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Mark 8:35-37

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for whoever wishes to save his life

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will lose it

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but whoever loses his life for my sake

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and the gospels will save it

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for what does it profit a man

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to gain the whole world

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and forfeit his soul

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this is very interesting

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this is not talking about salvation

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it's not talking about eternal life

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there are 3 words in the Bible

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used for life

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zoe is the word used for

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life of the spirit

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then we have Suke

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which sounds very much like psyche

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or the Greek word psyche

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that we use in English as well

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suke means the life of the soul

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or the mind will and emotions

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and then bios

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which is biological life

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so which life do you think is used here

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whoever wishes to save his life

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will lose it

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but whoever loses his life

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for my sake and the gospels will save it

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it's not talking about zoe life

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it's not eternal life

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it's not salvation

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this is talking about suke

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this is talking about

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the life of your soul

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so whenever you try to

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save your own soul life that means

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save your own emotional life

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save your own mental life

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when ever you try to

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save your own life

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what's going to happen?

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you're going to lose it

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but if you give up your soul life

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for the sake of the Lord and the gospel

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you gain life and you gain eternal life

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and you gain peace in your soul

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so in this chapter, pardon me

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in this little passage

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that word suke in Greek

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is used 4 times

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whoever wishes to save his suke

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will lose it

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whoever loses his suke

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life for my sake and the gospels

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will save it

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what does it profit a man

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to gain the whole world

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and forfeit his suke not eternal life

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his soul

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and so what I discovered is

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whenever fear hits us

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the flesh rises up

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and we come up with some plan

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to save our own soul life

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and Yeshua is saying here

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whenever you do that

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you're going to lose

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the very life you're trying to save

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if you're trying to generate peace

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or retain peace

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but you seek to save your own soul

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you'll lose the very thing

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you're seeking to save

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God made this so clear to me one day

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many many years ago

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it was actually before

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the time of cell phones

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and I was doing some volunteer

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counseling at a church

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I had told Jan I'd be home

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around 8:30

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my last appointment

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quit at 8 o'clock

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it would take about 1/2 hour to drive home

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when I came out of the last appointment

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there was another counselor there

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a woman who had

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been doing some counseling

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in the foyer of the church

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and we got to talking

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and we started having a little Bible study

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right there in the foyer of the church

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we were sharing different

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passages with us

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and I was writing notes

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from these things we were learning

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it was exciting

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and finally 8:30 came and went

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9:00, 9:30

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Finally about quarter to 10

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I said I've got to go

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and I left and I was driving home

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excited from the revelation

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I got in the Bible

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but feeling guilty

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because I was going home so late

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what I found myself doing was

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making up a lie to tell Jan

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why I was coming home so late

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when I'm making up a lie to tell my wife

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am I in the spirit or the flesh?

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obviously the flesh

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what am I doing?

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trying to save my own soul

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because I thought

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if I tell her the truth

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that the reason I'm late is because

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I just chose to sit and talk

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with another woman in the foyer

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of the church now Jan and I

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weren't having deep spiritual

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conversations ourselves

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at that particular time in our marriage

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we had wounded and hurt each other

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and so here I was having a deep

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spiritual conversation with another person

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not that I had anything

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wrong in that relationship

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or at least not at that point

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nor did I ever

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I just realized that will hurt her to know

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that I spent all that time

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talking deep spiritual things

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with somebody else

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when I has promised to be home

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and be with her

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so I didn't want to tell her the truth

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I wanted to just tell her

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I got involved in a ministry situation

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you know I couldn't leave

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we cast out 29 demons

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17 people got saved

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3 raised from the dead

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obviously not that extreme

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but I wanted to tell her

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some story like that

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and the Lord really

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impacted me with this scripture

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you're seeking to save your own life

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we had gone through

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some marriage counseling

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not long before that

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you know what the counselor said

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the biggest problem you have is

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you don't trust each other

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here I am preparing to lie to my wife

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that's a good trust building

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activity isn't it?

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and I realized man your flesh

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comes up with the most stupid ideas

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that are long term destructive

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and here's what I realized

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short term fixes to your problems

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are always the seed

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of long term destruction

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whenever your flesh rise up

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with a plan to save your own soul

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don't pay your taxes nobody will know

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cheat on this or that

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lie about this or that nobody will know

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short term fixes to your problems

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seeking to save your own soul

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are always the seed

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of long term destruction

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in that instance I chose to

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tell Jan the truth when I got home

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and here much to my amazement

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she forgave me she wasn't angry

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she forgave me and she said

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you know I think I could

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deal with almost anything you do wrong

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what I can't deal with

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is if you lied to me about it

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that cuts me out of your life

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and that hurts me much more deeply

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than anything you do wrong

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I've never forgotten that

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since that time

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and I realized

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I was seeking to save my own soul

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I would have lost the peace

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I was trying to save

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I was trying to not be rejected

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I would have been rejected long term

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much much deeper

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had I chosen the scheme of the flesh

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which was to lie and tell Jan a story

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what Yeshua is saying here

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is that you have a choice

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short term die to yourself

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die to yourself

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die to your own flesh

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don't seek to save your soul

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and you will live long term

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or

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choose to try to save your own soul

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short term

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and it'll create long term destruction

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you'll lose the very life

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you are seeking to save

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I believe the reason

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I'm talking about this today

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is that many of us

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have schemes going on right now

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to try to save ourselves

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in some area

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and I strongly encourage you

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abandon the scheme

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to save your own soul

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trust God

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die to yourself short term

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that's what I had to do

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was die to my own

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desire to save my soul

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and tell Jan something

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that wasn't true

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die to yourself short term

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and you will live long term

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as you go through your life today

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love God with all your heart

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bless people

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you will make a tremendous difference

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and don't seek to save your own soul

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die to yourself short term

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and watch the Lord

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do miracles today