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1 Peter chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Peter chapter 4. Let us pray, Lord, and our God
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  and our everything. We thank you, Father, for
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  another day to come and to worship you, to sit at your feet
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  and dine sumptuously. God, we open the door up.
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  Come in, come in, come in, Father, sit with us, God, Sit at
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  the table. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus God, that you'll prepare a banquet for us in the presence
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  of our enemy. God.
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  We dine with you, Lord, we Sup with you, we feast on the flesh,
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  we drink the blood. God, in remembrance of who you
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  are and what you have done and the sacrifice at Golgotha, we
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  thank you, Jesus, for your spilled blood that cleanse the
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  whole earth. Father, that made it pure.
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  Father, I pray that you'll make all things new.
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  God, at the renewal of all things.
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  Father, we pray for the crown that never perishes.
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  Father, I pray that we will lay it at your feet.
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  God, it's all about you. King Jesus has always been about
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  you, the chief cornerstone. You are the shepherd.
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  You are the door, You are our bread, You are our life, your
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  breath. And so, Father, I pray in the
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  name of Jesus for a supernatural zeal to consume us.
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  Fill this temple, God with the Shekinah glory.
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  God, we want to be a House of prayer.
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  God, I pray that we'll kick out the den of thieves.
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  God, I pray that we will not be those that are obsessed over
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  merchandise and filthy lucre. God and I pray against the
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  spirit of Mammon. God, I pray that we will be sold
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  out. Lay down lovers of Yeshua, we
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  love you. King Jesus, teach us your
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  eternal paths today. Help us to walk in the light as
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  you are in the light. We are yours, we are your bride
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  and we wait expectantly. We look up and see that our
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  redemption is drawing near. We see the leaves on the fig
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  tree. We know that summer is near.
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  God, bring your rewards with you and let us be where you are and
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  let us see you. See you rightly.
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  God, we have seen in part darkly and dimly, but we want to see in
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  the fullness. God, we thank you for the
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  blessings that you have showered us with.
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  You've poured upon us your presence.
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  Thank you God, for healing our bodies.
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  Thank you, God, for carving out all of the cancer.
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  Thank you, God, for carving out all of the disease.
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  Thank you, God, for a sound mind.
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  Thank you, God, that you have given us the ability to reason,
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  given us the ability to come and learn and to go deeper with you.
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  Thank you, Father, for your Holy Scriptures.
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  As we open them, let them hide in our hearts so that we might
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  not sin against You. Yes, Father, we are listening
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  and we want a greater measure. We want to feel the depths of
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  your love and mercy and grace for this world at large.
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  Help us, God, to spread the seed.
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  Help us to go out into the harvest.
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  God supernaturally enable us to do the will that you would have
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  for us to do for today. Thank you God for food and clean
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  drinking water. Thank you God for health.
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  Thank you God for our abilities. Thank you God for marriage and
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  family. Thank you God for law
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  enforcement, military. Thank you, God, that you have
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  given us the ability to know you and to be known by you.
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  Father, we love you, King Jesus, it's all about you.
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  King Jesus. We pray for the peace of Israel.
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  We pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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  God, let your Kingdom come right here on this earth, just as it
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  is there in heaven, and it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious
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  name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. For as much then as Christ has
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  suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the
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  same mind. For he that has suffered in the
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  flesh has ceased from sin. So here we go, look at how King
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  Jesus is the model for us to follow.
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  And one day, by and by we will enter into glory.
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  One day, by and by we will receive the imperishable.
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  One day by and by we will receive our immortal bodies.
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  But in the meantime and in between time, we must stiff arm
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  sin and the flesh and carnal desires, and one day all of
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  those things will pass away and we will have nothing more than
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  to worship King Jesus forever and ever.
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  And we look forward to that time.
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  But in the meantime, there's much work to do.
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  Verse 2. That he no longer should live
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  the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but
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  to the will of God. That's the calling that is
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  placed on us to abstain from sexual immorality, friends, to
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  do the right thing and to walk in the light and to listen to
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  God and to consecrate our temples and to not be stained by
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  the world. Not to love the world or
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  anything in the world. Do not fall in love with the
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  culture. Do not fall in love with all of
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  the mammon, with all of the greed, with all of the things
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  that are in this world that vie for our attention, that get us
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  to squander our inheritance of eternal life.
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  This is seed planting time, friends.
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  This is time to go out into the heart.
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  Our time is limited and God is sanctifying us all along the way
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  and He's going to bring us from glory to glory.
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  Do not make this life about pleasure and pleasantries.
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  Do not make this life about self.
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  Do not make this life about comfort, friends, or you will
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  find yourself like the rich young ruler going away, sad
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  because you became offended that Jesus didn't behave in the way
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  that you thought that he should. Verse 3 For the time past of our
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  life may suffice us to have rocked the will of the Gentiles
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  when we walked in. Lasciviousness, lust, excess of
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  wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.
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  He's talking about lust. He's talking about the sexual
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  immorality, he's talking about orgies, he's talking about
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  sexual perverseness, friends. And he's saying that that is the
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  way of the world. This is how they operate, all of
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  the carnal thinking. And far be it from us who have
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  been called out, who have been those that have tasted and seen,
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  those that have the Holy Spirit. Far be it from us to go back to
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  the vomit friends. Far be it from us to be addicted
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  to the images and addicted to all of the disgusting fleshly
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  practices that we once were in for wherein they think it's
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  strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot
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  speaking evil of you. Do not be surprised when people
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  make all kinds of fun and mockery out of you when they say
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  all kinds of blasphemous things towards a loving God because of
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  the conduct that you have and because you refuse to go down in
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  those paths, to go down into the dump, to go down into the
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  garbage and the waste that they spend their lives and time and
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  energy in. Friends, we are called out.
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  We are the called out ones. We are the ecclesia.
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  We are marked by his goodness and grace and mercy and love,
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  and we shower the world with His glory as He shines upon us.
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  We are the salt friends and we are the light and we are called
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  to not love the world or anything in the world, to not be
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  stained by the world friends. But we are those that are the
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  difference makers. We're the peacemakers and we are
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  more than conquerors and goddess for us.
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  And no one can be against us. And he's going to perform his
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  will and there are many inside those camps that are going to be
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  called out with us just as we were once.
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  Those people, they will come out of the those things and be
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  ministers of reconciliation in those camps, and God will call
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  them back into those places to minister and to pull more
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  firebrands out of the fire. Five, who shall give account to
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  him that is ready to to judge the quick and the dead?
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  Think about it, friends, Jesus Christ stands ready and he's
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  looking at his Father and he's saying, is it the time yet?
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  And the Father says, no, not yet.
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  There are still more to come into the fold.
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  He doesn't even know the day, only the Father knows the day,
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  but he stands ready to judge. He stands ready, friends, to
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  give us our rewards. He stands ready to make his
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  enemies a footstool under his feet. 6/4 For this cause was the
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  gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might
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  be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to
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  God in the Spirit. So we just read in the last
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  chapter that Jesus descended into she.
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  Oh, He descended into the lower parts, into hell, and He
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  preached to the spirits, and it says here that He had preached
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  to even those that are dead and given them an opportunity, and
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  they all must come in the same way that you and I did.
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  Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, and no one
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  comes unto the Father except through Him by being covered in
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  the blood of Jesus Christ. That is the only way that we can
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  stand before a holy God and to be in His presence is because of
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  what Jesus did and not anything that we have done.
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  Seven. But the end of all things is at
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  hand. Be you therefore sober and watch
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  unto prayer. So all the way back here in
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  Peter's time, there was the end. How much more is at the end in
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  our time. And we would do well to be the
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  generation that seeks his face. Oh Jacob, we open the gates up
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  and allow his presence to come in.
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  Friends, we go in with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  How much should we? More so be those that look up
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  and wait expectantly at Jesus Christ triumphant return A and
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  above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves, for
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  charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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  Think about it friends. This charity is agape love.
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  This is love in action, friends. This is actually putting feet to
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  what we say. This is actually going out into
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  the highways, in the hedges, in the byways, into the homeless
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  camps, into the homeless shelters, in the overpass, under
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  the overpass. Friends, this is going out and
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  actually doing the things that God has called us into and not
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  sitting on our blessed assurance.
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  And this love covers the multitude of sins.
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  Never forget that nine use hospitality one to another
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  without grudging. Do not forget to show
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  hospitality in by doing so some have entertained angels unaware.
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  10 As every man has received the gift, Even so minister the same
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  one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
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  This is all different kinds of parts coming together as one.
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  These gifts that are given by the Holy Spirit for each of us,
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  and we need to be walking in that gifting that He has given
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  to us. We need to steward the gifting
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  well. We don't need to just be those
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  that think that the gifts are of old and they are not relevant
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  for us today. We still have the gifts of the
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  Holy Spirit, and He expects for us to operate within the
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  giftings that he has placed on us. 11 If any man speaks, let
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  him speak as the oracles of God. If any man minister, let him do
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  it as of the ability which God gives, that God in all things
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  may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and
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  dominion forever and ever. Amen.
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  So he's saying, if you speak, speak the words of God, Let
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  every man be a liar. The only truth that is in this
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  entire world is the Word of God. Everything else is man's
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  opinion. And if you are called to
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  minister, do it with all your strength, with all your mind,
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  friends, do it with all of your heart.
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  Do it with all of the strength that you can muster up.
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  Do not be black. Do not be lazy.
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  This is not the time to grow weary, friends, but we do it all
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  for Christ and unto Christ because He is worthy.
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  He is worthy of all of our attention and adoration and
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  affection. Friends, give him his due honor,
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  Give Him His due praise, and go out and do the things that He's
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  asked you to do. 12 Beloved, I think it not strange concerning
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  the fiery trial, which is to try you as though some strange thing
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  has happened to you. So you need to understand that
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  these fiery trials that come, they produce the character and
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  the perseverance. They produce the Saints that God
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  is after. And he knows just what to allow
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  in your life. Just like the book of Job, He
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  knows how to get the character that he's after for all of
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  eternity, which by the way, is a very long time.
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  It is forever and ever and ever and ever.
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  And God only has 120 years time at best to get you ready for
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  glory. And that is the purpose and the
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  plan for all of the fiery trials that are coming your way.
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  Don't think that it's a strange thing that you're having to go
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  through all of the things that you are 13 but rejoice in as
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  much as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, that when
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  his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding
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  joy. I pray that you look forward to
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  the day of Christ's return. I pray that you are hastening
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  that day. I pray that you are those that
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  look up to see that your redemption is drawing near.
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  I pray that when He comes, you will have exceeding joy and you
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  will receive the crown and you will receive the rewards.
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  Friends, I pray that you're not those that just are wanting to
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  build a Kingdom here on this earth and they're not looking
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  forward to the Kingdom to come. I pray that you are not just
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  self seeking, that you are not in love with money, that you're
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  not in love with pleasure and not in love with vanity and self
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  and not in love with this world. Friends, I pray that you are
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  those that wait expectantly upon the groom to return, and you
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  will have exceeding joy, and you will receive rewards. 14 If you
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  be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the
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  spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
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  On their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is
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  glorified. Jesus told us all the way back
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  in the Sermon on the Mount. He told us to rejoice whenever
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  we suffer for Him. And he says that they persecuted
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  him so they will persecute us, and they hated Him so they will
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  hate us. But he says, count it all as
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  joy, and we might not see it and feel it, but we have to believe
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  that it's all culminating. And He is well pleased whenever
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  we suffer for his namesake and there is a reward attached to it
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  and we won't see it in the here and the now and in our flesh.
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  We want to resist it in our flesh.
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  We want to fight it in our flesh.
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  We want to speak all kinds of evil or weasel our way out of
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  those pigeon holes, friends, but just know that if we will endure
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  patiently, there is a reward attached to it for all of
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  eternity. You might get comfort in the
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  here and the now, but you will squander that reward if you
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  fight back. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, as a
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  thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busy body in others men's
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  matters. Keep your nose out of other
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  people's stuff, friends. Keep your mouth shut, friends.
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  We only speak when the Lord gives us the words to speak.
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  We don't put our nose in other men's business, friends.
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  You must try to live peaceably and as much as you are able to,
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  friends, and we must respect those that are in authority over
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  us, and not be the pot stirrers, not be those that are practicing
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  division and dissension, and those that are always trying to
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  stir up trouble. That is not becoming of a St.
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  16. Yet if any man suffer as a
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  Christian, let him not be ashamed.
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  But let him glorify God on this behalf.
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  Think about it, friends. If you're suffering for being a
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  Christ, follower, a little Christ.
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  If you're suffering for it, count it all as joy.
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  There is a great reward for you. But make sure you're not
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  suffering for doing the wrong thing.
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  There is no glory in that. 17 For the time has come that
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  judgment must begin at the House of God.
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  And if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them
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  that obey not the gospel of God? So we are the first to be
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  judged, the Christians, the Church, the bride.
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  We go up to the Bema seat while the rest of the world is down
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  here experiencing hell on earth. The Bible says it'll be worse
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  than it's ever been since the beginning of mankind.
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  It'll be worse than the days of Noah, and if God had not cut
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  those days short, no one would survive.
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  But while that is going on, you and I, Christian, we are at the
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  Bema seat of Christ, suffering the rewards of the righteous
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  friends. And most of what we do is wood,
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  hay and stubble, and only the things that we did and did not
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  seek recognition for that we will receive a reward for all of
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  eternity. And it's also, as He has painted
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  the picture here in this chapter, it is also for
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  suffering for His name's sake. These martyrs and those that are
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  persecuted will receive their rewards.
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  And it starts with us, the judgment starts with us.
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  But how much worse will it be at the Great White Throne, Friends,
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  whenever there are many who stand and say, we prophesied in
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  your name, and we cast out demons in your name, and we
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  perform miracles in your name. And he says, depart from me, for
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  I never knew you. There are many who will try to
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  come with their pedigree and their resume, their humanitarian
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  efforts and all the money that they gave away to all of these
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  organizations, and it will amount to nothing and all those
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  that do things for people and they seek recognition on social
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  media. There is no reward for that.
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  Friends. 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall
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  the ungodly and the Sinner appear?
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  We're saved by the skin of our teeth.
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  We don't deserve heaven, we deserve hell, friends, we
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  deserve to be eternally separated from a loving God
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  because of all of the evil that we have done.
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  But praise be to God, Hallelujah, Hosanna in the
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  highest that Jesus Christ made away where there was no way.
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  And if we're scarcely saved, what about those that refuse to
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  be clothed and bathed in the blood of Jesus Christ?
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  There is no salvation for them. 19 will end here.
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  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God,
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  commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing.
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  As unto a faithful Creator, praise God, Hallelujah.
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  We have a faithful Creator, we have a loving Creator, we have a
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  graceful Creator, we have a good God, and we praise him that He
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  is good. And He made away friends, and we
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  must come in through His Son Jesus Christ.
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  There is no other way. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter here in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm grateful that you made it all the way here.
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  Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for getting your nose
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  in the Word. Thank you for being here on this
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  journey. I pray that God's Word has
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  become alive and active and quickened in the inner man.
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  I pray that you have joy and peace.
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  I pray that you have love. I pray that you have purpose.
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  God bless you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.