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Pray For America - Pastor Don Guldin
Jun 29, 2025
Lesson 58 Bible Study Series Pastor Don Guldin 150 Guldin Rd Jacksonville, NC www.calvaryministry.org
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good morning folks this is Pastor Don
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Golden of Calvary Ministries and as I
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tell you every chance we have to get
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together it is just an absolute pleasure
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to be here with you to share the word of
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God from God's holy word this morning
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we're going to be looking at
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prayer uh we've got the July 4th holiday
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coming in just one week where we
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celebrate this nation and the greatness
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of it and there seems to be a lot of
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that use a word great when we talk about
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America what it is and what it was and
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what we want it to become and I would
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like to look at what truly
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will make America great as it was
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conceived to be and I'm convinced that
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if individual Christian people people
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like you and I will get on our knees and
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start to pray for this nation again and
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when I say pray for this nation we pray
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for the fellow next to us other American
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citizens we pray for the children we
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pray for the politicians we pray for all
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those that come together to make this
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place we call America one nation under
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God indivisible with liberty and justice
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for all so what is the key to doing that
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again to making America the great place
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of freedom and the opportunity that it
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was meant to be i think it comes from
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our commitment to return to Almighty God
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and how do we do that we return to
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Almighty God on our knees in prayer
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where do we learn how to pray where do
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we learn how to pray
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jesus in the second year of his ministry
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was in Bethany
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and he was staying at the house as he
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did often of Mary and Martha and Lazarus
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they lived in Bethany you remember
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Lazarus was the one that on his last
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time going to Jerusalem four days before
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he entered Jerusalem triumphantly he
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raised Lazarus from the dead
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we're going to talk about prayer and I
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want you to if you have your Bibles
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there to turn to the book of Luke
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chapter 11 and we're going to begin in
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verse one and this is what Jesus our
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Lord and Savior the Master of our lives
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the Prince of Peace the King of Kings
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the glory of glories the bright morning
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star that wheel in the middle of a wheel
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that Isaiah talked about this is what
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Jesus had to say about prayer
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verse chapter 11 and verse one and it
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came to pass as he was praying they're
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talking about Jesus praying in a certain
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place that certain place being Bethany
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when he ceased when he had finished
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praying one of his disciples said unto
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him "Lord teach us to pray as John also
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taught his disciples."
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Now why would they make a request like
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that because as the Hebrew nation was
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formed
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from the days of Abraham down to the
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days of Moses you don't see individuals
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praying to Almighty God you find in the
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book of Leviticus where priests were
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designated from the tribe of Levi to
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perform the functions of the temple and
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one of those functions was prayer to
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offer up prayers on behalf of the people
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jesus came and he prayed
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john the Baptist his cousin had come
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before him and he had taught his
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disciples to pray each one of them to
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God so that they could capture that
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vision that God was going to give to
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them
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the disciples of Jesus he's in Bethany
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at the home of Mary Martha and Lazarus
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the second year of his ministry and his
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disciples come to him and they see they
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say to him "Lord teach us to pray."
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Verse two
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this is what Jesus tells them about
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prayer he says to his disciples "When
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you pray say Our Father
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who is in heaven
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how holy be thy name thy kingdom come
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thy will be done
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as in heaven so in earth."
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Let's examine this a little bit so that
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we can enrich our own learning
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experience so that we learn how to pray
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better jesus says when you pray say our
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father that word father in the Greek
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language is petar petar and it means the
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one who has literally given life to the
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one requesting the prayer notice too
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that it says our father it doesn't say
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my father it doesn't say your father it
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doesn't say his father or her father it
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says our father god whom we worship the
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one true God of all creation the one
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true God giving us life the breath of
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life the one who is our maker
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he is our father loves all of us equally
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blesses us all of us equally with the
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blessing of his salvation
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blesses all of us equally with the mercy
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that brings salvation to us blesses all
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of us equally
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with
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the righteousness
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and the holiness that can only be given
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by God's grace what is grace love that
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is given to those who have done nothing
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to deserve it god's grace God's mercy
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God's righteousness God's sanctification
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God's holiness that flows upon us in the
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very giving of God's salvation
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this is the Greek Petar
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who art in heaven yes
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god is in heaven and where is heaven
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heaven is in the hearts and in the minds
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and in the souls of men mankind that
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believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as
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their personal savior who is this Lord
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Jesus the Christ he is the son of the
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living God he is the son of the living
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God who is the one who has come to seek
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us and to save us from our sins that
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which we cannot do for ourselves who is
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this son of the only the only begotten
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son of the living God he is the one who
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went to the cross and died for our sins
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that we might know
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salvation by God's mercy by God's grace
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by God's righteousness by God's giving
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of salvation
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upon us who art in heaven how holy be
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thy name
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if you go to that book of Leviticus that
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we mentioned a few minutes ago
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and you go to Leviticus chapter 19 and
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verse two
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it says therein
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Leviticus 19 and2
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you shall be holy for I the Lord your
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God am holy holy we are to be holy
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because we serve a living and holy God
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if you look again at the book of
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Leviticus chapter 11 and verse 44
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he says there God talking through his
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prophet and the leader of the Hebrew
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people in the desert in the wilderness
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god says to them "For I am the Lord your
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God." What an assurance that is our
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father remember that term our father god
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said to the Hebrew people all those
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years ago for I am the Lord your God you
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shall therefore sanctify yourselves what
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does it mean to sanctify it means to
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make holy to make righteous to make
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ourselves by the lives that we live by
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the minds we have by the very thoughts
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that we have and by the words we say the
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total concept of the lives that we live
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we are to make ourselves holy sanctify
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ourselves
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and you shall be holy
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for I am holy says the Lord God
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what does that word holy mean there in
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the Hebrew
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the word is kados
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and what it means is free from all
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imperfections
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free from all sin or taint of any
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imperfection
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it means to completely
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completely perfect in every way
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spiritually
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this is the God whom we serve this is
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the God who gave us the Christ the son
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of the living God the only begotten and
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all who should believe should not perish
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but have life eternal
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isaiah chapter se chapter 7 the great
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prophet Isaiah says
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"At that day shall a man look at his
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maker
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and his eyes shall have respect for
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listen to this the holy the holy one of
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Israel."
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When a man comes in faith before
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almighty God to receive the salvation of
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God his prayer is very simple he
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acknowledges his father he acknowledges
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the holiness of the father
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and he simply says "Oh Lord my God have
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mercy on a sinner such as me."
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in that simple prayer
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and God imparts salvation because
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salvation is of God it is the free gift
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of God through his son Jesus the Christ
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who was the son of the living God
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let's read on
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thy kingdom come
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thy will be done as in heaven so in
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earth there's a lot going on in the
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politics of the world there's a war
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going on in the Middle East and that has
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taken different ramifications
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and moved in different places from Gaza
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and Hamas to Hezbollah to Taliban down
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to the Houthis up into Iran itself
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that led to the most recent actions the
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bombings of the nuclear reactive
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facilities that they were producing
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enriched uranium from right there in
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Iran
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bombs were dropped and they claimed that
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it was destroyed
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the problem in all this yes I concede
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that all these things appeared to be
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necessary actions but if only people
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would seek God first in their lives if
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only they would other in unison
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and in union of spirit this simple
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prayer our father our father not just
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ours in America alone but ours in Israel
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ours in Iran where you have Christian
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ours around the world if only we would
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utter this prayer more often our father
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who is in heaven how holy is thy name
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you are the center and the picture and
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the hope of all peace of all right doing
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in the world thy kingdom come
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what is God's kingdom god's kingdom is
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one of the spirit
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and it entails the mind the thoughts the
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words and then the very actions that we
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live it is a spiritual kingdom both
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internal and external
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if only the world would come together in
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this simple prayer
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thy will be done in heaven
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and so in earth we would not have to
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drop 35,000 bombs 35,000 pound bombs we
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would not have to destroy uh uranium
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enrichment facilities because there
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would be no more thought of war one man
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against another there would be no hatred
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one man against another there would be
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no more bitterness
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there would not be any more rumors of
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war and there would not be any wars
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and forgive us our sins oh if only we
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would cleanse ourselves
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as a people as a nation and as a world
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if only we would cleanse ourselves from
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our sins and bring in a common
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understanding of God's peace into all of
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us
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for we also forgive everyone that is
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indebted to us those who have sinned
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against us
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forgiveness is an important part in fact
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it is a critical part
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of receiving the blessing of God's
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salvation
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forgiveness
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remember
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that situation
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in Luke chapter 18
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and verse 10
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where you have
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a tax collector who is despised he was
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called the publican
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and he is in the temple praying
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and he says "Lord God
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have mercy on a sinner such as me."
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And the priest who stood nearby
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said "It's a good thing that I am not a
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sinner like him." You see
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self-righteousness
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was a dividing wall between the two and
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that priest who should have been there
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on the floor play praying with that
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sinner would not move because of his
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feeling of self-righteousness
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we need to forgive others as God has
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forgiven us and if we practice
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forgiveness
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then we will bring friendships
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we will bring friendships
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and when friendships we will bring those
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who can love us
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as we are told to love them
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jesus said "By this you will know that
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you are disciples of mine that you love
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one another as I have loved you
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going down to verse 9 there in chapter
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11
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Jesus says therein and these are words
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and these are the words of Jesus not the
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words of this old preacher sitting here
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but Jesus says in verse 9 "And I say
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unto you ask and it shall be given you
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seek and you shall find knock and it
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shall be open to you
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for everyone that asks receives
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and he that seeks finds and to him that
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knocks it shall be opened
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and he closes that in verse 13 by saying
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you don't think these things are
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possible
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he says in verse 13 "If ye then being
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evil
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know how to give good gifts to your
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children
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how much more shall your heavenly Father
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give
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the Holy Spirit to them that ask him
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with the coming Fourth of July when we
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celebrate 250 years of this nation
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and it's the hope and expression for
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freedom not only here in America but
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around the world as a Christian
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community I'm calling to all of you to
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pray for this nation
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pray to almighty God that the blessing
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of salvation would reach all those
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across America that there would be a
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great revival that there would be called
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again calling for this nation to be a
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nation under God a nation whom in God we
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trust a nation in whom our first hope is
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to Almighty God
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and then to love our families and to
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love our neighbors as Jesus commanded us
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to love why
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because God is a holy God and God calls
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us to holiness and God calls us to
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righteousness
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in his holy name
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there was a man named Matthew
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just so happens that Matthew was a
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publican he was a tax collector he was
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one of those who was much despised in
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his day and time he was seen as one who
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was untouchable outside any possibility
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of association with the religious order
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of the day
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but there came a time when Jesus
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received the salvation
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of Jesus the Christ
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and he gives a second writing of the
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Lord's prayer
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and these again are the words of Jesus
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and he tells us that prayer is a very
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personal thing matthew chapter 6 and
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beginning in verse 6 he says "But thou
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when thou prayest enter into thy closet
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just you and God
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and when you have shut the door put all
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the rest of the world and all the rest
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of your concerns away
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and when thou hast shut thy door pray to
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thou thy father who is in secret and
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your father who sees in secret shall
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reward you openly
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what did Jesus say ask and it shall be
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given you seek and you shall find
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knock and the door shall be open to you
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and everyone that asks receives and he
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that seeks finds and to him that knocks
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it shall be opened
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prayer
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prayer is the means of celebrating the
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time that this country has been in a
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nation a nation under God and I still
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believe that America is a nation under
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God i still believe that in this country
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we are a nation whom in God we trust i
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still believe that this is a nation of
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religious freedom
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my first ancestor Samuel K golden
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came to this country in the year 1710
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he landed at the port of Philadelphia in
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the northeast America
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near to
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a a town
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where he later migrated to called Oi in
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the Holy Valley of Pennsylvania
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he came here with his seven children and
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his wife because he wanted to pursue
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religious freedom you see he was a
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minister he had been trained in the
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schools of the day in Germany and in
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northern Italy and in Switzerland
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and he came to this country because he
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believed that here he could find a
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religious freedom that he wanted for he
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and his children and his wife he wanted
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to have the everyday possibility
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of serving the will of God in his life
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i come to you today and I say to you the
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same thing
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that the whole possibility of America is
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just in its infancy
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it can become so much more but it has to
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become more by the giving of people in
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their faith
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and because of God moving them to give
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the only way that's going to happen is
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by the power of prayer
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after this manner therefore pray ye
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jesus says in the book of Matthew "Our
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Father which art in heaven hallowed be
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thy name thy kingdom come thy will be
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done in earth as it is in heaven."
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You see that prayer that we started with
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in the book of Luke is given here by
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Matthew and he says those same things to
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us the whole hope of mankind and what we
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need
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lies in our faith in Almighty God
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so I call upon you
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jesus prayed for us in the great
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intercessory prayer in John chap 17
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and he said as he hung on the cross in
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the book of Luke chap 23 and verse 34
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the very first words he spoke from the
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cross he said "Father forgive them for
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they know not what they do."
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If you have not yet accepted Jesus the
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Christ as your Lord and Savior in this
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closing seconds that we have left in
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this broadcast I would encourage you the
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forgiveness has already been provided
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jesus stated it from the cross
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all you have to do is say
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"Father
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forgive me of my sins
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i call upon your holy name to make me
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that child of God so that I can live a
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right and holy life." God bless you god
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bless America
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amen
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