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Episode 197 - Those Who Keep · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is
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  Speaker 1: within me. Bless His holy name. We welcome you once again
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  Speaker 1: into this another podcast edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and we are
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  Speaker 1: as always grateful to the Lord for allowing us to
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  Speaker 1: breathe the breath of life on this glorious day that
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  Speaker 1: he has made. We thank Him for his many, many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many blessings and benefits that he has. A man granted
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  Speaker 1: to us, and we are a man forever indebted, a
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  Speaker 1: man to the Lord, a man for his gracious, loving
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  Speaker 1: kindness towards us in saving us, and a man counting us,
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  Speaker 1: a man worthy to be recipients, to be heirs, to
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  Speaker 1: be joint heirs with Christ, to be the sons of God,
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  Speaker 1: the children of God. A man, and we are, a
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  Speaker 1: man again thankful, and a man forever grateful to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord for these and many many more, a man benefits
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  Speaker 1: that he has in store for us. Eye has not
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  Speaker 1: seen here, has not heard, neither has it entered into
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  Speaker 1: the heart of man, the things which God has prepared
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  Speaker 1: for them that love Him, But He has revealed them
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  Speaker 1: to us by his spirit. Thanks be to God for
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  Speaker 1: his unspeakable gift. Thank God again for all of you,
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  Speaker 1: each of you who pray for and or support the
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  Speaker 1: work of this ministry. A man, we are again thankful
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord for your a man sacrificial, a man
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  Speaker 1: service in the Kingdom of God, spreading the words, spreading
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  Speaker 1: the good news. A man. If it's something as simple
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  Speaker 1: as clicking and sharing this podcast and other good news
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  Speaker 1: about Jesus, and that is what we are here for.
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  Speaker 1: Go and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to
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  Speaker 1: observe all that I have commanded you. That is the
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  Speaker 1: mission of the Church. That is what we are here for.
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  Speaker 1: A man, discipleship, a man and being an example. Being
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  Speaker 1: a man, the salt, the light, a man, the city
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  Speaker 1: that is set up on the hill that Jesus spoke
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  Speaker 1: of that cannot be hidden. We are the light of
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  Speaker 1: the world as long as we are in the world
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  Speaker 1: as the Church of the Living God. In a man,
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  Speaker 1: the glory and the presence of the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: We are to be a man like bearers. Let your
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  Speaker 1: light shine, men will see Jesus says a man, and
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  Speaker 1: glorify your Father which is in heaven. Amen. All right again,
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  Speaker 1: on today we are focusing on Jesus, his doctrine, his commands,
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  Speaker 1: his teachings, a man, his word that he has spoken,
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  Speaker 1: a man. This is how and by whom we are saved.
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  Speaker 1: It is exclusively by Jesus Christ, the Lord and Savior.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel of John again in chapter number fourteen. We
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  Speaker 1: are there, a man we're going to extract a few words,
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  Speaker 1: and also a man dwell on a thought, a man
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  Speaker 1: that we believe is exclusively beneficial to those who were
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  Speaker 1: here and obey. Have an assurance, Amen, This is what
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  Speaker 1: this is all about, having a blessed assurance, a man
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  Speaker 1: knowing that we are a man, truly the children of God.
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  Speaker 1: Before we begin, of course, let's go to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: a man with a word of prayer. Father, again, we
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  Speaker 1: love you, We thank you, We bless your name, and
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  Speaker 1: honor you for your goodness and mercy and loving kindness
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  Speaker 1: toward each and every one of us. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: all of your manifold mercies that are knew this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for favoring us and loving us and calling
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  Speaker 1: us and appointing us for such a time as this.
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  Speaker 1: Help us to speak the truth in our hearts, to
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  Speaker 1: walk in love, to forgive Amen, and Lord, to prepare
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  Speaker 1: our hearts always to a man walk worthy of this vocation. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: help us we shall be blessed and kept by your power.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, we pray give thanks, Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right again. In the Gospel of John, if you
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  Speaker 1: have your Bibles, you can follow along with us. Will
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  Speaker 1: be there in just a moment in chapter number fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: There are many sects of Christianity which have followers, of
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  Speaker 1: course in their sex, who all claim to be true
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  Speaker 1: disciples of Jesus. Now, some of these sects biblically are
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  Speaker 1: absolutely heretical in their practices and in their beliefs. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: or any group of individuals can claim to be legitimate
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  Speaker 1: followers or disciples of Jesus. And there is certainly a
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  Speaker 1: great deal of confusion in the minds of many people,
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  Speaker 1: in particular, who have not been taught, or who have
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  Speaker 1: not availed themselves of the teachings of Jesus of the truth.
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  Speaker 1: A man that has been given to us by Jesus himself,
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  Speaker 1: a concerning discipleship, a man of course Jesus we certainly
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  Speaker 1: know an affirm according to the scriptures, and according to
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  Speaker 1: his own words, and according to the prophecies they went beforehand. He,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is refoundation of what this faith, of what
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is all about. And so there need not be
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  Speaker 1: any confusion at all, because what Jesus taught is quite
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  Speaker 1: clear concerning who is and who is not a true
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  Speaker 1: disciple of His. Now, let's be clear in this the
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  Speaker 1: confusion is not of God, and it is certainly not
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  Speaker 1: derived from the word of God. Confusion arises in the
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  Speaker 1: heart and minds of those who want to do religion
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  Speaker 1: and red rituals, if you will, religious rituals of righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: They are seeking to be found pleasing to God in
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  Speaker 1: those things, instead of receiving the exclusive righteousness that is
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus Christ alone, that is by his atoning self sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: his blood, his offering, that he a man offered up
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  Speaker 1: a man on the cross on our behalf. If all
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  Speaker 1: of the other I Am claims were not sufficient in
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  Speaker 1: and of themselves, Jesus made it clear when he said,
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  Speaker 1: I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No
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  Speaker 1: man can come to the Father but by Me. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: because man is rebellious in his ways and obstinate in
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  Speaker 1: his heart, he continues to seek out schemes and devices
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  Speaker 1: in deceiving not only himself but those who will follow
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  Speaker 1: in his pernicious way. Now we are continuing, of course,
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  Speaker 1: in the Gospel of John, where we see the elimination
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  Speaker 1: of the possibility of any other way for man to
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  Speaker 1: be saved, and the aforementioned statement again that Jesus made
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  Speaker 1: is exclusive. I am the Way, I am the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Life. And on more than one occasion,
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  Speaker 1: and in many doctrinal statements that were made by Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he left no opening for even the slightest of possibilities
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  Speaker 1: for men to be saved and accepted by God by
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  Speaker 1: any other avenue. And so again amen, with all that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus made claim to concerning his deity, concerning his per purpose,
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  Speaker 1: concerning his atoning sacrifice, where he is from, and where
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  Speaker 1: he would be returning to, and that he would of
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  Speaker 1: course be returning again to receive us unto himself. That
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  Speaker 1: we have we've read, we've covered in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: this fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Saint John. With
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  Speaker 1: all of this, there are yet those who wallow in
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  Speaker 1: confusion and in delusion. The problem with man, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is rooted in his unbelief in his un belief.
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  Speaker 1: These words that we're about to read that are further
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  Speaker 1: recorded in the Gospel of John again chapter number fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: follow along with us. They were spoken by Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: these words alone should put the rest any doubts or
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  Speaker 1: any ambiguity whatsoever about who is and who is not
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  Speaker 1: a true believer, a true disciple, a true follower of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Jesus again speaks plainly, in understandable language, words
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  Speaker 1: that not even the fool or the wayfaring man should err.
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  Speaker 1: In John chapter fourteen, verse number fifteen. We begin reading
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  Speaker 1: now here very clearly, and I'm going to emphasize and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps even repeat some of these verses so that we
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  Speaker 1: again leave no ambiguity whatsoever as to what Jesus is saying.
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  Speaker 1: What Jesus has spoken verse fifteen. If ye love me,
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  Speaker 1: keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and
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  Speaker 1: he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide
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  Speaker 1: with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the
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  Speaker 1: world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him.
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  Speaker 1: But ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and
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  Speaker 1: shall be in you. I will not leave you comfort
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  Speaker 1: less I will come to you yet a little while,
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  Speaker 1: and the world seeth me no more, But ye see me.
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  Speaker 1: Because I live, you shall live also. At that day
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  Speaker 1: ye shall know that I am in my Father, and
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  Speaker 1: ye in me, and I in you Verse twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Very important. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them,
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  Speaker 1: he it is that loveth me, and he that loveth
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  Speaker 1: me shall be loved of my Father. And I will
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  Speaker 1: love him and will manifest myself to him judas saith
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  Speaker 1: unto him, not as scariot. Lord, How is it that
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  Speaker 1: thou will manifest thyself unto us us and not unto
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  Speaker 1: the world. Jesus answered and said, unto him. Listen carefully again.
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  Speaker 1: If a man love me, he will keep my words,
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  Speaker 1: and my father will love him, and we will come
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  Speaker 1: unto him and make our abode with him. He that
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  Speaker 1: loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. And the word
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  Speaker 1: which you hear is not mine, but the fathers which
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  Speaker 1: sent me. Jesus says, very clearly, if ye love me,
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  Speaker 1: keep my commandments. If a man love me, he will
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  Speaker 1: keep my words. It comes down to this, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: very simple, very plain. It is those who keep those
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  Speaker 1: who keep Now, when we read the Gospel narratives, and
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  Speaker 1: we pay close attention to the words of Jesus concerning
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  Speaker 1: those who would be as followers, there should not be
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  Speaker 1: any doubt whatsoever about who is and who is not.
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  Speaker 1: Now the focus of this is not on judging and
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  Speaker 1: discerning and trying to weed out and root out who
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  Speaker 1: he is and who is not. That's all in the
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  Speaker 1: hands of Jesus in his knowledge. He knows those who
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  Speaker 1: belong to him. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us Romans chapter number eight, that we
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  Speaker 1: are the children of God. Nevertheless, again we have many
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  Speaker 1: sects of religions, so called Christianity, that profess to be
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  Speaker 1: disciples and followers of Jesus, and there again is mass
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  Speaker 1: confusion amongst those who do not know the work. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: made many doctrinal statements during his ministry that draws a
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  Speaker 1: clear distinction and line of demarcation, if you will, between
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  Speaker 1: those who will be professors. Paul wrote about this, talked
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  Speaker 1: about this. They profess that they know God, but in
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  Speaker 1: works they deny him, being abominable and this obedient. And again,
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  Speaker 1: what does Jesus say, keep my commandments obey. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a line of demarcation. There is a clear
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  Speaker 1: distinction in the word of God from the doctrine, from
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  Speaker 1: the teachings, from the words of Jesus, that there is
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  Speaker 1: a separation between those who profess to know God and
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  Speaker 1: those who are truly disciples of Christ. For example, Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Luke, chapter number fourteen, verse twenty six, Jesus speaking,
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  Speaker 1: if any man come to me and hate not his
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  Speaker 1: father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters, yeay,
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  Speaker 1: and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm not going to dive deep into this, but
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  Speaker 1: very plainly, very clearly, in context of what Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: talking about here Number one, we must not love our
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  Speaker 1: own lives. He spoke about that as well. Amen, man
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  Speaker 1: attempts to save his life, he's gonna lose it. If
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  Speaker 1: he lose his life for my sake. In the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: he'll find it. Amen. He must not love this present world. John,
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  Speaker 1: the same apostle who wrote this, wrote later in his
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  Speaker 1: epistle love not the world, neither the things that are
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  Speaker 1: in the world, all that is in the world, lust
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride
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  Speaker 1: of life is not of the Father. Amen. So we
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  Speaker 1: must not love our own lives. We must not love
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  Speaker 1: this present world, and we must not love others more.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the key than Jesus, and what Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: teaching here very simply is we must not prefer or
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  Speaker 1: choose anyone or anything more than a of our following Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: because following Jesus requires a discipline that is called self denial,
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  Speaker 1: self denial. And by the way, very quickly, this really
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  Speaker 1: goes back to the Old Testament commandment number one. Thou
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  Speaker 1: shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
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  Speaker 1: all thy soul, all thy mind, no other gods, none
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  Speaker 1: other is to be before Him. In other words, this
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  Speaker 1: self denial is of course a self explanatory term, and
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  Speaker 1: we know exactly what it means. Self denial is a
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  Speaker 1: prerequisite qualification for being a disciple of Jesus. And again
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  Speaker 1: Jesus makes it very clear and unambiguous in another statement
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  Speaker 1: that he makes exclusively about self denial. The Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Mark is in the Gospel of Luke. It's also in
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Matthew, but in Gospel in the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Mark, chapter eight, verse thirty four will use that
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  Speaker 1: particular a man verse. And when he had called the
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  Speaker 1: people unto him with his disciples also so Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: speaking not only to his disciples, but he's also speaking
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  Speaker 1: to the people, all of the people. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: he said, unto them, whosoever will come after me, let
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  Speaker 1: him deny himself and take up his cross and follow
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  Speaker 1: me self. Denial is not the natural human tendency. It
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  Speaker 1: is only I believe, and exclusively I believe, and I believe.
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  Speaker 1: The word of God is clear about this as well.
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  Speaker 1: I believe the word of God. The scriptures amen confirm
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  Speaker 1: this state this. It is only by the selfless love
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  Speaker 1: of God that we are compelled to love Him, love Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: that is more, and deny our own selfish desires and
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  Speaker 1: ambitions no other gods. For example, let me very quickly
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  Speaker 1: give you an example. The rich on your ruler, of course,
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  Speaker 1: came to Jesus seeking to but I guess maybe perhaps
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  Speaker 1: we'll just believe from the texts justify himself. And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: told him, you know all the commandments, young Marriage replied
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, Hey, I've kept all these from my youth
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  Speaker 1: up and Jesus says to him, go sell all you have,
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  Speaker 1: give to the poor. Come and follow me. You have
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  Speaker 1: riches and heaven, Bob said. The young man went away
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  Speaker 1: sorrow for why because he had many riches. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: he was not willing to really obey a commandment. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: know other Gods, there is nothing that we have, nothing
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  Speaker 1: that we possess. First of all, nothing we have or
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  Speaker 1: possess belongs to us anyway. That's number one. We brought
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  Speaker 1: nothing into this world. We carry nothing out a man.
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  Speaker 1: We came here naked, we'll depart here naked. That's first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost. Nevertheless, the things that we think we possess,
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  Speaker 1: we really don't. God is the owner of all things.
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  Speaker 1: He's the maker and the creator, and he richly gives
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  Speaker 1: us all these things to enjoy. And he wants of
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  Speaker 1: his good pleasure to bless and prosper us and keep
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  Speaker 1: us amen fulfilled and happy, and all of that full
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  Speaker 1: of joy, full of gladness. Amen. God delighted that he
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  Speaker 1: instituted all kinds of celebrations for his people in the
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  Speaker 1: Old testamenty. He pronounced all kinds of blessings upon them,
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  Speaker 1: if they would diligently hearken to his word and obey
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  Speaker 1: his voice. Self denial is the prerequisite. But it is
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  Speaker 1: only by the selfless love of God that we are compelled.
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  Speaker 1: And again the Bible says, we love him because He
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  Speaker 1: first loved us. In other words, there's something that has
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  Speaker 1: to be outside of us that will give us the
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  Speaker 1: will to love like we ought to. Again, what did Jesus?
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  Speaker 1: If you love me, you would keep my commandments. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the slip service people say, I love Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: I love God. No no, no, no, no, no, no. The
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  Speaker 1: proof of our love is in our obedience. And we
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  Speaker 1: can only do this if we have the will to
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  Speaker 1: do And we can only will to do it if
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  Speaker 1: something outside of us compels us. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: which gives us the will to love, the will to obey,
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  Speaker 1: the will to follow, the will to sacrifice. That which
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  Speaker 1: wills us certainly is not of us. It is the
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  Speaker 1: abiding presence of the Holy Ghost that is sent down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven by Jesus. By the way he it is,
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  Speaker 1: He is the one, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus testifies
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  Speaker 1: about this. And I don't have time to go through
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  Speaker 1: all of this, but he it is the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: living God, who compels us, who enables us, who gives
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  Speaker 1: us the desire to obey the teachings of Jesus. The
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  Speaker 1: Holy ghosts ladies and testifies of Jesus. Jesus spoke of this.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost is the spirit of God. The Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost is the spirit of truth. That's what Jesus said.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost is the presence of Jesus God in us,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of the Living God, the same spirit that
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  Speaker 1: breathed the breath of life and into man, that breathed
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  Speaker 1: upon the waters, that spoke in the beginning. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same spirit, by one spirit. The Bible says, we are
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  Speaker 1: baptized into one body. There's one Lord, one faith, one baptism.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us Jesus said that the Holy ghosts
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  Speaker 1: leads and guides us into all truth. Truth is the
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  Speaker 1: very embodiment of Jesus. He is truth, and he has
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  Speaker 1: spoken truth to us. The truth about who truly are
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  Speaker 1: the true disciples of Jesus is this ladies in jail,
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  Speaker 1: and it is those who keep. Those who keep are
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  Speaker 1: those who love and obey the commandments of Jesus. That's
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  Speaker 1: the separation, that's the line of demarkation. That is the distinction.
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  Speaker 1: Because those who do not these are the words of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who do not keep and obey the commandments of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: they do not love him. That's what Jesus said. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these are not my words, not my opinion. We just
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  Speaker 1: read it in John's Gospel, chapter fourteen. We just read
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  Speaker 1: it again. This is the clearest distinction of who is
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  Speaker 1: and who is not the true disciple of Christ. Now
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  Speaker 1: we all sin. The Bible is clear about this again.
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  Speaker 1: The same writer of the Gospel of John. Again in
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  Speaker 1: his epistle a man writes about us, the true believer,
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  Speaker 1: the true disciple, the true follower of Jesus, sinning, falling
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  Speaker 1: short of the glory of God. Nevertheless, we have our
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  Speaker 1: what does he say, We have an advocate with the Father.
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  Speaker 1: So we all sin, we all fall short. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the true Disciple, as John rights, will confess, will forsake
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  Speaker 1: his sins, and will seek to be cleansed from all unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 1: And God does that for those who are truly His disciples.
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  Speaker 1: He cleanses us. There is true remorse, There is true
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  Speaker 1: bitterness in the spirit when we sin against God. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we want to be clean. We want to be whole.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be born more like Jesus. We want
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  Speaker 1: to be conformed to the image of Christ, because it's
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  Speaker 1: in us. The Holy Spirit is in us, and those
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  Speaker 1: who have the Holy Spirit. The Bible says, he disciplines us,
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  Speaker 1: he chastens us, he corrects us. Why because he loves
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  Speaker 1: us and he wants us to be obedient. He wants
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  Speaker 1: us to be with him, he wants us to have
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  Speaker 1: fellowship with him. Again, Jesus stated also in the text
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  Speaker 1: that the world cannot perceive the spirit of truth, that
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  Speaker 1: the world cannot know the spirit of truth, that the
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  Speaker 1: world cannot see the spirit of truth. This is precisely
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  Speaker 1: why the world is contrary and walk contrary, and is
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  Speaker 1: in rebellion against the teachings of Jesus. And again they
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  Speaker 1: are of Christianity, so called Christianity, they call themselves Christians. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that are just as worldly and against the teachings of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as the world itself is. The world cannot love Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore the world cannot obey Jesus, and the world
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  Speaker 1: cannot be followers of Jesus in keeping his commands. And again,
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  Speaker 1: this is the difference between the true disciple, and those
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  Speaker 1: who have a preference, a love, a desire, a longing
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  Speaker 1: for this present world with all of the again sects
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  Speaker 1: of Christianity that we have in our world today. Biblically,
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  Speaker 1: there is one faith in truth, one doctrine that is true,
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  Speaker 1: one church that is the bride of Christ, one church
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  Speaker 1: that is being led by the Holy Spirit into all truth,
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  Speaker 1: and one church that is comprised. Ladies and gentlemen, of
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  Speaker 1: those who keep the commands, who follow in the doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ their Lord, and by the way, surmon
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  Speaker 1: them out once again at the end of this According
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  Speaker 1: to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus said, those who hear
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  Speaker 1: these sayings of mind and do them, I will liken
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  Speaker 1: him to a wise man who builds his house upon
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  Speaker 1: the rock. The winds will come, the rain will come,
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  Speaker 1: storms will rise, troubles, tribulations, trials. But that house will stand, Why,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, because it is built upon a rock. Then
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  Speaker 1: there are those who hear the sayings of Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: teachings of Jesus, Jesus, the doctrine of Christ, the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God. They do not keep it. They
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  Speaker 1: do not obey it, they do not follow it, but
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  Speaker 1: rather they go their own way, the way of caing,
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  Speaker 1: the way of the hypocrite, the way of the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: the way of the Sadducees, the way of religion, the
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  Speaker 1: way of self righteousness. And they build their houses on rituals,
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  Speaker 1: on religious practices, on the doctrines of men, and their houses,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus said, will not stand, and great will be
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  Speaker 1: the fall of their houses. Not those who send the less,
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  Speaker 1: not those who try their best, not those who say
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  Speaker 1: they pray, not those who come their way, not those
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  Speaker 1: who are rich in works, not those who join the church.
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  Speaker 1: Not any of these define the true disciple, because the
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  Speaker 1: true disciple is the one. Are those who keep, who
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  Speaker 1: keep the commands of Jesus. Father. Again, help comes from you.
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  Speaker 1: Hope is in you. Give us this day the power,
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  Speaker 1: the strength that comes only from you, so that we
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  Speaker 1: can walk up right before you speak the truth in
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  Speaker 1: our hearts, be obedient hearers of the Word, that we
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  Speaker 1: may be blessed therein God, be glorified in your people.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere we thank you, we praise you, We bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen,