2023 Reflections

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Welcome to a Biblical Perspective Podcast where God's point of view matters.

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Well greetings.

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All right, let's jump into today's perspective topic, reflections.

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This is the most appropriate time as we again exit out of one year entering into another

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to take time to reflect, take time to realize one, how good God has been to us even though

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undeserving, even though disobedient, even though having missed the mark, having erred,

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having dropped the ball and not always on purpose, but because we are flawed, God knows

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who He's working with and what He's working with as it pertains to our carnality.

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However, that's no excuse for us to shrug off and or to turn a deaf ear to

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what God is saying as it pertains to critiquing us and pulling us into moments and postures

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of reflection so that we can perform individual personal assessment of our lives, of our relationship

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with Him, of our interaction with Him and acknowledging where we have missed it, acknowledging

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where we have erred and repenting of course, owning up to it and then by His grace getting

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back on track, getting back on course and ensuring that we are doing what He requires, what He

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demands, what He commands and what He needs of us in this hour that we are in.

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And so we're going to have a moment of reflection in regards to 2023 and there are three areas

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in particular that I want us to address on today as we jump into this perspective topic

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of reflections and so we're getting ready to do that in just a few seconds.

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Well, all right.

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Reflections.

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This is our prospective topic for this episode and let's jump right into it, shall we?

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Let's look at Haggai chapter 1 and let's start reading around verse 5.

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Haggai chapter 1 verse 5, the New King James Version.

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Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, consider your ways.

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The operative word in that statement is consider.

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Verse 6, you have sown much and bring in little.

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You eat but do not have enough.

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You drink but you are not filled with drink.

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You clothe yourselves but no one is warm.

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And he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.

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Thus says the Lord of hosts, consider your ways.

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Now, I've always found those few verses in Haggai chapter 1 interesting because he gives

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examples as it pertains to reasons as to why they should consider their ways or reflect

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upon previous decisions, actions, and the consequences thereof.

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And notice he in his examples, he says you eat but you don't have enough.

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You clothe yourselves but you're not warm.

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You earn wages, you're employed, you have an occupation, however, you are always in

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the red.

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You're always dealing with insufficiency and lack.

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You never seem to have enough to make ends meet.

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Why is that?

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Why is that?

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And as we prepare to enter into a new year, it is apropos that we take time to reflect

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on the old year.

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Take time to reflect on not just the events and or the occurrences or what happened, what

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transpired in 23, but here it is.

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Reflect the why.

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Reflect on the why.

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Consider the why of what happened, happened.

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Consider the reasons behind the consequences.

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What was set in motion by your decisions, the lack thereof, your actions, your dispositions,

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your obedience, your disobedience.

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And I don't want you to think that I'm honing solely in on reflecting, considering the bad

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that happened or considering the issues that God confronted you concerning.

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But I want us to reflect on the whole of 2023.

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Reflect on the whole of 2023.

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In other words, reflect on every aspect of it.

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Most importantly, the significant aspects, the significant parts, those areas of life

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that taught you the greatest lessons in 23, those circumstances, those situations, those

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relationships, the disappointments, the celebratory times that are the most significant, most

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important that you learned lessons that literally shifted your consciousness and shifted your

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mindset and your mentality as it pertains to how you see life, as it pertains to your

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destiny, as it pertains to your relationship with your family, with your friends, with

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Christ.

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I want you, as we only have two days left in this year of 2023, to steal away, as the

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old saints would say, and have a meaningful conversation with Holy Spirit, not a monologue,

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not where the only person talking, the only person that has the microphone, so to speak,

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is you, but have an intimate, honest conversation and dialogue with the Holy Spirit, asking

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him to bring back to your remembrance those significant moments, those teachable moments

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in 2023 that he really needs you to reflect on, that he needs you to extract the wisdom

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from, that he needs you to realize some things as it pertains to that event, as it pertains

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to that occurrence, as it pertains to having interacted with that person, whatever it is,

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too many times, too often I should say, too often as we exit one year, enter into another,

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we move quickly into the new year, we have a lot of zeal, we have a lot of excitement

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because we're being presented with a new slate, so to speak, new opportunities, new advantages,

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and so we're so quick to forget those things that are behind.

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And in many instances, we take Paul's admonishment and Paul's teaching out of context as it pertains

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to forgetting the things that are behind.

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There are things in our past, there are situations, there are experiences in our rear view mirror

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and or in the rear view mirror of life that you need to forget as it pertains to refusing

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it the power and the authority to confine you, restrict you, to immobilize you, and

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keep you stagnant, to keep you as a prisoner to something that happened, refusing you the

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right and or the opportunity to progress into your destiny, to move into God's future concerning

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your life.

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However, there are lessons, there are courses that we should never forget in regards to

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what we experienced, what we encountered in previous aspects, previous situations, previous

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predicaments of life.

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And so we move too quickly, we move too fast into a new year, not having taken ample time

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to sit down, catch this, with the thoughts of your actions.

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I want that to just sit.

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Let's have a sila moment.

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We need to learn how to slow down.

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I'm not talking about procrastination, I'm not talking about allowing passivity and lethargy

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to settle and take root in your spirit, but I'm talking about moments of reflections,

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taking time.

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And really, there is great reward in doing this.

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There is great reward in learning how to take advantage of particular moments of reflections,

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moments of silence and sit and ponder the thoughts of your decisions.

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Why did I do that?

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What influenced that decision?

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Who influenced that decision?

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Was that impulsive?

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Was that a decision that manifested out of hurt, out of bitterness, out of anger, out

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of resentment, out of loneliness?

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Consider your ways.

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This Haggai says, consider your ways.

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It's God.

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In verse 5, this is the point I'm endeavoring to make out of verse 5.

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Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts.

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This opportunity of reflection was presented by God.

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The Lord said, I want you all to consider your ways.

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Because when you take time to consider your ways, you, for those who are heavily invested

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in participating in the blame game and pointing the finger and ascribing reasons or rather

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ascribing blame to others as it pertains to decisions you made.

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When you take time to consider your ways, it in many instances brings an end to your

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participation in the blame game.

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Because if you have honest conversation with yourself and have honest assessment, then

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you begin to own up to the part that you played as it pertains to however that situation went

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down.

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So this is the Holy Spirit speaking to you.

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If you're listening to today's episode, it's the Holy Spirit that drew you.

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It's the Holy Spirit that is maintaining your attention, keeping your attention and allowing

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you to hear specifically what he wants to say to you.

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Consider your ways.

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Now consider it is to fix the mind upon for careful examination.

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I want you to hear that definition.

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To consider something is to fix your mind upon something for careful examination.

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It is consider is to meditate on.

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It is to ponder something.

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It is to attentively scrutinize.

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Are you following me?

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To consider something is to view it, to ponder it, to meditate on it attentively.

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And you do so with scrutiny.

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You are scrutinizing, meaning with a fine tooth comb.

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You are going through the entirety of that particular event, that decision, that behavior,

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that proclivity because, catch this, you're not trying to extract an excuse.

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So you don't need to attentively examine something for the purpose of extracting an excuse, a

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way out, an explanation as to why you acted a complete donkey in regards to something.

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But you attentively examine the occurrence when you are looking for answers.

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When you're not trying to again search for a scapegoat.

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You're not trying to identify a get out of jail card freak.

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You're not trying to explain your behavior away and or to rationalize why you were irrational.

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But you are actually looking for the truth.

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You're looking for honest answers because you are endeavoring to bring about the appropriate

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and proper correction.

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You want to make the necessary changes because you understand that there is better that God

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has.

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You understand that you got caught up in the moment probably and you didn't handle it in

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the best way.

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You see, when you know that there is a better you that exists when you understand that what

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you have experienced regarding yourself is not the best you because God truly is yet

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working on all of us.

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I know many individuals use that line, be patient with me, God's not through with me

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yet.

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I'm still a work in progress.

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Many people use that as a cop out.

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They use that as an excuse to validate their sin, to validate their wrong because they

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just want to do what they want to do.

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And they are going to look for any and every reason to again validate and support what

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it is that they've decided they want to do knowing that it is not in alignment with the

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will of God, the word of God, the purposes, the intentions and or the plan of God for

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their lives.

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But on the flip side of that, there is truth to that.

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Every last person under the sound of my voice, those who are redeemed, those who have been

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born from above, we have our new heart, our new spirit.

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We are operating according to the new life that's within.

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We're moving according to our new creation spirit that is in alignment with the word

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of God.

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As he is, so are we in this world.

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We are full with the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

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We have the power of the Holy Ghost, the power of eternity backing us.

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We're filled with the Holy Ghost and the evidence of speaking in tongues.

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We can cast out devils and all of that.

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However, we are still positioned on the potter's wheel and God is still making us.

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He's still molding us.

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He is yet moving us into new dimensions of evolution regarding our new creation being.

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And so never get to this deceptive place in your relationship with Christ that you are

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finished or you are a finished work.

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Because when he's finished with us, he will relieve us from our earthly duties and responsibilities.

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But if you are still on this planet, then that's an indication that God yet has purpose,

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that God yet has destiny to fulfill and that he is yet working on you and bringing you

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further into maturation, bringing you further into who he has created and ordained you to

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be.

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And so reflections are necessary.

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Having moments to consider to again fix your mind upon for careful examination, to view

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attentively to scrutinize.

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And I love this definition.

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I'm sharing with you the etymology of the word consider.

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It is also not to be negligent of.

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When you consider, isn't that powerful?

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When you consider your ways, you're not negligent of your actions.

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You're not negligent of your mindset that may have contributed to an outcome that was

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contrary to what God wanted or even contrary to what you initially desired or wanted.

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And so too many times, again going back to what I said earlier, when we are entering

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out of one year, exiting rather out of one year entering into a new, too many times we're

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moving so rapid, so fast.

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We're moving so fast.

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I got to get this done and I got to accomplish this and I want to do this before the year

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ends and I want to have this thing complete and tied up and done before the year.

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And how many of you know, if we would be honest, when you are, let's say you're running late

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for an appointment or what have you, when you are moving faster than what you need to,

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you will forget something.

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You sometimes, for those who have children, you may have left your child.

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You were moving so fast to get out the house.

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You had Johnny dressed, you had him ready, but you forgot to put him in the car seat

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or you had him in the car seat and forgot to put the car seat in the car.

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Or you ran out, left your briefcase.

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You ran out and left something of significance.

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You ran out, left your wallet.

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You ran out and left your cell phone because you were moving.

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Catch this.

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Oh, this is powerful.

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You were moving at a pace that you were not accustomed to and you forgot something.

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You left something of significance behind.

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You left something of importance behind.

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You left the stove on.

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You forgot to turn off the oven.

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You forgot to blow out the candle.

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And this is when accidents and incidents are at its highest when we are moving quicker

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than what we are accustomed to.

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And so we need to take time to consider, to look at closely, to observe.

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Those are the meanings etymologically of consider.

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And a synonym for consider, back to our actual subject, to reflect, to realize, to realize,

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to have an epiphany, to realize something that you didn't realize before.

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Consider your ways.

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Now what is meant by ways?

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What is meant by ways?

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And then I want to give you three things or three areas as it pertains to our relationship

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with Christ that we need to consider.

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As we go into 2024, let's not go into it negligent of our behavior, negligent of our ways.

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Let's not go into it negligent of our ways, but let's consider.

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And catch this.

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I'm not talking about solely or only considering your ways for the next two days that we have

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left in 2023.

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No, but as you go into 2024, we need to consider.

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Don't allow the close of 2023 to close and or to end you pondering, you examining, you

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meditating on, you scrutinizing your behavior, your mindset, your treatment of Christ and

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others.

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But take that reflection right on into 2024 and stay there as long as the Lord says.

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Stay there.

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Stay in the posture of reflection.

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Many of you as you move into this year of 2024 regarding your prayer time, regarding

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your time of devotion with God, He's going to have you for months into 2024, for months.

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He's going to have you in the posture, in the position of reflection, in the posture,

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in the position of considering your ways because there is great critique that's taking place.

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There is alterations.

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There are changes.

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There are renovations that is happening.

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What's going to happen within your soul?

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Deliverances, come on breakthroughs, answers to your prayers.

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Sometimes we forfeit or we overlook, we overlook the answers and the solutions that God is

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endeavoring to download because we don't take time to reflect.

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We don't take time to meditate.

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We don't take time to look closely at ourselves.

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You don't want to study the image, study the reflection in the mirror.

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You don't want to take time to study the reflection, to actually look at, I'm speaking proverbially,

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I'm speaking hypothetically.

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We don't want to take time to look at the wrinkles, to look at the blemishes because

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they remind us of the fact we're aging.

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But when God shows you, you, in the mirror of His word, when He shows you, you, during

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those times of consideration and reflection, that's the time for you to say, okay, Holy

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Spirit, out of what you're revealing, disclosing, what do I need to hone in on?

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What do I need to zero in on?

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What do I need to pay attention to?

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What do I need to correct?

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What do I need to deal with?

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What do I need to confront?

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So ways deals with habits of life.

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When God says to consider your ways, consider what?

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What are ways?

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Consider your habits.

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Consider your life habits.

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Reflect on your life habits.

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Reflect on your life choices, ways, indicative of life choices.

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Decisions.

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Reflect, consider, examine, carefully examine.

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Meditate on, view attentively, scrutinize your life habits.

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Scrutinize your life choices.

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The Bible says that if we judge ourselves, we will not be judged.

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We have to learn to take responsibility over our lives.

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Take responsibility of governing your own life.

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Consider your decisions.

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Ways also speak to roads, paths, indicative of travel.

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Not in the natural sense as it pertains to our topic of conversation, but as it pertains

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to again, decisions and life choices.

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Because your life choices, your decisions, your life habits determine the course, the

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road, the path of life you wind up journeying, traveling on.

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If you don't like the current course of your life, if you don't like the current road,

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the current path of your life, consider your ways and make the necessary adjustments, make

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the necessary changes.

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And so as I prepare to close our time together today, I want to present to you as well as

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present to myself three areas in which we need to consider as it pertains to our relationship

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with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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One, consider our treatment of Christ.

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How have you treated him?

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How have you treated him in 23?

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How will you treat him in 2024?

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Will your treatment of Christ in 24 be indicative of your treatment of him in 23?

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And was that treatment positive?

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Was that treatment worthy of who he is?

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Was that treatment worthy of his sovereignty, worthy of his omnipotence, worthy of his strength,

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worthy of his love and faithfulness toward you?

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See, we have to transition in this year, in this new season as it pertains to our perception

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of Jesus Christ.

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We have to cease dealing with Christ textually, seeing him as only words on a page housed

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in the Bible and of the Scriptures.

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But Jesus is a being.

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He's a person.

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He has feelings.

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Are you following me?

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We can and we have, if we would be honest, we're talking about having honest assessment,

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being truthful of our treatment, of our interaction with Christ, the same way things have been

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said to you that rubbed you the wrong way, that dishonored you, that disrespected you,

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that hurt you, that grieved you, that caused tears to flow.

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We do the same thing to Jesus Christ as it pertains to neglecting him, as it pertains

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to turning a deaf ear to what he is saying, as it pertains to putting him on the backburner.

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Consider your treatment of Jesus Christ.

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Then the second area, consider our accountability to Christ, consider our treatment of him.

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How are we treating him?

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Are we faithful to the one that's faithful to us?

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Are we reliable to the one who is reliable?

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Are we dependable to the one who is dependable?

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Oh, yes.

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Our testimony is true.

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I can depend on God.

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Absolutely true.

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However, can God depend on you?

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Our testimony is true.

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God is faithful.

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Yes, he is.

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However, will God be able to say that about you?

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Can God say about you what you and I say about him regarding his faithfulness?

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This is indicative of our treatment of him.

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Then again, our accountability to him.

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Consider, focus, reflect on whether or not you have been taking responsibility.

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Lord knows I'm here.

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Can I just have a moment of candidacy?

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Can I just have a moment of transparency?

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This is where God has me reflecting and has me as his prophet, as his functionary, as

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his mouthpiece, considering my ways as it pertains to my accountability toward him.

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Because again, I don't care the assignment, I don't care what the office God has called

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you to, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, whether it's threefold, fivefold,

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duh.

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Listen, we're all literally worked in progress because God is still pushing in us eternity's

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will, endeavoring to push it out of us, to manifest his campaigns and to bring out of

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us the totality of what he has put in us for the purpose of his will.

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Okay?

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So I am here.

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I'm reflecting.

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I'm considering this aspect of my relationship with Jesus.

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Am I accountable to him?

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Am I taking responsibility for my actions?

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Are you operating in answerability?

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Are you answering for your part played?

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Are you answering for what you are responsible of?

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Are you answering for the blame that is yours?

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Are you answering for what you're guilty of?

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Come on, we're talking about having an honest moment of reflection.

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And again, can you all see this is going to take for many of us, for all of us, come on,

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can we all just come on in the room?

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Come on in the room.

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Can we all just come into the room of honesty, come into the room of transparency?

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This moment of considering our ways and reflecting on our habits of life, on our life choices,

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on our decisions, on the course that we decided to travel down or to ignore in regards to

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the directions that God was giving, it's going to take more than two days.

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Can we just say amen to that?

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This is December 29th, 2023.

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It's going to take more than two days to consider our treatment of Christ, to consider our accountability

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to Christ.

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And so this is why we are carrying this into 2024.

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We're initiating it.

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And many of you have already initiated your moment, your time of reflection and considering

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of your ways.

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And for those that are late to the party, this is why you're listening to this episode

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of A Biblical Perspective podcast, to bring you into this reality or better yet, to bring

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you into God's reality that He needs us.

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He's requiring us to have these honest moments of assessment with the Holy Spirit so that

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He can perform the work that is required and necessary in our soul, in our heart, in our

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consciousness, in our spirit to mature us, to grow us up, to bring us to that level of

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maturation so He can receive fruit from us so that we can be productive concerning His

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will and campaigns in this new year, in this new era, in this dispensation that we are

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in.

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Things are not the same if you have not realized that.

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Things are not the same in our nation, in our world, in the nation of Jesus Christ.

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Jesus Christ has been up under attack and He needs us to become the militant, strong

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army that He has ordained and died for us to be.

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And so the last aspect of consideration regarding our relationship with Christ, it was one,

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consider our treatment of Christ, two, consider our accountability to Christ, and the third

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and last, consider our allegiance, our fidelity, and our loyalty to Christ.

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The Pledge of Allegiance is to the flag.

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In the Pledge of Allegiance, we declare, we decree, we voice our loyalty and our fidelity

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to our nation, to the nation of the United States of America as American citizens.

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But where are you in regards to your allegiance, your fidelity, and your loyalty to Jesus Christ?

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Are we as patriotic, as citizens of the nation of Jesus Christ, as we are citizens of the

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United States of America?

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Because before there was a United States of America, there was a nation of Jesus Christ.

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The nation of Jesus Christ is eternal.

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The United States of America is earthly, is temporal, will pass away.

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Think about that.

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Think about that.

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Think about that.

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Let's have another moment, another Sila moment rather.

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Let's have another Sila moment.

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Consider your allegiance, your fidelity, your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

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Have you, have we truly been loyal?

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When Jesus needed us the most, as it pertains to all that transpired just in the past few

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weeks, the past month or so regarding the death of Carlton Pearson, as it pertains to

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the doctrine that he caused to resurge, rather to resurface, and he brought about a resurgence

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of the doctrine of inclusion, brought it back to the, brought it back to popular, brought

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it back to a popular status among religion and among doctrines of faith, so to speak.

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Where were you in the midst of it all?

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Did you come to the Lord Jesus' defense, speaking up against this damnable doctrine, speaking

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up against this doctrine of heresy?

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Did you even know what was happening?

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Did you even know the significance of the message of inclusion and how it really has

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nothing to do with a man, so to speak.

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It has nothing to do with Carlton Pearson.

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It has all to do with the battle of the gods.

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All the gods are coming to the table, are coming to the battlefield, the gods of Hinduism,

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the gods of Buddhism.

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Come on.

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The Muslim gods, all the pantheon, the pantheon gods, the pagan gods, all of the idol gods

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are coming to the table, are coming to the battlefield.

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And whose side will you be on?

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Because every man walks in the name of his God and Carlton Pearson switched gods, left

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Jesus, became polytheistic.

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He transitioned from monotheism to polytheism, where he decided to worship a pantheon of

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gods.

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Where are we in our allegiance, in our fidelity, in our loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ?

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So as we in just two days exit out of 2023, enter into 2024, let's take time to consider

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our ways, making sure that we have done due diligence to ensure that we are in the best

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position possible for God to receive the fruit that he requires and that he warrants and

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is worthy of as we enter into a new year, not just a new year, but we're in a new day,

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we're in a new era and we need to enter into it with a God consciousness.

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We need to enter into it soberly.

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We need to enter into it ready to be what God needs us to be.

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And what does he need us to be?

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He needs us to be strong and courageous.

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He needs us to be his backbone.

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He needs us to be his militant army.

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He needs us to be his guardians, his defenders of truth.

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He does not need us cowardly.

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He does not need us timid, frail, confused about who's our God because the book says

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them that know their God shall be strong, shall do exploits.

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All right.

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This is prophet CT Johnson.

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