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Would you pray with me?

If you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask.

And so Father, I ask for myself to be filled with the Holy Spirit,

and I ask for these friends

that you would give them a spirit of hearing

and sight and understanding and responsiveness in Jesus' name. and

responsibility in responseiveness in Jesus' name.

Amen.

I want to speak to you about the ultimate essence of evil.

Unless you think that talking about the ultimate essence of evil would be abstract or

confusion. abstract or remote or theoretical, I mean your evil, the ones you do every day,

the ones I do every day, the ones I do every day. I mean the things that we think

and the attitudes that we have and the deeds that we do that we call evil, wrong, bad, real, tangible, globally pervasive evil.

So our aim is to find out what the ultimate essence of evil is.

And by essence I mean to distinguish between the root of evil and the fruit of evil. I want to know what the spring is.

What's it? What's down there? What's bringing it all up? What makes evil evil at the bottom?

And what I mean by ultimate, ultimate essence is that we get to the bottom. That is there isn't anything behind

it, there isn't anything under it. When you see the ultimate essence of evil, then you know what it is that makes evil evil all the

time. It's the ultimate essence of everything we call evil.

So that's the goal.

That's where we're going.

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