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Episode 80: John Epistles 7 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul
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and all that is within me. Bless your Holy name. Amen, God,
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bless you everyone. We welcome you again once more to another edition of
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End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zachary,
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and today we're going to continue in this magnificent, wonderful book of the
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Bible, the Epistle of John, the first Epistle of John that he wrote
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to the church. Amen. So we thank God again for the Word of
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God that gives us strength, that gives us guidance. Amen. That Amen,
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certainly gives us protection, certainly has a lot of wisdom understanding. Amen.
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And all that we need. Amen. That everything we need in this
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present world a man. God has given it to us because He's provided it
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for us, and especially in his word. And of course, if you
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are saved, if you are redeemed, you have the power of the Holy
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Spirit living inside of you, and a man. Along with the Word of
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God and the Spirit of God, we cannot lose. Amen, We do
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not lose. We will not lose, because Jesus has already one for us
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victory. And we are overcomers more than conquerors through Christ Jesus who loves us.
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Amen. So if you have your Bibles, you can go with us.
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Amen to first John, chapter number five. And of course, before
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we begin, we a man invoke the presence of the Lord and ask his
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blessings upon our listening ears. Father, we thank you for this day.
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We thank you for all of your blessings. We thank you for every obedient
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heart, every listening ear. Lord, open eyes, ears, hearts.
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God, do the work that only you can do by the power of your
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Holy spirit. Lord. If you bless us, we should be blessed.
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If you keep us, we shall be kept. Lord. Let every child
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of yours Amen. This day, God, walk worthy of the vocation.
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Speak the truth in our hearts. Lord, so that we may be counting
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worthy to escape the things that are coming to pass. We want to be
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able to stand before you in that day, hearing your voice say well done,
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good and faithful servant, Enter thou into the joy of the Lord.
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Amen. God, we give you praising, glory and honor and all things.
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Amen and Amen. All right. Today we want to emphasize from this
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Amen, great letter that the apostle John wrote to the church. We want
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to emphasize the power in knowing, the power that is in knowing, Amen.
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In the Old Testament. If some of you, of course, fere
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familiar with the Old Testament, the Lord said these words concerning his people.
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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. My people are destroyed for lack
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of knowledge. The ox knows his master the donkey, but my people they
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don't know me. Amen. And God's desire Amen is for his people,
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is for his saints to know in whom they have believed, and he desires
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for us. His will for us is for us to live out our earthly
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pilgrimage with confidence, with blessed assurance of our salvation and the eternal life that
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we have a man given to us, a man by Jesus Christ. Amen.
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In the Ages to come, as the Apostle Paul would write about in
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the Ages to Come, there is so much more that God has in store
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for us. But the power is in knowing Amen. As the Apostle Paul
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again said, I know in whom I have believed, and I am persuaded
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a man that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him.
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Against that day, and this apostle John, a man again writes to the
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church, and he emphasizes their special emphasis in his writing. What we know,
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what we know a man, in order that again, we will not
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falter in the faith. Amen, falter in our faith. Amen. In
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the Bible speaks very plainly Old Testament, New Testament, that just shall live
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by his faith a man. You cannot believe what you don't know. What
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you don't know, you can't believe. Amen. And in order to amen,
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know the Lord. Amen. In order to believe the Lord, Amen,
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you've got to a man. Come to him first and foremost. And
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it is he, through his goodness and mercy, of of course, that
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draws us to him. And when you come, the Bible says, you
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must come in faith. He that comes to God must be leave that he
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is. Jesus said, take the yoke, learn of me. Amen.
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And again the Word of God, the Word of God gives us everything we
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need. A man that we can a man never never fall, a man
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never never falter in our faith in this world. The Word of God.
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Amen. It is a lamp, the Bible says, to our feet light
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unto our pathway. The Word of God is living, it is active,
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it is moving, it is operating. It is quick, it is powerful,
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it is sharper than any two edged sword. Amen. The Word of
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God. Amen again, when the words, as the Summer said, that
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word of I hidden in my heart, that I might not send against you.
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When the Word of God is in us. Amen, we can't and
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and we allow the Holy Spirit. Of course, we have to be obedient
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to the Holy Spirit. But the first and foremost, let me remind you
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of this, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Living God, the Holy
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Ghost will never contradict though word of God. Amen. Never. The Holy
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Spirit will never contradict the Word of God. And that's why it's so important
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for you and I to know the word of the Living God. Man shall
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not live Jesus at Old Testament, New Testament by bread alone, but by
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every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. And so this great
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Apostle John Amen again, as I've said emphasized throughout this series, he was
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one of the amen disciples of Jesus in aer circled Apostle. Amen. With
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Jesus going in coming out three and a half years. He was there at
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the cross, he was there at the ascension. A man. This man
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was the first hand eyewitness, and he is simply relating to us. Amen,
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just what Jesus taught them. Amen, Let's go to first John,
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chapter number five, beginning of verse number nine. If we receive the witness
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of man, the witness of God is great, for this is the witness
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of God which he has testified of his son Verse ten. He who believes
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in the Son of God has the witness in himself. He who does not
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believe God has made him a liar because he has not believed the testimony that
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God has given of his Son. And this is the testimony that God has
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given us eternal life. And this life is in his son. He who
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has the Son verse number twelve has life. He who does not have the
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Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you
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who believe in the name of the Son of God. At least what John
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says, that ye may know that you have eternal life, and that you
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may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. Let me
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pause there for just a few minutes. Man, And certainly we can be
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certain. The Bible teaches this is a certainty. There is a certainty of
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our salvation. Amen. The spirit bears witness with our spirit The Bible tells
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us in Romans, Amen, that we are the children of God. The
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Spirit will bear witness with our spirit. Amen, can't I've said this before,
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and I said again, I repeated. It bears repeating. There is
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no way that you can be saved and not know it. Amen. You
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cannot have the Holy Spirit living inside of you and not know it. Every
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child of God, first and foremost, he scourges, he corrects, he
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disciplines, he chastises. As it were, the Book of Hebrews teaches us
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this. Amen. So you cannot be a child of God, a son
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of God, a man, a saint of God, a man, a
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Christian, real Christianity, a man, true child of God without knowing it.
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You cannot, Amen, because there's a blessed assurance in this salvation.
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And we can be certain because God has given us the assurance of eternal life.
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This is what John is writing about. And that eternal life is in
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Jesus Christ. He who has the Son has life. He who does not
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have the Son does not have life. It's just that simple. All who
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have Jesus have life in them. Jesus that I've come that you might have
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life, and that you would have it more abundantly. Amen. But all
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who deny Jesus, on the other hand, guess what is living inside of
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them? Guess what they are a man cultivating inside of them. Guess what
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is working to their detriment. It is death, the sentence of death,
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because the Bible teaches that the wages of sin is death. And that's why
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Jesus came to pay the penalty, to pay the price. I've said it
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over and over again, and it bears again, repeating over and over again.
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He paid the price that we could not pay. He paid the debt
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that we owed that we couldn't pay. A man, that's why he came,
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Amen, took on a took on human flesh, took on a body.
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Amen, so that he through his blood, the shedding of his blood.
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Without the shedding the blood, there's no remission of sins through the shedding
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of his precious blood, undefiled sinless. Amen. That's who he was.
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That's who he is, Amen, the only acceptable offering sacrifice that could atone
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for sin. This is why Jesus came, Amen, to bear our sins
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and iniquities. Amen. This is the testimony of God himself concerning his only
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begotten son, that the way of eternal life is in him and through him,
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and by no other means. All who refuse to believe that Jesus is
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the one, the only way of life, the Bible says, John says,
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you're calling God a liar. Amen, You're calling God a liar.
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And all liars, the Bible makes clear, shall have their part in the
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lake of fire forever and ever. Amen. And again. But this blessed
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assurance, this is what we are talking about. This is what we because
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John writes to us so that we can know. And there is power in
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knowing the blessed assurance of eternal life that we have in Christ Jesus. It
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also gives us confidence in him. Amen. And this is the same kind
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of thing that the apostle Paul is, the same thing actually, the Apostle
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Paul was writing about at the close of Romans, chapter number EIGHTIESA. I
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am persuaded. What is that? How can you be persuaded? This?
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You persuaded in what you know? Amen. It's not something that you're hoping
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for. Amen. It's not something that you just wish what happen. Amen.
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There is power in knowing. It produces confidence, It produces persuasion.
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It produces convictions. A lot of the reason why a lot of people don't
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have convictions today, even about sin, a man in ungodliness, a man,
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is because they don't have convictions, and they don't have convictions because they
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don't have the Word of God rooted and grounded within them. Amen. And
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again, the power of knowing, the power of assurance, the power of
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persuasion, the power of the confidence that we need comes from knowing. The
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apostles a man prior to Jesus, a man arising from the dead, a
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man. And they saw him crucified, and again all of them left,
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all of them fled, all of them hid and fear and doubt and unbelief
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a man about what had just transpired, until they saw the risen Savior,
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until they were endued with power from on high. They got the Holy Ghost.
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Amen. They saw the risen Savior, and guess what it did to
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them. It gave them a confidence, It gave them a boldness. John
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said, we know, we have seen him, we have touched him,
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we have handled him. Amen. The word of life, that life which
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manifested, that was in the beginning, Amen, the beginning, that was
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the word, the word was with God. The Word was God, the
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Word was made manifest. Amen. And so they Johnny's is not relating again
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something that he doesn't know. He knows it. Amen. He knows it,
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Amen. And we got to know it too. We should know it.
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Amen. Amen. And that's what God wants for all of us,
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blessed assurance of knowing, Amen. Knowing having confidence, because that's what it
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does. It produces confidence in Christ Jesus. And this is what the apostle
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John is writing about, for us to be able to ask anything that is
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according to His will. Amen. And by the way, the apostle John
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heard these words from the very lips of Jesus himself, Amen, as it
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was recorded, of course in his gospel account. And we'll get to that
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in just a minute. But listen what the Bible teaches. John writes these
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words a man, because again knowing the power of knowing is very important.
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Knowing is what produces confidence, even in our prayers, our petitions, a
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man that we are to make known to God. Look at verse fourteen.
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The Bible says, now this is the confidence, the confidence that we have
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in him, in who Jesus, that if we ask anything according to that's
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the key his will, he hears us. And if we know that he
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hears us, John says, whatever we ask, we know that we have
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the petitions that we have asked of him. Again, let me reiterate.
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I'm gonna emphasize this, of course, because it's very important, sadly,
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sadly, sadly for too many Amen, professing Christians, with people in the
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church whatever, Amen, who will not study the Word of God for themselves.
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They have an erroneous understanding of both the Word of God and subsequently,
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of course, the will of God. And John makes it clear here that
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if we ask, and when we pray, when we ask according to God's
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will, well, how are we going to ask according to his will if
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we don't know what his will is? And how are we going to know
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what his will is if we don't know what his word says? And the
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only way that you can ascertain the will of God is through the word of
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God. The Holy Spirit is not going to empower you, not going to
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fill you with the wisdom and knowledge of God. If you're going to disobey,
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disillnull, set a naught, set aside, the word of God ain't
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gonna happen. No sir, no, ma'am. You've got to get into
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the word of God. And if you want to know the will of God
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for your life, Amen. And put it again, people do live this
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way. What basically what they do. They order their lives, They order
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their prayer life. Let me put it this way, they order their prayer
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lives, and then they end up conducting their daily lives based on the faulty
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belief that they can ask and receive whatever they dream about in their minds.
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And of course it's because many of these who do so have taken the word
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of God out of context. Amen. For example, let me give you
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several examples again in the Gospel. And remember John, whom I just read
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in his letter. Amen, he heard these words from Jesus, so he
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understood exactly what Jesus is teaching. And so this is why it's so important
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we did not take one verse of scripture, Amen, one saying of scripture
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out of context, out of meaning, with the broader Amen, understanding of
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first and foremost who God is and what his will is for our lives.
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Amen. So you anybody can't just ask anything of God and receive it,
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Amen, when they're not living according to the will of God. Amen,
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Because sin and disobedience, Amen, will bring judgment of God. And God
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is not going to grant the petitions of people who are not a man,
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obedient, people who are walking contrary, people who are destructive, Amen to
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his kingdom. No, ma'am, no sir. Amen. So well,
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let's look at a few passages. I give you a quick a few quick
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examples of what you can see and what people have taken out of kind text.
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Amen, these are words of Jesus, by the way that people have
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and that man listen. This is why we line up on the line precept,
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up on precept. Amen, listen with the Bible teaches Matthew seven and
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eight. For everyone who reaches, these are the words of Jesus. For
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everyone who asks received, and he who seeks finds, and to him who
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knocks, it will be open. Now does that mean that every single person
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in anybody in the world who asks of God will receive? Of course not,
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of course not. Amen. This everything everything, everything with us,
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everything with man. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, listen. Care for the
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Bible is crystal crystal crystal clear about this. Because God does not on a
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lip service. Amen. This is what there's a problem with his people.
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This was one of their major problems. These people honor me with their lips,
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but their heart is far from me. You have to believe in your
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heart. You have to pray from the heart. You have to have conviction
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in your heart. Again, he who comes to God must believe that He
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is all that God is. Amen. And when you learn, you don't
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come a man just asking anything, just seeking anything, a man knocking on
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the door, just for anything, a man to your own pleasures, for
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your own desires, for your own ambitions, all about you, all about
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you. No, no, no, no, no no no. That's
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why John again emphasizes it's according to his will. Matthew twenty one, Verse
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twenty two is another example. Listen to what the Bible says, Jesus the
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words of Jesus again, and whatever things you ask in prayer, believing you
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will receive. Wow. So if you just take again that verse out of
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context, Jesus says, whatever things you whatever that sounds like, oh anything,
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No matter what, Amen. God is not gonna violate his word.
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He's not gonna violate his will. Amen. He's not gonna do anything or
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grant anything that's contrary Amen to his holiness. Amen. So you can't come
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to God asking him, for example, to get rid of all of your
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enemies, wipe them out, just kill them all, Lord, get rid
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of your wife or somebody that's your boss, or just or some something.
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Just no, no, God is not in the business of answering those kinds
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of prayers. Just so that would but that would fit in the broad category
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of whatever. If you decided, okay, Lord, you said whatever you
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ask in prayer, believing you will receive Mark eleven, twenty four. Basically
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the same thing. It's kind of read, just a few difference in the
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wording. But listen what the Bible says. Therefore, I say to you,
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Jesus, these are the words of Jesus. Whatever things you ask,
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when you pray, believe that you will receive him, you will have him.
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John sixteen twenty four. The apostle John, who wrote the Epistles,
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he records this in his Gospel, These are the words of Jesus. Matt,
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I'm sorry, John, chapter sixteen, verse twenty four. Until now,
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Jesus says, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, Jesus
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says, and you will receive that your joy may be full Wow. But
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James Amen, who was also one of the disciples a man, he also
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understood exactly a man as John wrote that you just cannot ask anything, amiss.
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Amen. And James writes in this pistol his epistle, and he says,
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you ask and you do not receive. Well, wait a minute,
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then Jesus said, ask whatever I asked, I can receive. Now Jane
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said, I'm asking, I'm not receiving. What's what's the prophet? Is
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there contradiction here? No, there's no contradiction because what James clarifies what the
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same thing John said, and the same thing Jesus was saying. But again,
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when you take it out of context, you don't understand it. Amen.
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You ask, you do not receive because you ask, amiss. What
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does that mean. You're not asking according to the will of God. You're
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asking out of the will of God. And anything you ask out of the
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will of God, you're not gonna receive it. Amen. And James says
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furthermore that you may spend it on your pleasures. Thank you, Oh God,
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help us. First John chapter three. Let's go back a couple of
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pages in the First John Epistle. Amen, he says Listen. Whatever we
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ask, we receive from him. Listen what the Bible says, because we
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keep His commands and do those things that are Oh, God help us.
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That's how, ladies and gentlemen. You want to know. You want to
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know, you want to understand, Amen, the blessedness in receiving. What
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Amen are you desire from the Lord? First of all, again, you
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and I listen. We've got to know what the will of God is.
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We need to understand what the will of God is. And listen, please
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understand this. There's no secret or hidden formula for saints having their prayers answer.
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Amen, is not it is not. Amen. We have to ask
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according to the will of God. Amen. We have to ask according to
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the will of God. Listen, no secret, no hidden formula. Amen.
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God hears all prayers. He answers all of our prayers. For those
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who live in error of the word and the will of God, what troubles
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their hearts and it's problematic to them is when it seems to them that God
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has not heard and God is not answer to them. Yes he has.
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Amen. And again, if you understood and knew what the will of God
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is, you first and foremost would not ask anything that's not in the will
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of God. God always answers according to his will, and not our desires.
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Amen, when they are not aligning with his will. He oh as
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much as we can about the will of God, and to pray and petition
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him accordingly. And let me just give you this quick example that, of
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course that John writes again, this is the context from which he is writing,
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which we find in verses sixteen and seventeen just reading through the text.
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Here a man, he says. Listen what he says, because it's very
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important. If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to
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death, he will ask, and he will give him life for those who
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do will commit not a brother who commit sin not leading to death. There
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is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about
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that. This is what the Bible says verse seventeen. All unrighteousness is sin,
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and there is sin not leading to death. Now John doesn't clarify,
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doesn't specify a man about which sins of this sin or that sin. And
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we should not either a man, because all unrighteousness is sin, all disobedience
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is sin, and the Bible makes a cliff anyone sees his brother sin and
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a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask and he would
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give him life for those who commit not sin leading to death. In this
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context of what the apostle John is conveying to the church, when a brother
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or sister sins and is in need of restoration, Amen, we are instructed
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to intercede in prayer on their behalf. Amen for them for their lives.
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Amen. The Lord's will again for all of us, all of his children,
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is that we have complete victory over sin in our lives. Premeditated and
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unrepentant sinning can and will lead to God's judgment. Amen. If God so
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desires to do so. Amen, upon such disobedient souls resulting in their suffering
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death. Amen. The penalty of death. Remember, the Bible says,
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the wages of sin is death. Amen. Verse eighteen. Let me finish
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this Amen, this fifth chapter here verse eighteen, he says, we know
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again the power is in knowing. The power is in knowing. John says,
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listen, we know. We know that whoever is born of God does
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not sin. But he who has been born of God keeps himself, and
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the wicked one does not touch him. Verse eighteen we know Verse nineteen.
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Listen, he says, again, we know that we are of God.
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And the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one, this Satan,
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the master deceiver, the trickster. Amen, has this world system manipulated
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with all of his cunning craftiness. Amen. But we, ladies and gentlemen
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that live Amen, in the arch of safety, that rest and rule and
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abide in Jesus. Amen, we are not under Amen. We are no
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longer tossed to and frau as the apostle Paul wrote and carried about with every
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wind of doctrine, because we are not of this world. We live in
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this world. But again the Bible says, we are not of this world.
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And John already told us We've covered this already. Love not the world.
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Neither are the things that are in the world, because all that is
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in the world, the loss of the flesh, luster of the eyes,
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the pride of life, is not of the Father. Verse twenty says,
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and we know, Oh, thank you Jesus. Power is in knowing,
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and we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an
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understanding. John. This is the firsthand infamy, firsthand witness eye witness three
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and a half years with Jesus. He says, we know that the Son
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of God has come, and he gave us understanding. He opened our eyes,
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he opened our understanding. He breathed on us and said, received the
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Holy Ghost. We know that he has come and given us an understanding.
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Listen again, he says that we may know him who is true, and
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we are in him who is true, in his son, Jesus Christ.
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This is the true God and eternal life. Little children, he says,
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verse twenty one, keep yourselves from idols a man. Thank God for the
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word, Thank God for the power, the Holy Ghost. Thank God that
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amen, we have a hope in him. Amen, and listen the power,
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the power, the confidence, but the persuasion, Amen, the boldness,
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all of the things that we must have as the children of God.
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Either way it comes from He comes from knowing. That's again, how the
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disciples who were cowards, who were hiding and in fear after Jesus was crucified,
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they thought it was all over. There wasted three and a half years
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of their lives. Guess what when they saw there is a savior and they
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got the Holy Ghost who happened, Power, boldness, confidence, they were
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persuaded beyond it, and all of them, all of the apostles, most,
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if not all of them, the great vast majority of them were martyred
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for the name of Jesus Christ. Why because they knew they were persuaded.
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The power of knowing that absent from the body present with the Lord. Amen,
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the apostle Paul even Amen, he said, listen, listen, listen,
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listen. The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought
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a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith.
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Now there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. That's something
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he knew. Confidence. He died with an assurance, Amen, knowing in
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whom he has believed. Amen. So Father, help us today, every
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listening year, every obedient heart, every child of yours. Lord, we
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need the boldness and the confidence to stand in such a time as this.
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We're looking for your soon return. So Lord, we want to be found
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faithful. We want to be found worthy to escape the things that are coming
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to past, to stand before you in that day. Say well done,
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good and faithful servant, blessed, and we shall be blessed, keeping we
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shall be kept. It's in the name of Jesus Christ, we prayer and
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give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen.