The Encounter

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hey guys uh welcome back uh to the encounter uh by redeemed melee guys uh we just want to thank you guys once
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please uh keep that in mind if you guys are interested about the youtube uh other than that uh today we're gonna
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continue with our goddess series and um our god series uh we had uh the great i am
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we had uh uh the also gyra the god of gyra and today we're going to talk about uh god um it's peace god god of peace uh
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also in um how to say in the hebrew way to speak is shalom right so um i wanted to share
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this um this verse that i found in john 16 33 and it says i have told you these
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things so that you can have peace in me in this world you will have troubles but
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be brave i have defeated the world and i was reading this and i was seeing this
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and i was i was i was you know contemplating i don't know if he has no contemplativeness but you know how to
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say like meditating in this and i i love this first sentence that says i have told you these things so that you have
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peace in me and that last three words are so important because he doesn't say
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have peace he doesn't say have peace wherever you are but he says have peace
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in me that word in means to be inside of him and as we all know um we are also
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the body of christ therefore the peace is not something that
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you acquire or you obtain with money or you obtain with a certain stature of spiritual stature or
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with a certain lectures or or with a certain amount of reading but it's something that you
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achieve when you are a part of body of christ and i was looking at this and it's such a beautiful um a promise that
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he gives us you know what i'm saying because it's it's almost like god is telling us there's going to be a lot of
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troubles oh well that's exactly what it says there's going to be a lot of troubles but do not fear because within me when you guys are in me there should
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be peace it's not saying that you're gonna have a nice life it's saying there will be troubles but when you're inside
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of me uh the trouble shouldn't matter and and i i think that's what i wanna i wanna stick to i wanna stick to like
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because we can't say that we we can't say that our life is perfect right we all have problems different different ways
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different you know levels of our life we have problems but the thing that keeps me i guess sane and
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it keeps me happy and it keeps me going it is it's god you know what i mean and and and i understand that my peace comes
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within them and i know that sometimes even my brothers help me reach this p this piece as well and i don't know if
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you guys want to say something yeah i do yeah of course i was something that i found about the shalom that i thought was super interesting is
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that um there was shadow like we understand peace like in like a worldly sense like oh peace is
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like no war and everybody's holding hands and like running at the beach together you know which sounds super fun we should do that but uh that's not
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exactly what uh what piece is like the the the piece that they're talking about here is like for example what adam and
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eve had with god before they sinned it was like a perfect connection like uh
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almost like trust right and that was broken with sin and notice that jesus
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doesn't say it until after he resurrects he comes to his disciples and when he appears to them he says shalom peace be
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with you right almost as if saying like i've restored what they broke and i i really love that right which is
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um another example that i was reading is abraham you know when he goes up to give isaac
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how was he so calm how was he so trusting and this shalom i see i view it
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as like almost like a trusting obedience like i have so much security and who god
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is and what he can do in my life that no matter what he asked me to do i trust him blindly and this creates in me a
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shalom
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surpasses thank you um surpasses all understanding right like how can you give up your son and be like yeah i know
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god will provide like right that's hard but it's this it's this thing it's this shalom right which i thought was
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beautiful um what what danny and deborah are saying
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that i found beautiful was philippians four six through nine and i'mma read seven it says then god's
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wonderful peace that transcends human understanding will make the answers known to you through jesus christ so
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keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real honorable and admirable beautiful and respectful
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pure and holy merciful and kind and fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of god praising him always follow
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the example of all that we have imparted to you and the god of peace will be with you in all things and i think like
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that's super like beautiful what deborah was saying that that um jesus came here
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and and kind of like restored that peace that was lost before and um i was
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looking at like examples in the bible when when jesus was here on earth and he would he would tell people go in peace
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and i looked at some examples and there's some examples such as
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when a roman officer needs to needs a healing for one of his servants
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there's another one of the woman with the flow of blood and then um
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another one where the the prostitute was giving her most expensive perfume to
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jesus and what i found interesting about each of those is that
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each of after that happens and they're all healed and stuff um jesus says
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go in peace but before that he says because of your faith so that kind of
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made me understand like along with peace um what is produced before it is faith and
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and faith kind of like helps us
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helps us understand just how it says in um in the philippians verse
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the wonderful peace that transcends human understanding i think that faith kind of helps us understand that that
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if we i don't know if i'm if i'm making sense but but if we just have our trust in him
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then peace he also provides us with peace i was going to say um going back to what
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you're saying about understanding i think it was very important because if we look at the world side about peace
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it's confusion and the verse to back me up there is first corinthians four way i
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lost 14 33 god is not a god of confusion but of god of peace so it's amazing that you
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said understanding because in order to have understanding you need to have faith and if you don't have faith then you're going to believe everything that
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the world is saying because they're trying to confuse you they're trying to like to shaking your faith but god is telling you here no my agenda is peace
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it's love and that's what i'm here to yeah sorry yeah and then now that you're talking about like faith
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um yesterday we were having discipleship and and danny was talking about someone
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who lacked faith which was peter and when they were in the storm and he he
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you know they're all scared and then um we can see this as an example of lack of faith because he didn't have that peace
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in his heart that that god was gonna keep them safe and and stuff like that so i think that also
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backs up that with faith we can have this peace i was just going to say that like faith
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is the confidence and what we hope for and assurance about what we do what we do not see and this ties in perfectly
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like uh for example we're going through like a hard time or we're suffering what we're looking at is suffering right but
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we have faith that what is coming is better we have faith that the suffering has a purpose that will uh lead us to
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our our hope right that is jesus right so when when i hear or when i read
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because i didn't hear paul although i wish i did but when i read when paul says like oh i rejoice in my sufferings or i i boast
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about my weakness and i understand and i'm like how can he do this like how can he say this but i understand it's
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because his shalom with god was restored and he understood that no matter what is happening right now it doesn't matter
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because i see what's ahead because i have faith of what's ahead and that's that's literally beautiful i love it and
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i was gonna tell you guys that um that with everything i'm saying like especially what you guys were saying about uh about having faith and
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everything i think the first thing in order to have that faith is in romans 8 6 and it says um romans 8 6 it says if
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your thinking is controlled by your sinful self there is spiritual death but if your thinking is controlled by the
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spirit there is life and peace and in order to understand faith and in order
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to have a little bit of faith you have to understand how the spirit works you see what i'm saying like your
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thinking can't be always about oh what is going on in this world or what's going on in my nature no but you have to
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understand that there's a nature that's in the spirit there's there's there's another life within the spiritual
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that that like you guys said transcends if you guys don't know transcends it means like it elevates about above our regular
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natural life and that's when faith starts becoming easier and that's when we start under even if we don't have
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faith we understand faith and that's and that's really that's i guess that's like
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that's like the first step to faith right understanding what is faith and then when you're thinking when your mind
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is finally controlled by your spirit which getting there i think is very a difficult um feature you know i think
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it's a very difficult uh thing to do um you can understand as well that
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your mind is governed by spirit then is governed by faith is governed by
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jesus it's governed by his mind and then having peace there becomes a little bit
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more a little bit easier just like paul had but what did what did paul had to do
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he had he was in the he was on the road and he was he was supposed he was blinded by jesus he was called by jesus
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he was uh starved for a few days like he was changed his normal self he was like
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this no my life naturally does no no no longer matter my what matters is my
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spiritual life from here on out and i think we have to see that in order to reach this faith our thinking our mind
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needs to be controlled by the spirit and when i say the spirit it means the holy spirit right
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which is technically having like the mind of christ right and if we have the mind of christ we have connection with
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uh the father which again is restoring the shalom and you know what's going to tell you danny that uh once we have this
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sorry benny am i called or did i hurt you okay um uh once we restore this like it's like
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it's impossible to have peace or shalom with the father and not have peace and shalom with each other like it's
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something that trickles down and it's important like that's why i think it's really important that we see like the the fruits that people bear the people
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that we look up to the people that we decide to listen to what are where are their fruits what are they what are they
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doing do they have peace with each other because if they have peace with each other they have peace with god but
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somebody who can't keep the peace with each other do you think they have peace with god no no right it's impossible is that i
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feel like i don't have enough bible verses today but i do go for it galatians 5 22 it says but the fruit that spirit produces in a person's life
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is love joy peace patience kindness goodness and faithfulness meaning
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and i'm talking to everybody that's like yeah danny but you know i still you know you guys make it seem like peace can be you know
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grabbed from a shelf and you know put it on you know like amazon that they just scan right away and then you're good no
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no but i'm saying look this fruit this piece is a fruit that has to be produced
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by the spirit so the spirit has to be how do i say that has to be governing
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your life in order for peace to come and um i always like to give examples of of
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my own life because i feel like i'm the worst person um because god i god it helps me so much
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but whenever i don't have peace whenever i feel like there's a little bit of trouble and i'm such a crybaby because i
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barely have any trouble and you know the little times that i do have trouble i'm crying and i'm i'm feeling like the
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world is coming uh you know not on me but i always ask god god give me you know give me um give
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me give me peace give me peace and the way that he answers me and he's like okay you know sorry he doesn't say okay
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right but he goes you know he always gives me a thought and he he always gives me thought he was like okay but do
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you only worship me when you when you when you're in peace or do you worship me also in your troubles
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and i look at and i think about it and i'm like you know what i'm gonna stop asking because i am thankful
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in the good and i'm thankful if my whole life is breaking down and i'm thankful at all times and you are you know his be
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him being holy and i'll give you your time right now um him being holy him being perfect him
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being like no other doesn't take away from how my life is doing you know what i mean so i always say you know what and
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every time every time that i feel trouble i always just worship him and i always just worship and he gives me that
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peace and i don't have to ask like he knows what i need and and yeah i think it's beautiful in the way that he
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manifests in my life when you're saying that that some people
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may say like like oh you act like peace is like so easy to get but but um when i
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was i think um my opinion like i think peace makes you have like patience like
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to reach peace you have to have like patience so that um you can get to it
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like when i was reading um it's in the story is in mark 5 34 about
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the woman with the fl flow of blood um before that
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jesus where they were going was jesus was going to like a town to heal someone
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like that he was walking with a man and they were walking with a big crowd and they were gonna go heal someone in a
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town and but then they stopped to jesus stopped because some he felt someone touch his
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robe and i could just like imagine like the guy next to him that needed the help
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being like like if it was like me i'd be like like bro why did you stop we need to go to this person we need to go to
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this town to heal this person and and you know and so i feel like there we there we
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right there we can see that he had the patience to be like oh it's okay like i'll have that peace
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let's just um let's go at his time yeah
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and it's beautiful exactly with this woman that you just brought up with this uh with their with their with their flow
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with the flow of blood but i was gonna tell you just like you said patience how long did she have this sickness for yeah
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that's how decade uh i think from ironic 12 years decades 10 years um i was gonna say that
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12 12 years with the flow look i'm not a woman and i don't know what that is but
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i can only imagine that it's horrible and it's not only horrible but it's uncomfortable and imagine just being
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uncomfortable for 12 years yeah but you know what this is what i was trying to tell you guys when earlier
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in my story my vain story which makes no sense now but it makes sense she said okay no matter
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if i'm uncomfortable it doesn't matter if i smell bad it doesn't matter if i'm still going to worship jesus because of
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who he is yeah i'm still going to trust him because of who he is like she at 12
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years bro like i don't know if you guys ever had a problem for 12 years but it almost becomes like a part of your life
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like he's like okay this is what i got to do this is what i get fed up not even like you're used to it for
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example people that are born with a lot of their family has a lot of money they're used to that statue of life and
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somebody that lives in poverty it's so it's a hardship but it's something that's normal to them
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you know it's no big deal hey i gotta i gotta eat uh i gotta eat cups of noodles every day that's normal
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to them you know so you almost normalize it but this woman saw her chance
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she saw what she needed to do and she did it no matter if people didn't let her through
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i imagined this woman reaching jesus's rope and she didn't just grab it
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like like like this and thank you i bet you she barely got to touch it she just
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extended enough to kind of like even just grace it and she became that's as i was trying to tell you guys
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that there's it's just much more than just uh it's much more than just saying oh god god is my peace it's actually
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fighting for it it's something that you have to produce and if you guys know how to produce things um a seed has to go
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into the floor and the and the seed has to die to itself then it gives life
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and that's what we have to do to our ourselves as well in order to have peace we have to we have to understand that's
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not about our pain but it's about who god is go ahead i was just gonna say that the woman of the flow blow i think
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she's like a super interesting story um because if you guys didn't know before like whenever a woman had her her period
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she was put out of the camp like she wasn't allowed to like stay there and like chill with her husband she had to
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leave the camp and she had to wait like a certain period to be considered clean again because it was considered unclean
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so this woman had a flow of blood for 12 years imagine not having communication with the people for 12 years because she
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was considered unclean and 12 is um i don't know how you say this in english i'm going to say in spanish
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government government oh my god dude i'm so dumb okay um yeah it's a number of government
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and uh when you think about it like this disease or whatever was causing her disease this sin was governing her life
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to the point of casting her out right and what it had done was cut off her peace
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and um i just think it's like so interesting that the the thing that brings this
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piece the thing that only god can give this shalom like there is human peace but the shalom that we're talking about
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is can only be given by god and uh that's in isaiah 45 7 i form the light and create darkness i make peace and
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create evil and the peace there is shalom uh i the lord do all of these things right so only he can give the
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shalom and when uh he sent jesus down right and i don't know what verse it says but it says like there's gonna be a prince and
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he's gonna be a prince of peace the point was to say that the what what
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restores the shalom is obedience right because that's a lot of the things that jesus uh or god says to his people like
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because you're disobedient you will no longer have um rivers of peace
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flowing right and i think maybe this is the moment where she like you were saying like she decided like no that's
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it i'm done doing my own way i've been here for 12 years and it has benefited me in no way so now i i decide to change
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i decide to get out of my comfort zone i don't care what anybody says how they're looking at me like i don't know i'm
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thinking like they didn't have pads back then like did she what was she doing like was she just bleeding freely i mean
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i don't know like did everybody see her was it embarrassing i'm sure but she said i don't care and i think the bible
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says correct me if i'm wrong that she crawled like she was on the floor to him right like the humility like the
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humbleness that she had to have to say no more that's it i'm done i surrender completely what i want is your piece
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give it to me i was gonna say um there we could see also who she's setting her mind on she
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set her mind on the spirit she was led by like she didn't like like care what other people think
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because sometimes we plus we place our set of mind on the flesh and this is why romans 8 6 says for the set of mind on
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the flesh is death but the set of mind on the spirit is life and peace so her setting her mind on jesus christ is
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allowing her to like have us like a spiritual mind and it brought her peace and comfort because like dude imagine
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like bleeding for 12 years i would be like dying on my bed just like being
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depressed but but no she's like she had peace and that set of mind like allowed
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her to reach that comfort by god and and
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just just so we can circle back to what we're trying to say right which is which is that jesus is our peace god is our
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peace the fathers are peace also we have to understand that in the story of also paul um when you already thought you
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already said the part that he he used to boast in his uh in his weakness also there there's
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there's a part in the bible that says that he used to have um this uh this is
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uh this uh sting this thing they used to they used to sting them all the time
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and then he tells god god please remove this thing away from my life and he goes and then he says uh let my
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let my grace be enough for you and and when i read this i almost think like
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and the reason why i connected to the pieces is because of this because he almost says
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it it doesn't matter if you're having pain let my grace be enough to feel that
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pain i don't know if you understand what i'm saying but like like like it's because you have to send our lives sometimes it just sucks bro like like
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like it does and and and as you get older i guess you have a little bit more control but as you're
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younger you almost have no control of your life right you have to be with your parents you have to a lot of people a
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lot of older people dictate what you do as you're old as you're younger um but uh
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you have to understand that sometimes god god lets you go through these things and the best thing we can do is just
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give god a thanks give god things let him be let him you know i always i always uh well you guys
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are all here so it would be oh danny it's a thorn a thorn okay nice so so
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paul had a thorn but almost like you know how you guys you know how you guys tell me like you guys wish you guys can
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live in church like there's a certain peace that there is here that's exactly what god wants god wants that his
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presence should be our peace everything is you know a mess over there outside in the world then when we come here it's
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almost like okay we know we're gonna do we know what's gonna happen we know what to expect we know what we're gonna do
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and we're willing to do it every single day like if there's no school and everything yes we're all waiting to stay here but
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but like i tell you guys that's the type of piece that god wants to provide to us and that beautiful piece can be taken to
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school back home it can be taken to the places that there might be problems and that's that's all i was trying to
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explain to you guys that this this piece is not something that just comes and goes you know have you guys ever heard
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um of that saying uh don't let it take your peace or to
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don't let what they said about you take your peace and if jesus is my peace nobody can take him
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away from him so now my question would be is peace an emotional state or a spiritual state
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it would be a spiritual state right just like joy joy can be like oh you know my
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mom hit me today with the bamboo and you can be like this walking around you got hit because you deserved it and if you
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didn't deserve it well she's your mother no matter what but my question is my question is but you still have to be joyous you have to understand that you
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have parents that love you that are willing to correct you there's other people that don't have any parents so that's that's all i wanted to say like
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the type of peace that we need to find is god's peace and sometimes it's not the same one that we think it is
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and and and i was going to read this first as well so we can uh continue speaking about this if this ever works
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and it's in ephesians 2 14 and it says christ is the reason we are now at peace
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we made us jews and you who are not jews one people we are separated by the wall
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of hate that stood between us but christ broke down that wall by giving his own
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body so i wanted to tell you guys that look it says christ is the reason we are now at peace
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so there must be a sense of the bible also says that we were enemies
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of god before and and since christ came and died he made peace
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between us and the father also there's another bible verse that says that christ is the
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um how do you say uh he's the lawyer he's the lawyer between
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the father and humanity so at the end of the day guys there's so
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many ways we can apply peace to christ but i think another way to also apply it is the way what what his sacrifice did
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between us and the father we sinned we made mistakes and when christ died he
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re-established i think it's best that reestablish the bridge that we
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ourselves burn for for the father so i want you guys to
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understand that the christ the christ is peace in many ways not just one way it's not only uh peace for you or for you or
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for you but it's also peace for humanity itself which he reestablished the
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like i said the bridge uh to the father i don't know if everybody has to say anything you guys
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are all just just or lost or what no no i can't but i i just don't know how to connect it
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with what you were saying well we just didn't send it outside oh okay now keep going you're doing we're listening
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that this this this this way of peace also applies to jesus like like shalom
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doesn't only only mean uh you know individual peace but it also means a piece as the whole humanity also um i
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have a bunch of verses i'm sorry guys but um we also we can see uh in second uh
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uh it's thessalonians 3 16 it says now may the lord of peace himself give you
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peace at all times in every way and the lord be with you with you all and you can also tell right
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there that jesus if everybody accepts jesus and himself and and and their body if they accept them in their heart
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because there's no way of taking that peace away and and i just wanted to i just wanted to touch that up a little
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bit because we have to understand that peace comes with christ but i feel like i'm babbling
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and actually i can add with that right right now that you just said with christ and with christ comes obedience and i
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know i sound like a broken record but in order to have this you must be obedient uh i was i was reading in isaiah 57 20
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it says but the wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest whose water that was terrible let me start again but the wicked are like the
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trouble see when they cannot rest whose waters uh cast admire and dirt there is no peace seth my god for the wicked and
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peace there is shalom meaning the wicked those who are not obedient those who choose the path of the unrighteous those
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who like i don't know guys i've been reading proverbs lately and it says like do not pick like the path of the evil doers right those who pick this path
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knowing that it is this path there is no peace for you so if you feel like you're lacking the shalom you're going through
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these circumstances maybe check your walk check your obedience what are you doing are you listening to what god
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wants or are you doing what you want because honestly guys listening to the lord is is hard i'm not gonna sit here and lying to you guys because what we
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want to do is what our flesh wants to do um our flesh is so annoying and so always
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like willing to do that right yeah it always wants to do bad and that's why i understand when paul said like the good
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that i want to do i don't do and the bad i don't want to do that is what i do and i'm just like bro same right so um just
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i think like god judges like the intentions of our hearts but like what we should be striving for is to be
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completely obedient even when it doesn't make sense and that reminds me of that one song that i love right like even
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when i don't make sense um spirit lead me i'm just gonna start singing but i just realized that's embarrassing okay um
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yeah the point is like even when it doesn't make sense even when we don't understand no matter what if god says
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something his word should be a law in our life it should be written in our heart to the point that we don't even
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ask questions no why why am i suffering no let's stop being like danny says weenies and let's start just saying okay
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i'm gonna be obedient i'm gonna say yes to whatever you say because what i want is jesus in me and when jesus is in me
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that shalom is restored between me and the father and my will to live my
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purpose of living is to please the father is to to be worshiped with my life
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i agree and and just just to come back of the fact that you said that worship is our life in isaiah 32 17 it says and
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the effect of righteousness will be peace and the result of righteousness is
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quietness and trust forever so and then i said the next one it says my people will abide in peaceful habitation
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insecure dwellings and acquire resting places so like you just said just watch your watcher walk if we are righteous
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and this word righteous doesn't always mean perfect but it means that we're trying to maintain ourselves just
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there's another version in the erv version it says the justice will bring
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peace and safety forever meaning that god look god is looking for for the best
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of the best but god is looking also god also understands that us being like him
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and being perfect we won't be able to reach it but what he is what he's looking for people
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that are trying their best to be just the people that are trying to to be their best and what they can control and
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i just love this it says the effect of righteousness will be peace so if you're righteous if you're just if you are
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trying your best to be completely just then you will have peace in your life
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i don't know if you guys have anything to say i was just gonna say that um i think it's important that we mention that uh
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shalom doesn't only mean peace like that's what they found to be the best a translation um but the one that i like
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the most is complete reconciliation and i just i love that uh well that
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guy's like i found this online i'm not gonna let you guys but uh yeah like it's they also tried
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translating it as rest but like when people would say shalom it wasn't just be like peace you know it was like
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like no like i wish you like completeness and i i think that's just absolutely beautiful and and it's crazy
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it's crazy when you just said that because if you guys notice um before we come to christ the world says
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oh do this and you will feel full oh do this oh you got to get a boyfriend at 13. you had to get a boyfriend for four
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years and you know let's see how it goes and oh you need your other half you need
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and then you think that all these things that the world is telling you will give you this shalom will give you this completeness but after you understand
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that actually it's only god that can give you that i always like to say the fulfillment of
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of his completeness then you also understand that in reality everything
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else is something and like almost like an add-on to jesus now we now most of you guys that
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have been here for like four or five years you understand why we ask you guys that if he is gonna choose for a guy
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number one let you guys be 18 and number two let him be for church and now you guys all understand that because if he doesn't
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come to church it's almost like a no-go for you guys like no no if he doesn't come to church i don't want anything with it because now you understand that
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this is our life and that's how much i was i was trying to explain to you guys that as younger kids
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this this world that we live in try to give us this fake sense of of completeness oh
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look uh i'll never forget when i was younger i would watch like you know party movies i don't know if you guys
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ever seen those type of ways but they're like movies that show like huge parties and you know there's drinking and
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there's girls and everything is crazy and i would always say do that look so much fun like i think i would have so
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much fun doing i'll be honest with you guys and i and i and i i wanted to do that
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and but i never got to but i was like i want to do that i want to do that i want to do that i want to do that and then when i met christ and i look at those
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things now i just feel like cringed like i feel like i feel like that's so embarrassing like yeah could you imagine
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me as a 30 year old there drinking and that's so weird like and now i understand this because
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with what you get what you said that when he made me complete i no longer
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coveted what the world had i no longer wanted what the world had to offer but now i wanted what god had to offer go
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ahead yeah that's why collisions right 315 says collusion sorry and the peace of christ must rule
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in your hearts so it's like what you said that who's like who's ruling your heart is it
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that fake peace that the world gives or is it god's peace are you letting that god rule like the perfect peace in your
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heart which is crazy yeah i know like our time is ending but
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i i just i want to like do the one last example that i love and it's uh gideon right because if you guys didn't know he
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built an altar on uh this place called oprah sounds kind of funny but uh
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it's he called it uh hiyoba which is peace right but like what i love about it is how he led there
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because there was like an angel that came came to him right and he told him uh the lord
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is with you brave man i'm reading judges 6 12. and gideon responded excuse me sir but if the lord is with us why has all
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of this happened to us why are why are all the miracles our ancestors have told us about didn't they say the lord
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brought us out of egypt but now the lord has abandoned us and has handed us over to midian the lord turned to him and
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said you will rescue israel for midian and this with the strength you have i am sending you and so i don't read you guys
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the whole thing then gideon goes and tells him like yo like my family is super weak like like we will not be
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doing it like i'm not even important right and then in 16 you say uh we see that it says the lord replied i will be with you
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you will defeat me in as if i'm sorry as if i were only one man and gideon said to him if you find me
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acceptable give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me so he uh long story short he went out he he
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got like an offering and he brought it and put it on the rock and the messenger of the lord like touched it um with the
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tip of his staff and there was fire um and then gideon realized like wow this is all really actually the messenger of
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the lord so he said lord god i have seen the messenger of the lord face to face the lord said to him calm down don't be afraid you will not die so gideon built
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an altar there to the lord he called it the lord calms in the original it says
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to this day uh it is still an oprah which belongs to beerzer's family okay the point of that i was going to say is
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that he was like i don't know i just like i feel like he relates like um the lord comes and he tells us like even
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with moses right like when he was like this is what you're gonna do and the first thing we do is say like no no i can't but look at me like i'm not even
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worthy and he's like no no you can no but like i can't can you show me a sign that i can and then he
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and then he he shows them the sign right and this sign this miracle that he did in his life like showing him that he is
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god led him to understand the shalom and he named that that altar
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right because it brought him peace that even though he was not a warrior he would have the victory
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that uh even though he didn't consider himself uh how do you say this
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again a soldier right he was going to be the one to win back israel right which is
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amazing because isn't that what happens to us we're sinners right and we're like we're not worthy or at least this is how
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i feel i'm not worthy look at me i'm sinful how can you love me and he says no but i do love you and then he shows me his love and how can i not say yo
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this is my altar to you this is what i name it because you restored the peace between me and the father and i just i just
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it's just just i didn't just to finish it off and i don't know if you have something to say yeah yeah yeah i do go ahead um
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i don't know if this is gonna like um match with whatever deborah was saying
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not whatever they were saying what she was saying um but when it's kind of like crazy to think like i was just like
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think to myself like it's crazy how much the world tells us like we have to do so
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much like what danny was saying in order to reach peace and um it made me think back to the the
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prostitute that was at jesus's feet that she in
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if you notice she doesn't even like say anything like she doesn't say words she's just crying
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she's just at his feet on her mindset is only him and there's no words coming from her
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mouth and like versus what the world says like we have to do so much but her her like
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um i guess attitude yeah her attitude was only to be focusing on christ and it
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brought her to having that peace that sense of like tranquility in order to be
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free from her sins that she did in the past complete surrender right yeah
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i know what you said i know what you said because it just i think it ties everything
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together because this podcast is called the encounter right and the fact that it's called the
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encounter we also have to understand that there's an encounter with jesus with god's peace as well right like um
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everybody can say no no no no with church but until they finally
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have an encounter with this piece i always tell people and i've seen you
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guys in all your stages of your life and it's a huge change that i see
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and who would have thought that you guys would be preaching now today and and you know and sometimes i even see you guys teach and and i say these
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people have had an encounter with god and now i even hear that little girls are like when they sit down and talk
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they talk about the coming of christ and i'm like that i was like i cannot be doing that you
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could not be doing now we can only do that's only god you know and i always help god continue
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to you know deposit your love and your peace here because that is the only uh
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only way to go so i was gonna tell you guys guys uh um we have come to an end of uh uh our
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our podcast but i was gonna let you guys know to please uh follow us on instagram which is redeemed
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sorry said it again damn daddy saw me before
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this week so um you guys know that there's going to be a youth con on april 9th you guys are more
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than invited uh watch our link tree we're gonna have a few links there so you guys can sign up other than that
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it's gonna be in camarillo uh the address is 1320 flynn road camarillo um
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so if you guys want to get there you guys are more than invited so other than that guys god bless you guys take care actually let me let me quickly pray for
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all of you guys uh that are listening to you uh listen to this heavenly father name of jesus lord i ask the lord to please seal this word father ask you to
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please let the seed go into their heart lord i ask you lord let the seed lord reach fruition lord because that's what
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we need lord you want to give we want to feel that peace that you have lord and ask the lord please make us understand
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open up our minds lord i ask you to please lord make us understand your ways which are not our ways lord i ask the
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lord to please give us this peace and make us understand that lord because we are not there yet lord i ask you lord