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God's train is going choo-choo, jump in and be blessed.
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Friends, today immediately we are going to the second part of the 221.
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He gives wisdom to the wise, he imparts knowledge to those with understanding.
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Previously and afterwards, we have seen that God gave Daniel in a night vision.
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So you can see it like the prophet Amos saw it, like Isaiah, like Jesus Himself.
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You can see heavenly, you can see heavenly works which God gives to you, these works which are already prepared.
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So wherever God is, there is creation.
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Jesus be blessed.
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Wherever God is, there is creation, because God is the creator.
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So he created everything from his word before everything existed.
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So he was, he is, and forever.
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He is now, before, and forever.
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And where he is, he creates.
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Because God is the only true reality.
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Many, many Christian spiritual men and women in the past, of in the in the churches past, in the entire body of Christ have testified to this.
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They have testified that the only true reality is God.
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Like that famous, by the way, he borrowed it from us.
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Roger Zelazny.
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By the way, I love that series, The Chronicles of Amber.
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So, spoilers, sorry people, but amber is like this only true reality, and everything else only exists because amber exists.
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Amber shines, so so to say, reality throughout these other worlds, and all of these other worlds are just shadows, they exist because amber exists.
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And now this has been again testified throughout the history of Christianity that God is the only true reality because he is the creator, he alone is the creator, he's not a created being, he creates, he was not created.
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In this sense, my dear friends, it's important for us to know that where God is, where is God's presence, there is creation.
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So when God is in us, when we accept it and enable him to work through us, allow him to work through us, you cannot do anything, anything without me, Jesus says it.
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Why anything?
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Well, because he is the creator, because whatever he wishes to exist exists.
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If he would say this universe stops now, the universe stops now, and that will happen in the end days.
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He will just say, It's over, it's done, let's begin a new resurrected universe.
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Until that happens, the universe continues being.
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Therefore, my dear friends, therefore, God's reality is fundamental.
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For this reason alone, Moses can come to a burning bush, a burning bush that does not burn out.
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Okay, it's burning, but it's not burning to the ground.
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So it's burning, but the chemical reaction of burning is not happening.
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How is this possible?
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It's possible because God is the creator.
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He can make both things occur at the same time because he controls reality.
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How can Jesus walk on water?
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And not just him, but Peter as well.
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How can they walk on water?
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How can you raise a dead man?
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A dead man, dead cells, dead dead biology, it's now being brought back to life.
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Well, because God is the creator, this is the power of creation, He changes reality itself.
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Believe it and you shall have it.
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If it's God's will for you, if it's the Lord's plan for you to have this kind of faith, then accept it and you will have it.
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Because that is his will for us.
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For us to be truly, truly sons and daughters of the Heavenly Father on earth.
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City that cannot be hidden, the salt of the entire earth.
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Now, he gives wisdom to the wise, he imparts knowledge to those with understanding.
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Now, this this uh sentence looks kind of like a rhetorical sentence, right?
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Similar to those sentences in logic where you just restate the thing in another way.
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So it can look kind of like kinda like, right?
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When you read it, it's stating the obvious.
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Well, I mean, he gives wisdom to the wise.
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Well, you know, what does that mean?
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Well, it actually means that if you have already the foundation, the Lord then works with that foundation.
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Now we have seen this just a couple of verses prior to this one, where Daniel received and his friends re- in verses 117, they have received the capacity.
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So, because it says, as for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill.
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God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom.
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And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
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Therefore, my friends, the capacity comes first.
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The capacity comes first, and then you need to work it out because they themselves were being taught for three full years in the literature and the science of the Babylonians.
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So they were working it out.
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Okay, they were working it out.
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So it's really important that God gives wisdom to those who are already wise, to those who have the capacity to accept that wisdom and knowledge to the capacity to understand.
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I mean, it's glorious because if you don't have the capacity, you can have it, you can receive it through ordinary means of learning.
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Through ordinary means of learning.
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So God works with the ordinary manner, and he works tremendously with the ordinary manner, and most of the time God works truly with the ordinary manner.
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What is the ordinary manner?
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It's getting a book, getting into the field, getting yourself immersed into a domain and learning.
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Learn, my friends.
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Learn.
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The more you learn, the more knowledge God can God can give to you.
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What kind of a knowledge that is?
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It's knowledge that leads to success.
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The specific word here which says that God gives wisdom to the wise, the knowledge to those who have understanding.
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So knowledge here is actually a way of thinking.
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It's what we would call today scientific way of thinking.
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It's reasoning.
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It's reasoning.
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In in philosophy and cognitive science, we call this epistemology.
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The way you think.
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So, as you know it, right?
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The the smartest man is the man who knows how to think.
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If you don't know how to think, you will never get to the best results.
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God inspires you with precise guidelines on how to think, your consciousness, so your full consciousness, the manner in which you perceive the hidden relations.
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God highlights those, so to say, triggers in your mind.
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He highlights the important things for which you have to pay attention.
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He guides you directly to insights, right?
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He guides you directly there, and then when you get it, you are sure to succeed.
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And God opens up our minds.
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We read this in Luke 24, 45.
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Then He opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures.
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God can give you understanding, not just of the scriptures, but also of any other field.
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God opens up your mind.
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This is it's like a river of understanding, opening up your inner inner mind, your inner understanding, your processes, oiling up the engine, so to say.
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It's oiling up your entire engine.
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The Holy Spirit quickens the mind.
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He quickens the mind.
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He makes you a man of quick understanding.
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It the the understanding of a matter is immediately shown to you.
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And we read this in Exodus, for instance, in Exodus 31:3, the scripture says that Bezalel was filled with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
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So the Holy Spirit, who is the creator of all things, who sees reality as it is, fully open, nothing is hidden from him.
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He knows all things, and he speaks to us from the future.
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He can give you direct, concrete guidelines on what to do and how to do it best.
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Understanding in all manner of workmanship.
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The Holy Spirit gives you that.
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Of course, you need to believe it and you need to act on this word.
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So the the wisdom from above is not some form of religious wisdom.
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You know that you will, I don't know, you will become something of a let's call it like that, a monk on a hill meditating and you know, giving wisdom advice, life advice to people.
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Yes, it includes that, of course, for the salvation of all men.
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But it also for the salvation of all men and for the fulfillment of the Lord's plan includes understanding, knowledge on in all manner of workmanship, science, literature, and art.
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So whatever domain you are currently included in, God gives you the supernatural inspiration, guidelines, highlights.
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Like it's you know, it's like a like a beam of light showing to you, you on your inside, what path to follow, on what to focus, what to resolve first.
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Now, for my own personal testimony in this matter, I mean I could testify quite a lot about this process, how the Lord inspires me to do specific things.
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I'm just gonna give you a single example, which was life-defining for me.
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It's so in this sense, I really want to encourage you to be faithful to the inspiration of the Lord, which occurs naturally within the learning process.
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So I was doing my doctorate studies, I was, I think I was beginning of the second year, maybe middle of the first year, something like that.
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That was some six, seven years ago, and I had to decide on the doctoral theme and pick up my mentor, right?
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As it usually goes.
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And then since I was, I mean, I was quite familiar or familiar with many different fields.
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I was doing a doctorate in philosophy.
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I could, I'm, I could have picked many different themes to work on.
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But since I was already a decade-long immersed into the field of enhancement, human enhancement, both cognitive, physical, moral enhancement, this entire story about transhumanism, I told myself, well, you know, I felt inspired to simply continue doing this.
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And then when I was thinking on it, really ruminating on it is the proper English word, meditating on it, a strong, powerful incentive because I was already two years maybe learning about AI.
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I was already really starting to learn quite heavily about AI following the machine learning boom, which was starting to occur at that time.
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No LLMs were at that time still present, but I felt an extremely strong inspiration, like a like a magnetic force guiding me towards the area of AI.
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And then it at one moment and instance, it just came to me.
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The idea came to me while I was reading many different materials, they they all connected, and I clearly saw within myself, I felt this inspiration to pursue a doctorate in which in AI ethics, in which I will combine the fields of augmentation or enhancement and AI within the symbiotic framework.
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And I've because I read this seminal paper, a seminal scientific paper from the 1960s by Lickleader about human-machine symbiosis, and it all fell in its proper place for me.
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You know, it was really revealing for me to read that, and then all of the things I have been working on just were, you know, like puzzles placed in their own proper place, and I felt this extremely strong motivation.
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This is the thing, this is the thing, this is the thing.
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You need to pursue this precise theme.
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So I came to my mentor, God bless him.
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Who knows?
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Maybe one day he will listen to this, and I told him, I want to do this, this is going to be the future.
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Now, at that time, you must understand the field of AI really wasn't that powerful in philosophy circles as it is nowadays.
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I mean, not just in philosophy, in every circle and of humanity.
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And at that moment, you know, he was a bit skeptical, but he had faith in my inspiration and vision.
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And then we managed to find a single paper that already did a theme by a famous scholar, and he said to me, Well, look, it's better not to be the one breaking the ice.
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So let's go with it, let's go forward.
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And then, you know, I fully immersed myself into this into this field, and at the end of my second year, so already for an entire year, I was really going through all of these materials, learning, you know, and uh at the end of my second year, another scholar who came, by the way, to to Croatia for just that small period of a single year met me, found about my research, and recommended to me that I could try to apply for a scholarship in Japan, where he's now returning.
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He's returning back to Kyoto.
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And that scholar became my second mentor, and right now, this day, I'm still working in that field of social robotics with that same scholar.
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Why?
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Because through the through the advice of that scholar, the second one, who went back to Kyoto, I applied for an international scholarship that is being awarded every year to prominent PhD students.
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So students making a doctorate somewhere, anywhere in the world.
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So it's international, right?
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So the competition is high.
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I got in.
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Praise be to the Lord, really, through faith and prayer, I got in.
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Then I went to Japan, finished my doctorate there at Robotics Lab, so a laboratory that does human-robot interaction at Kyoto University.
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And I will always remember how a friend, an engineer from Pakistan, came to me.
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God bless him, God bless Zulkafil.
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He came to me, that's Ezekiel, by the way.
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He came to he came to me and uh he said he said to me, What are you, a philosopher, doing here with engineers?
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So that was the Lord's doing, truly, because precisely because of that inspiration which I had.
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So to recognize where things are moving, I saw it, my friends.
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I got it through learning, I got the inspiration through learning.
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Because of that inspiration, I dug deep into the pool of knowledge.
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I learned, I really truly learned, I read every day, and because of that knowledge, which I got, because of that inspiration which I got, I was able to write a submission and receive this award and go into Japan and there work for an entire year and do my doctorate, and then I actually went back to Japan and I am still in great, wonderful uh relationships with the with the friends and colleagues there.
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So, in that sense, you see, when you answer the inspiration, the understanding which the Lord gives to you, because I know that the Lord gave this to me to save my life.
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My friends, my life was truly completely transformed and is still being transformed by that single inspiration.
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Now, as a as another example or as a counterexample, I will give an example of a friend to whom I have said she she wasn't decisive on the on the theme, she she wants to work for her PhD.
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And I told her, look, I'm gonna give you all the materials, whatever you need to get into to get into artificial intelligence at that time.
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I'm gonna give to you to learn to you know just go into this this reality.
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It's going to be a complete change of future for us.
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This AI, right?
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It's gonna change our lives completely.
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Go get into it now so that you may be ready to work on it later.
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She waved her hand, unfortunately.
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She told me precisely, I'm not interested in that.
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Now, at this moment, she's also working, I mean, she's also touching on these matters because you need to, right?
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But the Lord forewarns you forewarning.
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He lets you see the future where things are going, he gives you the understanding, he gives you the advanced step, he tells you this is the way these things will be developing forward to, developing into.
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Go this way, you will succeed.
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You will secure your future, you will secure your future if you answer this inspiration.
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I answered it because of that inspiration.
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I filled myself with knowledge, so you see, it's really a completely normal process as described in Daniel.
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I I was first inspired to learn, then I learned, then I was filled with knowledge and with understanding of the subject, then I wrote a sub, then you know, through this grace of meeting this second scholar, I applied to Japan, I got the award, I went to Japan, and my life completely changed.
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So one single yes, I answered, yes, I will follow this inspiration.
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My destiny was changed and is still being changed this very day.
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I am just this day working on a paper that is connected with this field of social robotics.
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Now, this is beautifully explained in Isaiah 28 23, when the Lord says, Listen and hear my voice, pay attention and hear what I say.
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When a farmer a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually?
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Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
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When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow care away and scatter cumin?
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Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot and spelt in its field?
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Now his God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
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Now friends, listen to this once again.
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When a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually?
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Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
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No, he knows precisely what to do in what time and how.
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This is what we have heard before, right?
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That God works everything in its own season.
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There is a season for everything, there is a time for everything.
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For this purpose, when you work out, when you are working in a domain, God teaches you how to work what time in what time period to work out what specific action.
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Because God is a God of order, there is a time and a season for everything.
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So, for this reason, when a farmer plows for planting, he does not plow continually like a madman or a robot stuck in a loop, right?
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Robot stuck in a loop.
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Would keep on breaking up and working the soil.
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Like, and then you would come and look at the robot and say, Oh boy, you know, the robot has gone haywire.
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His circuits are malfunctioning.
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So there is a reasonable order for everything.
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And God teaches you that order.
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He gives you inspiration when to start, when to stop, when to move forward, when to start start start acting out a different action, when to stop, etc.
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Because he continues immediately, right?
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His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
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Now, what is the right way?
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He continues, right?
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Grain must be ground to make bread.
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The wheels of a trashing cart so that the wheels of a trashing cart may be rolled over it.
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All of this, all of this comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.
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His plan is wonderful, his wisdom is magnificent, and how does he reveal the plan?
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How does he reveal the wisdom?
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Well through learning.
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Through learning and through action.
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Everything in its order, everything in its time.
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So to restate, yes, surely God can tell you something as the Holy Spirit told Paul, as he told Peter, as Peter saw a vision, as Daniel saw a vision, as Amos saw a vision, as Ezekiel heard the Lord, etc., you can see and hear heavenly ideas directly in your mind.
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But God also sharpens, highlights, focuses, directs the process by which you work and by which you learn how to work.
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Tremendously important.
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Tremendously important.
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And when we work and act in this manner that we rely on the Lord who resides in us, then we are not moving anymore in the normal human level.
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Then we are truly working out the good works prepared for us before time began.
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Then we are entering through faith and through action.
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Through faith we are entering into the heavenly realm to receive the inspiration.
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It occurs continually in us.
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It occurs naturally in us.
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You will be reading a book, you will be doing some work.
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The highlights will be coming.
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The understanding will be coming.
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You will see what to go, where to do, how to do it.
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Colossians 1 9 to 10, that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
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That you might walk worthy of the Lord, being fruitful, fruitful in every good work.
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Be fruitful and multiply was the first command given to the humanity as a whole.
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God calls us to be fruitful.
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Now listen, so that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will, that you may be fruitful in every good work.
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The knowledge of his will, the knowledge of God's will for us is not only, oh Lord, I need to be holy.
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Everybody knows that.
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I mean, it's there written as Jesus Himself has said, right?
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If they are not listening to the Moses and the prophets, they will not listen to me if I raise up from the dead.
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So the sanctification, the holiness, the the understanding of his will is available to all, if they at least have some common sense and wish to believe, right?
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But what what manner of wisdom and spiritual understanding?
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Knowledge of his will, for whom?
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For me, that I may be fruitful in every good work.
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So the knowledge of his will is specific for me.
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For me, you have to say it, I say I.
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Say for me, the Lord reveals the knowledge of his will for me, so that I may be fruitful.
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How will I be fruitful?
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I will know what to do, I will know how to work it out.
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Like that farmer whom God instructs.
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It comes from the Lord.
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You have heard the scripture, it comes from the Lord.
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Bezalel was filled with understanding on how to do things.
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God will inspire you in the precious name of our King and ruler.
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God will inspire you to accomplish His will on earth.
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Jesus be praised.
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For I will praise the Lord who counsels me even at night my heart instructs me.
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My friends, the voice of the Lord, the guidance of the Lord, the inspiration of the Lord can be to you as your own heart speaks to you.
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Moreover, it will often be from the center of your being.
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It will be as though it will be as though you are speaking to yourself, but you know it's not you, but your Lord.
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It's the Holy Spirit who is deep in you, deep within you, deep with you.
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Because he's the maker.
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For this reason, the Psalm Psalmist can say in this Psalm 16:7, I will praise the Lord who counsels me.
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Even at night, my heart instructs me.
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So the Lord counsels you how?
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By your own heart.
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Your own heart instructs you.
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What is the heart?
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It is your inner man in Hebrew Lib.
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So your inner man, your hidden man, your inner most intimate, intimate part, that's your spirit.
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That's what we call spirit.
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That's you, that's you, brother and sister.
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Your heart will instruct you.
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Why?
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Because the Lord is the spirit.
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As Paul himself says in Corinthians 6 17, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
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The one who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with the Lord.
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Beloved friends, for this reason your heart instructs you.
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But it's not your heart that instructs you, it's the Lord.
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It's the Spirit of the Lord joined with your spirit, counseling you.
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Blessed be the Maker of all things, who resides in us and gives us His light.
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For this reason, and I'm concluding with this, it's extremely vital for us that while we are working out in all of our works that are given to us as faithful stewards, we seek God's understanding.
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We seek His skill, His expertise.
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There are many devices in a man's heart.
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The counsel of the Lord shall stand.
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The counsel of the Lord shall stand.
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Why the counsel of the Lord?
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Because it is sure.
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It is 1000% accurate.
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Because God is the creator.
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He speaks to you from a finished reality.
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From a finished reality, you cannot miss the mark if you are listening to his inspiration.
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If you are listening to his inspiration, you cannot, you cannot read.
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There's no way for you to miss the mark.
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Because God is the creator.
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What he tells you to do, do it, and you will surely succeed in all of your works.
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As Saul says to David in 1 Samuel 26, 25, Blessed are you, my son David, you will accomplish much and certainly succeed.
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Or in whatever you do, you will surely succeed.
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You will surely succeed.
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Why?
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Because God is blessing you, God is guiding you.
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And this was evident in the life of David, who constantly seeked the Lord's advice.
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Shall I go and battle them?
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Shall I go and fight them?
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Go, you will win.
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Daniel, David was seeking, like Daniel, God's guidance and he got it.
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And that is the reason why he was so successful.
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Friends, let us not rely on our meager, small human intellect.
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Let us reside firmly in the promise, in the reality, that the Lord gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to men with understanding.
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Therefore, become a man and a woman of understanding.
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Read the books.
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I, Daniel, understood from books.
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We are reading afterwards.
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He understood from books.
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Paul said to Timothy, bring me my books.
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He was reading the books.
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A man dying, Paul, and he says, Bring me my books.
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I want to read.
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Read and learn, and you will be blessed.
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You will succeed.
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God bless you all.
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God's train is going choo-choo, jump in and be blessed.
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Friends, today immediately we are going to the second part of the 221.
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He gives wisdom to the wise, he imparts knowledge to those with understanding.
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Previously and afterwards, we have seen that God gave Daniel in a night vision.
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So you can see it like the prophet Amos saw it, like Isaiah, like Jesus Himself.
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You can see heavenly, you can see heavenly works which God gives to you, these works which are already prepared.
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So wherever God is, there is creation.
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Jesus be blessed.
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Wherever God is, there is creation, because God is the creator.
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So he created everything from his word before everything existed.
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So he was, he is, and forever.
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He is now, before, and forever.
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And where he is, he creates.
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Because God is the only true reality.
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Many, many Christian spiritual men and women in the past, of in the in the churches past, in the entire body of Christ have testified to this.
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They have testified that the only true reality is God.
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Like that famous, by the way, he borrowed it from us.
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Roger Zelazny.
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By the way, I love that series, The Chronicles of Amber.
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So, spoilers, sorry people, but amber is like this only true reality, and everything else only exists because amber exists.
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Amber shines, so so to say, reality throughout these other worlds, and all of these other worlds are just shadows, they exist because amber exists.
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And now this has been again testified throughout the history of Christianity that God is the only true reality because he is the creator, he alone is the creator, he's not a created being, he creates, he was not created.
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In this sense, my dear friends, it's important for us to know that where God is, where is God's presence, there is creation.
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So when God is in us, when we accept it and enable him to work through us, allow him to work through us, you cannot do anything, anything without me, Jesus says it.
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Why anything?
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Well, because he is the creator, because whatever he wishes to exist exists.
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If he would say this universe stops now, the universe stops now, and that will happen in the end days.
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He will just say, It's over, it's done, let's begin a new resurrected universe.
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Until that happens, the universe continues being.
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Therefore, my dear friends, therefore, God's reality is fundamental.
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For this reason alone, Moses can come to a burning bush, a burning bush that does not burn out.
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Okay, it's burning, but it's not burning to the ground.
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So it's burning, but the chemical reaction of burning is not happening.
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How is this possible?
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It's possible because God is the creator.
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He can make both things occur at the same time because he controls reality.
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How can Jesus walk on water?
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And not just him, but Peter as well.
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How can they walk on water?
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How can you raise a dead man?
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A dead man, dead cells, dead dead biology, it's now being brought back to life.
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Well, because God is the creator, this is the power of creation, He changes reality itself.
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Believe it and you shall have it.
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If it's God's will for you, if it's the Lord's plan for you to have this kind of faith, then accept it and you will have it.
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Because that is his will for us.
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For us to be truly, truly sons and daughters of the Heavenly Father on earth.
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City that cannot be hidden, the salt of the entire earth.
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Now, he gives wisdom to the wise, he imparts knowledge to those with understanding.
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Now, this this uh sentence looks kind of like a rhetorical sentence, right?
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Similar to those sentences in logic where you just restate the thing in another way.
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So it can look kind of like kinda like, right?
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When you read it, it's stating the obvious.
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Well, I mean, he gives wisdom to the wise.
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Well, you know, what does that mean?
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Well, it actually means that if you have already the foundation, the Lord then works with that foundation.
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Now we have seen this just a couple of verses prior to this one, where Daniel received and his friends re- in verses 117, they have received the capacity.
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So, because it says, as for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill.
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God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom.
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And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
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Therefore, my friends, the capacity comes first.
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The capacity comes first, and then you need to work it out because they themselves were being taught for three full years in the literature and the science of the Babylonians.
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So they were working it out.
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Okay, they were working it out.
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So it's really important that God gives wisdom to those who are already wise, to those who have the capacity to accept that wisdom and knowledge to the capacity to understand.
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I mean, it's glorious because if you don't have the capacity, you can have it, you can receive it through ordinary means of learning.
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Through ordinary means of learning.
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So God works with the ordinary manner, and he works tremendously with the ordinary manner, and most of the time God works truly with the ordinary manner.
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What is the ordinary manner?
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It's getting a book, getting into the field, getting yourself immersed into a domain and learning.
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Learn, my friends.
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Learn.
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The more you learn, the more knowledge God can God can give to you.
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What kind of a knowledge that is?
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It's knowledge that leads to success.
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The specific word here which says that God gives wisdom to the wise, the knowledge to those who have understanding.
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So knowledge here is actually a way of thinking.
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It's what we would call today scientific way of thinking.
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It's reasoning.
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It's reasoning.
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In in philosophy and cognitive science, we call this epistemology.
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The way you think.
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So, as you know it, right?
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The the smartest man is the man who knows how to think.
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If you don't know how to think, you will never get to the best results.
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God inspires you with precise guidelines on how to think, your consciousness, so your full consciousness, the manner in which you perceive the hidden relations.
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God highlights those, so to say, triggers in your mind.
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He highlights the important things for which you have to pay attention.
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He guides you directly to insights, right?
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He guides you directly there, and then when you get it, you are sure to succeed.
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And God opens up our minds.
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We read this in Luke 24, 45.
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Then He opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures.
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God can give you understanding, not just of the scriptures, but also of any other field.
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God opens up your mind.
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This is it's like a river of understanding, opening up your inner inner mind, your inner understanding, your processes, oiling up the engine, so to say.
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It's oiling up your entire engine.
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The Holy Spirit quickens the mind.
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He quickens the mind.
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He makes you a man of quick understanding.
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It the the understanding of a matter is immediately shown to you.
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And we read this in Exodus, for instance, in Exodus 31:3, the scripture says that Bezalel was filled with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
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So the Holy Spirit, who is the creator of all things, who sees reality as it is, fully open, nothing is hidden from him.
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He knows all things, and he speaks to us from the future.
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He can give you direct, concrete guidelines on what to do and how to do it best.
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Understanding in all manner of workmanship.
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The Holy Spirit gives you that.
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Of course, you need to believe it and you need to act on this word.
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So the the wisdom from above is not some form of religious wisdom.
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You know that you will, I don't know, you will become something of a let's call it like that, a monk on a hill meditating and you know, giving wisdom advice, life advice to people.
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Yes, it includes that, of course, for the salvation of all men.
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But it also for the salvation of all men and for the fulfillment of the Lord's plan includes understanding, knowledge on in all manner of workmanship, science, literature, and art.
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So whatever domain you are currently included in, God gives you the supernatural inspiration, guidelines, highlights.
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Like it's you know, it's like a like a beam of light showing to you, you on your inside, what path to follow, on what to focus, what to resolve first.
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Now, for my own personal testimony in this matter, I mean I could testify quite a lot about this process, how the Lord inspires me to do specific things.
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I'm just gonna give you a single example, which was life-defining for me.
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It's so in this sense, I really want to encourage you to be faithful to the inspiration of the Lord, which occurs naturally within the learning process.
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So I was doing my doctorate studies, I was, I think I was beginning of the second year, maybe middle of the first year, something like that.
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That was some six, seven years ago, and I had to decide on the doctoral theme and pick up my mentor, right?
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As it usually goes.
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And then since I was, I mean, I was quite familiar or familiar with many different fields.
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I was doing a doctorate in philosophy.
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I could, I'm, I could have picked many different themes to work on.
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But since I was already a decade-long immersed into the field of enhancement, human enhancement, both cognitive, physical, moral enhancement, this entire story about transhumanism, I told myself, well, you know, I felt inspired to simply continue doing this.
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And then when I was thinking on it, really ruminating on it is the proper English word, meditating on it, a strong, powerful incentive because I was already two years maybe learning about AI.
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I was already really starting to learn quite heavily about AI following the machine learning boom, which was starting to occur at that time.
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No LLMs were at that time still present, but I felt an extremely strong inspiration, like a like a magnetic force guiding me towards the area of AI.
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And then it at one moment and instance, it just came to me.
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The idea came to me while I was reading many different materials, they they all connected, and I clearly saw within myself, I felt this inspiration to pursue a doctorate in which in AI ethics, in which I will combine the fields of augmentation or enhancement and AI within the symbiotic framework.
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And I've because I read this seminal paper, a seminal scientific paper from the 1960s by Lickleader about human-machine symbiosis, and it all fell in its proper place for me.
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You know, it was really revealing for me to read that, and then all of the things I have been working on just were, you know, like puzzles placed in their own proper place, and I felt this extremely strong motivation.
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This is the thing, this is the thing, this is the thing.
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You need to pursue this precise theme.
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So I came to my mentor, God bless him.
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Who knows?
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Maybe one day he will listen to this, and I told him, I want to do this, this is going to be the future.
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Now, at that time, you must understand the field of AI really wasn't that powerful in philosophy circles as it is nowadays.
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I mean, not just in philosophy, in every circle and of humanity.
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And at that moment, you know, he was a bit skeptical, but he had faith in my inspiration and vision.
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And then we managed to find a single paper that already did a theme by a famous scholar, and he said to me, Well, look, it's better not to be the one breaking the ice.
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So let's go with it, let's go forward.
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And then, you know, I fully immersed myself into this into this field, and at the end of my second year, so already for an entire year, I was really going through all of these materials, learning, you know, and uh at the end of my second year, another scholar who came, by the way, to to Croatia for just that small period of a single year met me, found about my research, and recommended to me that I could try to apply for a scholarship in Japan, where he's now returning.
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He's returning back to Kyoto.
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And that scholar became my second mentor, and right now, this day, I'm still working in that field of social robotics with that same scholar.
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Why?
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Because through the through the advice of that scholar, the second one, who went back to Kyoto, I applied for an international scholarship that is being awarded every year to prominent PhD students.
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So students making a doctorate somewhere, anywhere in the world.
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So it's international, right?
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So the competition is high.
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I got in.
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Praise be to the Lord, really, through faith and prayer, I got in.
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Then I went to Japan, finished my doctorate there at Robotics Lab, so a laboratory that does human-robot interaction at Kyoto University.
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And I will always remember how a friend, an engineer from Pakistan, came to me.
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God bless him, God bless Zulkafil.
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He came to me, that's Ezekiel, by the way.
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He came to he came to me and uh he said he said to me, What are you, a philosopher, doing here with engineers?
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So that was the Lord's doing, truly, because precisely because of that inspiration which I had.
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So to recognize where things are moving, I saw it, my friends.
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I got it through learning, I got the inspiration through learning.
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Because of that inspiration, I dug deep into the pool of knowledge.
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I learned, I really truly learned, I read every day, and because of that knowledge, which I got, because of that inspiration which I got, I was able to write a submission and receive this award and go into Japan and there work for an entire year and do my doctorate, and then I actually went back to Japan and I am still in great, wonderful uh relationships with the with the friends and colleagues there.
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So, in that sense, you see, when you answer the inspiration, the understanding which the Lord gives to you, because I know that the Lord gave this to me to save my life.
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My friends, my life was truly completely transformed and is still being transformed by that single inspiration.
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Now, as a as another example or as a counterexample, I will give an example of a friend to whom I have said she she wasn't decisive on the on the theme, she she wants to work for her PhD.
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And I told her, look, I'm gonna give you all the materials, whatever you need to get into to get into artificial intelligence at that time.
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I'm gonna give to you to learn to you know just go into this this reality.
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It's going to be a complete change of future for us.
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This AI, right?
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It's gonna change our lives completely.
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Go get into it now so that you may be ready to work on it later.
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She waved her hand, unfortunately.
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She told me precisely, I'm not interested in that.
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Now, at this moment, she's also working, I mean, she's also touching on these matters because you need to, right?
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But the Lord forewarns you forewarning.
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He lets you see the future where things are going, he gives you the understanding, he gives you the advanced step, he tells you this is the way these things will be developing forward to, developing into.
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Go this way, you will succeed.
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You will secure your future, you will secure your future if you answer this inspiration.
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I answered it because of that inspiration.
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I filled myself with knowledge, so you see, it's really a completely normal process as described in Daniel.
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I I was first inspired to learn, then I learned, then I was filled with knowledge and with understanding of the subject, then I wrote a sub, then you know, through this grace of meeting this second scholar, I applied to Japan, I got the award, I went to Japan, and my life completely changed.
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So one single yes, I answered, yes, I will follow this inspiration.
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My destiny was changed and is still being changed this very day.
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I am just this day working on a paper that is connected with this field of social robotics.
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Now, this is beautifully explained in Isaiah 28 23, when the Lord says, Listen and hear my voice, pay attention and hear what I say.
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When a farmer a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually?
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Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
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When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow care away and scatter cumin?
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Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot and spelt in its field?
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Now his God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
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Now friends, listen to this once again.
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When a farmer ploughs for planting, does he plough continually?
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Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?
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No, he knows precisely what to do in what time and how.
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This is what we have heard before, right?
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That God works everything in its own season.
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There is a season for everything, there is a time for everything.
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For this purpose, when you work out, when you are working in a domain, God teaches you how to work what time in what time period to work out what specific action.
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Because God is a God of order, there is a time and a season for everything.
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So, for this reason, when a farmer plows for planting, he does not plow continually like a madman or a robot stuck in a loop, right?
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Robot stuck in a loop.
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Would keep on breaking up and working the soil.
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Like, and then you would come and look at the robot and say, Oh boy, you know, the robot has gone haywire.
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His circuits are malfunctioning.
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So there is a reasonable order for everything.
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And God teaches you that order.
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He gives you inspiration when to start, when to stop, when to move forward, when to start start start acting out a different action, when to stop, etc.
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Because he continues immediately, right?
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His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
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Now, what is the right way?
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He continues, right?
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Grain must be ground to make bread.
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The wheels of a trashing cart so that the wheels of a trashing cart may be rolled over it.
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All of this, all of this comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent.
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His plan is wonderful, his wisdom is magnificent, and how does he reveal the plan?
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How does he reveal the wisdom?
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Well through learning.
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Through learning and through action.
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Everything in its order, everything in its time.
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So to restate, yes, surely God can tell you something as the Holy Spirit told Paul, as he told Peter, as Peter saw a vision, as Daniel saw a vision, as Amos saw a vision, as Ezekiel heard the Lord, etc., you can see and hear heavenly ideas directly in your mind.
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But God also sharpens, highlights, focuses, directs the process by which you work and by which you learn how to work.
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Tremendously important.
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Tremendously important.
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And when we work and act in this manner that we rely on the Lord who resides in us, then we are not moving anymore in the normal human level.
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Then we are truly working out the good works prepared for us before time began.
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Then we are entering through faith and through action.
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Through faith we are entering into the heavenly realm to receive the inspiration.
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It occurs continually in us.
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It occurs naturally in us.
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You will be reading a book, you will be doing some work.
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The highlights will be coming.
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The understanding will be coming.
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You will see what to go, where to do, how to do it.
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Colossians 1 9 to 10, that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
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That you might walk worthy of the Lord, being fruitful, fruitful in every good work.
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Be fruitful and multiply was the first command given to the humanity as a whole.
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God calls us to be fruitful.
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Now listen, so that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will, that you may be fruitful in every good work.
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The knowledge of his will, the knowledge of God's will for us is not only, oh Lord, I need to be holy.
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Everybody knows that.
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I mean, it's there written as Jesus Himself has said, right?
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If they are not listening to the Moses and the prophets, they will not listen to me if I raise up from the dead.
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So the sanctification, the holiness, the the understanding of his will is available to all, if they at least have some common sense and wish to believe, right?
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But what what manner of wisdom and spiritual understanding?
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Knowledge of his will, for whom?
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For me, that I may be fruitful in every good work.
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So the knowledge of his will is specific for me.
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For me, you have to say it, I say I.
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Say for me, the Lord reveals the knowledge of his will for me, so that I may be fruitful.
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How will I be fruitful?
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I will know what to do, I will know how to work it out.
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Like that farmer whom God instructs.
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It comes from the Lord.
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You have heard the scripture, it comes from the Lord.
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Bezalel was filled with understanding on how to do things.
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God will inspire you in the precious name of our King and ruler.
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God will inspire you to accomplish His will on earth.
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Jesus be praised.
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For I will praise the Lord who counsels me even at night my heart instructs me.
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My friends, the voice of the Lord, the guidance of the Lord, the inspiration of the Lord can be to you as your own heart speaks to you.
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Moreover, it will often be from the center of your being.
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It will be as though it will be as though you are speaking to yourself, but you know it's not you, but your Lord.
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It's the Holy Spirit who is deep in you, deep within you, deep with you.
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Because he's the maker.
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For this reason, the Psalm Psalmist can say in this Psalm 16:7, I will praise the Lord who counsels me.
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Even at night, my heart instructs me.
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So the Lord counsels you how?
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By your own heart.
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Your own heart instructs you.
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What is the heart?
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It is your inner man in Hebrew Lib.
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So your inner man, your hidden man, your inner most intimate, intimate part, that's your spirit.
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That's what we call spirit.
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That's you, that's you, brother and sister.
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Your heart will instruct you.
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Why?
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Because the Lord is the spirit.
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As Paul himself says in Corinthians 6 17, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
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The one who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with the Lord.
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Beloved friends, for this reason your heart instructs you.
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But it's not your heart that instructs you, it's the Lord.
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It's the Spirit of the Lord joined with your spirit, counseling you.
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Blessed be the Maker of all things, who resides in us and gives us His light.
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For this reason, and I'm concluding with this, it's extremely vital for us that while we are working out in all of our works that are given to us as faithful stewards, we seek God's understanding.
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We seek His skill, His expertise.
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There are many devices in a man's heart.
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The counsel of the Lord shall stand.
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The counsel of the Lord shall stand.
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Why the counsel of the Lord?
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Because it is sure.
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It is 1000% accurate.
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Because God is the creator.
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He speaks to you from a finished reality.
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From a finished reality, you cannot miss the mark if you are listening to his inspiration.
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If you are listening to his inspiration, you cannot, you cannot read.
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There's no way for you to miss the mark.
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Because God is the creator.
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What he tells you to do, do it, and you will surely succeed in all of your works.
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As Saul says to David in 1 Samuel 26, 25, Blessed are you, my son David, you will accomplish much and certainly succeed.
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Or in whatever you do, you will surely succeed.
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You will surely succeed.
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Why?
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Because God is blessing you, God is guiding you.
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And this was evident in the life of David, who constantly seeked the Lord's advice.
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Shall I go and battle them?
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Shall I go and fight them?
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Go, you will win.
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Daniel, David was seeking, like Daniel, God's guidance and he got it.
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And that is the reason why he was so successful.
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Friends, let us not rely on our meager, small human intellect.
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Let us reside firmly in the promise, in the reality, that the Lord gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to men with understanding.
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Therefore, become a man and a woman of understanding.
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Read the books.
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I, Daniel, understood from books.
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We are reading afterwards.
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He understood from books.
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Paul said to Timothy, bring me my books.
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He was reading the books.
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A man dying, Paul, and he says, Bring me my books.
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I want to read.
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Read and learn, and you will be blessed.
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You will succeed.
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God bless you all.
