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Hey, welcome once again.

I'm thankful that you've joined today.

I hope your morning's going great.

If it's launched day, Monday morning,

I hope that you're optimistic coming off of a wonderful, encouraging day of worship and fellowship with saints, and that God uses you all throughout the week.

A big part of that is the way you and I choose to prioritize our lives,

to truly put Jesus in first place,

and to make certain that no other gods of any form are allowed to come before him. If it's all right with you, I'd like to share with you the content of a

sermon that I preached here at Lindell yesterday because it feels like something that certainly

needs to be presented in worship, but also I just can't help but feel

that this may be a big breakthrough for you. We get to this point where we go, okay, I'm going to

live this week, make mostly good decisions, but I have a few plaguing sins that just kind of hang

around that I'm not proud of, but that have just consistently become a part of my life.

And our approach is, well, I'll fight it. And then if or when it happens, I'll ask forgiveness

and I'll kind of move on. And that is a part of our lives. None of us are perfect. We make

mistakes. But there comes a point where we keep repeating the same mistake because it's more

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