holiness
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and your power we tremble in fear at
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your word but Lord we also know that
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your grace is there to forgive us to
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heal us
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heal all the people that have been hurt
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on all the different sides Lord all the
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people that have been victims all the
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people that have been defiled all the
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people that in Lord we just pray for
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your Holiness to come and cleanse us and
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heal
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us and humble us restore us that we can
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Worship You from this heart of Holiness
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and humility
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brokenheartedness that you can restore
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unto us the joy of our salvation Lord
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don't take your holy spirit away from us
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don't cast us away Lord but restore us
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Lift us up with A Generous Heart Lord
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restore unto us the joy of our salvation
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and the Holiness of this season in
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yeshua's
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name anden