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Episode 78: John Epistles V · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me. Bless
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your holy name. Lord, We thank you for this glorious day, this
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beautiful day, this magnificent day, this splendid salvation in which we now rejoice
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and live and move and have our being because of the blood of Jesus Christ
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that was shed for the remission of our sins, giving us life and life
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more abundantly. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for counting us worthy
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to escape the things that are coming to pass. Lord, to stand before
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you in that day, Lord, we are striving. Amen, by the
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grace of God, to hear your voice. A well done, good and
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faithful servant. Bless now each listening, ear every obedient heart. Help us
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to be hearers and views of the Word, that we may be blessed.
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Thereby God, get the glory out of our lives. In Jesus' name,
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we bring you things for all things. Amen and Amen. All right,
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God, bless you again. We welcome you once more to this another edition
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of End Time Revival Ministries us a broadcast and podcast, and I am your
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host, Pastor al Zacharyan. Again, as always, we certainly rejoice in
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the God of our salvation for his Amen, mercy and for Amen again,
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as the Apostle Paul says, counting me worthy, putting me into the ministry.
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Amen. This calling is of God, from God. Amen. And
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by the grace of God we stand and continue a man having obtained help from
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Him. Amen. So we thank God again for the very breath of life
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that is in our bodies. Amen. And we continue. Amen. To
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a man, preach and proclaim and teach. Amen, the word of the
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Living God. As long as God gives us strength a man ability Amen,
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and Amen gives us Amen, a power of the Holy Spirit. To a
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man, speak, what does saith the Lord? Amen, That is a
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man my purpose and gold. Amen. I want to be found pleasing to
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the Lord. Amen. I want to hear him say well done, good
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and faithful servant. Amen. So again, today we are in the epistles
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of the Apostle John, the first Epistle, and today we're going to be
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in chapter four. So I invite you even now to grab your bibles.
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Amen. You need to a man, see the word of the Lord for
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yourself. Read the Word of the Lord for yourself. Study the Word of
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the Lord for yourself. Know the Word of the Lord for yourself, Amen,
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so that you may be able to stand in such a time as this.
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So we certainly amen, certainly again invite you to get your Bibles,
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Amen, and follow along with us as we may read and expound upon the
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a man again, endeavor to do in preaching and proclaiming the truth of the
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Living God. Amen. That is our goal, that is our aim,
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that is our purpose, that is our reason. Amen. For this Amen.
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We are not in it for the money, because we do not get
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paid. Amen. I'm not in it Amen for fame and fortune. I'm
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in it to a man proclaim the liberty, wherewith amen, we can all
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be free, a man in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. All right,
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again, we are going to the epistles Amen, of the epistles of
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the Apostle John Epistle number one, chapter number four that we are going to
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be looking at on today. And I'm going to begin with the reading of
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the first three verses, and I'm going to pause there for a man expository
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teaching from the Word of God and commentary Amen, based upon the scriptures.
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So let's go to verse number one, First John, First John, Chapter
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number four. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits
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whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the
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world. By this you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses
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that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit
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that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of
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God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard
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was coming and is now already in the world. And I'm not going to
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take the time to enumerate the Oh God, the volume of religions so called
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that a man deny the bodily presence of Jesus on this earth, and the
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reasons why he came the mission and all of that. I'm not going to
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go into naming all of them, because all of them fall into that one
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category of being anti Christ. All of them, all of them, every
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single one of them. Now please understand, and this is why the apostle
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John writes this to the church. And by the way, again, as
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we did in our introduction, this man is one who was there at the
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feet of Jesus, as it were, a man. He was one of
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the first of the disciples, a man, and he was also the writer
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of the Gospel of John and the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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He was there as an eyewitness, and we are receiving from him firsthand,
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firsthand, witnessing firsthand a man knowledge of this earthly ministry of Jesus. And
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he is simply passing on relating to us that which was taught to him and
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the others who were with him. Amen. And he understands as Jesus taught
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them about being weary, a man being aware, a man of false prophets
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and false teachers. We'll get to that again in just a minute. But
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listen, please understand that this falling world of sinful mankind is rife. It
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is rife with willing vessels, who who who cooperate with the powers of the
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darkness, with the Kingdom of the darkness, with the devil. Amen.
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This, this, this world is rife with it. A man in every
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false teature, Uh, is such an one who has refused to believe.
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Listen. They refuse to believe, Amen, Uh, that Jesus is Lord,
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that Jesus is God in the flesh, that Jesus is the Way,
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that Jesus is the Truth, that Jesus is the light of the world,
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the door to salvation by which all must be saved. They refuse to believe
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that Jesus is the only way to be saved. Amen. And And and
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because they refuse to believe that He is Lord, the only mediator between God
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and man. Amen. They they they they they have been co opted by
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the devil, and they go out into the world to teach all of these
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the doctrines of devils. And that that's what they are. They are doctrines
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of devils. And that's why John refers to them as spirit. Amen.
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Spirit, do not believe every spirit? What spirit? Demonic spirits? Amen,
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that's what they are. They are demonic spirits. Amen. And anyone
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again who denies the lordship of Jesus, a man who denies the doctrine of
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Christ, and again we're gonna get to us some of that in just a
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minute, who denies and refuses to believe that Jesus Christ has come into the
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flesh, what his purpose and mission was coming into this world? And author,
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when you do not believe the doctrine of Christ, you don't believe Jesus
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Christ himself. Amen. And so again this is why we have a world
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that again is loaded, and I do mean loaded with these willing vessels.
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A man who cooperate with the devil, Amen, these spirits amen. And
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that's where they come from, from the pit of hell, every single one
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of them. They come out of hell. Amen, they are doctrines of
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devils. Amen. And the apostle is warning the people of God to be
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vigilant concerning these wolves. Many of them have infiltrated the church. Amen.
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Some of them are in pulpits. A man professing to be Christians under their
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guiles. Again, Apostle Paul, after said this on many occasions, warns
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us about this in First Corinthians, chapter eleven. I believe it is I'm
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sorry, Second Corinthians, chapter eleven, about these a man false apostles,
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Amen, who who transformed? Amen, themselves who come to you as again
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sheep. But they are wolves. They are wolves. And he said,
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don't marvel at this, because Satan himself is transformed as an angel of light.
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Therefore it is no great mystery if his ministers a man dress up,
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look the part, a man sound the part. Amen. And so the
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Apostle John is warning the church, the people of God, to be vigilant
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concerning these Charlatans. Concerning these a man greedy wolves, a man who do
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not have the spirit of God working within them within them, but rather are
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filled with demonic spirits. A man that will not confess nor fully acknowledge Jesus
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for who he is. They'll talk around it, they'll talk about Jesus,
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they'll mention. You know, they give lip service. As Jesus himself said,
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these people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from
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me. Every teacher coming with a revelation or with a doctrine that is not
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in agreement with the doctrine of Christ, with what the Word of God teaches
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concerning Jesus, with the very words that Jesus himself spoke concerning himself. Amen.
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Who he is? Amen, that person, whoever they are, And
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I don't care again, what reputation they have, I don't care how many
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followers they have. Amen. That person is a false prophet, and they
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are of the devil. Amen. And many of most of them, some
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may be unwittingly caught up in it. Amen. And I will I've seen
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and heard of people who have come out of these religions, these cults,
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Amen, who got caught up. And some of them were unwittingly caught up
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in them. Amen. But most, for the most part, many of
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these are willfully and manipulatively seeking to carry victims to the darkness and ultimately to
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death. Amen. And there has never been and there is today even now
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no shortage of these false prophets and false teachers in this world. It was
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all through the Old Testament, in the early days of the Church, at
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the time when Jesus came. As a matter of fact, Jesus said,
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all who came before me are thieves and robbers. But the sheep did not
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hear them. He says, my sheep hear my voice, and a stranger,
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they will not follow. You got to have the spirit of God to
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know and to discern, and you need the word of God to know and
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to discern truth from error. And here's the false prophet tests that John gives
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to the church to discern, to help you to discern every spirit that confesses
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that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. Now this is
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not just simply Jesus Christ being born into the world and coming, you know,
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and all of this what is ministry and all that. It goes a
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little deeper than that. But I'm not gonna take time, amen to go
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through all of that am all of the nuances of what that entails. But
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again, because there are many of these in their religions that are heretical to
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the teachings of Jesus. Amen, they will acknowledge that Jesus came. They
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will acknowledge that Jesus was here. They will acknowledge even and give lip service
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to say that he was a prophet. Amen, because the evidence is so
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overwhelming that he was here. So they will even now acknowledge that he came.
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And that's not what John is talking about. Fully, He's talking about
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not only Jesus coming, but understanding why he came and believing the whole entirety
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of his message, because the scriptures testify and bear witness of him. Amen.
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They foretold the Old Testament, Hebrew scriptures foretold of Jesus coming into this
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world and the purpose for him coming. The redeemer a man, the hand
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a man, God's own arm of salvation, as it were, the branch
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a man, a man. So every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has
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come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that does not confess
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that Jesus, Jesus Christ, is come in the flesh is not of God.
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This is the spirit of the Antichrist, a man that was, as
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John said, was already at work opposing the Christ, opposing the Church opposing
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the apostles, opposing the doctrine of Christ, opposing the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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because Jesus Christ himself again, as he said, is the only way
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by which we must be saying. This is what peter a man. Amen
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to the Jews. Ay man who thought that they had it all, ay
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man thought that they were shoe ins. Amen. Neither is there salvation in
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any other. There is none of the name given among men whereby we must
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be saved. And whether one is an atheist, whether one is an agnostic,
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gnostic, or any of a number of these heretical beliefs and systems and
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religions, they are all in the same group. They are all anti Christ,
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all of them anti Christ. And when Jesus, by the way ented
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his and just talk a little bit about doctrine here, because doctrine is very
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important. When Jesus spoke by the way, first and foremost, the Bible
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teaches that people were astonished at his doctrine. And he said, nobody ever
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spoke like this man. He spoke with authority. Why did he have to
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speak with that such authority? Because he was given that he is the authority.
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Amen. And when he had en by the way, just by way,
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by way of one example, when he ended his teachings with what we
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call referred to as a Sermon on the Mound Matthew chapter seven. And in
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the Matthew chapter seven, the Bible teaches that the people were all in astonishment
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at his doctrine, and Jesus warned the disciples, He warned us. He
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warned the people a man to be a vigilant and to not be deceived in
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what he called vain worship. Vain worship where where where's vain worship? It
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is anywhere under anyone who teaches the commandants of men as doctrine, Ladies and
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gentlemen, That's what religion is. The commandments of men, Amen, And
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most of them, most of them are all about works, works, works,
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works, What you must do, what you must do, how many
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of this and how much of that? And it's heresy. The Bible teaches
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by grace, we are saved through faith, not of works, lest anyone
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should boast it is the gift of God. Now again, it doesn't mean
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that we as believers, we who are truly saved, do not do works.
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We do do works, but the works do not save us. Amen.
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The works. Do not commend us a man in any shape form of
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fashion, a man to salvation. A man. Salvation is the free gift
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of God. Amen. Now we are to work, and we work as
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into the Lord. And we our works are because of our salvation, not
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for our salvation. Amen. And and and and so. Religion teaches commandments
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of men, and Jesus warned all who would hear to beware of the doctrine
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of the religious Pharisees and sadducees. These people were religious folks. Amen.
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And again they thought they had Amen. They thought they were again because they
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were first and foremost of the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Amen
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that that they were they were. They were just automatics. They were automatics.
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As the Pharisee, Jesus gave the example of him praying at the temple
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along with this republican center, you know, center man, and the Pharisee
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lifts his voice and I thank you. I'm not like this man, a
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sinner. You know, I've got a good standing, I've got you know,
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i've got lineage, I've got a heritage, I've got birth right,
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bragging rights. Amen. No, no, uh uh, religion, you
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depending on anything else other than Jesus Christ. Amen, you are outside of
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the doctrine of Christ. Roman sixteen, Verses seventeen and eighteen. Paul writes
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to the church. He says, now, I urge you, brethren,
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know those who cause divisions and offenses. Listen to what he says, contrary
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to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. What doctrine is he
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agreed Romans, Oh, my God, he begins in chapter number one.
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Amen, the gospel of Jesus Christ was just the power of God to salvation
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to everyone that believes. Amen. And he goes on to teach and to
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teach and to teach. Amen. Again, from the words of Jesus Christ.
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That's the doctrine that we are in. Paul says, beware of these,
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Amen, note them, take note of them. You need to have
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discernment. That's one of the biggest problems that we have in the church.
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They the lack of discernment to know truth from error. Amen. Because these
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lies, these deceivers, these false prophets, these amen heretical teachers, they
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cause divisions and offenses. And the Bible teaches here that they are contrary to
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the doctrine of Christ. And they are these, all of these, any
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of these people groups, religions, they are to be avoided. The Bible
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says, for those who are such Roman sixteen, Verses seventeen and eighteen.
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For those who are such, and I don't care who they are. They
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do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible says, but their own
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belly, you can always discern. It's all about them. They cannot avoid
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it. It's about them, their power, their fame, their fortune,
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their prestige, their position, their status. Amen. And this is what
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the Bible teaches you can Jesus said, by their fruit, you'll know them.
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They do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, Jesus say,
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if you're gonna follow me, you've got to deny yourself. It's not gonna
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be about you. You gotta take up the cross and follow me daily.
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Amen. What did John the Baptist say, again, he must increase,
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I must decrease. But these are not people who are serving Jesus. They
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are, the Bible says, serving their own belly. And by smooth words
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and flattering speech, the Bible says here they deceive the hearts of the simple.
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But listen this is what Johnny's talking about. This is what the apostle
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paulity. This is what all the apostles and prophets of old, Amen,
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the prophets of old even again, this is nothing new, false prophets and
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false teachers. Amen, this is what they're warning. Test their teachings to
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see whether they are of God is what they are speaking according to the doctrine
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of Christ. We have the responsibility. The Bible speaks in the Book of
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Acts of those who are more noble than them, and that'sinalaika in that they
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search the scriptures daily to see if what they were being told, if what
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they were being preached was in the scriptures, was it according to the word
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of God. You have the responsibility. It's your responsibility to search the scriptures,
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to read the word, to know the word, to hide the Word
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in your heart. And when you hear heresy, you will know it instantly.
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You will know a false teacher. Jesus said it. You will know
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it because the Holy Spirit. If you have the Holy Spirit in you,
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you have the spirit of God in you, you will not be led into
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error by the Spirit of God. That's why you test the spirits, try
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the spirits by the spirit, by the word of God, by the doctrine
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of Christ. Test their teachings to see whether they are of God. Search
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the word of God, know the word of God again, in order to
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discern truth from error and from heresy. Again, as John said, there
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are many false prophets that have already gone out into the world thousands of years
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ago, and they're still here. Where are they? Do you mean the
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same false p No, the spirits, and that's why they're still alive.
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Not the men, not the women. No, the spirit, because the
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spirits are transferable. Amen, the spirit of error, the spirit of heresy,
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the spirit of anti Christ, being against Christ, is spirit. It
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is alive. And there is no Amen, no shortage of them, simply
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no shortage of them. Ephesians four and fourteen. Apost says, Listen,
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we should no longer we the children of God, we who are in Christ.
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We shall no longer be children tossed to and fraud. Listen what he
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says and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men.
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See this is trickery. So this is nuts. Again, this is deliberate.
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This is deliberate on their part. Amen, They seek to manipulate you.
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They seek to amen, con you, trick you. Amen. We
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as the people of God, the Church of the Living God, those of
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us again who are in Christ Jesus, and I have every confidence, all
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confidence. Amen. I'm fully persuaded that those again are truly say, will
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not be lost. They will not Jesus said it my sheep, hear my
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voice, and a stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from
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him. This only happens to those again who are not in Christ Jesus,
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who do not have the spirit of God who do not read the Word of
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God, who do not love the Lord and his word and his doctrine,
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and are a man in the grace of God, a man striving every day
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to be more and more like Jesus. You cannot fall, you cannot fail,
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you cannot be lost. Amen. If these things be in you and
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a boundness Peter rights to the Church, they make you. He says that
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you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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But he that lacks these things is blind and cannot see a far of
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And this is again what the apostile Paul is speaking about here. Those of
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us Efesians four and fourteen. Again, who are in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are to no longer be children tossed to and fro carried about with
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every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men and cunning craftiness of deceitful
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plotting. You see more plotting is don't you. Yes, they plan,
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they plan to do this, They dream about it. Hey, man,
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they live for it. First Timothy, and I'm gonna move on one Timothy,
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chapter six. I want to give you one more scripture reference. And
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we talk about doctrine is important. Doctrine is important. This is what we
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live by, the doctrine of Christ, the commandments of Jesus. This is
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what the Bible says. First Timothy. Paul warns Amen, his protege,
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his son in the Gospel. Timothy, concerning again these false prophets, false
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teachers, heretical a man, religious cult leaders, and so forth and so
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on. Listen what he says. If one Timothy chapter six again, verses
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three through five. So if you got your bibles, turn turn turned market
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market market highlighted, highlighted, highlighted. One Timothy chapter six, verse number
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three. I'm reading from the New King James version. If anyone teaches otherwise
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and does not consent, that is agree with, conformed to wholesome words,
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even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. If anyone teaches otherwise contrary to
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different from what Jesus taught, and to the doctrine, which is a court
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thing to godliness, I'm gonna read that again. If anyone teaches otherwise and
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does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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and to the doctrine which accords with godliness Versi number four, he is
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proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words from
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which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useful wranglings of men
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of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is
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a means of gain. Timothy Paul writes, from such withdrawal your self.
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Do not listen to them, do not heed what they have to say,
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do not follow them, do not support them in any way. If anyone
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is teaching contrary to what Jesus has spoken, what Jesus has taught, If
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anyone is teaching contrary to the doctrine that the Bible teaches, which it's all
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about godliness, not wiliness. The Bible says that person is proud, therefore
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that's the devil right there. Pride is of the devil, you know.
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Immediately the Bible says, he is proud, he is arrogant, he is
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haughty, he is high minded, he's all about self, and he knows
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nothing. And I don't Again, these people sound all days. Oh they
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got the CHARASMI they got the looks, they got the charm, and they
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got the crowds going. But they know nothing. They are destitute of the
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truth. And the Bible says their purpose, what they are supposing, what
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they have been themselves deceived by. They think that godliness this way is a
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means for them to gain, to gain what advantage over you, control over
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you, power over you, your money, your possessions, to gain a
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popularity and fame and fortune. And Paul says, from such, withdrawal yourself
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a man. Thank God, oh my eye, thank God every day for
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the holy Ghos. Thank God for the Word of God. Amen, the
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word of God. The truth of God will never lead you into error,
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and the spirit of God will carry you away from such folk. Again,
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I say what Jesus said. He says, my sheep hear my voice,
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and a stranger. They will not follow, follow, they will not heed,
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they won't listen. Uh uh. And this is what the Bible teaches.
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Back to First John, chapter four, verses four through six, this
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is what the Bible says. He says, you are of God, little
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children, and have overcome them. Overcome who these heretics, these false prophets,
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these false teachers. You have overcome them because he who is in you
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is greater than he who is in the world. Oh, my God,
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thank you. Jesus then agains this is the good news. This is the
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gospel, good news for every one who obeys the gospel. Because again the
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gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation. And Jesus does
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not half save anybody. If you're half saved, you're not saved. He
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saves to the utmost. That's what the Bible teaches. He's able to save
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to the utmost. So you're either saved or you're not saved. There's no
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half saved. I'm on my way. No no, no, no,
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no, you are saved. You are delivered. Now there's a process of
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sanctification, and we're all Amen. Every day, more and more Amen,
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And this is what we're The Bible teaches more and more, striving to be
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more like Jesus every day, laying aside every weight and the sin. The
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Bible says that that's easily beset us, so that we can run in this
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race with patience, keeping out eyes on Jesus, mark the perfect man,
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and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Amen.
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But when you are in Jesus, the Christ, the Bible says,
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you are of God and you have overcome them because the one who is in
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you, and that's what Jesus said, I'll be in you. That's the
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Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, Amen, the power of God,
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Amen, the comforter, the one who teaches, Amen, the one who
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testifies of Jesus. That's the other thing about the Holy Oh, my God,
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I wish I had the time. The Holy Spirit never speaks contrary to
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Jesus. Jesus said, the spirit of truth. He will lead you and
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guide you into all truth. He will testify of me. Anyone who professes
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to be saved and are speaking contrary to Jesus that ain't the holy gold.
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That's not the spirit of God. Amen. The Bible teaches that we all
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overcome, we are all victorious, We are all more than conquerors, because
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again, He who is in us is greater than that wicked one, than
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that power of the darkness that is in this world. Verse number five says,
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they are of the world. Who are they? They all of the
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false prophets, false, it's just false religions. It's all about the worldliness.
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It's all about the hearing the now. Amen. They are of the
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world. They are carnal. The Bible says, the carnal minu is enmity
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against God. It is not subject to the law of God. Neither indeed
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can be. They are of the world. They are of the flesh.
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They are about the flesh. And again they cannot please God. Amen.
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They that are in the flesh can not please God. They are of the
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world. Amen. Therefore the verse five, therefore they speak as of the
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world, and the world the world hears them. Verse six says, but
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we, on the other hand, we are of God. He who knows
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God hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us.
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By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Listen,
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the wicked one, that's the devil, that's Satan. Amen, the
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wicked one, and all who again cooperate with him. They are of this
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world, and they speak of this world. And again, as the bossle
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teaches here, the world hears them. The world loves them, the world
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gravitates toward them. But those who are of God and hear the truth,
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know the truth. They follow the truth. And those who are not of
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God. John says, they don't hear the truth. But brother, they
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rejected. We're not saying they don't hear the words, because the truth of
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God, the Word of God, has gone out into all the earth.
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Oh, they hear it. As Jesus said, he who hears these sayings
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of mine and does them, I would liken him him unto a wise man
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who builds his house upon the rock. But the one who hears my sayings
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and do not do Oh they hear? Have they not heard? Oh?
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The Bible says they heard. They've heard, Amen. But they reject the
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truth of God. Amen, And are therefore left only with error, with
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lies, with deception, with heresy, with delusion, confusion. That's all
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they have left. When you reject the truth of God. You're automatically in
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error. Amen, And please understand this. And we're going to go to
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verse number seven here in first John, because John is now going to reiterate
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the absolute essence importance of love in all of this. Amen, and the
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foundation of truth. A man is in love. God so loved that he
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gives. Not only that he gave, he gives, he keeps on giving.
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Amen. That a foundation of truth and the truth is that God sent
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his And this is what John is gonna reemphasize again. God so loved that
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he sent Jesus Christ into the world to pay the price that we could not
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pay. Love is the key to our salvation. It is the key to
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our discipleship. Again, in a world that is antithetical in nature, Amen
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to the love of God. In God's graciousness that he is, Oh my
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God over and continues to do so by the way demonstrating it towards all men.
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Sun shines on the just and the unjust. The rain comes on the
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just and the unjust. Amen. He gives, He gives food, Amen,
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And and and and and the necessities. God causes all these things to
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happen. He gives man knowledge and understanding. Amen, And he listened.
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By the way Jesus simplified it, the word of God simplifies it. It
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comes down the two commandments, Love God, love your neighbor. The Bible
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says, love is the fulfilling of the law. On these Jesus said,
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by the way Jesus taught this. On these two hang all the law and
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the prophets. To love the Lord your God with all your heart, and
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to love your neighbor as yourself love. Jesus commanded his disciples, Amen,
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to love one another. He says, as I have loved you by this.
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By this, Jesus says, shall all men know that you are my
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disciples. Indeed, by the love you demonstrate one for another. This is
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the the direct message that the apostle John heard a man. Again, we're
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talking about a man who was there. He was there with Gesus three and
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a half years. Amen. This is the This is the direct message that
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the apostle John heard from the lips of Jesus. And he read, Oh
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my God, did he ever? He reiterates it abundantly in a man his
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writings to the church. First John. Look at First John chapter four again,
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verse number seven, beloved listen what he says. Let us love one
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another, for love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of
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God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God.
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For God is love. In this, the love of God was manifested.
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Oh my God, watch it. In this the love of God was manifested
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towards us. That God has sent his only begotten son into the world that
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we might live through him. In this is love. Not that we loved
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God, but that He loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation
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for our sins. And again, I'm gonna go back to what we talked
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about at the very outset of this amen lesson in this chapter four of First
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John, all who deny the mission the purpose of Jesus Christ coming in the
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flesh to this world, they deny the love of God because Jesus coming into
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the world is the ultimate demonstration of the love of God. If you deny
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Jesus coming in the flesh, you are denying. You are rejecting the love
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of God. And it's not that we loved him what the Bible says,
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but that matter of fact, we are haters of God. We are born
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sworn enemies of God. By nature, we are children of wrath. The
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Bible teachers, Amen, it's not that we loved him, but that He
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loved us and sent Jesus the Christ into the world to be the propitiation for
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our sins. God demonstrates his love towards towards us. The Bible teaches that
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while we were hostile, rebel sinners against His holiness, while we were yet
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sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. Amen. He died for sinners.
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Amen. He sent Jesus Christ into the world of hostility to pay the debt
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that we were incapable of paying. He is the one and the only propitiation
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for our sins. Nothing else, nothing else, nothing else can be substituted,
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Nothing, nothing else will atone for or suffice in satisfying the penalty that
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was due that we again could not pay. And the Bible teachers verse on
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eleven beloved. If God so loved us, we also ought to love one
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another. Amen. Now watch this, listen, listen, listen. This
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is the This is the apostle John who again was at the feet of Jesus.
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Look at verse number twelve. I'm almost done. No one has seen
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God at any time I wish I had the time, for I don't have
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time to get there. All that particular a man sentence. If we love
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one another, God abides in us, and his love has been perfected in
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us. See that's what love. Listen, it's all about a bid.
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That's why Jesus had abide in me and eyeing you. My word is to
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abide in you. Why so that we can be affected, perfected in what
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perfected in love. And when you're perfected in love, you're perfected in mercy
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and grace and forgiveness and long suffering and compassion, all of those things the
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fruit of the spirit, as it were, kindness, gentleness, peacefulness.
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Blessed other peacemakers, Jesus said, for they shall be called the children of
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God. Oh that's only one aspect of it. But it's all because love
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works in us and perfects us. Amen. That's what the true love of
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God does inside of us. Now again we fight against it. Amen.
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We resisted in our nature and our carnality and our amen human atom, a
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damic as it were nature. We resist, as Paul say, old wretched
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man, that I know what I ought to do, but I find myself
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not doing what I ought to do, and what I alter not, That's
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what I find myself doing, old wretched man, that I who can deliver
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me. Only Jesus Christ and his love can perfect us. By this we
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know verse thirteen, that we abide in Him and he and us because He
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has given us of his spirit. And we have seen and testified that the
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Father has sent the Son as savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus
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is the son of God, oh that's a mouthful. And no one can
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say by the way that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
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The Bible teaches, God abides in Him and he in God. And we
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have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love
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verse sixteen. And he who abides in love abides in God and God in
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him. Love has been perfected among us in this that we may have both
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in the day of judgment. Because as He is, so are we in
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this world. We can have confidence, We can have assurance. That's what
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the Bible is all about, confidence and assurance. Amen, resting in God,
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resting in his promises. Resting listen, you will know he whom the
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sun sets free is what free. Indeed, Amen, the Spirit of God
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in the children of God. The Bible says, witnesses bears witness with our
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spirit that we are the children of God. And this is why John says
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we can have boldness. We can have that's not bragging, that's not boastfulness.
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No, that's confidence. We can have assurance in the day of judgment
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because as He is, so are we in this world. Again, that's
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why we are striving every day more and more Amen, by the grace of
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God, by the help of the Holy Ghost, by the our of the
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Word of God, to be more and more like Jesus Verse eighteen. There
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is no fear in love. We don't have to fear. You know,
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we don't live in fear. We don't fear the wrath of God. Amen,
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because God has not appointed us the wrath. And again, that's why
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we can have the confidence, the Bible says, because perfect love casts out
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fear, because fear involves torment. And those of you who again a living
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in fear, allowing fear, Amen to come in. There's something there's something,
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there's something missing. Love is not being perfected in you if the spirit
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of fear can come in and torment you and make no mistake of Oh I
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wish, Oh my God, y'all know I dealt with this three years ago.
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I mean extensively during the spirit of fear the most. I mean egregious,
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outrageous invasion of the spirit of fear that was sweeping across the world.
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Amen, twenty twenty. Fear will torment you, Oh my God, help
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me move on, help me, help me, help me. Fear involves,
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but perfect love cast out fear. He who fears. Listen what the
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Bible says, has not been made perfect in love. We love him,
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oh, verse nineteen, Oh God, Oh God, many of these I
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could just I could just do a whole message, all of them by itself.
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Verse nineteen. We love him because he first loved us. Don't ever
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get that twisted. Don't ever get it twisted. How can anyone get that
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twisted? We love him because he he first loved us. If someone says
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I love God and hates his brother, the Bible says, the Word of
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God says. The apostle John says, according to Jesus that you are a
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liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen.
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That's why John earlier said, no one has seen God at any time,
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because he goes right to this. You are to love the one that you
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see. Now again, we love God. But don't say you love God
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whom you have not seen, and you don't love your brother, whom you
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see every day. He who does not love his brother whom he has seen,
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how can he love God whom he has not seen. In this commandment
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we have from him. This came from Jesus, that he who loves God
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must love his brother. Also again, Jesus said, on these two hang
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all the law and the prophets. You shall love the Lord your God with
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all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and your
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neighbor as yourself. Because love is the fulfilling of the law. Love is
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the perfecting of our souls. Amen, Father, help us today. God,
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let your word, that your power, that your spirit, Amen,
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work in us, transform us, change us. But let it speak to
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someone today, the spirit of the Living God. Bring conviction to someone's heart
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today that they may be obedient hearers of the word, being blessed, being
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fruitful and multiplying in this world. Be thout glorified in your people today.
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Lord, get the gl glory out of our lives. In Jesus' name,
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we pray and give you thanks, Amen and amen. H m hm h
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