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Thank you, Earl and Kathy, for the beautiful music and for your allusion to, I sure agree

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with you about Job 38.

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I had it on my mind this morning.

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Great how the spirit works, isn't it?

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And I just welcome you all here with joy today and we had such a wonderful last weekend

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and yesterday was such a fine day for the men downstairs and Dr. Weldsell and Mike Sawyer

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collaborated and we had a great men's fellowship and at 13 so I praise the Lord for that.

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We will today finish a pretty much a theme though we're not done with it but let's turn to Nehemiah

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chapter 6 verses 2 and 4 and Larry had gotten into part of this and I'm not going to repeat

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anything to speak of it or just a couple of verses I want to stay here.

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Remember that San Balot was a bad man.

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He was bad and you know that's not good.

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He was the type who was jealous of the lands of where Jerusalem was.

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Of course it had the richest water, it was the most defensive, it was a fertile valley hilltop

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relationship, it was a rich rich land and acre for acre it's done more to determine the destiny

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of the earth than any piece of land on the face of the earth.

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It still isn't much bigger than Neutrona County and yet has dominated world politics and history

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and all the things that are important to us in our life and remember the San Balot was just

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trying to bad mouth God's man and was putting him down and he was trying to undermine the

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richness of his reconstruction of God's holy city and eventually then God's holy temple.

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And so he sends all kinds of offers trying to distract him and in that verse two it says

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but they were scheming to harm me see this is Nehemiah so I sent messages to them with this

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reply I'm carrying on a great project I cannot go down why should the work stop while I leave it

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and go down to you four times they sent me the same message and each time I gave them

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the same answer wow you could be distracted there but he wasn't was he he refused to quit working

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now that's the kind of guy you like to have on your side he refuses to quit working verse three I

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thought was so important why should I stop work you know if you found something in the Lord keep

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after don't ever quit you may get tired you may have a little burnout but you won't if you just

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find something better to do in the house of God and something even more contributing to the future

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and the health of the spiritual world I thought that there were three aspects of this man's thinking

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and what makes him such a great prophet was this he said I will not be distracted and you know in

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this day and age you just have to tell yourself I'm gonna slap my thighs and prioritize I'm gonna

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put things first see and in the vernacular of the young folks and then I think he would have said

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and would have at least quantified it this way I know that I am valuable to you oh God

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and that's an unusual aspect isn't it I know that today it would be more clear than it would in

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Nehemiah's day because you and I are so valuable to God that he gave his son that we might have

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eternal life and that since we have great value and there are things we can do because Jesus died

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for our sins I think that's so important and then lastly I will not fear and I want to concentrate

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a little bit on fear because I see so much of it in the world today we have a precious little lady

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down the street we see her about every four or five years or anytime it was a crisis in Jerusalem

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land or in the Arabian world she comes to church for a while until things settle down and then

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there's no necessity to church or spiritual things anymore but at least she's prophetic she's looking

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at the Bible that in a way I guess she's gotten part of it and that's better than nothing at all

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and fear and worry and stress and anxiety are just such an important thing in our society today

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we're living in a people in a world where people are pretty fearful of things and and I think you

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know the church can smooth that can help that can assuage it can make it better I really believe

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that we can fear and worry and anxiety and stress are all a common word which has to do with the

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Greek word which simply means to divide the mind and I think the sad thing of that is a divided

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mind isn't concentrating and isn't focusing is it and boy in the hectic hubbub world it's just

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finding yourself going two or three directions at one time and you don't really get much done that

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way and it is not very efficient and you know when you think of a schizophrenic what in the world

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a split mind how many ever into phrenology I know that this group would really be heavy on

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phrenology but that's feeling the bumps on your head and reading your future see to determine

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your mind from the physiognomy of your head well if you're into that I'd like I have a mystery bridge

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out here I'd like to sell you and I don't think that that's really cool but the split minded

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personalities around us all the time bipolar dipolar whatever you want to call it can't make up our

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mind see got you on my mind now feeling mighty sad and low tears gets in my eyes baby every time I

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hear your name every time I hear your name we're just split in 17 different directions

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any way that we go and I'd like to concentrate for a moment on fear because I think it's so

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important it was a sign of his timing that men's hearts would fail them for what their happiness

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their delight their ecstasy of things to come no for what fear men's hearts failing them for fear

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you know when we first saw that heart from the South African doctor who held a man's heart well

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the doctor gave him the heart his heart was in a bottle and he was the first man alive who held

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his own heart in his own hands and since that time it's becoming more and more common operation

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anything to do with heart and heart problems and heart failures it's a very intrinsic part of our

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life isn't it and we have to deal with that all the time and it can take our lives uh I thought

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this was kind of funny how many of you like to take airplane rides do you it's gotten to be a

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more of a joy here like do you like to Brian Brian you're just weird you know that I I thought this

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was cool why is it then Brian if you like to ride in airports and things like that in airplanes

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not riding an airport that'd be really weird but but you know why do they call it the airplane

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terminal and why do they call it the final approach that doesn't make me feel better

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about the whole thing and why should they say we're about to come to a complete stop as if

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there's a halfway stop see or if there's a partial stop or maybe if there's an unfinished stop

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that's the one I would worry about wouldn't you and you know I think many of us are getting our

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degrees doctor's degrees at that in the University of Anxiety there's just a lot of that isn't it

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and it's wear and tear and it's tough on your immune system that's the very that's tight in

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that's just as good as gold any good physiologist can tell you that worry causes sickness it really

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does and Jesus was on to that of course he invented anything that has to do with life

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without him nothing has been created john one four other thing or john one three and I think

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that's pretty cool I heard a woman say uh my daughter doesn't tell me anything and I'm just a

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nervous wreck and the lady next to her says my daughter tells me everything and I'm worse

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of a wreck than you are and I could believe it if you heard what daughter was up to Philippians 4

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6 and 7 is a fantastic passage of scripture I will repeat phrases out of it from time to time

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because what a strong guard against worry and fatigue and stress and anxiety this scripture is

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it's a treasure Philippians 4 6 and 7 don't worry about anything now that is really something

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don't worry about anything and you know if we're disciplined enough we will eventually

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control that I'm a worry ward now see this is a great sermon for me don't worry about anything

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instead pray you see he gives you something positive to do instead of the agony of worrying

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and thinking about tomorrow instead pray about everything tell god what you need and thank him

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for all he has done if if the contingent contingent conjunction this is a conditional

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statement depending if something happened first the idea was that you pray then you quit worrying

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and then you substitute that void or that vacuum which the worry had occupied and if you don't

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you go back to worrying again see and that's the beautiful part if you do this you will experience

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god's peace which is more wonderful than the human mind can understand now verse seven and I think

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it's so important this is a good one to memorize his peace will guard your hearts and minds as you

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live your life in Christ Jesus his peace will guard your heart and mind as you live your life

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in Christ Jesus see here's faith working and boy it takes some faith to live that way doesn't

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but it can be done he never asks us to do anything that's impossible see if he asks me to do something

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I know that I'm capable of doing it and that's why my conscience gives me a bad time because

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see I'm a cocky rascal and I think I can do I can even sing sometimes well I try hard

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but no talent particularly but I try see I really think that there's a great message in that

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he will guard your hearts and minds because this is a lot about guarding ourselves from the things

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that tear down our ministries and make us less than we ought to be my apologies to Walt Kelly I

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didn't write this poem but I it was one of them one of my great favorites about 30 years ago and it

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comes back to my mind or was well I couldn't find it but I can do it pretty much by memory and

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you know what the aurora borealis is that's the northern lights is if you live in the south pole

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it's the aurora australis I'm sure you appreciate that but the little lady wakes up in the middle of

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the night and all it was the world's on fire and she worries worries worries her name was mistress

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flurry let's see what do you think about this poem worry worry mistress flurry rise and early

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feelings surly woke one night saw aurora borealis shining bright in the night oh mistress flurry

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she had an awful fright and couldn't sleep the rest of their night or for many nights after that

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night best to worry mistress flurry for life shall be the death of she I thought that had a profound

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message and how many of you worry about something you can't do anything about I can't change the

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aurora borealis so there's one honest dear lady we worry about so many things we can't I can't

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change the sky and the heavens and the creation of God indeed I would with ecstasy look towards

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seeing the northern lights and looking at the mystery of the defense of the ionization see

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of the troposphere which keeps us from things which destroy our life like cancer UVs ultraviolets

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singing ions which are surging across the earth we have a machine out there we spent billions

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of dollars on it is trying to read the pulses of the of the energy coming from the sun and they're

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very dangerous we could worry about that and science is really worried about it they're spending

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your billions and some of its mind a very small part of that billion but you know all of us together

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are spinning on that kind of worry in a world which is going hungry and starving and full of

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sin bob russell was what is one of our preachers and I read this that I thought was very important

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he quoted a man that said this and I thought it was cool I resolved to worry myself out of debt

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and so I did and if I could remember how he said it he says I kicked the dog when I got home

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I was certainly to my wife and grumpy with my children I sought a divorce I was a foul worker

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down at the office I griped and I groped and I complained and I called my creditors and I did

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every other thing and lo and behold my testimony here today I woke up one morning and there

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because of worry I was saved and my money was there on the table well that doesn't sound like a

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very sensible testimony does it had you ever get any money by worrying like that did your debtors

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ever cancel them because you were worrying not a bit matter of fact you're probably deeper

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dead because you had to go to the doctor for stomach problems or other things wasn't it but

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here's what bob wrote and I thought this is pretty profound see if it doesn't fit into your experience

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when you talk about worry and I do quote bob russell this is no not my research he says we

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worry 40 percent of the times about things that never happen 40 percent almost half of our worries

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are about things that can't happen and they never do happen then he says 30 percent of our worries

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belong to the unchangeable things of the past now this is one that I live with I have a fine memory

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and I think back on all the outrageous fortunes and slings and arrows of chance and circumstance

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and I worry about everybody I can't change a thing not a thing of those things of the past

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I worried about the prom what a spasmo I was in my everyone else had a nice outfit and during

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our high school prom I had a purina egg mask shirt on and I wasn't exactly cool and I remember

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the embarrassment of that not only being ugly but being dressed poorly it didn't help anything

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and I still feel embarrassed sometimes in the small hours of the night seems silly isn't it

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after all this time but I won't be cool and I wasn't cool 12 percent of the worries that we

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experience have to do with the opinions of others and tell me how much control do you have over the

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opinions of others absolutely nothing why worry about that there's nothing you can do about that

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and I thought this was an interesting he said 10 percent have to do with personal health now I

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would wonder about that value wouldn't you I think the older you get the more you worry

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about your personal health and for young people I didn't know what a doctor was about except when

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you had a baby or something in our country didn't necessarily go to the hospital I was born in a

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house I was lucky it wasn't a barn Jesus was luckier in that sense he was born in a barn

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according to the plans I was born that way because I was just poor dumb mom and pop it

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wasn't too bright and so those were the circumstances see and we worry about our personal health our

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personal health gets worse I mean you can you can put that as a real fact the more you worry about

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your health the worse it will become and there's a physiological reason for that I want to take

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time for but eight percent bob russell says of our time spent worrying is about problems that we

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can do something about so in other words 92 percent of our worry is a wasted time and I think that's

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practical I think it's just observing people in life and my own life and my own family that that

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has a very fine biblical and scientific background as well verse 9 in Nehemiah in that chapter 6 he

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said he prayed I prayed and then we hear these poignant words now strengthen my hands he knew

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that he was in a dangerous position he knew he's being gossiped about he knew he was being bad

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mouth he knew that nothing good was coming from all that sandbalot and his buddies were saying

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because they could have destroyed his great work see but God strengthened his head first Peter 5 7

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says cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you cast that word cast it was interesting

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and looking it up Jesus cast out demons it's almost like see grab that demon by a shirt tail and his

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britches and throw him out and that's exactly what happened to the demons in the swine remember

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as they plunged over the cliff that the devils hated baptism ever since then they got baptized

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prematurely but he cast out those demons and the persistency see of prayer Luke 81 Jesus says

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it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit he's telling the story about the

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important that woman or the persistent woman she went to the the judge and just begged and begged

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he said I'm not going to get any relief from her unless she lays off me and so I'm going to have to

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do the right thing by her and that's something a judge has to do the right thing from time to time

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because it may inconvenience him somewhat and I thought of this devote yourself to prayer with

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an alert mind and a thankful heart I love this one Colossians 4 2 you know with an alert mind I

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think it's King Jamie that says I'm watchful be watchful I like this interpretation of it's a

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new King James New Testament that's that's a good interpretation of that but you know what I worry

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a lot about the creation and I'm so glad that I read that but you know I spend I live with people

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who are constantly picking on a Christian view of creation see they are so cool but sometimes

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they're not and you know I was just thinking the other day as I was reading and I said thank you Jesus

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for this insight because you know does anyone know how many genes that a human being has how many

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chromosomes do we have we have 46 don't we now on the scale of evolution things which are simple see

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should have been there first and then we evolved from the things which are simple

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so the things that were there first and the simple should have a low number of chromosomes

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shouldn't let me just make sense does a bacteria have as many chromosomes as a human no but how

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about this you know how many chromosomes a jackass has 62 do you know how many chromosomes

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that crawdad has that old stick least thing that they eat the Cajuns eat down there and we eat them

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too the alcove crustaceans aren't near as good they have 202 chromosomes mr. evolutionist how

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in the cob can you have that be how can the things most complex be dumber than we are

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and less created and far further away from god than we are and so I just said thank you Jesus

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there was a while a little knowledge is good for me you know it helps maybe

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I'll give you more material that if you were to be interested and so I believe with all of my heart

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that with an alert mind and the power of prayer we are given tools to conquer any of our problems

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and lastly I would say this the church is a fortress and it is not a hiding place let's just read

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beginning in verse 10 one day I went to the house of shema a son of deliah the son of

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mehetebol who was shot shut up in his home and he said let us meet in the house of god inside

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the temple and let us close the temple doors because men are coming to kill you by night they

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are coming to kill you but I said should a man like me run away now there is a confidence in

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yourself isn't why should a man of god run and hide behind the church's doors the church is a

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place like a rocket shot it's a place where you send off missionaries where you send out healed

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people where hurt feelings are put together again and then you go do god's great work

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building that great tower building that wall building the very temple of god let us close

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the temple doors because men are coming to kill you by night they are coming see I realize that

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god had not sent him see takes a lot of intelligence if you're going to keep from worrying because

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you have to know what the odds are and you have to know what god's track record is see

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that was the subject of yesterday's marvelous devotion about if you're sure about god

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then you can have the confidence to step out in the stormy seas knowing that that doesn't make

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sense but you know that god can be trusted because you've seen him take care of his people

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over a history of 5,000 years it's just amazing I realize that god had not sent him but he had

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prophesied against me and Tobiah and Sambalot had hired him he had been hired to intimidate me

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make me afraid make me scared see so that I would commit a sin by doing this and then they would

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give me a bad name to discredit me and the house of god see that's so important see there were 12

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gates to Jerusalem like much be pretty much quantified and found up the roots of them can be

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found in many of them some of them are actually the literal gates they have no problem restoring

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those and looking at a map as a geologist Bible scholars by the way never worry about facts too

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much when it comes to science they had contours but they didn't label how much the height and depth

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was and they had a scale and a beautiful scale I mean they had it in space but they didn't put a

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horizontal scale on it either but by putting some things together and using the Biblical

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archaeological survey I was able to figure out you know how did how what kind of a wall did they

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make in eight in 52 days I figured that it's almost exactly one in six tenths miles or 8,000 feet

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around that great hill the city of Ophel the uplifted the swelling of the earth which was a

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fortification see in those days that was all you had to protect yourself each gate was comprised

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generally of three portals now down at the jail they've got a marvelous thing there it says

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Sally port we have any Sally's here this morning not not yet in this group Sally port and that

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means you have three locked doors at the same time you never have all three doors open because

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the guy in the jail could go like that and be gone see and the ancients this is as old as time

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itself you had three gates so you couldn't put a massive 20,000 men against 100 because the three

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gates would keep them from coming through all at the same time and a handful of men could fight off

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the world and that's always been God's bulwark God's fortress hasn't it and we use that word still

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today it's a little more antiquated but we say I'm gonna Sally forth and that's what that means

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I'm gonna come out of the gates and when I do somebody's in trouble because I'm gonna come out

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there ready to fight see Sally forth Ophel remember meant the word fortress this was God's house God's

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place Luther spoke of a song you I think everyone know it a mighty fortress is our God a bulwark

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never failing and I think I infested a burger that's the way he would say it a powerful city on a

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big hill and that's what the church is about isn't it your family life is I infested a burger

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powerful bulwark against the outrageous activities of life and its peace and security and comfort for

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you to see Matthew 16 verses 13 through 18 he said the guys were talking about all the miracles

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people being healed you know cripples made well and the dead brought back to life and they're just

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busy busy buzzing like that and he asked him a question what are men saying that I the son of

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man am why they said why why Jesus why some say you're John the Baptist or you're Elias or you're

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Jeremiah or one of the prophets but who do you say that I am Peter why thou art the Christ the

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son of the living God and Jesus is oh blessed art there Simon son of Jonah bar Jonah for flesh and

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blood have not revealed this unto thee but my father who is in heaven and I say unto you

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thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church now that doesn't make any sense in English

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but it sure does in the Greek or you are a pebble little man you are a pebble you're a little rock

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but I will build my church on the monolithic chumalung mother godness of the earth or El Capitan 3000

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feet of unriven rock of giant rocks you know the dominate mountains you're a pebble that's why we

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differ with the Catholicism many times because they say the rock which was so powerful was Peter a

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man the man who denied Christ no it's on the confession that Jesus is the Christ the Messiah

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the anointed one who is our redeemer and our sanctifier and the terminator of evil wow and that

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comes out doesn't it I wouldn't want to build my rock on a mere man not just a mere good man

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that's still not good enough but it's built on the Son of God that Jesus is the Lord of life

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and that's so powerful to me you see and then he says this and I left it out because it's the very

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last thing and I say unto you little man little pebble I say unto you the gates of hell shall not

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prevail against it my church is what he was saying and the gates of hell shall not prevail

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is that word means travail shall not prevail overpower it but it really says that I don't care

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if the church gets out of its walls and goes in the tax sin and ugliness and the filth in the world

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it shall smash us under the great gates of that ugly place that's called hell and I believe it

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with all of my heart I view it with great confidence that that is the case his peace will guard your

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heart and your mind as you live in Christ Jesus James four seven says resist the devil he will

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flee from you well first John four four says greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world

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in Deborah and barrack remember that beautiful song when Deborah sang of the vanishing of the

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amylokites back in the old testament see we have a record to believe in judges 523 curse

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she mirrors curse you mirrors bitterly he says that for they came not to the help of the lord

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to the help of the lord against the mighty ones they sat there in the battle screams in the agony

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of the fight and said let's stay out of this we could get hurt here and he says they were cursed

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in young couples oh my how important this is the best part of your family life is to gather your

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little ones around you and listen to their prayers and pray with them and teach them of the track

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record of god almighty and to tell them that he wins he has winners he never has losers and that

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is the greatest fortress you will have in your marriage life it's being able to pray with your

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sweetheart your loved ones the little babies that god has put the grand babies that god has put into

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your life for it makes warriors what do you mean warriors big boy david and his great defeat of

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almighty gat remember he was of those people who had made it might have had six fingers nine feet

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tall he was somebody formidable for a little guy that's just out of his teenage and all he had

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ever done you know was his herd sheep but now listen to this first samuel 1734 to 37 i have been

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taking care of my father's sheep this is my qualifications okay i'll go and fight him see

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when a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock i go after it with a club and i take the

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lamb from its mouth if the animal turns on me i catch it by the jaw and i cover it to death i

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wouldn't want to meet that kid in an alley would you i have done this to both lions and bears

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and i'll do it again to this pagan Philistine too for he has defied the armies of the living god

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that wasn't bravado was it that wasn't male machismo there's plenty of that around go to a movie

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sometime it's incredible they don't even load their guns those heroes they just keep shooting

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empty guns marvelous work he said the lord then who saved me from the law the claws of the lion

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and the bears they will save me from this Philistine so sol finally considered all right go ahead he

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was a big man wouldn't go ahead little guy and may the lord be with you we have a lot of that

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i won't go with you but i'll i'll be watching be praying for you

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someone asked me do you think you big boy would be a martyr when the time comes

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yeah not that i'm brave not at all i spent all my life examining the track their track record

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of jesus christ and his people and the story of this conquering of a mighty wall 8 000 feet of

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wall in 52 days is impossible you couldn't do it with bulldozers could you union or not

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you still couldn't do it either way could you couldn't do it with bulldozers but with god

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they could i would be a hollow man if i would deny jesus christ and i think there are about 99

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percent of us here who feel the same way after having preached of his power and his authority

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and seeing his gift to his people have seen the freedom he has bought us have known about the

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heaven that's sure to come i would be an empty man to deny him or not be a martyr so i don't

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desire that with all of my heart i always figured i would be but maybe it's not going to happen fast

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enough but i do know this we're not hollow men we have a hero who is real we can sally forth

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and go and fight a fight and not be cursed and live forever and i just exalted that i have hope

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in that i know that we are going to win that we're going to win forever in neomyah 6 15 in conclusion

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says this so the wall was completed on the 25th day of elow in 52 days when all our enemies heard

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about this all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence because

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they realized that this work had been done with the help of our lord when we win when the church

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launches forth opens its gates and sally's forth when we send our loved ones out into the mission

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field and out of the hard places we are going to turn things around and it's going to be the world

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that's scared and not as his peace will guard your heart and your mind as you live your life

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with jesus christ let's stand and sing our hymn of invitation which is number 366 number 366

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i surrender all

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you