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1 Peter chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Peter chapter 2 Let us pray Jesus Christ our Lord and
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  our everything. You are high and lifted up above
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  every single entity. God, you are exalted above the
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  universe, exalted above every single government and
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  principality, every leader and king.
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  You are high and exalted above emotions and feelings,
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  circumstances, God, all of the issues, all of our hard times
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  and persecutions. God, you are high and lifted up
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  and more powerful. And you are the baseline for our
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  lives. We build everything upon the
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  chief cornerstone, Jesus Christ. And we'll never be put to shame.
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  We'll never be dismayed, God, because we are building upon a
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  firm foundation. We're building upon concrete,
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  and God, I pray in the name of Jesus for a supernatural zeal to
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  fill this house. God, I pray that you will speak
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  boldly and mightily through me today.
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  I pray, God, that your word will resound and reverberate through
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  all the rafters. God, I pray that it'll go out to
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  the ends of the earth. God, and for your Word to save
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  many. God, I pray that people will
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  place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ today, that they
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  will finally admit that their way is not working and they
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  desperately need a savior because they cannot save
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  themselves. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, that you, Lord, will be well pleased and honored and
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  glorified in the reading of the text today.
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  God, I pray for your theology and your doctrine.
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  Hide me. Hide my words, hide my thoughts.
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  God, hide my motives. Father, I decrease as you
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  increase. It's all about King Jesus.
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  We thank you, God for your eternal words.
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  We thank you God that we can house them, Lord, and that we
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  can hold them and read them, Lord, and own them and hide
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  them, Lord. And I pray that the word of God
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  will discern us today. The Word of God will read us
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  today. God, I pray that we will become
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  one with you and you one with us, God.
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  Know us as we try, Lord, and push and press towards knowing
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  more and more and more about you, God, Heal us today.
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  Heal our marriages, heal our broken bodies.
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  God, bring the prodigals home today.
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  God, I pray that we'll be the peacemakers of our workplaces,
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  the peacemakers of our houses, the peacemakers God of every
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  single place that we step foot in today.
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  God, let the Holy Spirit come and fill God.
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  And I pray that you will change many people's lives today and
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  help them to put their faith in you.
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  And it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious and powerful name
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  that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. Wherefore, laying aside all
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  malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all
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  evil speakings, these are all the things that we need to
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  safeguard our hearts and our minds from friends.
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  We do not need to be those that look no different than the rest
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  of the world. We need to be those that season
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  all of our conversation with love and grace and mercy.
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  We do not need to be negative and critical.
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  We do not need to be those that are breaking other people down
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  and always having something smart to say towards somebody
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  and trying to break others down to make ourselves feel better
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  about ourselves. That is the way that the world
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  works. But we are not of the world,
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  friends. We're in the world, but not of
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  it. We're called to a higher
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  spiritual plateau than this, friends, and we need to sharpen
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  ourselves. We need to discipline ourselves.
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  We need to do a lot more listening than we do speaking.
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  Verse 2 As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word,
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  that you may grow thereby. We always go back to the
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  fundamental teachings of the Gospel.
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  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John we always go back.
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  Everything from Genesis to Malachi points to those four
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  books, and everything from Acts to Revelation point back to
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  Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. We go back to that milk,
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  friends. We go back and we nourish
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  ourselves on the fundamental things that we see the entirety
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  of God's Word from that point forward.
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  And from that point back, we see it all as a hinge point on the
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  gospel of the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ, and we hang
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  on his every syllable. Verse 2 is a beautiful verse.
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  Verse three. If so, be you have tasted that
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  the Lord is gracious. Have you tasted and seen that
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  the Lord is good? Is he just an intellectual
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  knowledge for you? Is he just a get out of hell
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  free card? Is he just escapism for you?
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  Who is Jesus Christ to you? Have you tasted and seen that He
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  is good and gracious? This is how you can know if you
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  truly are His and if He truly is yours.
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  You cannot just approach God from academia, friends.
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  You cannot just approach God from a scholastic viewpoint.
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  You must not only know Him, but be known by Him, and He will
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  become precious to you. For to whom coming as unto a
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  living stone disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and
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  precious is he, precious to you. I pray that he is this chief
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  cornerstone is precious to those that are saved and being saved,
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  and it is a stumbling block in a rock of offense to anyone who
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  refuses to believe in him. The most ridiculous notion that
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  a Jewish man was the son of God, who was a son of a Carpenter,
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  who had an Immaculate Conception of virgin birth.
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  And to the world it is nonsense. To the world it doesn't make
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  sense. But they will believe in all
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  kinds of other ridiculous notions.
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  But this is an offense to them. They are offended by people when
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  they say that Jesus is the only way to the Father.
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  Five. You also, as lively stones are
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  built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to OfferUp
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  spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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  So you can see here that we are the temple of God, we are the
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  high priest. We offer up sacrifices, which is
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  our prayers and supplications unto God.
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  It's laying down our lives is dying to self and you can see
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  that we are those who have become the high priesthood of
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  Jesus Christ and His temple. 6 Wherefore also it is contained
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  in the Scripture. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief
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  cornerstone elect precious, and he that believes on him shall
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  not be confounded. So we can see here that God has
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  established Jesus Christ forever and ever.
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  And all of the people of old, all the prophets of old, all the
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  people born before the cross of Christ, they longed to see the
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  day. And God had a plan from the
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  beginning, and he knew the proper time.
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  He knew that the Pax Romana, He knew about the Greek language
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  becoming the international language and the roads being
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  built by the Romans. He knew the proper time for
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  Jesus Christ to arrive on the scene.
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  But he took care of all the righteous of old, and he saved
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  them by faith. And you can see here that God
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  established Jesus all the way back at the beginning, and he
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  established him in Jerusalem, in Zion, which is synonymous.
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  Friends, this Shalom is peace, the city of peace.
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  And God has had it on his mind from the very beginning.
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  And he laid the cornerstone there in that place.
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  And now we as Gentiles, we are so incredibly indebted to the
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  Jews and how they brought about the Messiah.
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  And we will one day all stream into Jerusalem to learn more and
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  more and more about this Jewish son of a Carpenter, the Son of
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  God. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture.
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  Behold, I lay in Zion, a chief cornerstone elect precious.
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  And he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
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  Have you believed on Him? That is the crux of the
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  situation. We must believe on Him.
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  It's not just believing that he was a man who walked the earth,
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  that he was just a religious teacher, that he was just
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  another one of the prophets. No, He is the Son of God, and
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  that is how we become right, and that one with God Almighty. 7
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  Unto you therefore, which believe He is precious, but unto
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  them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
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  disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner.
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  You can see that Jesus takes His rightful place, and there are
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  many who refuse to believe in him.
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  You can give them all the facts, you can give them all the
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  evidence, and they are hostile towards a loving God, and they
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  have made their love decision for this world.
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  And no matter how much evidence you bring, no matter how much of
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  the plain simple truth spoke in love that you give to them, they
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  will refuse to believe it. 8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock
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  of offense, even to them which stumbled at the word, being
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  disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed the word of God
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  is an offense. Friends, we never have to
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  sugarcoat things, we don't need to water down the gospel, We
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  speak truth in love, and we never are afraid of offending
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  someone. 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
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  a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should show
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  forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into
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  his marvelous light. You were once in darkness, and
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  then whenever you were born again, it was as if you had a
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  new set of eyes and a new set of ears, and the whole world has
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  looked different. It was as if you were born for
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  the first time and you're finally getting to see the world
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  around you the way that God does.
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  You were once in darkness, you were once ignorant in your sins,
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  and now God has revealed himself to you.
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  What an amazing thought, friends, that we can be His
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  chosen generation to shine forth His praises unto a lost and
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  dying world. That we are a royal priesthood.
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  Friends that He has given us the authority to be the High Priest
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  of our home. We are a holy nation.
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  We're set apart, friends. All of these different parts all
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  working together, All of these nationalities, these, all of
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  these different languages. This is a God Without Borders,
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  friends. And we've all come together of
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  all these different places and all these different backgrounds
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  to form Christianity. What an amazing thought.
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  And that we should show forth the praises of Him. 10 which in
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  time passed were not a people, but are now the people of God,
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  which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
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  So you can see that God is calling representatives from
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  every single continent, every single nation, every single
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  people group, every single tribe, every single tongue,
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  every single language on planet earth.
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  God is calling representatives out of all of them, and we all
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  form His bride. What an amazing thought.
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  And He has showered us with His mercy.
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  And there is nothing that you have ever done or have done or
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  will do that is not under the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  He shows mercy to us even though we do not even deserve it.
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  And he gives us that mercy, and he showers us with that mercy.
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  And blessed is the man whose sins will never be counted
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  against him. 11 Dearly beloved, I beg you as strangers and
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  pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the
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  soul. That's what happens whenever we
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  sin knowingly, when we have obtained this mercy and He's
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  been so good to us, and then we squander our inheritance.
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  What happens is the communication between
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  headquarters gets jammed, and that is the intent of the
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  adversary. He loves to jam the
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  communication between you and ABBA.
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  And what he does is He gets you to take your eyes off of Christ
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  and put them on this world. And then we willingly, knowingly
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  fall into sin and temptation. And then what happens is we sear
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  our conscience and then we grieve the Holy Spirit.
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  But if you have found yourself in that place today, it's not
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  too late to turn away from sin, to turn away from self, to
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  repent, to return back to the penthouse, return back to the
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  top where you belong. Your inheritance is with Christ
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  Jesus. You are in Christ Jesus.
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  Make it right. Confess it before God, Receive
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  your forgiveness, Forgive yourself and walk straight.
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  Walk in accordance with the revealed word of God. 12 having
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  your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they
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  speak against you as evil doers, they may, by your good works,
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  which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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  So here is an interesting passage that all the people who
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  speak evil of us may be put to shame by the goodness that we
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  possess, by the truth and the honesty and the integrity that
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  we have as they want to break us down.
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  But they can't because they see that God is with us and that we
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  are becoming of the Saints and that we are actually doing the
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  good in this world. And the world looks on and it
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  actually brings them over into the faith by looking at men and
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  women who are completely sold out to the King of Kings and the
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  Lord of Lords. Who refuse to go off in the
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  culture to be polluted and stained by all of the disgusting
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  practices of the pagans. Where we actually practice
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  integrity and do the right thing when no one else is looking.
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  And all of our search engines are free and clear from the
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  disgusting matter that the world looks at.
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  You need to know that no matter if you're found out or not, God
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  sees everything. And if we will make sure that we
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  keep that in the backs of our mind is that God is watching,
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  and we will give an account for every single thing that we do.
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  And this day of visitation is coming upon the whole entire
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  world whenever they will try to hide themselves from the face of
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  God, as the sky is renned and the heavens are rent friends. 13
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  Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
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  sake, whether it be to the to the king as supreme.
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  So we always obey the law, we always obey those officials and
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  the delegates, we always obey those that are in authority over
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  us. As long as they go along with
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  the word of God, we obey God over man. 14 Or unto governors,
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  as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil
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  doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
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  So if we will do the right thing, we do not need to fear
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  the government, we do not need to fear those in authority, if
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  we will just do the right thing. And God forbid the people that
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  are in authority over us do not care about God.
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  And God forbid we are under the leadership of inept leaders.
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  And if they go against the word of God, we always side on the
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  side of God, no matter what, no matter the consequences.
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  Friends. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you
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  may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
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  That's the whole goal when we side with God over.
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  These foolish men, these foolish leaders, when we side with God
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  and do what God would have us to do over what the authorities are
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  telling us, then it will confound them and put them to
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  shame. And we pray to God that they
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  will see the error of their ways and place their faith in a
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  loving God. 16 As free, not using your liberty for a cloak
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  of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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  There are many wolves in sheep's clothing, which is what is
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  referenced here. They sure take on the title of
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  pastor, they take on the title of a shepherd, but they are
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  nothing more than those that have infiltrated the camps just
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  to lead many astray. And God said it would be so.
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  These false prophets and false teachers and this apostasy that
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  has come in at a alarming rapid rate. 17 Honor all men, love the
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  brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
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  You could escape a lot of hardship, you could divert a lot
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  of pain and agony by honoring all men, regardless if you agree
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  with them or not. They are made in the image of
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  God. Love.
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  The brotherhood is so much sweeter whenever we see that God
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  is knitting us together as brothers and sisters in Christ
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  and we honor that. We love that we celebrate God's
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  bride. Fear God.
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  Don't worry about man if you'll fear God.
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  Everything else bows. All of the angelic host, all of
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  the men and women, all of the leaders, everything bows in holy
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  reverence to God and honor the King.
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  We should always be respectful of those that are in leadership
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  over us, unless they go against God's written word. 18 Servants,
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  be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good
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  and gentle, but also to the froward.
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  What an amazing thought. Here, here Peter is and he is
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  under much persecution as the early church was being haunted
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  down and being persecuted. Here he is saying to honor the
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  King. Here he is saying to do good not
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  only to your masters that are loving, but also to those who
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  are froward. And we would do well to make
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  sure that we always try our best to do the right thing in the
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  sight of God, never allowing the flesh to take over in the carnal
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  impulses to take over, where we backbite and slander and gossip.
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  These whisper campaigns that we go on to break down leadership.
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  If you cannot agree with the person who is over you, whether
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  it is your job, whether it is in any kind of business
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  arrangement, if you cannot agree, it's not time for them to
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  go. It is time for you to go out
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  gracefully. It's time for you to start
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  looking for something else and not trying to dismantle those
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  things. Yes, we call them out.
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  Yes we bring it all to the light.
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  But just know that you need to leave that environment, not just
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  sit there negatively criticizing and allowing the devil to have a
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  heyday as you try to amass a following unto yourself to
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  overthrow the leadership and have mutiny that is not from
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  God. 19 For this is thank worthy.
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  If a man for conscience toward God endured grief, suffering
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  wrongfully. There is no reward in suffering
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  for doing the wrong thing. You just get what you deserve.
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  But if you suffer for doing the right thing, what an occasion
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  for rejoicing. This is what is pleasing in the
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  sight of God, if we will endure patiently in the midst of
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  suffering for doing the right thing. 20 For what glory is it
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  when you be buffeted for your faults?
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  And then you shall take it patiently.
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  But if when you do well and suffer for it, you take it
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  patiently, this is acceptable with God.
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  So he's saying that don't suffer for doing the wrong thing, just
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  do the right thing. And if you have to suffer in
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  that, do it with all patience. 21 For even hereunto were you
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  called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
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  example that you should follow his steps. 22 Who did no sin,
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  neither was guile found in his mouth. 23 Who when he was
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  reviled, he reviled not Again, when he suffered, he threatened
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  not, but committed himself to him.
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  That judges righteously. So just follow the model of
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  Jesus Christ. He was silent before his shears.
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  We don't need to be those who are trying to stand up in the
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  face of it all. We just say yes and Amen to all
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  of the ways of Jesus Christ. And He modeled for us what it
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  looks like to be persecuted for doing the right thing.
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  And we shouldn't try to lie to get out of things.
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  We shouldn't try to look like the rest of the world just to
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  fit in. We shouldn't try to be lukewarm
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  in the midst of persecution so that we can escape being
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  persecuted. We don't need to give false
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  allegiance in the face of it all to escape some kind of
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  punishment. We just like Christ, We keep our
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  mouths shut, we trust in God, we know that God is going to make
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  everything right in the end friends and we committed all
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  over to him and we just say Lord, we don't understand it,
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  but yes and Amen to all of your ways. 24 Who his own self bore
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  our sins, and his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
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  sins, should live unto righteousness.
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  By whose stripes you were healed.
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  What an amazing verse in the book of God.
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  What an amazing verse that we can meditate upon, friends.
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  He bore our sins in His own body so that we can have His
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  righteousness imputed unto us, His Holiness and His perfection
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  and His innocence for us, and we can be healed and we can be made
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  whole in the sight of God for all of eternity because of what
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  Jesus Christ did on the tree, which is the cross of Christ.
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  We'll end on 25. For you were as sheep going
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  astray, but are now returned unto the shepherd and Bishop of
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  your souls. He is the Good Shepherd, He's
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  the overseer of our souls. We come in to the gate to the
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  sheepfold. We come in and we know that his
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  rod and his staff, they comfort us.
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  And though we might go to the valley of the shadow of death,
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  He is there and He is with us, and He is leading us beside
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  Stillwater friends. And He is peaceful and loving.
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  And we enter His gates with praise and Thanksgiving,
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  showering Him with 1000 hallelujahs and hosannas.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for you and I love you, and we'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.