I think unless you're taking the word of God on a regular basis and putting it in your heart,

you've got zero chance of surviving deception.

I truly do.

And it isn't that we're so brilliant that we can all, we know the pronunciations of every name or how to spell Nebuchadnezzar.

I think there's something that God respects when we bring the pronunciations of every name or how to spell nebuchadnezzar. I think there is something

that God respects when we bring the discipline to present ourselves before the word of God with the

intent of understanding. I think God meets us in those places and gives us the insight we need

to navigate what is before us.

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We've been doing a study on lions and lambs.

There's two principal presentations in the New Testament of lions.

Very different, very different realms of authority, very different kingdoms, very different

characteristics, but very distinct presentations.

Peter reminds us to be sober, to be alert and to be vigilant because our adversary,

the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he can devour. And the assignment there is

to resist him, standing firm in the faith, remembering that our brothers and sisters throughout the

earth are undergoing the same, similar sufferings to the ones that we face

that we're not special that our pain is not unique to us

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