The Holy Spirit Brings Peace (338)

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Welcome to the Quality Christian Living Podcast.

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Once again, I am your host, David Friend. We're

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continuing our series on the Holy Spirit and

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today's topic is, The Holy Spirit Brings Peace.

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You know, we just completed one called, The Holy

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Spirit Brings Joy. And, you know, I don't know

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if I want to go down all the fruit of the Spirit,

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but for sure, I want to cover this one today.

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We're going to talk about, how can we live in

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peace during trials? And why do so many live

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without peace? And why is my favorite, now that's

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me personally, why is my favorite scripture on

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peace, Philippians chapter 4, verse 6 and 7?

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Now, also we're going to discuss, have you struggled

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with finding peace? And why Why is peace so difficult

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for non -believers? And finally, how do you find

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peace and what is it? What is peace? Well, let's

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pray first before we get into this. Heavenly

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Father, we're taking on a topic, Father, that

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many people struggle with. And I pray, Lord,

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that you would bless this podcast. I ask the

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Holy Spirit to come in now, take control, take

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charge, and lead me in the direction that I should

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go. Open up the scriptures and reveal what you

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want me to share with those who are listening

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in today. And for those, Lord, who need peace,

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I pray, Father, you would bring a special touch

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upon them. May the Holy Spirit speak to them

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and help them. And may they receive something

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in this podcast that would just change their

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mind said and our thoughts about living in peace.

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Bless I ask everything that's said done and I'll

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be so careful to give you praise and glory for

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all the results. We ask these things once again

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in Jesus name we pray. Well, to get into this

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particular podcast on how the Holy Spirit brings

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peace, I'm going to basically try and discuss

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each and every topic that I outlined in my introduction

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and see how that goes. Let's just see how the

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Lord leads us. I kind of want to start off with

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talking about the difference between what God

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intends for us and what we sometimes do in our

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flesh. Matter of fact, what we do all the time

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in our flesh is to get what we want when we want

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it. And so let's look at a scripture I think

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that helps us out to get started on this topic.

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the Holy Spirit brings peace. It's found in Romans

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chapter 14 verse 17 in the New Living Translation.

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For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what

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we can eat or drink, but of living a life of

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goodness and peace and joy in the spirit. So

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now this kind of combines last podcast and this

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podcast because it talks about both peace and

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joy, but it's so important we get the premise

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of this down and that is what the scripture is

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telling us is that God plans something better

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for us than just simply what we can eat or drink

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or the car we drive or the house we live in or

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the vacations we go on or the clothes that we

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wear. All those things can be fine as long as

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they don't get in the way of serving God. So

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those things can be fine but that's what life

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is not about. Life is not about how big a house

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you've got. Life is not about who is making the

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most money and all your friends from high school

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or college. It's about far more than that. It's

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about living a life it says of goodness and peace

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and joy in the Holy Spirit. So what this scripture

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is telling me is that I can't find peace and

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joy without the Holy Spirit because my flesh,

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my self -centeredness doesn't desire those things

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of God. It desires the things that I want to

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be pleased with. It's going to be those things

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that I think I need, my wants, my needs, and

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my desires. The things that control many of our

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lives are the things that get in the way of what

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God wants to give us. Many times I talk to people

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who are very successful financially but they

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have no peace. They don't have any joy in their

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life and they sit back and wonder they've got

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all the money they've got all the success and

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all those things and yet they're so unhappy it's

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because they don't understand this scripture

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and they're violating it once again the scripture

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is for the kingdom of God is not a matter of

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what we can eat or drink but of living a life

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of goodness and peace and joy. And the key is

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in the Holy Spirit. And that's what this podcast

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is all about. This series is what we can do in

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the Holy Spirit. We're gonna look at some of

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these introduction comments that I made earlier

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in this podcast when I first started it off.

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And I always do that. I always give kind of an

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outline of what we're gonna cover and the topics

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we're gonna cover. And this particular one, I

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really felt led to go a little more specifically

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into those, very specifically. and take them

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one at a time. So the first one is how can we

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live in peace during trials? Well, Galatians

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5 22, I used it in the last podcast where we

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read about the Holy Spirit gives the gift of

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peace because Galatians 5 22 talks about the

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fruit of the Spirit which is love and joy and

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peace and patience and goodness and kindness

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and gentleness and thankfulness and you know

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those wonderful qualities and self -control those

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are the things that we need to have in our life

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and only the Holy Spirit can bring those into

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our lives. So the question is, how can we live

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in peace during trials while we yield ourselves

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to the Holy Spirit and we yield ourselves to

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receive that peace and that joy? See, peace is

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not a feeling. It's not, oh, I feel good today

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or I feel good about this or feel good about

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that. The feel good thing can come or go. I mean,

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we can feel good one day and feel terrible the

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next day, but we can live a life walking in joy

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and walking in peace. And that's what this whole

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series is about, to be led by the Holy Spirit

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and allow the Holy Spirit to do the things in

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our life that He wants to do. Some people say,

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well, I feel this and I feel that. I don't like

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to talk about how I feel. I like to talk about

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how my faith is and my trust in God is and where

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my confidence is and who I put my trust and strength

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in, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Because

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I talk about those feelings. It's so easy to

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say the word feeling in reality. They come and

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go. Feelings will hurt us. They will desert us.

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See, the devil himself can come after my feelings

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but he can't rob me of my peace. When God gives

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me peace and trials get into my life, peace wins.

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Peace wins out when we have a right relationship

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with the Lord and we're following the Holy Spirit

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and being led by him. So let's go to the next

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question now and see what it has to say. Why

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do so many live Without peace. Well, there's

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there's a lot of reasons I could probably just

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stop here and spend the next 30 minutes Talking

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just about this particular one because because

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there's so many people that don't have peace

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I can remember many many times being the pastor

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of our church and you know, and I would ask people

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honestly I'm gonna ask a question. I want everybody

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to close your eyes and bow your heads. I don't

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want anybody looking around I'm gonna ask you

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a question How many people need peace in your

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life and I'm telling you 75 80 percent of the

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church would raise their hand and I would say,

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okay, put your hands down, how many people lack

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joy? You want to have more joy? And 50 or 60

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% of the church would raise its hand because

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people live without peace and without joy and

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it's not necessary that we do that. There is

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an old saying that says, some things are taught

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and some things are caught. I use that from time

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to time in podcasts because that's the truth

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of the matter is I can teach you about a premise,

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but you've got to catch it, which means you have

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to receive it and take it in and receive that

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as God's Word for your life. So I'm going to

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read a scripture here that I used to read all

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the time before I became a Christian. I read

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it in Sunday School and all that before I gave

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my life to Christ. And I just read it and I thought,

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well that's nice, but I didn't understand really

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what it meant. And so... I had it been taught

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to me, but I had never caught it. I never received

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it into my life. And the scripture that answers,

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I believe the question the best as to why some

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people live without peace is they don't understand,

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they have not caught Philippians chapter four,

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verses six and seven. This is the apostle Paul.

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This is one of my absolute favorite scriptures

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in the entire word of God, but it's absolutely

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my favorite scripture dealing with peace. It's

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so important that we take this in and receive

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it now. Since it's my favorite, I hope I got

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your attention. The Apostle Paul is talking.

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He's being led by the Holy Spirit when he wrote

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these words in Philippians chapter 4 verses 6

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and 7. I'm reading it out of the New International

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Version. Peace of God, which transcends all understanding,

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will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

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Now, there's so much to be said here. I'll make

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it quick, but there's so many important things.

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Number one, the first premise is, do not be anxious

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about anything. I also used to tell my congregation

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at the end of a service, I'd say, I might read

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this scripture and say, if we can just get one

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thing out of the service today, get absolutely

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nothing else but just this one thing, Philippians

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chapter four, verse six, do not be anxious about

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anything. Many people here would love to walk

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out of here and not have to be anxious about

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anything, and everybody would agree to that.

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That's something that we all want to have in

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our life. But it says, but in every situation,

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good or bad, not just bad, but good or bad, by

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prayer, alright, that's the foundation of our

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having peace, and by prayer and petition with

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thanksgiving, what we bring to God with thanksgiving,

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we've got to be thankful when we bring prayers

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to God, present your request to God, and the

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peace of God. Now, the peace of God, it doesn't

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say the peace of man, it doesn't say the peace

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of your pastor, it doesn't say the peace of your

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husband or your wife. The peace of God, that's

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why it's so amazing to catch this. It's the peace

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of God which transcends, which means it's way

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beyond. All understanding will guard your hearts

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and your mind in Christ Jesus. So if we want

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to have Holy Spirit -led peace, that scripture,

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I would make it one that you would pray every

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day. Matter of fact, I do not go to bed at night

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before I have quoted this scripture and read

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it, and I thank God for it. I like to read it

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this way, just so I go to bed. Heavenly Father,

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I thank you that my wife and I don't have to

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be anxious about anything. but we can bring everything

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to you in every situation and we can pray to

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you and bring our petitions to you and be thankful

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for who you are and what you've done that we

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can present Lord to you our request to you Lord

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and you God will give us your peace which transcends

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all understanding and it will guard my heart

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and my wife's heart and it will guard my mind

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and my wife's mind in Christ Jesus. That's the

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way I like to pray because see I like the scriptures

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to be read to where they apply to me so that

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I know art applied to someone else. Just apply

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it to that situation, that person. It becomes

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living that way. The scriptures become alive

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and we catch what it's saying rather than just

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being taught what it's saying. You see, this

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scripture can be taught. constantly, but it will

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not help us until we catch it, we receive it,

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we accept it. It's the same thing about becoming

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a Christian. You can be taught about being a

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Christian. I was for many, many years. I was

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25 years old before I became a Christian, and

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for probably 20 of those years, I remember going

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to Sunday school and Bible classes and vacation

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Bible school, all those things. I was in two

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or three different types of churches, and my

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mom and dad always made sure we went to church,

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but none of us, including my mom and dad, were

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Christians. We had never committed our life to

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Christ. We were being taught about these things.

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I knew all the little stories, all those things

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that I'd heard, but I didn't catch it that it

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has an impact on my life. So when I caught it,

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I was 25 years old, is when I finally caught

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the idea that John 3 .16 says, God so loved the

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world that he gave his only begotten son that

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whosoever believeth in him. would not perish

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but have everlasting life. I had heard it for

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years and years and years. I was being taught

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that, but I didn't catch it until one day I realized

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there's more to this Bible than what I'm seeing

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and I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior

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and everything started to change. Our marriage

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changed, our lives changed, my career changed,

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God was in control and my life has never been

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the same ever since. Thank the Lord for that.

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Now here's another question I had at the beginning

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of this podcast. so difficult for non -believers?

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Well, see, they place their trust in something

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other than God, everything else but not God.

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In Matthew chapter 6 verses 19 through 21, the

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New Living Translation, it says, don't store

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up treasures here on earth where moss and eat

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them and rust destroys them and where thieves

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or when thieves break in and steal. So what that

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means is that it's saying basically, the treasures

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that we have here on Earth, we're not going to

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take them with us. They're all going to perish.

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Not too long ago I was at a funeral, a man was

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worth millions and millions of dollars, incredibly

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wealthy man, very, very successful in so many

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different ways, and yet he was gone. And they

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took his body, they put it in a coffin, and they

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buried him. And that's over. That body is now

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here on earth. But his soul went to heaven. He

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was a follower of Jesus Christ. But he left all

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of his possessions behind. And I think the family

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is going to take care of things and settle things

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easily. I hope so. But bottom line, we spend

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so much time, if we're not careful, we'll spend

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so much time trying to acquire stuff here and

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help ourselves financially. But we don't do anything

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to help ourselves spiritually. This man did take

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the time to produce a spiritual life. And he

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became a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ.

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and became a very generous man in a lot of ways,

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but he was still gone. And the things that he

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had, the moss would eat them up, and the rust

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will destroy them, and the thieves will come

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in and steal them. I mean, that's the things

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that we have here on earth, but that's why non

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-believers have a difficult time getting peace

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in things is because they're wrapped up in their

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treasures on earth. And when they do that, they

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rob themselves of the bigger blessings, the greater

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blessings of being a follower of Jesus Christ.

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You see, a non -believer in Jesus Christ. They

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just don't believe. They put every bit of effort

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they have in doing things their way. That they

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put Jesus away. Let me repeat that. Non -believers

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in Jesus Christ, they don't believe in Him, they

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put more effort in doing things their way and

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that way they put Jesus away. There's an old

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song, and you know which one I'm going to say,

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there's a song that I dislike a lot. I just don't

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care for this song at one bit, not as a follower

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of Jesus Christ. And it's a song that was sang

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by a lot of different people, and it's basically,

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I did it my way. I have a real problem with that,

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and I hope that that doesn't bother you or offend

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you, but that song, I think, is all about self.

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It's I did it my way. I did it my way. Well,

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that's not what God wants. I prefer God's way.

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We find God's way in Isaiah chapter 55. In the

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New Living Translation, my thoughts are nothing

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like your thoughts, says the Lord, and my ways,

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listen to that, and my ways are far beyond anything

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you could imagine. So therefore, people who are

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wrapped up in their possessions and treasures

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here on earth, for non -believers, they can't

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be at peace because they're trying to do things

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their way. When God is saying, I can do so much

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better than you can do, his ways are greater,

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his thoughts are higher, than ours and so we

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should then get rid of our way and do things

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God's way. Wow, I could probably go on there,

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but I need to move on. We're about halfway through

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this podcast already. Have we struggled, another

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question, have we struggled with keeping peace?

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You see, we may experience peace, but it seems

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to go away. Peace requires our source of peace.

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It requires understanding our source for peace,

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and our source is the Holy Spirit. We struggle

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with peace because we go in and out of doing

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it our way versus God's way. Here's some scriptures

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I think that might help explain this a little

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bit better. In John chapter 14 verse 27, Jesus

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said, peace I leave you, my peace I give you,

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not as the world gives. Do I give to you? Do

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not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You

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see, Jesus is saying, the peace that I'm giving

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you is peace that the world doesn't have. The

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peace I leave with you, it's my peace, he says.

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It's God's peace. I give it to you. It's not

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the world's peace. The world doesn't have peace.

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The world has other things. They might look like

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they're having peace. They might act like they're

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doing okay because maybe their finances are big

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and they do a lot of things and travel and stuff

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like that. But deep inside, God has created man

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with a desire to follow Him. There's no doubt

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in my mind that the Holy Spirit is out there

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hovering around the earth, going around, you

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know, and trying to draw people into a relationship

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with Jesus Christ. And I believe that God created

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in us a desire to serve something greater than

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us. And when we do that, we will find Jesus Christ.

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Isaiah chapter 26 and verse 3 says, you will

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keep in perfect peace, listen to that, whose

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mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.

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Okay, so another way that we can keep peace and

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not lose peace is keep our mind stayed or focused

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on God. focused on prayer, focused on his word,

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listen to Christian music, be around other Christians,

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attend church faithfully, not once a month, not

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once a year, but faithfully. Every time on Sunday,

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get up and go to church. I mean, if you're sick,

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fine, stay home, watch it online or something.

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But bottom line, we've got to keep our mind and

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our focus stayed on God. And when we do that,

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we can get peace and we can keep peace. But if

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we go in and out of church, one foot in church

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and one foot in the devil's side of the world,

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and we're causing ourselves great strife and

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great challenges, and we don't have to. We need

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to jump both feet head first into a walk with

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God and let our steps be led of God. If we trust

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God with all of our heart, we lean not on our

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own understanding and always acknowledge Him,

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then He will direct our steps. And when He does

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that, we will have peace. everything that we

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put our hand to. Okay, let's move on. What is

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peace to you? Now that's an interesting question,

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isn't it? What is peace to you? Some may define

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peace as financial security. Matter of fact,

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when I was a banker I met a lot of people. That's

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how they would define peace. It's well -being

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financially well -off. Yet those people, many

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of them who were financially well -off, were

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not at peace unless they were followers of the

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Lord Jesus Christ. You cannot have peace that

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Jesus has until you give your life to Jesus Christ.

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Christ. You surrender your will and your desires

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and everything that you want to do to the Lord

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Jesus Christ. You surrender to Him, ask for forgiveness

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of your sins, receive Him as your Lord and Savior,

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and then the peace of God comes into our life.

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It's so important we understand that. And finances

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and financial security is a good thing. There's

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nothing wrong with financial security, but I

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don't like the statement financial independence

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because as a Christian financial independence

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is basically saying I don't need anything other

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than finances. Financial independence, I I know

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what it means. I remember I've taught finances

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for years. I was a banker for 15 years, real

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estate developer for 20 years, and I've taught

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and written on the topics of finances and all

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those things and success and generosity. I understand

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all that, but the thing we've got to remember

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is that financial independence, those aren't

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words that a Christian should have. We should

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be dependent. Our finances should be dependent

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upon God, upon who He is and what He does. And

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we must give of what we have first to Him. And

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I believe in tithing. I believe in giving 10

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% of everything that we make back to the work

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of the Lord through my local church. I believe

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that, and God has never made me feel that I regretted

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it. I've never in my life ever regretted giving

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finances to the Lord. It seems like when I work

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with the 90 % I have left over, I accomplish

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more with that 90 than I could with the 100 %

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of my finances I had before I decided to give

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of God the first fruits of what I receive. So

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people in the world who have a problem with peace,

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they define it as maybe it's financial security

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or it's having a lovely home or something. And

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those are good things. And finances are fine.

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Finances are not evil. It's the love of finances,

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the love of money that's evil. But there's nothing

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about finances that can bring true peace. I mean,

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absolute true peace, the peace that Jesus talked

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about. The apostle Paul wrote about peace and

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money. to Timothy about it. Timothy was a young

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man that was getting involved in a church and

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Paul was trying to teach him and train him. And

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in 1st Timothy chapter 6 and verse 10, New Living

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Translation, listen to this, this is absolutely

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powerful. For the love of money is the root,

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right, of all kinds of evil. And some people,

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craving money, have wondered from true faith

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and pierced themselves with many sorrows. That's

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it. That's a podcast all on its own and I'll

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be doing a series of podcasts on finances again

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at the end of this I'll tell you how to look

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up the podcast that I've done on finances and

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living debt -free and all those types of things

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but bottom line It's so important to understand

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that Timothy had these words and Paul wrote them

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and gave these to Timothy You've got to understand

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it's the love of money is the root of all evil

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and by if you love that then you'll turn away

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from the things of God and you'll never have

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peace that God wants us to have now peace of

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mind is more important than money. Money does

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not give peace. for a lifetime. It might give

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a little bit of what the world calls peace temporarily,

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but not true peace. There's nothing wrong with

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money. Nothing wrong. We need it. We got to use

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it. We have to spend it. We have to build churches

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with it. We have to help other people with it.

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We need to provide for our needs with it. So

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that's important. So there's nothing wrong with

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money. There is everything wrong with placing

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money first in our life and loving and money.

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I know people that's all they do is talk about

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money and bless their hearts. They struggle a

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lot of times with of having peace in their life.

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1 Timothy 6 and verse 17 says this, teach those

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who are rich in this world not to be proud and

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not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable.

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Man, all you gotta do is watch the stock market

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go up and down. I know over time stock market

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keeps going consistently up, but it's not a whole

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lot of fun when it drops down 20 or 30 or 40%.

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And I'm not talking of whether stock is good

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or stock is bad, that's not the point. But the

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point is it's important to understand God's Word

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says about money and that we cannot find peace

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because peace cannot be defined by how much,

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how many possessions that we have, how many cars

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that we drive, how many houses that we own. Peace

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comes totally different. Peace is one of the

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fruit. of the Spirit of Almighty God. The Holy

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Spirit gives that gift to the Christian who desires

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to be led by Him. If you want to have peace,

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you want to have it in your life, then you've

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got to draw close to God. When we draw close

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to Him, He draws close to us. He'll give us peace.

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Now, as a pastor, the most frequently asked question

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I receive is, how can I get peace with what I'm

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going through? I think I've given you a pretty

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good outline on how to do that. I would encourage

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you to listen to this podcast again, go back

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and listen to it, preview it a little bit, go

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through it, and listen to these scriptures. The

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peace of God that's in here, it flows through

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his scriptures. Let me give you a couple of them

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real quick. The question was, how can I get peace

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with what I'm going through? John 14, 27, Jesus

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said, peace I leave with you, my peace I give

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you, not as the world gives, do I give to you.

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Do not let... your hearts be troubled or afraid."

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Isaiah 5, 26, 3. You will keep in perfect peace,

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perfect peace, just to say peace, perfect peace,

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whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts

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in you. Wow. I tell you, a lot of people talk

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about, I trust God, I trust God, I trust God

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for this and for that, and that's wonderful.

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Sometimes I wonder, can God trust us? And I believe

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sometimes in the area of finances, we don't get

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the finances that we'd like to have because God

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can't trust us with the finances. And He knows

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that too much finances or too many finances could

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rob us from the life that He wants us to live.

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This is not a podcast on finances, but there's

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been a pretty good section of it that we talk

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about it because a lot of people think that's

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where they get is to have more money. If I just

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made more money and that's just not the answer

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to receiving peace in your life. Peace comes

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through relationship with God and being led by

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the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit led peace protects

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our heart and protects our mind. Holy Spirit

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led peace brings forth the group of the spirit,

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love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness,

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et cetera. Holy Spirit led peace gives us a satisfying

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life. Holy Spirit led peace tells us that it's

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God's way, not my way. These are the things that

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we've got to remember and draw into our life

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in order to truly understand how the Holy Spirit

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brings peace. With that, I hope this has been

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a blessing. Let me... pray for you right now.

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Heavenly Father, I pray you would bless those

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who are listening in, many of which may be struggling

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with having peace as they flow in and out of

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it, but I pray they'd take these scriptures to

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heart, Lord, they're your word, and apply them

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to their life, to apply them to their circumstances,

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and receive the peace of God that passes all

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understanding, and it will guard their hearts

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and guard their minds in Christ Jesus. Father,

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I thank you, Lord, that you've taught peace through

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the Holy Spirit to all of us. I pray now that

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we'll catch it. It's been taught to us, now let

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us receive it. and every one of us I'll thank

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you for it and give you praise for it now in

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Jesus name I pray amen well like I say I hope

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that you receive this and enjoyed it I've thoroughly

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enjoyed doing this our next podcast that's gonna

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have to do with what the Holy Spirit teaches

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us that's an interesting topic because there's

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so much for us to learn right I'm gonna look

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at these questions what does the Holy Spirit

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teach us and why does he want to teach us and

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what do we need to be taught now those are interesting

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questions and we'll we'll get into that in our

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next podcast so I hope that you'll tune in for

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that when I listen for it. You might want to

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let your friends and family members know about

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that. So I just thank you once again for listening

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to our podcast. If you'd like to know more about

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Quality Christian Living, you can find out more

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about it by going to my webpage at davidcfriendauthor

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.com and when you get there, the very front page

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of it will show a link to my podcast. Now this

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is podcast number, I believe it's number 338,

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yes, and therefore that tells you there's a lot

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of podcasts. It's been right at four years now

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that we've been doing these podcasts, and God

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has blessed us to be downloaded into over 140

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countries in the world, which just absolutely

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is amazing to me. I'm not boasting or bragging.

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That's just the Holy Spirit doing what He does.

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And to look up and see that people are downloading

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podcasts in Asia, in Africa, in North America,

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South America, just all over the place. It's

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such a blessing to know that the words that are

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here, that God is using this tool. through Charisma

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Media, which is who I use for my podcast, and

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to be able to get these podcasts out. If you'd

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like to subscribe to my podcast, you can do that

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by going to cpnshows .com or wherever you listen

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to your podcast. And while you're on my webpage,

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you might want to scroll down and look at some

00:26:35.099 --> 00:26:37.180
of the books that I've written that are on Amazon,

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books on finances, books on how to find a miracle,

00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:43.720
I have books on faith, books on generosity. There's

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some help books for veterans. because I was a

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Vietnam veteran and very blessed to and honored

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to be serving my country. So I hope that those

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would be a blessing to you. And if you'd like

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to know more about quality Christian living in

00:26:56.920 --> 00:26:59.880
general, just simply spend a little time and

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look over all the podcasts we've done, so many

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different topics on things that have been taking

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place in the last four years. I hope they'll

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be a blessing to you. I want to thank you so

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very much for listening. And if you've enjoyed

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this episode, please take a moment to rate and

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So I'd like to close with a little blessing for

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you guys. May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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May his face shine upon you. May he be gracious

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to you and give you peace. May you prosper and

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be in good health even as your soul prospers.

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So until next time, may God richly bless you.

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I look forward to our next podcast talking about

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how the Holy Spirit teaches. You might want to

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let your friends and family members know we're

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doing that. Thank you once again for listening

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to Quality Christian Living. I am your host David

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Friend. Thank you for being a part of this series

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on the Holy Spirit. God bless you.