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A Closer Look At 1 John 4:20, Why It's Impossible To Love God & Hate Your Brother?
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Feb 20, 2025
The Apostle John said in 1 John 4:20 “ If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen” I’ve read this verse several times and tried to understand what the Lord was communicating through the apostle John. Today we’ll be exploring this verse and its implications. How can people claim to love God whom they haven’t seen if they can’t love their brother/sister whom they see? Be sure to watch the video in its entirety. Cain & Abel Story, see link below https://tayibs.com/2020/02/03/the-gift-offered-in-faith-cain-and-abel-offerings-the-implications/ Scripture References: 1 John 4:20 1 John 5:1-2 Genesis 4:1-8 Genesis 37:1-8
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hello good morning this is Taibbi iep's
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calm and I hope you're having a good
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week I know a lot of people have been
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disrupted in their daily activities
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some have been laid off and some might
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just be trying to figure out how to get
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a new job or whatever it be situation is
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with you but I'm here to just tell you
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our God is still in control if she
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believed in the Lord Jesus you know that
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all things work together for good for
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those who love God and I've been called
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according to his purpose
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so I just want to let you know that he
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hasn't forgotten the raw knows what's
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going on and I would love for you to
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just come under his love and care and
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his sovereign hand because he's
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sovereign over all this these things we
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don't know why he allow certain things
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to happen but we know that there's
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always a end purpose there was a family
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in Egypt and the end purpose was to save
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Joseph and his brothers and the entire
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family and so this is also gonna produce
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some fruit that we will find out later
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on but in the meantime I would encourage
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you to just keep pressing on and all
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lose hope so today I have a new lecture
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for you guys we're gonna talk about
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first John 4:20 and the title of these
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messages can you love God and hate your
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brother so let's get into it I'm gonna
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get into the background real quick now
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the question is how can you love God and
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hate your brother the Apostle John said
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in 1st John 4:20 if anyone says I love
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God and hates his brother he is a liar
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for he who does not love his brother
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whom he has seen cannot love God whom he
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has not seen so I've read this verse
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like several times I try to understand
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what the Lord was trying to say through
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the Apostle John so today we're gonna be
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exploring this verse and its
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implications so how can people claim to
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love God whom they haven't seen if they
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can't love their brother and sister whom
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they see now the very first thing
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we need to understand is that John is
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referring to folks in the family of God
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primarily so this verse solely applies
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to brothers and sisters in Christ thus
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the first premise we need to understand
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that because when John was writing this
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his verses and his passage he was
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writing to believers so to better
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understand for John 4:20 we need to look
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at John's own clear explanations in 1st
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John 5:1
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he says everyone who believes that Jesus
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is the Christ has been born of God and
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everyone who loves the Father loves
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whoever has been born of him let me
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repeat that last one again and everyone
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who loves the Father loves whoever has
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been born of the father meaning if you
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claim to love God the Father then you're
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gonna love everyone was been born of the
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Spirit of God the Father okay so keep
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that in mind so now what we're gonna do
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is we're gonna look at some examples in
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scriptures of folks who hated and their
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brother and we and then we're gonna come
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to a close after that so first let's
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look at Genesis 4 the story of Cain and
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Abel I've actually done a lecture on
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that and I'm gonna be sharing that in
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the description below so make sure you
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click on our link so basically I'm gonna
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read the verse and we're gonna see what
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happened scripture says in the course of
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time Cain brought to the Lord an
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offering of the fruit of the ground and
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Abel also brought of the firstborn of
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his flock and of their fat portions and
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the Lord had regard for Abel and
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offering for for Cain and his offering
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he had no regard so Cain was very angry
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and his face fell and the Lord said to
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Cain why are you angry and why has your
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face fallen if you do well will it not
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be accepted and if you do not do well
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sin is crouching at the door its desire
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is contrary to you but you must rule
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over it
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caine spoke to us it would cane spoke to
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a with his brother and when they were in
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the field Cain rose up against his
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brother Abel and killed him then the
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Lord said to Cain where is Abel your
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brother and he said I do not know am I
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my brother's keeper
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so the Apostle John also tells us why
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Cain killed Abel in first John 3:12 he
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said we should not be like Cain was of
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the evil one and murdered his brother
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and why did he murder him because his
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own deeds were evil and his brothers
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righteous so the Kia was righteousness
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so God had prescribed how to worship Him
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he said to buffer him bring his sheep
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and this is the only way I'm going to
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accept it
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Cain try to bring his own offering by
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creating his own way and God wouldn't
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have it God rejected it so he was angry
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and what happened was he ended up
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killing his brother so he did not want
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to ask Abel for a ship because of his
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own pride his brother was righteous by
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doing exactly what God had prescribed
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his praying his ship so this story has
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greater implication because he's really
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shown us the story of Jesus because
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Jesus is our only way to the Father and
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many people claim I can worship God in
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my own terms and God won't have it his
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head is only through Jesus so that story
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of Abel and Cain is really giving us
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that picture there so the main reason
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why I came killed his brother is because
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of righteousness he did not want to
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bring his ship he wanted to bring his
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own fruits he wanted to bring his own
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offering and God rejected it so he hated
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his brother Abel so what was it really
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hating Cain was really hating God who
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prescribed the offering so Abel was only
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doing what God had to say to do which is
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the righteousness of God which is bring
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the ship and Cain hated that because he
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wanted to have his own way and God
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wouldn't have it so
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keep righteousness in mind now let's
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look at another story we're gonna look
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at the story of Joseph in his products
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now ISM is recorded in Genesis 37 and
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I'm gonna start with our first two
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Joseph being 17 years old was pastoring
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the fraught with his brothers he was a
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boy of the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah his
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father's wives and Joseph brought a bad
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report of them to their father now
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Israel loved Joseph more than any other
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of his sons because he was the son of
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his old age and he made him a robe of
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many colors but when his brothers saw
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that their father loved him more than
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all his brothers they hated him and
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could not speak peacefully to him now
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Joseph had a dream and when he told it
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to his brothers they hated him even more
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he said to them hear this dream that
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I've dreamed behold we were binding
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sheaves in the field and behold my sheaf
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arose and stood upright and behold your
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sheaves gathered around it and bowed
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down to my sheaf and his brother's Satan
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are you indeed to reign over us or are
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you indeed to rule over us so they hated
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him even more for his dreams and for his
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words so Joseph's brothers hated
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Joseph's topic but his dreams were
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god-given see God gave Joseph those
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dreams and what the Lord was trying to
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communicate through the dream was that
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someday he would work through Joseph to
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bring salvation to the entire family by
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rescuing them from the famine that took
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place in in Egypt and the entire world
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thus the surrounding those surrounding
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nations so in light of this whom do you
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think Joseph's brothers were really
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hating god of Joseph they were really
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hating on God because God was the one
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that gave those dreams to Joseph God was
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the one that elevated Jews have to
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displaced God was the one that did
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everything through Joseph because
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Joseph was his choice and God said I
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will have compassion on whom I will have
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compassion and God can choose whenever
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he wants to choose to bring about his
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purposes in this case he was Joseph so
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he elevated Joseph and his brothers
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couldn't stand it so while they were
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hating on Joseph they were really
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hitting on God who gave Joseph all these
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attributes and all this special favor
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okay like I say this is crucial to
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understanding 1st John 4:20 so now let's
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go back to 1st John 4:20 so what is John
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really saying to us in this passage why
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do you think so someone who hate his
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brother or sister in Christ now we saw
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from Cain and Abel that the first thing
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could be righteousness ok so John is
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saying something profound Cain hated
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Abel because
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Abel's Abel's deeds were righteous and
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his own deeds were evil
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the reason for the hatred was
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righteousness God is righteous and
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anyone that truly claimed to love God
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will of the righteousness of god in his
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brother or sister in Christ let me
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repeat that again God is righteous and
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anyone that truly claimed to love God
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will love the righteousness of god in
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his brother or sister in Christ so what
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people hate is the righteousness of god
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in that brother or the sister in Christ
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and if that's the case it is evidence
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that the love of God is not in them
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again let me repeat again it is evidence
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that the love of God is not in them
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because the enemy hates the
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righteousness of God okay so what people
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hate in a brother or sister in Christ is
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the righteousness of God so you're not
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really hating that brother you're
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hearing god righteousness in that person
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so and the answer again is in 1st John
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5:1 everyone who loves the Father loves
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whoever has been born of him why because
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whoever has been born of God will bear
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God's character and traits since the DNA
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of God is in that person so while you
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hid your brother because of his
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righteousness you are really saying god
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I hate you because I don't like the
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righteousness of God in that person so
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your hatred is now really toward your
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brother or toward God himself that's
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number one number two that could be
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jealousy or lack of contentment as we
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have seen in in Joseph's life okay
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because we are all children of God and
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if we are then we must love one another
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since we all display the character of
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God and the attributes of God in order
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that the whole family of God might
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verify God so our diversity is for the
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glory of God
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so one blood of Christ may have this
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gift may have that gift somebody else
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may have this gift so that diversity is
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for God's glory because we each have
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portions of his character and attributes
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and we each show it through the
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spiritual gifts or the manifestation in
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our bodies and this is what John is
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attempting to tell us we must first look
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and seek for the root of our hatred is
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it righteousness jealousy willful
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disobedience pride what is it what is
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causing you to hate on your brother
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that's what you need to look for first
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because the person you despise is a
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reflection of the Lord Himself so you
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are really not hating that person but
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you are hating God in that person all
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you are hearing the work the work and
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the work of God in that person you
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understand it so you need to first seek
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for the hatred the root of the hatred is
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it because that person is righteous is
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it because you're covering the gifts in
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that person what is causing you to hit
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your brother in Christ because if that
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person is is righteous and you hate the
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righteousness you are really hitting the
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righteousness of God give that person a
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certain attribute of God that you hate
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and that you want and yet you call it
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and that's why you're hating you are
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really saying to God
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and I'm so mad that you gave that person
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that gift and you didn't give it to me
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in the case of Joseph so basically you
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are standing in direct opposition of God
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so you are not really healing that
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product you are really hating God in
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that product or sister in Christ okay
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you get that so like I said I repeat
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this again because the person you're
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despised is a reflection of the Lord so
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you are really not hating that person
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but you are really hating God in that
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person or the work of God in that person
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this is why John says in first John 5 -
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by this we know that we love the
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children of God when we love God and
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obey His commandments so how do we show
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that we love our brothers in Christ by
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loving God and obeying his Commandments
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so this is what is scripture saying how
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do we love our brothers and sisters in
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Christ by loving God and obeying His
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commandments
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in other words by reflecting his
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character and that ought to make our
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brothers in Christ rejoice so if anyone
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hates and despises the fact that we are
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reflecting the character of God then he
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means that they don't truly know God
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let me repeat again if anyone hates and
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despises the fact that we are reflecting
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the character of God then he means that
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they don't truly know God so their
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problem isn't against the person that's
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reflecting the character of God for rada
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against God himself because the Lord
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exposes darkness the Pharisees was a
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typical example Jesus a they hated me
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without a cause why do you think they
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hated Jesus because he exposed the
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condition of their heart and they can't
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stand it
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they claim to love God yet they hated
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Jesus how's that possible they claim to
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love God yet they hated Jesus
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this is what people do they claim that
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the law of God yet the hate the person
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does reflecting the character of God the
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trace of God the attribute of God
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because Jesus is the fullness of God
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himself
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he's God himself so how can you hit
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someone else truly God and claim to love
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God the Father can happen and this is
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what John is saying if you hate your
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brother in Christ that is reflecting the
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character of God how can you love God
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because you see your brother and you
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hate that that which you see is the
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character of God the reflection of God
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so if you hate that in that product you
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can truly rock that it can happen ok
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that's a contradiction so basically this
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water passages is basically saying now I
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want to make some some clear points here
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we are not told not to rebuke our
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brother you can lick your brother in
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Christ in love when they are doing
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something that's not right provided you
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yourself first you say take the speck of
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the lager out of your own eye so you can
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take this speck out of your brother's
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eye this is not a call to go out and say
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well I'm righteous and he hates me now
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this is your righteousness sometimes you
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don't even have to speak because your
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righteousness will speak for itself
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because this is coming from God okay you
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know right self righteous your
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righteousness comes from the Lord so
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when you are righteous and you're
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exuding and you're showing the character
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of God is because the Lord Himself is
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working in you and the person that sees
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you will begin to recognize God in you
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and you either hate it or love it
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this is basically what it's saying here
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and if they love it is because they are
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children of the light and if they hate
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it is because they're children of
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darkness now you may be a child of light
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and in the meantime you're being sifted
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and you don't like what your brother is
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doing in Christ and you hate that well
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eventually you come around again because
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scripture says and God see it remaining
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us and we cannot go on sinning so for me
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that you may be struggling but
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eventually this Holy Spirit Himself will
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bring you because he is able to preserve
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you
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all right so hopefully this passage
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makes sense to you I don't encourage you
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to read it more and to try not allow the
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Holy Spirit to align your mind to
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understand what is the same have a
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wonderful day and I'll see you next
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thank you
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