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The Lord, He wants us to trust Him today. The enemy came to steal, kill, and destroy. Will you use the authority that God gave you or not?
A sermon by Igor Panikhin on trusting God through faith, challenges, and spiritual growth, emphasizing peace and love in Christian life.
Key Takeaways
- Faith requires trusting God even in difficult and uncertain times.
- True love for God is demonstrated by love for others.
- Inner peace is essential for sustaining faith amidst life's storms.
- God’s blessings come with responsibility to serve Him joyfully.
- The church is built on faith that overcomes spiritual opposition.
What the video covers
- Igor Panikhin encourages believers to trust God and use the authority given by Him despite challenges from the enemy.
- He shares personal testimony of God's faithfulness and blessings during difficult times, including his journey to Germany.
- The sermon highlights the importance of faith during both prosperity and famine, drawing parallels with biblical stories like Joseph's.
- Emphasis is placed on inner peace as the foundation of faith, referencing Psalm 22 and God's guidance beside still waters.
- The message stresses loving God and neighbors as inseparable commandments, warning against hypocrisy in faith.
- Panikhin discusses the role of the church and believers in standing firm against spiritual opposition.
- He reflects on the dangers of losing peace and joy through vanity and worldly desires.
- The sermon includes biblical references to blessings and curses from Deuteronomy 28, urging joyful service to God.
- He warns against prosperity gospel extremes and encourages reliance on God's mercy and renewal daily.
- The overall theme is growing in faith from 'faith to faith' and trusting God’s plan regardless of circumstances.
Chapters
- 00:00Trusting God and Spiritual Authority
- 03:04Faith During Prosperity and Famine
- 06:33Personal Testimony and God's Faithfulness
- 09:04Biblical Teachings on Blessings and Service
- 11:50Inner Peace and Overcoming Worry
- 15:00Love for God and Neighbor as Faith's Foundation
- 17:53Warnings Against Prosperity Gospel and Vanity
- 19:56Renewal, Mercy, and Growing in Faith
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That is up to you. The Lord, He actually chose the weak things of this world and the nothingness. I am nothing. And now I will look at myself. I am thankful that the Lord is revealed as glory in clay vessels. Therefore, look,
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the Scripture says, see if there are many among you who are wise, sensible, or rich. But God chose us. I was surrounded by this love, surrounded by this grace and mercy. He sometimes lifts you to a vast horizon.
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It happened for me in the seventies, in seventy-nine, the Iron Curtain wasn't even lifted yet. But all my relatives, aunts, uncles, they were all good Germans, and they left for Germany. Our family was left all alone. I kept
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thinking: "I'll go to Germany, however it works out, I'll try to reach my relatives." But at some point, it happened that the Lord—He just lifted me to such heights! Whatever I undertook, He—He blessed everything.
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I would join a company, usually starting at the very bottom, and then I would leave as... I mean, He raised me as high as one could possibly be raised. So, the Lord was faithful every single time. He is faithful today, too.
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Amen. He is faithful today, too. He is righteous and good to us today. It's just that we are in a different period now, a time of fatherhood, where we aren't just little kids that God carries in His arms, giving us
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everything. But thank God, there was nothing at all before, so everything had to be given to us. That is why the Lord loves us. Uh-huh.
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And today I want to start with the twenty-second Psalm. The twenty-second Psalm. And the second verse will be for a warm-up, because I see today that God is leading us in unison, because Andrei also spoke about faith. My word is
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about faith. My word is about faith, because believers need to believe, too. That’s how it goes. Sometimes we have periods where God surrounds us with so much love that we just move from one account to another, back and forth, and
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well, frankly, we relax. And then comes some kind of famine, like, say, Joseph had 7 years of prosperity, and then there were 7 years of famine. I want to say that a great, great skill of a businessman in prosperity is to create
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a safety net. I see that there are my mistakes somewhere, and sometimes with the children regarding their friends it's not great, because we live here and now. But the Lord gives wisdom to each of us, therefore He gives me rest.
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He gives you rest in green pastures and leads me beside still waters. Today the world often screams, circumstances scream, questions scream. Right now, we are actually living in a time that many didn't even dream of. Whatever you want
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, a car will drive itself, it can have all sorts of adaptive cruise control or you tell it something and it will open the windows for you. I'm just saying that this world offers us a lot today.
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The Lord is not against us having things. But the Lord desires that He be in our lives and in our hearts, that His divine peace leads me beside still waters. Sometimes vanity takes hold of us. We want something, and we lose
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God's peace. I have noticed that most often peace is lost when joy has already been lost. There are so many teachings today. Let us draw near to the Lord. Daddy loves me. I have nothing against that. Dad loves me.
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This is my God. I have nothing against drawing near to Him. But I looked at the Bible, read it, and it is written everywhere there, it is written everywhere that what we saw on stage today. Starting with Joshua, "as for me and my house, we
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will serve the Lord." I was standing here, reflecting on whether I have led hundreds, well, I think, thousands or tens of thousands of home groups. This is a time when we grew and are growing together. And today I also serve in this ministry,
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because the Lord, He is building His church. He said: "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The gates of hell are not destined to prevail against anyone here personally who has a very
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close relationship with God. But the gates shall not prevail against the church. Amen. I came to God in a very funny way. I was already baptized. I kind of started, got a job as a night watchman there, and was studying at a
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Bible college. That was ninety-eight. And I was, I was supposed to receive my salary. I think I’ve already mentioned this, maybe just in passing.
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And I was thinking about how to spend it. And the Lord gave two first missions back then, but I don't want to talk about that now, I've already said everything. But I want to say what word came to me from the Scripture. It
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didn't even come to me, I wasn't reading it. I’m just sitting on the bus and thinking: "What is the greatest commandment?" "Love the Lord your God." I am talking to myself inside. I have quoted that by heart hundreds of
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thousands of times already. And love your neighbor as yourself. At that moment, of course, the Lord showed me such a selfish side that I realized I don't love myself at all. How can I love another? But today I want to talk
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about something else. The Lord said that the second commandment is like the first. The Lord today looks at how we love Him through how we love our neighbor. And He said that if you, ah, love, say you love me, but hate your
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brother, then you are a liar. That is to say, the Lord, He is very categorical. Therefore, I want to say that I went a little further just now, but I want to return to our compass.
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The compass is the peace that God gives. I want to say that I will not open another passage, but I will simply quote it for you. I will quote it regarding the word "pastures." And you serve. Here are two options. I think,
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and we will serve the Lord. Yes. And the twenty-eighth chapter of Deuteronomy. Everyone probably knows the chapter of blessing, that we will be blessed in the city, we will be blessed in the field, we will be blessed, we will be blessed everywhere.
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It reaches the forty-seventh verse, where in one verse the moment of blessing turns into a moment of curses.
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And there are even more curses there if we do not do something for the Lord.
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Right. You remember, right, having read that twenty-eighth chapter. Well, I will quote the twenty-eighth chapter to you, because I am a minister. And it is written there, again, I just want to focus on the pastures. If you do not
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serve me in the abundance of everything, when you have abundance, with gladness and joy in your heart. And further on, everything there is about eating your own children and all the other terrible things there. I don't even want to go into that primitive
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world, but the curse is terrible. And so I want to say that the Lord is always good, the Lord is always merciful, the Lord always desires more for us, rests us in green pastures, and desires even more than we desired. I
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didn't even dream that I would be traveling, that I would end up in Germany and not want to be there. There. And that I would get to Germany because a good German company would recommend me. That is why I want to say
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that the Lord today desires for us to trust Him. To trust. Trust is a very thin line. But any husband and any wife sitting in this room, for me, especially my wife, says: "Well, I know you." Sometimes I think that I managed
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to hold back on the inside. She just looks at me. He tells me my eyes give me away, that I'm not quite honest, and she helps me draw out what I was trying to hold back. You know how it is when
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you get so worked up that your whole world just falls apart in the end. That is why our faith rests, first of all, on the foundation of our inner peace, deep within our hearts. Regardless of the circumstances. Remember when Jesus
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fell asleep during the storm? They woke him up. We are perishing. Do you not care about us? What did he say to them?
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Did he say, "You're perishing, I'll save you right now"? Is that what he said? No.
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What did he say? O ye of little faith. Little fa
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that if the Lord is with me, I have nothing to worry about. On the other hand, we understand that our worrying only ruins our health, because there are circumstances we simply have to go through. We have to walk through them
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and some things just happen, whether I want them to or not. Well, that's just how they lined up and happened. You made plans, thinking, "I'll go buy this or take out a loan, I'm earning money after all." And then, suddenly, your
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income is gone, or your health might fail. When I decided to become a businessman, I was very anxious and worried because it was an unknown world to me. I was a really great salesperson , and I’d convinced myself I was the
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best manager around. Then the Lord gives us, so to speak, time to repent. But there was a lot I didn't understand, so there was some anxiety. When we go into something new, we feel some nervousness , but the Lord says that he doesn't
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lead us to that noise; he leads us to a quiet place. Therefore, this is very important. To establish this peace within yourself. I just want to say that when circumstances arise, I agree with Martin Luther, who once said that
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we cannot stop birds from flying over our heads. Thoughts are like birds, but we can stop them from building nests on our heads, even if they get a little messy. I don't know about you. In my case, it’s like
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my birdhouse is being smashed to pieces . They just fly around, and it seems the whole flock is trying to get in at once. Sometimes I go to bed and say, " Get out of here! This is not your
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birdhouse." They don't just swoop in quickly, they swoop in and say: "You won't succeed, you're sick, you're going to die, get ready for something else," they’re all over you. And the interesting thing is when you, well, I don't know, maybe it's different for
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you, you give in to their little cooing . And you start thinking: "Well, yeah, maybe I should just quit all this stuff I’ve piled up, poor me, I don't know anything." That's what goes around. The enemy always wants one thing. In John
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chapter 10, verse 10, it says that he is a hireling. He is not our shepherd.
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He sees the wolf, and he'll be the first to bail. He’ll just run away and sell you out.
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He's no gentleman, he’s an impudent jerk who sometimes comes up and tries to open the door. "Let me in, I’m your former master.""Remember the fun times we used to have?" Come on, you impudent, shameless scoundrel. But Jesus is not like that. He is a
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gentleman, He is loving, He is merciful , He walks gently. And He says in chapter 10, interestingly enough, again in verse 10—just like I said about chapter 28, verse 47, where a blessing and a curse are intertwined in one
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verse—well, in John 10:10, there is additional information for the verses I am going to cite, and it is written that the enemy came, the enemy came to steal, kill, and destroy. I’ve looked at it before; he tried to steal my business through
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devaluation. Well, there were ups, and then there were drops. Then he tried to kill. Because he wanted me to get depressed, to be cornered, to think God had abandoned me, health issues, my eyes suffered, and then I failed to buy
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some piece of junk. Still, the thought came; I began to dismiss the thoughts that Martin Luther said we can forbid.
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We have the authority. We have the authority. If we don't use our authority, then the enemy will definitely use his. I’ve tried it many times. Sometimes, you know, you get yourself into trouble and demons give you a real beating. You think, "Oh
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well, just drive the demons away." They’ll catch up with you somewhere else and beat you again. Really. It’s for real.
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Are you going to use the authority God gave you or not? That's your business.
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Amen. Demons and spirits, they will use their plans for you. As soon as you give them a chance, they will immediately make you wish you’d never been born.
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You’ll say: "Lord, why did my mother ever give birth to me?" Listen, listen, Elijah, who ran before the king’s chariot—what kind of speed he had, I don’t know. Well, horses, guys, horses. Horses move differently than we do. 450 prophets of Baal. He
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slaughtered them all like dogs, because God simply sent fire down on the sacrifice, on the altar. He wasn't just —how he stood there, you remember what he said when they were running around, he said: "Maybe your God is
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asleep," he says, " or maybe he’s out on business and can't hear you." Elijah was just mocking them, honestly, let's put it that way. At the end of this mockery, he says: "The altar, the wood, pour water over that wood." Pour so much
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that it even started overflowing. And fire came down, it is written, on the altar, consuming the wood and everything else along with it. I’ve never seen anything wet burn. Well, I saw it once, when my uncle came to
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visit them. I grew up in an apartment, but they lived in a private house. And so they did this thing, when the stove was blazing, they’d pour water on the coals to make porridge. For me, it was a paradox. What is it? Why didn't it go
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out? It was the opposite, like oil, it burned with a hiss. There is such a variation. So, why am I bringing up Elijah to you? Elijah, who just now, just now had done this, such things God had done through him, showing such
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glory. Jezebel says to him: "I will make of you...""If by this time tomorrow he is not dead," what he said to Jezebel, " you will die.""Now God will punish you just as He punished those 450 prophets that you’ve gathered here." That’s
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what he said: " No no." What did he do? He ran, he ran. He kept running.
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And what did he say? Poor me. Yes, poor me. They killed all the prophets, and they are seeking my soul. And do you know that this was the end of the prophet Elijah?
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Yes. As a prophet? Yes. Do you know? Yes. Because God came to him there.
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He said: "Fine, appoint a king over Israel, appoint a king over this and that, and appoint Elisha as a prophet in your place." Guys, the fear that drives great prophets, who are here in this hall today, is ready to take away
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their calling. The Lord will not abandon us. He will send us a chariot of fire, perhaps, as He sent for Elijah . He did not abandon Elijah. We might say the minister overheated. There’s a trendy word for that. Burned out.
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Like light bulbs. Like batteries, they burned out. But can we actually burn out? Let's be honest. It's actually, in reality, in reality, it's all from this world.
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How can we burn out? Are we a lightbulb or something? How can we burn out? We can leave God. We can believe the devil , who came to steal, kill, and destroy, who built a nest for which I am
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responsible. I am responsible for my own mind, no one else. In the first chapter of the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans, it is written from verse eighteen to twenty that because they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He
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gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. So that men burned for one another, and women for one another as well. This isn't just about Europe today; it existed before, a debased mind existed before. We must
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ensure in our own minds that God is present. I say again, it is easy to solve problems when everything is going well. When you have finances, you have issues, you live a comfortable life, now they call it a quality life. God is
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not against that. I just don't want us all to run into caves and abandon our homes, not at all. But I want to say that faith without works is dead by itself. Therefore, my dear friend, I just want to ask you a question. Do you
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know what distinguishes a successful person from a failure? There is an answer. What is the difference? Imagine two people sitting there. Like Mikhail Shaidurov, who is currently...by the way, Rybakina became the world's number one. A Kazakhstani, guys, that is very
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high. Mikhail Shaidurov, even if he wasn't third, he became one from Kazakhstan. He is a Kazakhstani who grew up here as an Olympic figure skating champion. God lifts people up like that. Yes, his father was simply a champion. He trained our son. But God
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lifts someone up. So, the difference, and ask yourself the question: what is the difference between a successful person and an unsuccessful one? Well, I’ll probably torment you.
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The one who doesn't give up, like the one who doesn't give up. Or maybe there is a better answer. Yes.
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The fact is that the only thing separating successful people from failures is one more attempt.
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Amen. Because failure says, "That's it, no point in fighting anymore." And this was said by Thomas Edison, who ensured today that we not only have electricity , but that all his children, grandchildren, and descendants, starting or ending with social media,
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where they offer virtual reality, so to speak. But maybe you’ve heard the joke where Google, WhatsApp, and Instagram were arguing among themselves about who is more important. Then electricity quietly knocked and said, " Guys, without me, you don't even exist.
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" That’s why we say, yes, it might be a small thing, but the Lord blesses it.
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You can open to the twenty-second chapter, the first verse. I’m going a bit out of order, just as the Lord leads. So, what is the main root word here, let's say, in this verse?
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The Lord. First. The Lord. Well, the Lord, the Lord, that’s cool, right? The Lord.
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Is my shepherd. Shepherd, the Lord. Shepherd. Shepherd, then everything else comes after. Truthfully, if the Lord is my shepherd, then all of this applies to me. But the Lord is my shepherd not because I chose Him. In reality, we weren't looking for Him.
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Let’s be honest, I wasn't looking for God. He found me. Are there people here who ended up in church because they were looking for God?
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And how were you looking for Him? At a church holiday? Well, that’s probably more about religion, right?
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Probably, that's kind of how it is, yes . Well, okay, I probably asked that question wrong; let me rephrase it. Are there people here who found the Lord on their own?
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Because the scripture says, "You did not seek Me, but I found you." The Lord found us. "The Lord is my shepherd." And this is the foundation of our faith. Everything else here, we see that it defines our being because
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the Lord is our shepherd, and only then will I lack nothing. This is also a fine line. This is trusting in God. If you say, "The Lord is my shepherd," but you run around the room like a chicken
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with its head cut off when you have problems, then the Lord is not your shepherd. You’ve deceived yourself; you are your own shepherd, you’ve been herding yourself for a long time.
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And there are no green pastures. If you have no peace, if the nests built in your head are so big, if you haven’t put your heart in order for a long time , then it may happen that the voices
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screaming drown out the voice of God. Listen. When the Lord revealed Himself to Moses, He said, "First there will be thunder, then there will be a hurricane ." Yes, and then what will there be?
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What? A whisper. Hear the Lord. Can we even hear the Lord when there is noise all around, when inside us everything is strained, when we’ve been arguing at home—families, wives, friends? Do you hear God well in that moment?
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Do you even hear God at that moment? No. Let's be honest, we cannot hear God because our ego pushes in so much, it just sticks out from every side.
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From every side. It just keeps coming. My dignity. You, wife, be silent. What is written in the Bible? A woman in church. Let her be silent. And also, but then you come home and realize that you have sinned a lot.
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Sinned a lot. And all your ambitions that you had about yourself, I also think: "I am a super manager, I am a super salesperson." Maybe I just thought I was a super accountant. Not because of that, not because of that,
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but because the Lord is my shepherd. Amen. Therefore, I shall not be in want of anything. Amen.
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Therefore, may the Lord increase my faith as well. I am speaking to you today, but I am also going through very difficult trials, yet I want to continue believing in God. Therefore, can we open the twenty-second chapter, third verse a little bit. I will give a
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little taste of it, then I will move on . Twenty-second chapter, third verse. It's not working. There. Uh-huh. What is written here? He restores my soul.
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We often have many alternative sources today, like TikTok, or whatever else. that "restores" your soul so much that you'd think you unloaded a couple of freight cars. You spend an hour or two on the internet, and you think, I don't
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feel restored, it's actually the opposite. You've been carried off somewhere incomprehensible. It's become even worse than it was before. Although there are believers there too, saying things, but I've noticed one thing for myself. And this thing, it generally
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speaks about the very understanding of artificial intelligence. The fact is that it is built to always try to please you. It looks at your preferences and keeps shoving that music at you. You think: "I listened to nineties music, how do I get rid of it
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now? Because it's everywhere, I should just delete this Yandex app at least." Do you understand what the problem is?
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Tell me, how does a real friend differ from a fake one? Speaking the truth.
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Speaking the truth. In general, is telling the truth a pleasant topic or not? You can lose a relationship, right? But we only call that person a friend, right? Because we know that he did not sugarcoat things for us. He
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said: "Igor, you are talking a little too much about prosperity. The prosperity gospel is developing very, very strongly in you. Stop it already." Back in the day, Benny Hinn, who preached prosperity for many years, would come, fill up stadiums, and say
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money is coming to us from everywhere. Hallelujah. Basically, here, if you do it right, you can, of course, somewhere , well, I don't want to fall into a pit entirely. But one day he arrived in a poor, you know, African village, where
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there were just poor, needy believers, but they were such on-fire believers. And God performed many healings there, but he just couldn't preach to them about prosperity. Well, I mean, it wasn't the right place or topic. Then, when he returned to his own church, he
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said that if I can't preach about prosperity everywhere, then I won't preach it anywhere, because at some point, let's admit it, let's be honest, our pastors and sometimes we ourselves have become business process motivators , coaches. Yeah, come on, come on, damn
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it, small aggregates, how is it, come on, come on, that's it, you're all squeezed out like a lemon, and you crawl, crawl, crawl to that screen and read: "He restores my soul. The Lord restores my soul. The Lord restores
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your soul. He strengthens our faith. Our faith, without what He gave us, it is, well, without works, let's say, yes , that we do, it is dead by itself. At some point, I analyzed myself, I saw that I had wanted this, achieved that,
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that, the kids grew up, all the goals that were there, they were already met.
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I go out to pray, I pray, and I like to break down the concept of faith, that faith is the substance of things hoped for. And then, knock-knock to my head and heart:" And what are you hoping for
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? And what are you hoping for? Ask yourself today: what are you hoping for ? "Because faith will bring exactly that to pass. If in your, I don't know the right way to say it, mailbox it's zero, and zero remains zero
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nonetheless. If you haven't rebooted today, if you haven't entered a new season today, if you haven't been renewed today, renewal is not about phones, guys. You're used to updating iPhones and everything. Not by phone.
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No, no, no. The Bible says that His mercies are new every morning. And even if you crawled in all exhausted, tired, like nothing, God still gives you renewal. By morning, you're as fresh as a daisy again. I sometimes look and think, the demons,
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probably, together with the devil, are just shocked by me constantly. I am like a terminator. You sinned, you're a sinner. Sinner, sinner, sinner, sinner.
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No, I repented, Christ's righteousness is upon me. Yeah. I'm just, I'm telling you, lately I've even started worrying about them.
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Because it doesn't add up for them, because essentially they would think:" Well, didn't we just concrete it all yesterday, and it's still here, yeah. "But, in general, I want to say that, yes, demons have this theme. I remember at one time a brother told
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this story. He he trained as a speed skater in Soviet times. We had such a good skating rink there. It's still there now, but back then it was a sports rink. And he says:" How they teach us to run well, speed skating,
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the blades, the books. "At first we just run, then they tie something to our backs. Well, not with duct tape, there was no duct tape. What was it a weight? Well, a weight, like a kilogram, or say, a half-kilogram
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weight. Then time passes, you have to get used to this load so that you don't feel it anymore. And gradually they add these little weights to him.
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And then, when, uh, he already, yes, takes them off, he just flies. I just want to tell you about demons now, so that's the backstory. The second point, and it's how, uh, they lay asphalt, what happens when it's just
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dirt, right, the first thing when it's dirt, a grader arrives, which drives over and levels the ground just so you can put something on it. Then gravel, it's also leveled, and then asphalt, several layers there. I won't go into
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everything. It's the same with demons, they first throw a thought at a person. In principle, a beautiful girl too. And you, as a believer, say:" Get away, Satan, I have a wife, what kind of girl . "Yes, she is beautiful, but I mean,
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you understood how to look. And then, one-two-three, and the person is like:" Yeah, in principle, yeah, a beautiful girl. "Well, we'll call that the grader has already done its job. It leveled the clay. And the next one comes. The
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next one comes. who starts the gravel. A story from my life. I was just, being a very young guy, walking along and looking. Well, I was like a believer, but still quite weak. I see, a bottle is standing right by the side, a nice
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little bottle. Well, I saw beer, and it had the date stamped right on it. I think:" Oh, like we had in Stalin's time? I don't know what possessed me to pick it up. I just picked it up. Well,
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naturally, you're not just going to carry it. " I see how good I feel, and I wait for the bus. Buses don't run along Abay anymore. They used to finish really early back then. And whoever was standing there, they would start to
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cooperate and pitch in for a taxi to get home together. And a girl just decides to split a taxi with me, because she was the only one heading in that direction. Well, I thought it would be cheaper for me not to pay for
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one, splitting it in half, well, splitting it in half is normal. Uh-huh. We arrive at Timiryazevskaya. At that time, I was still living with my guy.
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And, well, I'm a gentleman, how could I not walk a girl home? It had already gotten dark. I walk her there, it's not far. She goes in, and it's either some kind of flophouse or a drug den, I
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don't know. In short, she got kicked out. So now it's night. This girl, and the two of us, well, I'm a gentleman, I wouldn't leave her on the street, right ? Therefore, devil, I don't want to go any further, because it would be a sin.
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By the way, well, I'm just telling you how the enemy works. Yes. Further, further, further, he lays down the asphalt. I am standing before God.
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I have never cheated in my life, not once. But a friend of mine once came to my home group, one of my friends. I know he called me and wanted to talk to me. I sort of felt it; I didn't want to
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talk to him, although maybe I should have. But he just took it, like this: we are sitting four of us, Lyudmila is there, someone else, just at home, and he says:" But I have cheated in my life . "A believer, wealthy, he attended our
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church, he used to go, we were best men at each other's weddings, we actually introduced them, she came to my group for many years, our children are grown.
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I say:" What are you talking about, are you crazy? "Therefore, I want to say that, unfortunately, the enemy—he doesn't just, he doesn't try to have fun with us for no reason. He actually came to steal, and kill, and destroy.
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So, let's summarize today's psalm. The first thing the Lord tells us, what is the conclusion. The Lord is my shepherd , I shall not want. Based on this verse , I think we can conclude that we don't need to worry, we don't need to be
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anxious. Second, He makes me lie down in green pastures. Today we must see the opportunities, the opportunities that God provides. They change.
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Sometimes I had a big company, many trucks going to different countries, by the carload, but now, maybe I have to do something myself. And they tell me:" Go there, here and there, well, just break down your work tasks into parts.
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"So, the Lord opens opportunities for us. Second. Third, to understand that everything depends on God. Yes, the third verse. Because in this verse, the main point is this, it is for this reason, not because I I often prayed
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Psalm 23, and at some point, I noticed how the enemy stole one word from the psalm from me. I don’t know if that happens to you or not. It was the following word. I shall not want, because Your rod and Your staff, they
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comfort me. Amen. What word did the enemy steal from me at that moment? The Lord is my shepherd.
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The Lord is the first word. I shall not want. Because Your rod and Your staff, the Lord comforts me. There is also the word" and the Lord, "as it is written here, for His name's sake.
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Well, you will read it at home later, you will see this word, which at some point the enemy stole. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me
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beside the still waters. He restores my soul, He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me.
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Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. So the most important thing is, the enemy tried to steal the concept from me, because God is with me. Therefore, my dear friend, let us not lose it today; it is written in Revelation:"
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Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown. "Your crown, given by the Lord, sometimes you think you have nothing left to lose. No, you have something to lose. We are extraordinary people, we shouldn't compare ourselves
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to ordinary ones. God is wonderful, we are wonderful, because we are His children. Amen.
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And to burn or to smolder is our choice . But it is written in the Scriptures that we should stir up our gift. Stir up our gift. Because sometimes it seems to me that we live as if we are not
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moving from faith to faith, but from faith to unbelief. As if we are not moving from strength to strength.
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Without strength, without power. He is already getting old. Time to eat porridge. Glory, glory. The Lord did not lead us in glory so that we would end up without glory today. Perhaps this real world is trying to strike us
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today. And I also have situations that are currently in that very state. James 2: 5. You can open it. I will be finishing soon. Yes, everything is simple. I am saying, I am just repeating that God looks at the first
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commandment through the second. James, uh 2: 5 chapter two, verse five. Yes, I already said that, ran ahead. Alright, let’s move on. Actually, I think the time has come today, at least for me, because today I am preaching not only
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to you, but I was preaching to myself. My wife even told me this week:" I had two situations, "I don't know how to say it correctly, maybe you've seen when a hunt happens and a lion attacks a goose and is about to gobble it up,
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and an eagle—bam! And it just takes it away. That's roughly the kind of situations I had this week. I planned to do one thing, it gets snatched away, and then another. And the enemy is trying to shake our faith. I just want
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to quickly go through this passage, I’d like to open Revelation chapter 21, verse 21. I wanted to say that everything precious, many precious things, come into this world through very difficult trials. We all know how it happens, how it happens. Ah a pearl,
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yes, pearls, everyone knows how a pearl is formed, yes, through suffering. Now there are even artificial farms. But notice, all 12 gates in the Kingdom of God are like 12 pearls. A pearl is most often suffering. It is the suffering it
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went through, it is those trials, because it coated a grain of sand each time. And so, the longer it lived, the larger the pearl. I can't imagine how big a pearl needs to be for a gate. And a diamond doesn't just appear out of
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nowhere either. It's just coal, so to speak, but immense, immense temperature turns it into a most precious stone. We are precious stones.
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And for it to become truly precious, what must be done to it? It must be polished again, right? Again out of the frying pan into the fire, as they say, yes, out of the fire and flames, barely gotten rid of one thing. The
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temperature happened. Now we have to work again. We need to align the facets again. We need to again we need to again trust in the Lord. My dear God, look into your heart right now. Look at your faith right now. Maybe you are
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already afraid to believe in anything because, well, that's how it happens sometimes. I told you about the apostles, about those who ran away when a certain hornet's nest was stirred up.
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Well, when Jesus was on earth, the disciples talked to them, they also couldn't, couldn't believe. They said:" He is not here, He is not dead. "But Jesus, turning to them, said, when he spoke in such a place, he said that
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there is no one who has left something for the sake of me and the Gospel. The Gospel is something strange. You did not receive the city in this age or the blessings of the age to come. There is
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a deception, a deceptive Christianity that says you will receive it all today . No, the Lord surrounds you with love today. He surrounds you today with grace. He desires to work victory in my life today, and to reveal victory in
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your life as well. Even if you are walking a difficult path today, even if you are perhaps ill, the Lord desires to heal you.
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Amen. To heal you. I spoke about those birds and nests, but you know, we can speak to our own bodies, we can speak to sickness so that it is bound, so that it leaves. We can do more than just
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pray for one another. We can see God's miracles in our lives today. Not to live in a moderate style, but to see His glory. Amen. Amen.
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If you are ready today to see God's glory in your life, perhaps a miracle you stopped dreaming about. Maybe you are afraid to speak of it because of finances, or other things, a whole host of nuances where it seems impossible.
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But the Scripture says that for God, everything is possible, everything is possible. To those who believe. I want to pray for you today. Take the greatest one.
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The greatest one, as the pastor preached last time, that pearl of great price for which a man sold everything and went. Dear Lord, I thank You for my brothers and sisters. I thank You, Lord , for Your mercy and love. I thank You,
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Lord, that You today, Lord, reveal miracles in our lives by Your grace. That today we speak Your word not in words of human wisdom, but in the manifestation of Your power, Lord. Let Your power now manifest upon these
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goals, upon these dreams, Lord. I don’t know, it may be health, it may be hopes that have not come true , and hopes long deferred make the heart sick. I ask You, Lord, increase our faith, for You said that Your
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kingdom is not in word, but in power, and the forceful take it by force. I pray now that Your kingdom, Lord, may be taken by us. I do not know, every time. Do You see the heart of each one
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of us? Do You see my heart? You know the prayer, Lord, You say that the fervent prayer of a righteous person has great power.
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I believe that the righteous have prayed in this very prayer today. We receive from You mercy from heaven. We receive from You, Lord, Your good, acceptable, and perfect will. We receive from You the life You came to give us, and life more abundantly. We
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receive from You peace in our hearts and joy upon our lips. Smiles. I ask You. May our eyes burn as they burned when we first met You. God, I ask You.
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May the fire of the first love that we experienced, Lord, be rekindled by us in our relationship with You. Lord, I ask You, bless us, holy God, bless us.
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The time is short and the days are evil . We pass through life quickly, Lord, and we desire to see Your glory in this life, Lord. You lead us from glory to glory. You said that each day has
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enough glory of its own. And from day to day, it differs in its glory, Lord.
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And may this glory, the glory of this day, accomplish Your work. Our precious , loving, merciful, holy Lord. We thank You and praise You, we exalt Your holy name, our dear Jesus. Glory to You, honor and praise, hallelujah. And all
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God's people shall say:" Amen. "
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