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whether or not you should smoke? You know better than I do. You shouldn't come to ask me, for you already know the answer. The reason you come to ask me is that you want confirmation, but I will never give you that kind of confirma tion. Tell me the truth, don't you already know whether or not you should smoke?" Once he admits that he already knows, I go a little further and ask him, "How do you know? Where do you know?" They always tell me that they have something within them that knows. We know because we have been born into the kingdom of God.
It is unnecessary for a preacher or minister to tell people what to do. Do you need to teach a dog to bark? If you were to try to teach a dog to bark, and if that dog could speak, he would say, "I don't need your teachings. I just bark. I was born to bark, and I live in the barking kingdom." We all have been born into the kingdom of God. As a result, we simply "know" certain things. If you ask me how I know, I would reply, "I just know." I know that I am a man. I do not need anyone to teach me that I am a man. I simply am a man. Just as I am a man in the kingdom of man, so, because I have the divine life, I am also a son of God in the kingdom of God. I have the
life of God, and this life places me into the kingdom of God. This is the kingdom of God. Hallelujah, we are in it!
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