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Redeeming the time because the days are evil,

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Ephesians 5 16.

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And what is Saint Paul saying here, redeeming

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the time because the days are evil?

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He is literally saying time is one of

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the most precious gifts God ever gave the

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human race.

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And maybe one day we speak about time

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as a topic.

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Time is so priceless.

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Time is so precious.

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Do not waste it in vanities.

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Just like the ants, learn from them.

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They don't waste time.

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All of summer, every second, every minute, every

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hour, every day of summer, they never stop

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working, working hard, hard, hard to prepare for

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the freezing winter that is coming upon them

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so they can survive the winter.

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They don't waste time.

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Like some of us do, going out for

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no reason, reading something that is useless, watching

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something that is pointless.

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What are you wasting time for?

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Do you not realize that time is extremely

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precious gift from God?

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I'll give you an idea how time is

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precious.

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Some people have asked me, why didn't God

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forgive Satan when he made the mistake in

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heaven?

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Why didn't he forgive him?

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He is all merciful.

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He is all love.

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Isn't Satan one of his creations?

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Yes, of course.

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Then why didn't he forgive him?

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Well, for one simple fact and truth, because

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of time.

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He could not forgive him.

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Because Satan was an angel and the highest

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rank in the angelic orders called the cherubims.

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He was one of the highest rank in

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the angelic orders called the cherubims.

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Now, angels are in heaven.

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God created them in heaven and placed them

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in heaven.

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And in heaven, there is one thing, eternal

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life.

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There is no time.

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Time is absent in heaven.

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So that means, when you decide on doing

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something in heaven, you only have once to

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go at it and once only.

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There is no time to come back and

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say, sorry, I made a mistake.

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Are you with me?

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Because every tick is a new fresh start

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for all of us.

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But in heaven, there is no time.

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So when the angel made the mistake, he

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made it in a realm that has no

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time.

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Therefore, there was no time for him to

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come back and say, sorry, that mistake was

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eternal.

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He couldn't come back.

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Do you realize how easy for a human

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being, after making a mistake, coming back to

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God and say, please forgive me, Lord.

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How come it's so easy?

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Because of time.

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Because of time.

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I made the mistake in this second.

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The next second has got nothing to do

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with the second where I made that mistake

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in.

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Then other second is a fresh brand new

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start.

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I can come back in the next second

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and say to God, I'm sorry, forgive me

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for my sin.

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It is time that permits us and allow

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us as humans to come back again and

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again and again, seeking God's mercy and forgiveness.

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Time is precious.

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Do not waste it.

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Do not waste it.

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And like one of the church fathers put

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it so beautifully, he says, time is a

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distraction to eternity.

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It was the grace of God that put

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us, created us and placed us in a

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realm that is governed by time.

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So that time would take us away from

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eternity in order to be able to come

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back and say, sorry, when we make mistakes.

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This is how much God loves us.

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He knew we were going to make a

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mistake.

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That's why he put us in a realm

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that is governed by time.

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Time is a distraction to eternity.

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It takes us out of the eternal realm.

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The moment the spirit leaves the body, we

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enter the eternal realm.

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And that's why it's too late to come

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back and say, sorry, after the spirit leaves

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the body.

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Too late.

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While you are in the body, you have

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the time to come back and say, Lord,

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I'm sorry, after the spirit leaves the body,

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gone.

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Gone.

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So that summer, that hot summer symbolizes the

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Holy Spirit.

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And Saint Paul, like we mentioned in Ephesians

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5.16, he says, we need to redeem

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that time because the days are evil.

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Be wise like the ants.

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Work hard for your eternity.

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Work hard before winter comes and you're not

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able to work anymore.

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If summer represents the spirit in the body,

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then winter represents spirit leaving the body.

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Dead.

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Once the spirit leaves the body too late,

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you can't say, I'm sorry.

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It's not going to get anywhere.

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Too late.

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Therefore, my beloveds, do not waste this time

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on worldly matters, on materialistic matters.

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Do not waste this time on pleasure sometimes.

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I want to go out with me mates.

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I'm going downtown, brother.

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I'm going to sit in the car with

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the big sabufa habibi in the backseat going.

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And I go clubbing and I go and

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hang around Mecca till 3am.

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What are you doing hanging around Mecca till

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3am?

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What are you doing in those dark little

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alleys exchanging those bags of white powder?

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Stop it.

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What are you doing in the clubs and

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in the pubs gambling and drinking and having

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so-called fun?

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Poisonous fun.

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That time is precious.

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Once this tick goes by, nothing can bring

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it back.

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Nothing.

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My beloved daughter, my beloved son, I beg

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you, don't be deceived by the world.

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Don't listen to people that are trying frantically

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to take you away from Christ.

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Don't.

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That is satanic way.

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Satan came to destroy everything good God created.

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Do not.

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When friends say to you, let's go to

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the city, don't run and don't choose them

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to be your friends because your friends should

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say to you, let's go to the church,

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not the club.

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Let's go to the light, not darkness.

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Let's go to the truth, not the lie.

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Let's go to the antidote, not the poisonous

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snake.

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Do not.

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Come to Christ for time is of the

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essence.

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It's precious.

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Stop wasting this time on empty, hopeless, useless

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things.

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I'm not saying for you not to work

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and have a house.

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I'm not saying for you not to work

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and go on a holiday.

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I'm not saying for you not to work

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and buy a nice car or nice clothes

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or enjoy a moment, but don't let your

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entire life based on worldly matters.

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Don't fight over materialistic matters.

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Don't argue and don't cling to this world

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because it was never yours, never will be.

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For God's sake, wake up.

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Wake up.

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All we care about on how I look

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beautiful from outside, how about we spend time

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to make ourselves look beautiful from inside in

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the presence of the Almighty God.

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We spend so much on trying to lose

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weight and making my face look beautiful and

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put the foundation and the mascara and the

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mascara and go and do some laser eyebrows

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and go to Istanbul to stretch the skin.

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The skin is going to come back and

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be wrinkled again no matter how many times

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you stretch it.

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You need to spend time on your heart

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my child.

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Stop spending time only on your face and

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ignore the heart.

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Come back and look inside and see how

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God is seeing it.

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And let me tell you this, the first

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step ever in the path to humility, the

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first step ever in the path to humility

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is when we begin to see our heart

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the way God sees it.

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And the question is to me and to

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all of us, if God comes now and

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checks my heart, how would he see it?

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Lord have mercy.

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Full of spider webs, full of envy and

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jealousy and hatred and bigotry and pride and

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self ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, dark places.

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Spend the time to beautifying your heart.

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Stop just looking at your external appearance for

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the Lord's sake.

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Begin to look to look at your internal

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appearance.

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Redeeming the time for the days are evil.

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Summer for ants is your spirit and the

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body.

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And as long as the spirit is in

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the body, we will always have the opportunity

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to come back and say to the Lord,

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forgive me Lord for I have sinned.

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Have mercy on me.