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Welcome to the From the Pulpit in Classic

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Sermon series.

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Each week we bring you a different message

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from some of history's greatest speakers in the

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Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers

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too.

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This week we have Hans R.

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Waldvogel with his message, Casting All Your Care

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Upon Him.

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For he careth...

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Now why should he care?

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Why should he number all the hairs on

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my head?

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Well, because every hair needs help, needs attention.

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People say to me, what?

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Your hair is still not white, and you

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still have a nice crop of hair.

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Yes, I have a good caretaker of my

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hair.

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Really, really good.

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There was a time when I lost almost

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all my hair, but the Lord brought it

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back.

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And since then I haven't worried about one

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hair on my head.

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Jesus Christ knows how many I have, and

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He knows what...

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and He has provided for each hair on

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my head.

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I suppose I have a hundred thousand at

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least.

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I never counted them.

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But He's provided for each one of my

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hairs an oil well, a supply of oil

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to keep it lubricated.

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I don't have to spend a lot of

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money for all the calabrese to keep my

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hair alive.

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Jesus Christ really takes care of...

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And why should He bother?

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Why should He bother?

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Not just to make me pretty, but to

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glorify His name because I belong to Him.

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My father used to care for my hair.

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I don't know how many times he spat

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on it and combed it.

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And he says, Why I'm going to be

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ashamed of you if you come among the

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people without your hair combed.

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He cared.

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I didn't.

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Didn't bother whether I combed my hair or

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not, but my father did.

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And my mother cared when my ears weren't

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clean.

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She took strong solution and washed them.

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I didn't care.

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Corn grew in my ears.

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Why?

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My mother washed them so clean 70 years

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ago that they're still clean today.

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But Jesus Christ wants to care about everything

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concerning my being from beginning to the end

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of eternity.

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And I dishonor Him when I don't cast

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all my care upon Him.

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Not only that, but I rob Him of

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His honor and His kingship.

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Seek ye first the kingdom of God and

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His righteousness means that I must seek to

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let Him reign within me.

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I must seek to make room for Him

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to be the absolute provider and the absolute

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ruler of my life.

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And that means my whole spirit and soul

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and body.

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And if I do that, He has promised

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to preserve me blameless.

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Mind you, my whole spirit and soul and

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body blameless unto the coming of our Lord

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Jesus Christ.

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And what for?

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Not that I should be honored in that

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day.

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He promises that too.

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But it's the honor of my Lord Jesus

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Christ that's at stake.

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If He doesn't bring me through, Moses said

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to God, if you kill these people, they

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deserve it.

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You could destroy them in a moment, but

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where's your honor?

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The Gentiles will say, well, He wasn't as

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strong and He wasn't as powerful as He

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said He was.

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He wasn't able to bring them through and

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He wasn't near as merciful as He said

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He was, else He'd have forgiven their iniquity.

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And in that day, the Bible says, we

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shall be the glory of Christ.

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And when the Apostle Peter talks about it,

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he says, Though now ye are in heaviness

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through manifold temptation, Barnabas says, we must through

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much tribulation enter into the kingdom.

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It is by these testings and by these

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trials that I'm given a chance to make

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my choice between the devil and Jesus Christ.

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And that's the choice I must make.

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Seek ye first the kingdom of God and

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His righteousness means that there is a kingdom,

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thank God.

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And I can make my choice.

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I can enter into that kingdom by choosing

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Jesus Christ to rule, to take His great

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power and to be master and that kingdom

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must be within me.

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And it is there that sin reigns.

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Oh, where sin abounded and it certainly did

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abound and God said it abounded so much

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that in many hearts it chokes the Word

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and that Word does not bring forth fruit

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unto the kingdom of God.

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But if I guard my heart with all

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diligence and I say to it that Satan

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shall not have dominion and sin shall not

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have dominion, I choose Jesus, that's my choice.

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For instance, he says, In nothing be anxious.

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I had to learn that lesson before I

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really got established in the ministry and I'm

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so glad that God did not let me

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go.

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I was born anxious.

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My father always told me that when I

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was three days old I laughed for the

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first and the last time.

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And when I was five years old I

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had the measles and then it's hard to

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get along with me after that.

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I worried about everything.

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I went to school and if my school

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work didn't come out perfect I'd worry for

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days.

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I wouldn't talk to anybody until that thing

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was corrected.

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I was just full of it.

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Full of worry, full of anxiety, full of

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fear, full of all that.

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When I was twelve years old I was

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sure that I was going to die within

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a year or two.

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So many people died of consumption at that

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time and I had a cough.

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That's why I hate cough.

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And so I was sure I had consumption

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and I worried silently and quietly.

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I worried.

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I didn't dare go by a cemetery.

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And when I came to God He said,

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Listen, you've got to make your choice.

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In nothing be anxious.

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Let me take over.

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That's the wonderful thing.

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We think, well, it's quite wonderful not to

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be anxious and not to worry and not

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to fret and not to care.

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But that's not the issue.

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The issue is to make room for Jesus

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Christ who is the King of Glory, the

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Prince of Peace, who has conquered, glory to

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God, who has conquered and purchased me with

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His own blood that I should not live

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unto myself but unto Him.

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We are His workmanship.

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But that word workmanship I understand means masterpiece.

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You are His masterpiece if you let Him

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have His way.

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That's the idea.

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When a boy, when in Switzerland or Germany

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any young man learns a trade I had

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to spend five years learning the jewelry business

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and after five years you have to pass

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an examination and by this you have to

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make a masterpiece.

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Now, Barber told me the masterpiece he had

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to make for an exhibition he had to

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shave a man or many men and he

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had to take a pair of tweezers and

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he had to take a large piece of

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paper and glue, put glue on it and

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then he had to take a million pieces

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of hair and make a picture of a

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house.

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That was his masterpiece.

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He was ruled by his masterpiece.

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A jeweler would have to make a brooch

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or a lavalier or a bracelet himself.

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He had to make it from bottom up

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to the top and finish it.

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And that went on exhibition for everybody to

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look at and to examine and I remember

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in my shop whenever I saw a piece

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of jewelry I could tell who made it.

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We had a man who had the name

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that he was a good jeweler.

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He happened to be they called him the

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French jeweler and they advertised that among them.

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But I said he was a butcher not

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a jeweler.

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I could tell by every piece of jewelry

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that he made that he didn't know much

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about making jewelry but he got away with

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it somehow.

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There was another man when I saw a

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piece of jewelry by him I made goo

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-goo eyes.

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I never saw such wonderful work.

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And that man took his time and when

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he made a piece of jewelry you know

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it had to be as clean looking at

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from the front as from the back every

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part of it.

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He was a master.

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His masterpiece honored him and that's what he

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was after.

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Jesus Christ is making a masterpiece that will

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honor him in the day when he presents

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you and me to the Father as the

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finished product and in the meantime I must

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work with fear and trembling to be sure

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that I don't interfere with his will.

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Oh this mighty will of God and when

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he says casting all your care upon him

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he means to say I cannot finish my

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masterpiece if you fool with it.

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If you put your paws to it if

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you worry over it you take it out

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of my hands.

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That's what we do.

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But when we don't worry and don't fret

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then the Bible says in nothing be anxious

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but what?

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In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving

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let your requests be made known unto God

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and then God takes over.

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And how does it take over?

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Why the Prince of Peace comes to take

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his work his masterpiece and he works it

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out and maybe you don't know how he

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does it you don't know but that's where

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faith and confidence comes in.

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How many times we have committed our bodies

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to him when we were sick and then

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when God allowed some tests to come our

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way then we took our bodies out of

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his hand again and we began to worry

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and God has to stand aside.

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I tell you God is a great master

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my Lord Jesus Christ is a is a

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great master and he's a great savior and

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he is one that knows how to finish

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the work which he has begun and that

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was one of the first lessons I had

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to learn when I came to God.

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I had to learn to trust him for

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every penny I needed.

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It was an interesting lesson it was a

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difficult lesson how many times did the Lord

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hit my knuckles when I tried to fool

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with it.

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Leave it to me I told you how

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my first lesson was to get six bucks

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six dollars I owed six dollars I had

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been robbed of the money by a saint

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and now I didn't have it and I

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had to pay a bill six dollars and

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for a whole month I worried and grunted

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and groaned and murmured in my heart I

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remember walking down the street and looking at

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the bushes and think now Lord what's six

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bucks between you and me why you could

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turn these leaves into five dollar bills honestly

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I thought he could but he didn't now

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why didn't he do it I'd reach into

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my pocket I thought well the Lord could

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create it in my pocket but he didn't

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do it I said now why as long

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as I said why I found fault with

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God I got nothing nothing after one month's

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time in a meeting in Zion in the

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faith home I learned my lesson God took

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all the fear out of me God made

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me look at Jesus instead of into my

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pocket and instead of at the bushes and

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when I got a sight of Jesus Christ

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the peace of God filled my heart and

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next day I got six dollars not one

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penny more or less and in a most

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miraculous way from both of them from people

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from whom I could never have expected it

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God just showed me that he is not

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only able but willing to take care of

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his own kingdom and his own honor but

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as long as I interfere with his honor

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nothing doing then I honor the devil the

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devil comes around and he wouldn't be a

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good devil if he didn't test you that's

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his job when Jesus was baptized with the

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Holy Ghost the spirit drove him into the

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temptation and if need be ye are in

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manifold temptation what for not to be defeated

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but that the trial of your faith may

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be found unto praise and honor and glory

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at the appearing of Jesus Christ and he'll

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never say well I remember the trouble you

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were in but I happen to be on

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a trip I couldn't take care of you

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just then or maybe it was a little

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too...

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he'll never say that he'll never say Abraham

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believed God and he hoped against hope and

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he waxed strong in faith now that's the

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test of true faith the longer the trial

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lasts the stronger your faith will grow if

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your eyes are upon the promise and him

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that promised Sarah counted him faithful that promise

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what do you do?

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you count him faithful that promise and it

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isn't a matter of just making a comfortable

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life for myself but it's a matter of

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making a comfortable life for Jesus he wants

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to live with me he wants to make

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his home with me he wants to feel

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at home here he wants to see that

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I have perfect confidence in him no matter

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what all hell does he has already won

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the fight and now to learn this grand

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lesson and the peace of God which passeth

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all understanding why that's Christ he'll keep your

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heart and he'll keep your mind and I

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find in my travels that very very few

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Christian will obey this command they'll obey other

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commands they'll stop drinking beer or smoking cigarettes

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listen to be worried and to be anxious

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is worse than smoking cigarettes it is to

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me it would be a greater sin I

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would dishonor my God if I murmured I'd

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say my Lord you made a mistake you

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didn't know what you were talking about there

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when he said he cares for you beloved

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it's his honor not my honor not my

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comfort let me be tested let me be

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tried Abraham the Bible says was fully persuaded

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that's faith not to feel he didn't feel

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he saw his body now dead and the

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deadness of Sarah's womb that didn't stagger him

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at all he didn't stagger at the promise

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of God beloved I'm talking seriously we won't

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see one another for a long time I'm

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really serious if you don't learn this lesson

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you dishonor your God your God who said

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all things work together for good we know

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that all things work together for good to

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them that love God all things belong to

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him all things are possible to him that

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believe us but we like to have it

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thrown at us you know when I was

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a boy I told you before I was

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saved I devoured the newspaper every day at

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my lunch hour and I was especially fond

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of Mutton Jeff when I got saved I

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quit I had no more room in my

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heart for that business but one day I

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went to hear a favorite evangelist Paul Rader

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that's Miss Schultz's patron saint he was a

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wonderful preacher and one day he was using

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an illustration from a cartoon of Jigs and

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Maggie they loved corn beef and cabbage and

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he used it with such a skill that

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I said well I must see what that

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is and so I looked at a cartoon

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of Jigs and Maggie and you know it's

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been a blessing to me Maggie and her

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daughter naughty women they went to a great

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big department store in the city and I

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don't know what they did but the manager

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flew at them and disgraced them and dishonored

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them and they came home weeping sniff sniff

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hoo hoo and Jigs wanted to know what

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had happened why they told him what a

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fresh manager that was and how he had

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bawled them out so Jigs put on his

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stovepipe hat and he went down and he

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bought the store the whole store and then

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he fired the manager and then you should

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have seen Maggie and her daughter walk into

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that store everything belonged to them that's why

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God says we should come with boldness we

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have a high priest who is made higher

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than the heavens the prince of this world

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is cast out oh let's believe it you've

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been listening to the From the Pulpit in

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Classic Sermon series this week you heard Hans

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R.

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Waldvogel with his message casting all your care

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upon him tune in next week for another

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powerful message from God's word on From the

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Pulpit and Classic Sermons