A WOW Moment with Vicki, Mercedes and Iesha

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All right And You're opening your eyes water
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To be Jeff Stroud and me Good evening everyone and welcome to our battle study everyone
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Well as you get on well Tonight we're at the
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Shipley's the new mr. And mrs. Shipley's house Mr.
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Shipley is in there cooking dinner. Mrs. Shipley is sitting beside me But anyways, we are we are at Aisha and Jeremiah's new place and it's wonderful.
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It's beautiful It's nice and clean, it's quiet, everything
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I'm not used to. But Welcome to our
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Bible study tonight Like I said, we're at the Shipley's and this is
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Aisha's Third time including co -hosting
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You look so short on the couch, Aisha, you're killing me.
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I'm just flouching. I can sit on the pillow like they do the kids in the car.
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That's not funny, that happened to me when I was in Trevor's head. That's what I was talking about. I was being nice and not saying what kid.
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Sorry everyone. Okay. But anyways, I'm Vicki and everyone knows
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Mercedes we have Jordan on the side She's over there in the big chair And we like I said are with miss
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Aisha Shipley tonight. We are Excited to be here Number one because it's the first time
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That I've been here and it's a So it's a cozy little apartment
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I Really like that Are there lights up in it?
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Sorry, I'm sorry. Anyway, so we're talking about decor.
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Let me speak up Because a lot of people tell me they can't hear me anyways because they say it's really quiet Then you get loud and then you get really quiet You have to stay loud the entire time
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You have to talk like this all the time Nobody can hear you. Okay so, um
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Well, I was trying to speak up tonight and be loud We are
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Exhausted today I'll be honest. I'm really bored. Yeah bored to the end of today
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Thought today was Friday and I was super excited. Oh you got my dad Well, I worked today like it was
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Monday and I that didn't make me happy at all but Work must be done and that's what they pay me to do.
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So that's what I do. So miss Aisha Mrs. Mistress Shipley What Scripture are we gonna be studying this evening?
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Galatians Galatians 1 Verses 1 through 10 because everybody loves to make me read a lot.
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Cool. All right, Paul and the fossils Pause sorry
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Galatians 1 1 through 10 Anything else is that the only place we're gonna be only place we're gonna be unless we decide to divert got you
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That's all I have Mercedes. Yeah, we please read scriptures Paul an apostle not from men or by man
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But by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead And all and all the brothers who are with me to the churches of Galatia Grace to you and peace from God the
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Father and our Lord Jesus Christ Who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age?
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According to the will of our God the Father to whom the glory to whom be the glory forever and ever.
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Amen I'm amazed that you were so quickly turning away from him Who called you by the great by the grace of Christ and returning to a different gospel?
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Not that there is any other gospel But there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the
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Messiah but even if we or an angel from heaven would should preach to you a gospel other than what we have preached to you a curse beyond him as As we have said before I now say again
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No one preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received a curse be on them For I am now trying to win the favor of fruit
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For am I now trying to win the favor of people or or God? I am
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I am striving to please am I striving to please people if I still if I If I were still trying to please people
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I would not be a slave of Christ Let me put it to you this way
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Sadie's don't really know what she's doing Or am
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I striving to please or am I striving to please people Thank you
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Not You know, whoo, can I can
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I just put this out on the table There are lots and lots and lots and lots
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Of churches out there that are not preaching and teaching the gospel And I did not realize
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How big it was and how Misleading because you can sit there and think that they're preaching you
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That the the gospel of Jesus Christ when in all actuality they they kind of Touched that just a bit just to get your taste buds
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Warning more, you know what I'm saying? Well, and you have churches who?
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Don't teach doctrine So it's easy to become influenced
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Well, I skipped a ripping question and that question to you
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I she is why did you pick this So my accountability group Don't discuss
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We're on Facebook Oh Studying Galatians.
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Oh, yeah, we're studying. Yeah. Oh, yeah and After reading it like a lot of things stuck out to me
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Actually a lot of things in there was kind of like a smack in the face and really just trying to hit home
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Like verse 6 in particular I am amazed that you are so quickly turn turning away from him
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We called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel And after reading that like I was thinking
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Well, the first time I read it I was just kind of like, okay Yeah just kind of reading it to read it and then
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I read it again and Like really thought about it and I was like, wow
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And it kind of reflects like so basically my thought process after Reading it again and actually reading it to understand it that And I think
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I read a different version. I don't remember which I think I read the
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ESV version of it I have one in the car
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I Am astonished that you are so quickly
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Deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel
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And after reading that It's kind of like our parents that give us everything or everything that they think possible as a parent to teach us the ways of being out on our own and Living and doing all the things and We as rebellious children
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Turn around and do something the opposite way and tell them like yeah, I know this is what you want me to do
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Yeah, I need to be good. Blah blah blah, but I'm still gonna do this. Anyways having that I'm right
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Yeah, I know everything out. It's right Teenager little heathens that we were well, maybe not all of us.
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I was And Still wanting to do things my way
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Even if I knew that it was the wrong way And I feel that way after reading this
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I was like we kind of did that to Christ Like he gave us everything. He gave us his son to die on the cross for us
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He gave us grace and we didn't deserve it at all. And even that we will
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I Understand. Yes. God, you want me to be obedient? You want me to do? Oh, you know XYZ, but I still want to do this and It's either all basically all or nothing like he gave us he didn't have to give us that at all
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But he chose us even before we were even created
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And you know, it's kind of like after reading that you're like, oh Heavy stuff right there.
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Like we basically would give God You know, yeah the middle finger or slap in the face like yeah, okay good
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Yeah, you gave me all that thing kudos to you. Good. Good job or whatever but in our rebellious ways we still try to Please both worlds.
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We try to please man and we try to please God. We can't do that And so saying that the other verse that really got me
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I There we go I'll read on ESP because I like it sometimes different versions hit different.
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Yeah So the ESP the other verse that really stuck out to me was verse 10
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It says for I For am I now seeking the approval of man or of God?
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Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ Also, very heavy
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Yes, well first Thessalonians 2 4 First Thessalonians 2 4 says instead just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel
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So we speak not to please men, but rather God he's entrusted us with the gospel
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I mean that that goes with with verse Six, you know turning away if he's entrusted us from with the gospel, then we shouldn't turn away
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To try to please men because they didn't they don't entrust us with anything We've been entrusted with the entire gospel
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And what are we supposed to do with it Being go and make disciples of all nations.
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How do you do that? Do it at work
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Actually, not as often but I do have moments of opportunities that it presents itself either a patient's mom will say something or she realizes something about me and Like, you know, dr.
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Slepman was telling a mom today They're telling the kids sorry, but the mom was in there
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Asked me what I did this weekend He's like and I bet it was better than anything that you did this past weekend.
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He's like, okay What did you do this weekend? I said I got married so the mom was asking me, you know, like how how
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I met Jeremiah and everything like that and in that and telling her
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I Got to share a little bit of my past. I was like, you know, I am
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NOT the same person that I was Two years ago, you have to share your testimony.
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Yeah Yeah, right, and there was just it's the excitement of just saying oh she thought
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I was Married this weekend and leave it at that But no, then she led a following question and that question, of course,
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I'm gonna tell you a little bit more I just tell you oh, well, we were in the driveway. I met him at my best friend's house.
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Well, no I'm gonna tell you how I got to that point and You know, it was really cool because then she started asking me other questions and then of course, you know
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Appointment, of course, it was longer than that. And then dr. Slugman chimed in he was telling you know
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Talking about grace and everything like that. So it was like really cool with a simple one thing just asking what did
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I do this weekend? Led to all of that And I actually ended up giving her my number because she said she really wanted to talk to me later
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And I don't normally give my number out to anybody especially patients, but I can really tell like she wants to know
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So I was like, yeah, here's my number and everything. And so we'll see how that goes. You planted that seed
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Yes, for sure, and I get a lot of opportunities sharing my testimony at work
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Because I'm with patients at least for an hour hour and a half. So I got plenty opportunity to talk about whatever so and in those
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Questions always there's always a follow -up and then that follow -up always leads to something else and I just run with it
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And my doctors are totally cool with that. Thank goodness Because I mean we pray every morning and prayer requests praises.
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So that's just our office We are built on that and it's phenomenal to work in an environment that way and they're not gonna stop you
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You can't talk about that or Gotta cut it, you know, we got Aisha come on running your mouth
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No They will literally walk in the room hear what I'm talking about and close the door and let me continue and come back later
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And it's like the coolest thing to actually be in an environment like that that allows us to talk about our faith
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Because most jobs, you know that that's just not what you do, right? Religion and also just the way you carry yourself the way that you live
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The way that you talk to people a lot of it a lot of it will have to do with Just the way that you present yourself and speak to somebody else
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But I do know that Going back to the
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Turning to a different gospel That's really really really it scares me
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To a point of So many people thinking that they're being fed
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The good porridge and it's the bad porridge Yeah, I mean because so many people think that they're going to church every
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Sunday and Their preacher prays and he stands up there and he can either be real calm or and whatever once a while Rick lift his voice or whatever, but you people really need to pay attention to what's actually coming out of their mouths
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I mean because if you're not finding out While you're at church if you're not hearing that Jesus Christ is the
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Lord and Savior and The Only way to the Father is through him at some point in time during that 30 to 45 minute
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Speech that some of them just give Then you're not getting what but also always always go back and double -check what you've been told
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You can't compare it with scripture every time Oh, because even someone who isn't trying to feed you lies and is actually speaking truth might they might get something wrong
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They're human. They're gonna They're going to make a mistake Always double -check it up against scripture if it holds up great if it doesn't find out the truth
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Yeah, because like even now churches like don't preach What's in the
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Bible? But they manipulate it to fit whatever is in for today but going back to like Knowing what's truth on how to tell if a church is teaching truth for these
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You know, we talk about it in our church of praying your little prayer and we joke about it, whatever but dead serious until I got came to when
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I genuinely thought That saying that stupid little prayer
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Please Lord come into my heart. That's all I had to do to be saved Like Genuinely thought that and then that was the reason
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I rebelled because I kept thinking that's so stupid Like that is so dumb.
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Like why would a God that? Created everything and does all only require that only
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Require me to say please come into my heart and then everything's fine
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Magical. Yeah, and then you can keep When you have all of your faith based on that one thing
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It is so easy for the world to come in and say Check yourself
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Because I'm Garrett I'm about to show you that you're not as strong in your faith as you are and the next thing you know
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So deep into the world that you do not know how to get out Well, and that's where a lot and I'll say this and It's not
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It's he's cooking But it's not just I mean a lot of it is
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Like your age and y 'all's age I mean But In Mercedes is almost at that not your age anymore, but there are a lot of there
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There are a lot of people that are under the age of 30. Oh There's still me
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You're almost not there today is your birthday One more year to you
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But there are a lot of people Say halfway to 60
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There's just a lot of people that Like pastors kids and and I'm not saying
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I'm not saying our pastors kids because our pastors kids would get The food
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Yeah, but I know I know a pastor's children or I have no
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Pastor children that Like they Go out and party and they do this they do that But but they turn around again, they're at church on Sunday And It's like you're so far from being
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What you're pretending to be You're not
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But now it's it's it's very very very dangerous Because of what's being taught it's just not the truth not being taught everywhere
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I am close to being taught Right, because we realize that me and Murr at a previous church
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Like we I've never heard of doctrine. No, we've never heard the words grace or mercy or Justification glorification
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Well, we I remember hearing about grace and mercy but not in depth of grace and mercy
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I was just like oh, it's another word Okay, grace and mercy fantastic next And we moved on like it was never
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Explained it never was like let's dig into this grace and mercy Yeah, and and and everything
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I feel like a lot of churches I've been to it's been so surface level Like they just tell you, you know,
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God loves you this be good share the word You know your testimony blah blah.
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Just pray about it all this kind of stuff It's just very just right up here
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But it wouldn't we're getting all that meat and that's what's important like you have to understand like a lot of people
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I mean they tell you in business school when you read something. It's like did you understand what you just read? No, I just read it because you told me to Let's read it
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I want you to understand this because it could be something I could told you to read something and you not even agree with it
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But you just did what I said So, you know, it's almost like you're lying to yourself you're just like, okay fantastic Didn't learn anything didn't grasp anything.
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Nothing was like, oh wait. No, I don't believe that That is what at least
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I think it's 22 times In scripture and it tells us to meditate
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To dwell on it to pour out to pour over meditating that don't mean yoga.
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Yeah You know Dive into it.
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Like she said dissect it pull it apart and Find what it's actually saying
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But one verse at a time going like the surface level that everybody preaches at this point
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The product of what they're making when they plant those seeds they're making such superficial people
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And it takes it makes me think of I think it's Matthew so don't
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Put me on it where it talks about the parable of the sower and he plants the seeds in all different places
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He drops them as he walks along And when he dropped some in the rocky levels
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I'll always think of it because most of them in all of the situation
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I can put myself in when I Decided to not Go about my faith when
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I've decided to turn away But the most one that I can think of is the one that he put in the rocky path
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When everything's fine, everything's fine but the minute I Got in college and the minute
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I was tested by everybody else that did not believe and All of my professors were preaching or teaching things that were against what
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I have been taught all my life There was nothing there for me to rely on Because there was no debt and so because of that it was so easy for me to go.
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You know what? They might be right Because there was no way for me to prove
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What I believed and because I couldn't prove it to them. How was I gonna prove it and convince myself?
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So in that way, it was so easy to pick me apart Because they never taught
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What the meaning of grace mercy? justification amputation adoption election
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Predestination for knowledge all of it and there's such important terms
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The thorns I feel like I've been caught up in that sometimes like Living that double life almost going out and having a good time the next day be at church, you know praising
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God you know thinking I'm just you know, all this in a bag of chips or whatever and They'll start asking me questions
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Yeah, and you could just feel like the thorns and everything just like Suffocating you.
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Yeah, and you're like, okay, I don't like this feeling Scariest part was reading the end of the chapter where it says those plants go into the furnace and it's like Well, that really means, you know, they're all going to suffer in hell for eternity.
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It's like but I was that person Could have been me. Yeah, it could have been me. Thank goodness.
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Someone was relentless So And that just makes me think all of the people that I grew up with in church church
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If you want to call it that that have no clue. Yeah are being led astray
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I mean, there are people my age that are still that way. I mean, I know people right now today
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That firmly believe and and I don't know if they're really If they're saved or not,
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I I don't know that because I'm not God but all I can do is go by their actions and they're in if I see fruits of the
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Spirit in them and You know When you have to struggle to find some fruits in somebody's life, there's a problem
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So Yeah, that's it and it really bites because people that are my age
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Are very stubborn in case y 'all didn't know that Well, yeah because and part of it is because Just like Jordan said
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This is how they were raised and they stayed on that same path. They prayed that prayer when they were
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Seven and again when they were 12 and then again when they were 14 and again, you know what
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I'm saying? And But but their life never changed
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Nothing in their life ever changed They still have a snotty attitude when it comes to When somebody don't believe or think the way they do it don't even have to be about a church or anything like that Then they have a real snotty attitude
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That that's bad It's just bad When they're constantly take take take and never give give give
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You know, and this is people that are But this is people that are that are my age yeah, and it's like What are you doing
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And it's just sad too in the same sense like All these years, you know, they've heard, you know the gospel or whatever you want whatever you want to say and they believe it and when you try to tell them
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Otherwise, they're like, oh no, no, no, no, and they try to question you and it's like no I like seriously just try to help you understand what
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I know Almost like brainwashing you for all these years, but no, this is the honest truth and it's hard, you know
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The whole God loves you, you know, I got a certain age, but yeah Hope you think yeah
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God created everything He doesn't love you the way that you are, that's very very very true
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God loves you. Just like you are You're gonna you're gonna
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About them continuing to sin and Do this specific sin over and over again, and I was like, well, there's two things that are gonna come of it one you're not gonna face the consequences because you were never
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God's child to begin with and Two you are gonna face consequences and it is going to humble you
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With ways that you cannot imagine and see this is the thing When you talk about consequences,
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I used to say How can that person just keep doing that without feeling any conviction?
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How can you keep how do you How do you openly live in sin
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Knowingly and Not feel conviction That in itself should make you think
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Am I a child of God? Yeah, but they don't see it when you are not a child of God. You cannot see it.
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You don't see it that way Well, I'm here to tell you right now if you're openly living in sin and sinning constantly and you know
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It's a sin and you don't feel no conviction. Guess what? You need to check yourself And then it's some of those people that you know constantly
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Repent whatever But like I said, what is repentance to turn turn away from sin and turn to God?
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but my biggest pet peeve is When I say all the time, it's when you
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Sorry, you were supposed to change Yeah, you don't a change if you don't change that's not an apology and you were never sorry right in with right
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Then that Just like repentance, you know, I do pastor Jeff's always uses go if you kick somebody in the shin,
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I'm sorry You keep them again. I'm sorry. And after so many sorry It's not stopping what you're doing unless you're two and you don't know better Boy We went way way way different from I don't know.
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No, we've covered everything that I talked about Yeah, well this
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I put the verses there that I would like just reference to but yeah, we hit six and we hit first ten
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Perfect without even knowing I knew we would Grace to you and peace from God the
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Father and our Lord Jesus Christ Who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age?
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According to the will of our God and Father to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen, you know, it was cool is
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That present age was for then for our present age
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What's gonna apply regardless? But it is funny how you read things in in here and it's talking about how a
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Long time ago and it still applies now and then I think of Ecclesiastes everything in this time
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Has already been done So repetitive for a reason
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It's 2021 now, it's the same. Well in my Bible, this is on page 2021
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That's the page. Oh, really? Oh, it's probably like that in mine because we have the same book That's weird
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Mine is 2015 But it applied then too Wait no, mine's 1752
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So It applied then Mine's 1771 Mine's 1721
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I have the big print I have the big print So more work That's 1752 They needed it then too
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Well, this was good That was quick 30 minutes 30, 40 minutes 40?
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That was very good Chef Shipley Is dinner about ready?
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Chef Shipley says dinner's about ready Chef Shipley Yeah, don't shoot
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Don't cry, we're still alive We didn't see anything
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Hear pretty soon y 'all I think what we're going to start doing is We're going to start making this a foursome And let
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Jordan in And let Jordan sit in with us
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Jordan is Learning Learning and leadership
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She's going to do great I want to thank you guys
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For having us tonight I want to thank you for cooking dinner
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Do y 'all have a birthday party? Whose birthday is it?
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Oh, it's Mercedes' birthday I got the green one Happy birthday to Mercedes They don't make noise
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Aren't we the cows anyway? Yeah, they didn't make noise then either Maybe it's like a new thing
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They stopped making noise We're the cows of Witten The cows of Witten Anyways We're now going to have dinner
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Thanks for coming and joining us tonight For this wonderful Bible study Push the button Very, very, very, very, very
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This is my job right now Until we figure out what I'm going to read See y 'all next week
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It's going to take a while Next week Just so you know Will be pre -recorded
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Because next Thursday at this time We will be on Women's Retreat Yay! I was going to say
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I would be done with school But I still have one more test But next week It will be pre -recorded
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And we will have the youngest Shipley With us Naomi!
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I'm talking about the original Shipley The OGs Awesome Y 'all check us out next
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Thursday night Like I said it will be pre -recorded It will be great