Today is February 16, 2023
And today’s message is the transcript and notes from this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnnXozco14&t=334s
And we start by breaking down 1 John 5, with an introduction from 1 John 4, with a cameo of parts of John 10.
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1 John 4:5
“They are of the world— therefore they speak of the world— and the world hears them. [means, responds to its own]
6 We are of God: he who knows God— hears us; he who is not of God— does not hear us.
Hereby– we know the spirit of truth– and the spirit of error.”
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These verses are stating that the world, or the worldly, or the heathen who walk after satan and his ways– hear their own, know their own, and accept and respond to their own kingdom ways, in which people operate.
As well, God’s kingdom and people– know each other, and hear and respond to each other; and those that do not hear us, or respond, and agree with us– are of the spirit of Error, and we– from the Spirit of Truth: one kingdom of the antichrist, or satanic spirit of Error leading them, and the other of the Godly kingdom of heaven, and the Lord and the Spirit of Truth leading them.
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1 John 5
“Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ [anointed one, Messiah]– is born of God: and everyone who loves him who begat love– he also is begotten of him.”
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Born of God means– reformed, awakened and brought into the light, gaining a NEW SPIRIT– the Holy Spirit– and is brought into the Truth, and walks with the God of heaven now, as One in Spirit with him; this is one who is cleaned up in their ways, going through the sanctification process– being called to be separate from the world– unto the Lord God only, in consecration, which is making God sacred in one’s life.
And this says– if you are born of God– you believe Yahshua is the Anointed one, the Messiah/Christ, and IF YOU LOVE HIM [Yahshua] –who is love and operates in love– you are begotten of God too, for you are born of HIS SPIRIT, and his Spirit operates in love.
For clarity– let us see some ANTONYMS OF LOVE: Hate, Loathe, Detest, Animosity, Indifference, Coldness, Neglect, Disloyalty, Treachery, Enmity, Ill-will, Apathy, Misery…
And if we are WITH God, and are IN love– we do not embody these types of operations toward anyone in the ‘fold,’ for sure!
For Love means– intense feelings of deep compassion and affection toward another, care, concern, and generally considerate of; whilst hate– is the opposite– it is a PASSIONATE dislike, uncaring, no compassion or affection for, not concerned or considerate of– operating inside a person.
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2 “By this— we know that we love the children of God— when we love God, and keep his commandments.”
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So, how did the Word of God just say that we KNOW we love the CHILDREN OF GOD— when we LOVE GOD, and then KEEP HIS DIRECTIVES, INSTRUCTIONS, PRECEDENTS, and COMMANDS he orders of us.
His commandments— are his directives, which is to say— his DIRECTING US, HIS LEADING US; and if we LOVE GOD— we follow directions.
And if we love God, and follow his directions— THIS PROVES, we love his other children, our brethren.
Why would God say this??
Because all God did incarnate, which is to say, when he bodily walked this earth in his physical form in Yahshua— it was to EXEMPLIFY, how God moves and operates IN A PERSON, a man.
So, if that is the case, and Yahshua is our example of ‘how to be—’ when we FOLLOW THE DIRECTIVES OF HIM, as HE FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIVES OF THE FATHER— we too will be following the ways of the Father— and then, LEADING OUR OTHER BRETHREN TO DO THE SAME, by our ‘example.’
It is why TRUE Leaders don't just dictate HOW TO BE— THEY DEMONSTRATE HOW TO BE, what to do, and BECOME EXAMPLES themselves; dictators— just order people around without DOING AS THEY SAY.
That old saying— “Do as I say, not as I do—” is an example of an UNREFORMED, UNDISCIPLINED PERSON— and a perfect example of a dictator.
Our God is neither of those; he is a GREAT EXAMPLE, leading by example himself, then becoming the TEACHER of Father’s ways— leading his ‘brethren,’ his brothers— under the same Father— in the ways to be also.
So— if we love God, and we love our brethren— we will be upstanding with our God too, sanctified and consecrated unto God, living as he directs; and in this— we KNOW— we love God, and our brethren.
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3 “For this is the love of God– that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.”
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This verse has bothered me for some time– every time I read it– and not because of what is says, but because of how it plays out in this earth realm usually; and what I mean is— normally, I find that many, who operate in a religious, antichrist, apostate heart condition— find the ‘laws’ of God to be RESTRICTIVE and REPULSIVE.
And yet, the law Christ himself led of his person– was the law of obeying the Father— period.
This all the Father is asking of us; and when we ACTUALLY understand the reasons for ‘why’ the rules, precedents, regulations and parameters were set— for our safety in a world run by the fallen— then we ought to CHERISH the laws by which our God provides for us.
Because folks—
laws are kept to preserve something;
Have we ever thought about that??
Like earth laws— why do we obey traffic laws??
So the roads and the people are safe.
It is the same for God’s EARTH LAWS pertaining to the ‘conduct of man,’ in a fallen realm— to PRESERVE MAN— in that fallen realm.
THAT— ought not be GRIEVOUS TO US— but instead, it should DELIGHT US, and HONOR US— that our God cares so deeply for us, that he wishes to keep us safe, and preserve us; and if we honor him, and honor keeping ourselves SAFE down here, and PRESERVING ‘LIFE’ while we are here— we will listen to what he is providing for us, in his ‘laws,’ or ways in which he leads us to— ‘find our being,’ conducting one’s self in, and by.
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4 “For whatsoever is born of God– overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world– our faith.”
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This just stated that the OVERCOMERS— will be those ‘born of God,’ and who we described above, how you know you are God’s child, and have been born again/anew, and are fathered in his ‘ways;’ and the pearl of wisdom, knowledge and understanding here, is— OUR FAITH, which is our great trust in God, and our trust in God to be FAITHFUL and LOYAL himself, to us— is what gets us the VICTORY, in the battle to OVERCOME.
If we want to know what makes us an OVERCOMER— first, we are born again unto the Father, as described above– we love God PROPERLY, AS HE DICTATED ABOVE, and we love our brothers and sisters too– by living by example, cleaned up, sanctified and consecrated unto God– making him SACRED TO US in our living ways; and we have GREAT TRUST IN GOD, which means— we RISK BIG, BECAUSE GOD IS FAITHFUL and LOYAL TO COME THROUGH FOR US.
And ‘that–’ is the FAITH THAT OVERCOMES THE BATTLES!!!
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5 “Who is he who overcomes the world– he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”
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Because the ‘one who believes Jesus is the SON OF GOD–’ understands that GOD LIVES WITHIN THEM, and TRUSTS and RISKS BIG in this life— and allows the God within them— TO SHOW UP, and to SHOW OUT— HUGELY in their lives.
One who ‘believes—’ is one who BE-LIVING-IT-IN-TRUTH; one who is an EXAMPLE OF GREAT FAITH ‘in God himself,’ to BE GOD.
He did say— FIRST— YOU MUST BELIEVE ‘I AM.’
‘I AM–’ WHAT???
—GOD— and to be trusted and to risk big with: this is the man who BELIEVES JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD– and IS WITH THEM, ‘within’ now, through his Holy Spirit.
THIS MAN— can do ALL THINGS through CHRIST— WHO REIGNS WITHIN HIM.
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6 “This is he that came by water and blood– Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and BLOOD; and it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth.
[He is the ultimate, last, and only sacrificial blood needed— to gain entry back into the family of God.]
7 For there are 3 who bear record in heaven— the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these 3 ARE one.”
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He tells me often— “they call me the WORD OF GOD in heaven, Janet; for that is all that matters, that I am KNOWN AS— the words of God.”
And I love that heaven honors him in his TRUE STATE and BEING.
He came to earth to wear the man suit— but he IS, and ALWAYS WILL BE— God’s words, ALIVE FOREVERMORE; and in that— we call him THE CHRIST, or the MESSIAH— which means, the anointed one of God, chosen to come and fulfill Father’s mission.
But FIRST and FOREMOST— he is the Words of the Father, who came bodily, to EXEMPLIFY THE WAYS OF FATHER, the WILL OF THE FATHER, unto us; that by this example— we ‘know the way to follow,’ as well.
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8 “And there are 3 who bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and these 3 AGREE in one [accord].
9 If we receive the witness of men– the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of— his Son.”
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This just said— we as men, have the ability to testify, which is to give a lawful account of, in and by truth, unto other men and women— but, GOD’S WITNESS IS GREATER.
What does that mean??
It means WHAT IS GOD’S WITNESS, or better yet— WHO CAME TO WITNESS THE FATHER???
Yahshua, Jesus the Christ, the ANOINTED ONE to do so.
Christ came to TESTIFY, that is give a LAWFUL, and TRUTHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE FATHER GOD— unto us, AS HIS WITNESS IN BODILY FORM, UNTO THE EARTH REALM FOLK, that’s us!!
So, God’s witness— is always the GREATEST WITNESS OF THE FATHER that there is— but we are to learn from him, follow his directives, as the Father left the Son in authority of all of us, and all of his creation— and in that— WE HAVE HIM IN US, by his Spirit, and we too— become amazing WITNESSES, LAWFULLY, TRUTHFULLY, GIVING ACCOUNT OF THE FATHER and his WAYS, BY EXAMPLE too—
if we are one with his Spirit now as well.
This is why ONENESS, or becoming one with God, which is in agreement with, conformed to his image, and allowing him to lead us in all our ways— is vitally important.
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10 “He who believes on the Son of God– HAS THE WITNESS— IN HIMSELF: he who does not believe God [that would be the Father’s Spirit too]– has made him a liar [the Father, who sent his only begotten Son as the propitiation of our sin— to us]; because it is he who does not believe the record that God gave—OF— his Son.
11 And this is the record– that GOD HAS GIVEN US → ETERNAL LIFE– and THAT LIFE→ IS IN→ his Son.”
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Okay— so, he who has accepted God the Father, through the only begotten Son of his, in whom he sent to be the sin propitiation for us, to bring us into AT-ONEMENT again— has the WITNESS, the Holy Spirit of God, WITHIN THEM now.
He who DOES NOT BELIEVE the Father sent the Son to do all that, being the anointed one to carry this all out, giving us HIS SPIRIT TO INDWELL US— MAKES GOD THE FATHER A LIAR, as well as HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON; because ‘this person–’ DOES NOT BELIEVE THE RECORD OF THE FATHER— which ‘is’ the Son.
And he said— ‘the record, or witness of truth, lawfully, is this—’ I GAVE YOU ALL ETERNAL LIFE— and this ‘eternal life,’ was given to you— IN THE FORM OF THE SON!
You know, I actually had someone say online recently, that the Son is not God; and yet, scripture over and again tells us he is: the Father and the Son are one, the Word in the beginning was with God and was God, the Son is the expressed image of God incarnate, and on, and on it details it out over and again— complete with the Son himself telling us, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father.
And then here, in 1 John 5, we see the Father himself detailing out, that if you do not BELIEVE THE WITNESS OF MYSELF, THAT I SENT INTO THE WORLD— THE SON; then you MAKE ME, THE FATHER— a liar, and my only begotten Son, too!
Ouch— I hope we can get this straightened out inside.
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12 “He who has the Son– has life; and he who does not have the Son of God– does not have life.”
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Because, you see— if you believe not that the Father sent the Son, and the Son was anointed, chosen and approved of, being the ONLY ONE who could carry out his mission— because NO ONE SHORT OF GOD HIMSELF COULD DO IT, ‘sinlessly,’ for no one had before…
Then you DO NOT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, you remain in the eternal, and estranged death state, for you gathered not unto RECONCILIATION with the Father, through the Son, the ‘door,’ and blood atonement sacrifice for your sin sentence— and so you are not ‘IN ETERNAL LIFE—’ because ETERNAL LIFE— comes only through the Son.
FOR NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER— BUT THROUGH THE SON, ONLY; for ‘he is’ the Door, the Way and the Truth is— IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE, and ACCEPT HIM, for who he is, for what he came to do— AND FOR WHO SENT HIM [the Father] —then you will not be ALLOWED ENTRANCE IN, TO ETERNAL LIFE— because eternal life comes through A GATE CALLED ‘the Son,’ Yahshua, Jesus the Christ— and only through this gate, do you approach the Father.
All honor unto the Father– through the Son.
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John 10
“Verily, verily, I say unto you— He who does not enter by THE DOOR into the sheepfold [that’s the place his children reside], but CLIMBS UP SOME OTHER WAY [that means, believes there are many ways to God and heaven, uses divination, accessing illegally] –the same person is a thief, and a robber.
[deceived and stealing, not coming lawfully, unto God—
devil is like that, and leads folks the same.]
2 But he who enters in— BY THE DOOR— is the shepherd of the sheep.
[This states, HE IS THE PROPER ONE,
who LEADS ALL THE OTHERS, in, unto the Father.]
3 To him THE PORTER [which is gate-keeper] opens; and the sheep HEAR HIS VOICE: and HE CALLS HIS OWN SHEEP BY NAME [whose names are written in the book of the Lamb?], and HE LEADS THEM OUT.
[which means, leads them ‘about.’]
4 And when he puts forth his own sheep, he GOES BEFORE THEM [he’s their leader, and by example], and the sheep FOLLOW HIM: for they KNOW HIS VOICE.
[We all, who follow him, that’s the key— are we following him, his way,
his path, his directives— KNOW HIS VOICE, and are not confused.]
5 And ‘a stranger–’ THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW— but will flee from him: for THEY KNOW NOT THE VOICE OF STRANGERS [deceivers].
6 This parable Jesus spoke unto them: but they understood not the things they were hearing— which he spoke unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again— Verily, verily, I say unto you—
I am THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP.
8 All who came before me— are thieves and robbers: and the sheep did not hear them.
9 I AM THE DOOR: by ME, if any man enters in— he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 ‘The thief’ comes to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I have come that they might have LIFE— and that they might have it —MORE ABUNDANTLY.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
[The Son, the blood, the atonement, to bring us full circle into AT-ONEMENT again, with the Father, send OF the Father, to fulfill this mission and accomplishment— as he laid down his perfect life, AS GOD COME INCARNATE to EXEMPLIFY THE WAY, and to MAKE THE WAY, and to ‘BE’ THE WAY— back to Father, through RECONCILIATION made possible again— pulling out all the stops and excuses; for now— he LIVES WITHIN US, by his Holy Spirit, making ALL THINGS POSSIBLE NOW, in sanctification, and consecration of our persons.]
12 But he that is a hireling [a sellout, one for profit— not working out of love for the brethren or children of God], and who is not the shepherd, whose own— the sheep —are not, he sees the wolf coming, and LEAVES THE SHEEP [because he’s a sellout unto mammon, a deceiver] and FLEES: and the wolf catches them [the sheep, who are not really protected by the wolf, hireling pastor/shepherd], and HE SCATTERS THE SHEEP.
13 The hireling flees— because he is a hireling [a sellout], and does not care for the sheep [truly].
14 But I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and I am known of mine.
15 As the Father knows me— even so, I know the Father— and I lay down my life → for the sheep [us].
16 And ‘other sheep’ I have [also], who are not of this fold— them also I must bring [into the fold], and they shall hear my voice [to]; and there shall be one fold— and one shepherd.”
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Can you hear him calling to your heart??
Do you recognize his voice calling??
Here he is stating there are some that were naturally in the vine as the branches, and some that are grafted in; as well, some came early— and some who are late comers, and will be harvested out of the kingdom of death and estrangement, and reconciled unto the Father at a later date— BUT ALL, will be together, in ONE FAMILY, one fold of sheep.
Folks— he is the way— because no one comes through the ‘gates,’ or the ‘door to heaven,’ if they do not come through HIM; he is the pearl of heaven, HE IS the beautiful gate, entrance, way in— UNTO THE FATHER, he himself: Yahshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Christ.
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1 John 5:13 (cont.)
“These things I have written unto you who believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may KNOW— that you have eternal life— and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.
[Because that’s the ONLY WAY— anyone— receives eternal life, for HE IS THE HOLDER THEREOF ETERNAL LIFE, he himself; the way, the door, the voice, the good shepherd, the WITNESS OF THE FATHER, and GOD HIMSELF.]
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him– that, if we ask anything ACCORDING TO ‘HIS’ WILL– he hears us: 15 and if we know that he hears us– whatsoever we ask– we know that we have the petitions [what we ask of] that we desired of him.
16 If any man sees his brother sin a sin–- which is not unto death– he shall ask [of God], and he shall give him life– for them who sin not unto death.
There is a sin unto death— I do not say that he shall pray for it [that, or that person committing that sin].
[And death, in Strong’s means— figurative or literal death, and death is ESTRANGEMENT from God, in its simplest of definitions; so there is a SIN— that is ESTRANGEMENT FROM GOD, that is NOT to be prayed for, that God can give LIFE FOR. Because ‘death–’ is a covenant with satan, and therefore the one who gives covenants of LIFE UNTO US, as HE IS ETERNAL ‘Life—’ he cannot give life to this person, for they are in A DEATH COVENANT, CONTRACT, marriage—WITH SATAN, who is death, or estrangement from God’s— representative, and covenant upholder of.]
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin [or sins, that is] not unto death.
18 We know that whosoever is born of God– does not sin; but he who is begotten of God– keeps himself– and that wicked one —touches him not.”
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This is because, one who is born of God, is born again, new, a New Creation made of Christ, with the Holy Spirit— and one in covenant with LIFE, and cannot be in COVENANT WITH DEATH at the same time; so one in covenant with Life in Christ, and with Christ and the Father in whom he represents— cannot be sinning, for Christ does not sin, and we are ONE WITH HIM NOW, and LIVE OUT OF HIM— and therefore, will not be sinning, for our nature has changed.
And in this— we know we are BEGOTTEN OF GOD as well, for we live out of the Son, like the Son, WITH the Son, who lives like the Father— and we KEEP OURSELVES LIKE HE KEEPS HIS CONDUCT and PERSON— and in that— the WICKED ONE —CANNOT TOUCH US!!!
Can we see why living sanctified, cleaned up, and CONSECRATED UNTO GOD, which means upholding the marriage covenant, and what it is to LIFE IN ETERNAL ‘life,’ not the death state, or estrangement from God and his ways— IS VITALLY IMPORTANT??
The Wicked One CANNOT TOUCH US— if we do, and we are— living with LIFE HIMSELF, the way LIFE HIMSELF [Yahshua, Jesus the Christ] LIVES, and FINDS HIS BEING; because ‘he—’ came to rep the Father, and witness the Father and his ways.
And WE— are to be reconciled to the Father, and the Father’s ways— THIS— is Salvation— in a nutshell.
And the SON— is the way, the door/gate, the Truth, the Witness and example, the Voice— to follow and adhere to; and in, and through him— we reconcile, which is reconnect— to the Father again.
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19 “And [this is how] we know that we are of God– and the whole world lies in wickedness.
20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us AN UNDERSTANDING– THAT WE MAY ‘know him’ WHO IS TRUE [Father, by his Witness] and we are IN HIM, who is true– in his Son– Jesus Christ.
THIS IS THE ‘true’ GOD– AND ETERNAL LIFE.
21 Little children— keep yourselves from idols.
Amen.”
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Idols are anything we worship, which is to give our heart, time and focus upon— that is NOT GOD HOLY, not the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit.
He is warning us to not let anything be greater in our lives and hearts, than to reconcile with our God, in all ways.
For our God– IS LIFE; and the enemy, who desires to be worshiped and draws us away from God in the form of ‘idols–’ is DEATH, and ESTRANGEMENT FROM GOD.
The enemy will ‘draw us away– with ALLURE— from God, the truth, his way, his lead, and holiness; we need to be mindful of that.
The Son— is the way, and he holds all of ETERNAL LIFE in him; we must UNITE WITH HIM, LIVE OUT OF HIM, as ONE WITH, HIS SPIRIT, the Holy Spirit of God…
Or we don’t come to the Father— period.
For he is the way, the gate, the doorway, the voice, the good shepherd, the Son, the Witness of the Father incarnate, the example, the leader and authority over us, the Words of God himself— AND— HE IS GOD.
And Father said— if you do not believe my Witness, my anointed One I sent into the earth— you will not receive the propitiation of your sins— for you attempt to SCALE THE WALLS OF HEAVEN, and COME IN ANOTHER WAY— and there's NO OTHER WAY.
God is a God of rules, and discipline and law; he requires us to know him properly, worship and honor him GENUINELY, and that it SHOULD NOT BE GRIEVOUS FOR US TO DO SO.
Because, truly— IF WE LOVE HIM— we will wish to be like him, reformed into his very person’s image again, by him, and become ONE WITH HIM, in agreement and conduct— and we are then— THE CHILDREN OF THE HOLY GOD.
He said— if you truly love me, you will FOLLOW ME, and MY DIRECTIONS, which are his DIRECTIVES, which are his ‘commands.’
Why would ANY of that— be grievous to us??
Only satan— hates God’s image; those who truly LOVE GOD, LOVE HIS IMAGE, which is to say HIS PERSON, and HOW HIS PERSON HAS HIS ‘being.’
Folks– we are ‘being’ something too— at all times; we ought to find OUR ‘being–’ as God finds and has his; for we are, after all— supposed to be living straight out of his Spirit, and WITH HIS SPIRIT, AT-ONEMENT WITH HIS SPIRIT, again— after all.
It’s hard to kick against the pricks—
when you are yoked up to him.
So, why don’t we stop being Sauls, kicking against his ways of conduct— and become Pauls— and YOKE UP TO HIM, and PULL WITH HIM— not against him, and his ways.
And THEN— maybe then— it will not be so grievous in this life.
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(Closing)
AMEN