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Living Waters of Grace May 21st, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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continues teaching through God's Word.
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He's come that we might have life and that we might have it
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more abundantly. We get a taste of the abundant
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life. We don't want the life that the
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devil has to offer us. But I think too much in the
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churches in these last days, we have compromised as a community
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of believers and we got our foot in the heat of God and we got
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our feet in the death of the devil.
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And we don't have the capacity to experience life to the degree
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that Christ has come to give it to us.
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Jesus has come to give us life in abundance, a life that
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without him we could never have. The eternal life that the Bible
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promises believers doesn't have to start for us in heaven.
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We can have eternal life right now, here on earth today.
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Pastor Clark teaches us that many Christians can't experience
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life in the capacity Jesus offers because we've made too
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many compromises with the flesh. Being lukewarm Christians leaves
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the door open to the enemy, pushing us farther away from
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Jesus. Now here's Pastor Clark in
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Revelation Chapter 20 with today's edition of Living Waters
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of Grace. Our defense is only the armor of
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God, and the only way we can stand against the Wiles of the
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devil is with the armor of God. Verse 11 of Ephesians 6 says put
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on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against
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the Wiles of the devil. This is a definition of Wiles.
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It's a trick. This is a noun, the trick, a
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strategy meant to fold, to trap, to entice.
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Art. 4 begaling behavior. The verb is to deceive, to
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entice, to lure away from, into distracting you from the person
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of Christ. How many of us are facing
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distractions every day to move you away from being focused on
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Jesus Christ? Every one of us.
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It's a maneuver, a military strategy to trap us, to destroy
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us, to ruin our lives. What the devil does?
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He exaggerates the pleasures of sin while minimizing the true
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nature and outcome of sin, right?
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He makes sin look so alluring, so great, so attractive, but he
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never tells us about the horror and the outcome of the
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consequences of our sin. The devil sees an opening in our
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lives through our emotions and moods.
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The husband's upset, he's bummed out, he's complaining, he's, you
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know this at his wit's end with everything and all of us guys,
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we've been there and maybe are today.
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And the devil sees the mood. He sees the emotions.
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This is an opportunity for me to really 'cause some havoc here.
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See, the devil can't read our hearts.
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Only God knows our hearts. But the devil can see the
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outcome of our attitudes, our actions.
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He's able to distinguish our intentions as we move in our
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attitudes. He uses other people to lead us
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astray. That's why the Bible says have
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no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,
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but rather reprove them. Light and darkness can't walk
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together. The Bible says don't, don't be
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unequally yoked. So if you're with an unbeliever
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and you're a believer, that unbeliever is going to lead you
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astray. The master marketing agent in
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the world today is the devil. He packages sin and need
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attractive bundles. He makes things look so good and
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so exciting. It tells us in Second
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Corinthians chapter 2, verse 11, lest Satan should get an
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advantage of us. For we are not ignorant of his
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devices, his devices, his plots, his schemes, or his clever ways.
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Are you ignorant of Satan's devices?
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Raise your hand. We all are, we all are ignorant
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of his devices. That's why we need the word to
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show us what the deal is. If you're not in the word,
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you're going to be trapped. You're going to be deceived,
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you're going to be taken out and, and you got to ask yourself
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today, how much time am I in the word?
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How much am I hungering for the word?
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How much am I thirsting for righteousness?
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How much of my time in my daily life, Monday through Sunday, am
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I before the Word saying God give me wisdom, give me light so
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I don't get deceived by the darkness of the the enemy.
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Help me to understand so that I can protect my wife and my
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children. Help me to understand so I can
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help my brothers and sisters not fall victim to the consequences
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of the lives of the devil. We're told to have on this armor
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of God in Ephesians 6, and many of you are familiar with it.
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We had to memorize that in Bible college years ago, that whole
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book of Ephesians, and I memorize it, but I didn't have
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the foggiest idea what it was talking about.
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That's why, you know, understanding the Bible is just
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part of it. The Bible says we're to do the
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word or we deceive ourselves. But when he tells us to have
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this armor on him, just to break it out in terms that might make
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more sense, we're supposed to have this belt that's girded
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about the belt of truth, and that means that our life is to
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be surrounded by the truth. That's why it's important to be
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in church on Sundays, to be in the Word, whether you want to or
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not, whether you feel like it or not, you come because God's
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going to speak to your heart. He's going to show you what you
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need to know, and He's going to get you back on track.
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That's why we have Wednesday studies.
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That's why we have intercession. You know, God bless Dave and
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Janine. They're usually the only two
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down there praying. And Steve, you wonder where he
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goes. He's up there in the balcony
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praying for me as I'm preaching. And Gary and Cathy out in
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California at the time that I'm preaching, they're interceding
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for this service that the word of God would go forth because
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the flesh profits nothing only the spirit gives life.
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But the more we pray and the more we seek God, the more we're
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aware of the lies of the devil. Charles Spurgeon people would
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come up a wonderful man, preacher of God and the Lord
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moves in that church in Metropolitan Tabernacle and
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many, many people were saved and and their lives were transformed
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and and they would come to Charles after the service and
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ask, you know, what is, is the deal here in this place?
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Where is the power coming from? How's all this stuff happening?
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And Charles said, come on, I want to take you down to the
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furnace room. And they think a furnace room.
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What's he talking about? The place where the heat and the
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fire of God is took him down into the lower parts of the
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church. And there was many, many people
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on their knees praying for the Word of God as it went forth.
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If we're not praying for the Word of God going forth here,
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you'll hear the voice of a fool. You'll hear the voice of a man.
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But if you pray and you ask God to work and to move and to
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speak, you'll hear God's voice. And that's the only voice it can
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save and transform our lives. It says our heart is to be
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covered with Christ's righteousness.
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The breastplate of righteousness represents the righteousness of
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Jesus Christ. Our heart.
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Is our heart soft today or is it hard?
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The shield of faith, we're supposed to hold it up, and
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that's having a walk of faith and authority that we are where
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we're supposed to be with the Lord so that when the devil's
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shooting all his lies and arrows to discourage us and destroy our
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lives, we can see them bounce off of us because we have the
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faith that God has given to us to overcome.
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We have the helmet of salvation on.
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That means that your mind is to be renewed.
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You're to have the mind of Christ, right?
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Spending more time in the Word and in prayer is what causes you
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to think the way God thinks. Spending more time in the world
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causes you to think the way the devil thinks.
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We're supposed to have the sword of the Spirit, which is this,
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the word of God. This is our defense.
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This is what's able to quench all the lies of the devil.
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It says we're to pray always in the power of the Spirit.
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Pray always. Why?
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Because the flesh profits nothing.
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Only the Spirit gives life. Have you ever started to pray in
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your prayer life? And you're just praying because
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you know you're supposed to pray?
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You need to say it to get your conscience, OK?
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OK. God, I spoke to you.
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I prayed with my wife. I prayed with my kids.
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I prayed for dinner. I ask God for this.
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I ask God for that. But I mean praying fervently.
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God, help my brothers and sisters, help me.
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Help us help all the believers in the world today to overcome
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the lies of the devil. Help us to be salt and light in
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these last days. Help us not to be the kind of
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people that hide the light under the bushel so that no one can
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understand or see that we have a king, that we serve and that we
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follow. John 1010.
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This is from Jesus own words. The thief cometh not, but for to
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steal and to kill and to destroy.
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I have come that you may have life and that you might have it
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more abundantly. I'm not going to ask anybody to
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raise their hands on this one. But some of you know that the
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devil has come and knocked on your door and he's doing
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everything he can to steal everything you have, to destroy
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every relationship you have, and to take you out physically,
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emotionally, spiritually. Some of us here know that He's
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come, that we might have life and that we might have it more
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abundantly. We get a taste of the abundant
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life. We don't want the life that the
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devil has to offer us. But I think too much in the
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churches in these last days, we have compromised as a community
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of believers, and we got our foot in the heat of God and we
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got our feet in the death of the devil.
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And we don't have the capacity to experience life to the degree
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that Christ has come to give it to us.
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The devil shoots thoughts at us like arrows and darts.
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And the day he shot thoughts, Clark's a little bit different
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today. He's a little bit crazy.
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He's a little bit worked up. I've heard him preach a lot of
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times that I don't know if I've heard him this intense.
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So it's probably not a normal Sunday.
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So don't really think too much about it.
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It'll go he'll, he'll come back and be the same, the dead guy we
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had last week, maybe the same boring guy we had for the month
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before. I pray that's not the case.
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But believe me, apart from God's Spirit and apart from these kind
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of things, we will just have another church like any other
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church on any given Sunday where we do our quote religious duty
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and go home and I'll try to forget about whatever it is that
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we might have received. God's Spirit has to bring
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conviction. The devil's work is to influence
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us to disobey God's truth, just like in Genesis.
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Hath not God said the Eve twisting the Word?
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And I was thinking as I was preparing for this, I don't even
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think that's the tactic the devil has to use anymore to
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twist the Word. You know why?
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Because we're not even in the Word, right?
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Why does he have to twist the Word?
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We're not in the Scriptures, we're not studying, we're not
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feeding on the Word. So he'll use all kind of other
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tactics. A lot of us don't even know what
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the word says about things anymore because we haven't
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studied it. And Jesus, he says to all of us
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today, why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things
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that I say. Now this is a life of obedience.
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This is what a life of obedience will represent.
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You'll be separated unto the Lord.
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You'll have peace and you'll have well-being in your life.
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If you're obedient, the Lord will bless you.
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You will know you're doing His will.
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You won't ruin your life. He'll guard your life
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spiritually, mentally, and emotionally.
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He'll give you honor. He'll give you discernment.
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Some of us are like, what's God's plan?
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What's His will? If you walk on obedience, I
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guarantee 100% you will know God's purpose and will for your
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life. You'll have nothing to fear if
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you obey Him. You'll have reduced levels of
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anxiety. You'll be wise in heart.
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You'll release God's power in your life and your prayers will
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have power. The Bible says the fervent
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prayers of a righteous person avails much.
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If you're disobedient, you'll be separated from the Lord in the
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sense of your relationship will be dry and barren.
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You'll go to pray in the heavens will seem like brass.
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I'm just like not getting anywhere.
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There'll be no sense of His presence in your life because
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you're grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit.
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You're in danger of shipwreck, meaning your life is on the
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verge of complete destruction. Your life will be spiritually
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wasted at the end when you stand to give an account of yourself
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at the judgment seat of Christ, where believers go, not the
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great white throne judgment. We go to the judgment seat of
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Christ where God will test our works as though by fire, and
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we'll look at our life and we'll say it was a complete waste.
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I live for everything but what you wanted me to live for.
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Lord. Other lives will be in danger
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for walking in disobedience. The years that I walked in
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willful disobedience, I didn't know this at the time, but I was
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turning my wife and my children over to the devil to work, to
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get a foothold in the home and the family.
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If we're in disobedience, our sin effects others.
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You might think, well, my attitude, my actions, my
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bitterness, my complacency, my apathy, my coldness, my
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lukewarmness doesn't affect anybody else but me.
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But no, your life effects everyone else.
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If you're living a disobedience, you're hardened to the lordship
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of Jesus Christ in your life, you've lost all spiritual
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sensitivity, you have anxiety in your life, you have fear in your
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life, you have worry in your life, and you have chaos in your
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life. Abundant life comes from the
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Greek word parason, meaning exceedingly very highly beyond
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measure, more a quantity so abundant as to be considerably
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more than one would expect or anticipate.
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Isn't that the kind of life you want to have unto him who is
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able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask
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or think, according to the power that works within us.
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Jesus promised us a life far better than we could ever
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imagine. And Jesus says our life doesn't
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consist in the abundance of the things we possess.
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And many of us have compromised with what we spend our money on.
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And we've gotten this to try to find life, and we've bought that
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to try to find meaning. We've done this to try to find
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excitement. And Jesus is like shaking his
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head. When will you just come to me?
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Because I'm the one that gives you life.
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Come to me that you might find life and that you might find it
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more abundantly. That's why the apostle Paul said
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that Christ is our life and as a group of Christians, as a body
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of believers here, God wants us to find Christ being our All in
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all our everything, our focus. You know, you get a couple
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people in this church. I know we have many more than a
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couple. You guys are amazing, but just
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get a few people that are saying I don't want that anymore.
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I want what he wants. I don't want my will.
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I want God's will. I don't want to walk in two
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worlds. I don't want to compromise.
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I don't want to be cold. I don't want to be indifferent.
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I want to do what God says. I want to say to my husband,
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honey, we got to do what the word says and, and the father of
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the husband says, guys, we're going to do what God's word says
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regardless of the consequences. We're going to stake everything
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we are, everything we have on the lordship of Jesus Christ in
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our home. We're going to be as Joshua
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said, As for me in my house, we will serve the Lord.
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Colossians chapter 3, as we begin to conclude here, it says
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if you then are raised with Christ, seek the things which
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are above where Christ is sitting on the right hand of
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God. And I want to have some prayer
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today, guys, and I pray this altar is filled with us and I'll
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be here myself. I mean, we got to really say I
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want to be seeking what's above, not on things on the earth.
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And believe me, the way the church is today and these last
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days, the heat is not up, it's down.
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And so pastors are trying to figure out how we can fill our
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churches up and make the people feel good and feel comfortable.
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And meanwhile, what's happening in the church today is that
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there is a famine for the word of God.
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And so we're trying to make everybody feel OK.
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Well, you really don't have to seek what's above.
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Seek, you know what's below. We're all doing that.
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We're all the same. We're all in the same boat.
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You know, we don't have anybody around us making us.
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What would you call uncomfortable?
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Paul says seek the things which are above where Christ is
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sitting at the right hand of God.
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So one of the prayers today is we come to praise that Lord.
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I don't want to keep seeking what's below.
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Give me grace and help me. And guys, I know it's hard.
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I want to seek what's above. I'm sick of seeking what's below
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because all it's doing is ripping me off.
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Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.
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How many of us have our things on this earth?
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Raise your hand. We do.
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Our minds are on the things of this earth, for you died and
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your life is hidden with Christ and God.
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When Christ, who is our life appears, and you also will
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appear with him and glory. Therefore put to death your
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members which are on earth. The fornication.
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That's the sex outside of marriage.
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Stop it. If you're doing it, stop it.
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Uncleanness, passion, evil desire, greed, covetousness,
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which is idolatry. Because of these things, the
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wrath of God is going to come upon the sons of disobedience,
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in which you yourselves also once walked when you lived in
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them, but now you yourselves are to put off all these anger.
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If you guys are living in anger, you got to put it off.
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If you're living in wrath, you got to put it off.
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If you're living in malice or blasphemy or filthy language,
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get it out of your mouth. If you're lying to one another,
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if you're lying to God, if you're lying to one another,
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stop it, since you've put off the old man with its deeds and
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put on the new man which is renewed in the knowledge
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according to the image of him who created him.
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It says in verse 12, therefore, is the elect of God and an elect
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means a chosen of God, which the majority of us here today are
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believers. I, I know it says holy and
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beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness and
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long-suffering, and you might be going through something right
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now that you don't know how you're going to have the
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patience to deal with it. God says long-suffering comes
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from the spirit. And so, Lord, as I abide, as I
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look to you, as I surrender my will, my life to you, I will
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have all the patience in the world to wait upon you bearing
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with one another. Don't give up on each other.
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Don't make threats against one another.
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Don't say, Clark, if you preach another message like this, I'm
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never coming back to the church again.
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Hang in with me. Forgive one another.
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If anyone has a complaint against another, even as Christ
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forgave you, so you also must do.
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If any of us in here in the church have an attitude against
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anybody, we need to forgive each other.
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And above all these things, put on love, which is the bond of
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perfection. Love covers a multitude of sins
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and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you are
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called in one body, and be thankful.
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I love this. Let the word of Christ dwell in
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you richly, and all wisdom right, teaching and admonishing
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one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
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with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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That's what Rick and the team does every week.
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And whatever you do in Word of deed, do all in the name of our
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Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him the
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Christian home. Wives, submit to your own
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husbands as fitting to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do
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not be bitter toward them. Husbands, if you're bitter
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toward your wives, deal with it. Let the devil's stronghold be
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broken in the name of Jesus today.
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Let the Lord have freedom. The only thing that's going to
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keep you from coming up here today is your pride and your
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arrogance, your indifference in your hardness of heart.
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Let it go. The word is convicted all of us
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today. Children, if you're here today,
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obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the
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Lord. If you're not obeying your
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parents, you got real heartache ahead of you.
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Fathers, don't provoke your children unless they become
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discouraged bondservants. Obey in all things your masters
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according to the flesh, not with eye services, men pleasers, but
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in sincerity of the heart, fearing God.
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So at work we're working for people maybe we don't like, we
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don't respect to drive us nuts. Hey, that's not the issue.
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Our issue is to serve God in that job, not with looking with
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what people are going to say about us, but we're serving God
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to glorify him. And it says, and whatever you
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do, do it hardly as to the Lord and not unto men, knowing that
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from the Lord you will receive your reward of the inheritance
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for you serve the Lord Christ for he who does wrong will be
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repaid for what he has done. And there is no partiality.
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I think this is a really important time today, guys, let
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the strongholds be broken. The devil has created enough
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havoc in our lives, hasn't he, in our homes, our marriages and
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our families. And maybe you're OK today.
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Maybe like everything, you're, you're on track with God and and
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this sermon, you might say, well, Clark, I heard you today
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and I understand what you said, but I don't have any issues.
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I'm living 100% like the word says.
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And so, well, that's great. If you're there, I'd like to
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talk to you and tell me how you're making that happen.
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But if you are, I mean, if it's well with your soul and I pray
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it is, then pray for some other people today.
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Come up and pray for some other families.
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Pray for people that aren't here today or people you know in your
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life that are getting torn up by the devil.
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You know, Jesus, when he looks from his throne, that's like
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when he looked over the city of Jerusalem, he wept, didn't he?
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He was broken. He saw the people as being sheep
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without a shepherd. As a church, you know,
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everything that we do isn't just about us.
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It's about the city that we're in.
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It's about our families, our neighbors, our relatives.
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It's about the broken relationships and families,
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lives everywhere. And what happens is when we
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pray, God sees our brokenness. He sees our humility and what he
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does. He breaks the strongholds and he
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causes us to begin to walk in a new way, a whole different way
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of life. We are digging into the Book of
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Revelation here on Living Waters of Grace.
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Pastor Clark is tackling this challenging book as we try to
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discern the messages that are within its pages.
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There's so much imagery and at times you're not always sure
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what's literal and what's metaphorical.
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At one point there's a reference to an adulterous woman riding on
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a beast. And as someone else mentioned,
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at one point it almost sounds like a rodeo from hell.
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And in actuality it kind of is. You learn about the downfall and
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demise of a sinful and rebellious world, falling down
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in worship to someone who is the anti hero, the enemy, Satan
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working his insidious ways into the minds of fallen people.
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It's sad and it's heartbreaking, but it's a classic story of good
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versus evil. Thankfully, we know how this
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story ends. Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and
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evil is conquered once and for all.
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We pray and trust you've received Jesus as your Savior.
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But if you haven't, don't wait until the events in Revelation
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become what's happening on the streets.
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None of us wants you to be there at that time.
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Instead, we'd love for you to be with us in heaven as we
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celebrate the marriage supper with Jesus as his bridegroom.
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To get a better understanding of where we are in the Book of
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Revelation, to listen to any messages before or after this
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one, you can find them at our website,
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calvarychapelonline.com. That's it for today's edition,
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but we hope you'll want to hear Pastor Clark teach more from the
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Book of Revelation. It can be exciting to think
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about the future for believers, but it can feel a bit harrowing
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for those who don't believe. Come hear more next time on
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Living Waters of Grace.