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Don't ever judge someone who is distant and

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you say, how dare this person come to

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church, this guy, I know exactly what he

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does in life, he is the greatest sinners

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of all, yesterday I saw him doing this

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and this and this, what kind of a

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face he has to turn up to church

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today, yet I knew where he was yesterday.

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Don't ever judge, lest you be judged.

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If you find a Christian person that is

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the weakest of all, the dirtiest of all,

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the filthiest of all, and the most distant

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from the Lord Jesus, swimming in filth of

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this world, you better run to that person,

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hug them, embrace them and give them courage

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and say to them, don't ever give up,

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for as long as Jesus Christ lives, you

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will live, come back to the Lord, give

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him courage, do not judge, do not look

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down at other Christians, but hold on to

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them, hold their hand and say, if I

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am standing today strong in faith, brother, sister,

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give me your hand, let me lift you

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up, because the Lord loves you the way

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he loves me.

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Come, nothing is lost, nothing is lost.

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As Christians, do we have this kind of

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an approach?

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Do we have this kind of a mentality?

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Do we have this kind of an insight?

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Or do we throw arrows at one another?

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We blow the trumpet the moment somebody does

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something wrong and we write about it on

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all social media platforms.

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Did you know so-and-so what they've

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done?

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We tell the whole world what people have

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done, but we have forgotten that St. Paul

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says, love covers a lot of errors, love

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covers a lot of errors, love covers a

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lot of errors.

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Whoever walks through the front door of the

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church, it is not my business, even if

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I am the bishop of this church, it

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is not my right to question who are

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you and what are you and where did

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you come from, even if he came out

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of the brothel, I will embrace that person.

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But not in the way, accepting the way

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he has chosen to live, no, but I'll

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embrace them in the hope and in the

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faith the Lord will touch their heart and

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make them from a sinner to a saint.

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But if I'm going to scan them with

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the latest technology of MRI and CT scan,

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this person will never come back to the

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church ever again.

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The Lord will lose this sheep because of

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me.

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I'll embrace you, I'll love you and then

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I'll give you the third degree burns.

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And next time you want to go anywhere,

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not right, let me come.

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I'll come with you bro.

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And then we say, what's up brother?

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What's up?

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Don't get down, get up.

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What do you mean get down bro?

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See, it's a negative kind of talk, get

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down, not get down, get up.

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Get down is a failure, is a fall,

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get up, stand up, be successful.

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And whatever has happened in the past, it's

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the past, don't dwell on it.

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You're wasting your time, you're wasting your breath,

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you're wasting your energy, you're wasting above all

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your life which is priceless gift from God

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for you and me and all of us.

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Just get up, dust it off and walk

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forward, don't look back.

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And if you're ever going to look back,

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look back for one reason and one reason

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only, to learn from the past because that

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is the only place you and I can

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learn from.

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We cannot learn from the present moment, we

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are still living it.

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We cannot learn from the futuristic moment, we

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have not lived it yet, but it is

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only the past that is our school of

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thought where we go back to learn from,

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not to dwell on and remain in that

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past that we cannot remain because what is

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gone cannot come back again.

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But look back, learn from the good times

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and the bad times, from the light and

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the dark moments of that past to make

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up a better future in this present moment.

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And you know what is so truthful?

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If somebody asked you, how old are you?

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Tell them the bishop told me to say

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to you, I am 24 hour old, that's

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my age.

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Don't ever say, oh I'm 21, I'm 51,

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I'm 91.

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No you're not, you are 24 hour old,

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that's all.

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You know what?

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Because all those years that have gone by,

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that's not your age, it's not yours, can

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you control it?

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No, it's gone.

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Whatever hasn't come yet, it's not your age.

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So what is your age today?

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Today is the only day you have influence

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over.

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So how old are you today?

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24 hours.

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If we are able to make one difference

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in this 24 hour, we've changed our entire

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life.

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See some people sit and look back and

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say, where do I start?

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50s of my life, sorry the 50s are

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not your life, they're gone, they're not your

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life.

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50s of my life, what do I change

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from these 50s?

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No, the 50s are gone.

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What you can change is today because today

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is your life.

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What you have control over, that's what you

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own, that's what is yours.

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So your age is 24 hours, can you

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change one thing?

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If you can't change one thing in it,

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you've changed your entire life.

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You've changed your entire life.

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How easily we get entangled with our own

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way of thinking and with what the world

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offers us and the majority of things the

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world offers is nothing but a lie.

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Make a bright future for yourself.

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A bright future?

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What is the church?

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Family, family, family.

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This is why the church is hated by

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the world because in today's gospel, the Lord

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Jesus says about the Holy Spirit, he says,

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when I send the Holy Spirit to dwell

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in you, he will rebuke you on three

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things.

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He will rebuke on sin, on righteousness and

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on judgment.

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Then the Lord elaborates more and explains, he

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says on sin because they did not believe

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in me, on righteousness because I am going

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to the Father and you will see me

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no more and on judgment for the ruler

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of this world is being judged.

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Wow.

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The Holy Spirit will rebuke you.

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When the Holy Spirit dwells in you, he

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will ring a bell inside of you.

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He will shake you, he will make you,

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he will break you, he will do so

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many things in order to get your attention.

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He will rebuke you on sin because they

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didn't believe in Jesus Christ.

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He will rebuke you on righteousness because I'm

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going to the Father and you will see

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me no more and he will rebuke you

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on judgment for the ruler of this world

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is being judged.

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On sin because they didn't believe in me.

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Every time we do not believe in Jesus

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Christ, we are sinning.

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Every time we do not believe in Jesus

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Christ, we are sinning and when is it

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as Christians, when is it that we don't

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believe in him?

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Every time we make a mistake, it is

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a unbelief in Jesus Christ because if we

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had believed in him, we wouldn't have sinned.

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When the Lord Jesus says, do not use

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a foul language and I keep on using

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it, I am in denial of Jesus Christ.

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I don't believe in him because if I

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truly believed in him, I wouldn't have swore.

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When the Lord says do not steal and

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I go and steal deliberately, I am in

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denial of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

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Every time I have no faith in the

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Lord, I am a sinner.

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And on righteousness because I'm going to the

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Father and you will see me no more.

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What does that mean?

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See the Lord says wherever your treasure is,

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there will be your heart as well and

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heart here means your entire being, your mind,

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your soul, your spirit, your thought, your entire

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being, wherever your treasure is, whatever your treasure

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is, so if your treasure is money, that's

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where you're gonna be.

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If the treasure is a fame, that's where

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you're gonna be.

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If the treasure is a rank that's where

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you're gonna be.

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If that treasure is a person that's where

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you will be.

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The Lord says, if I am your treasure,

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then remember one thing, I have gone up

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and sat at the right hand of the

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Father.

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I am in the heaven of all heavens.

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If Jesus Christ is your treasure, my child,

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why are you searching for me in the

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streets of the city downtown?

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As a Christian, what are you doing in

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this world?

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Definitely you are not searching for your Lord

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because Jesus Christ disapproves of this world and

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the way the world handles itself.

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So if you are truly believing in me

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as Jesus Christ and if I am truly

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your treasure, why are you still holding on

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to the pleasures of this world?

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Why are you fighting over materialistic things?

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Why are you chasing temporal things?

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Why are you focused on your external looks

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rather than focusing on your internal looks?

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You're spending too many hours, days, weeks and

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months to make yourself look beautiful from outside.

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You're not spending one second to making your

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heart looking beautiful to your Messiah.

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The focus has shifted and speaking of the

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word focus, it is one of the most

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precious gifts God gave the human race, the

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word focus.

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Why did God give us this gift of

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focus?

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Because God gave us this gift of focus

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in order to enable us to see the

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things he wants us to see and avoid

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the things he wants us to avoid.

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Because the moment you focus on someone you

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will not see the one next to that

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someone.

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The moment you focus on one thing, everything

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around it is blurry, it's out of focus.

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So when you focus on one thing, that's

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all you're gonna see clearly, everything else is

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blurred up.

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And the Lord says, are you focused on

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me or are you focused on you?

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Well if you are going to focus on

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yourself, then guess what?

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Your beginning is good but your end will

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be evil.

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But when you focus on the Lord, you

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will go through trials but the end is

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all light, all bright.