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2 John · Scripture Unscripted

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Second, John, let us pray. Our Father who is in heaven, we
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love you. God, we love everything about
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you. We love your eternal words.
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We love how you move. Lord, we love the freedom that
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comes God, the liberty that you have set us at.
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God, we thank you for the love that we share with one another.
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We thank you that we can know love.
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We thank you God for the church. Lord, we thank you for the
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brotherhood. We thank you, God, that you have
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knit us together, Lord, as community.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for righteous judges.
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I pray in the name of Jesus for mothers who are struggling with
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the choice to keep life. Lord, I pray that you'll help
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them to make the right decision, Lord, to choose life.
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Father, I pray that you will help us through all of our
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infirmities, God, heal our broken bodies, heal our minds,
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Lord, give us sound mind. Give us sound doctrine and sound
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theology. Lord, you come in, you take up
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residence, You speak boldly and mightily to this generation.
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God, let your words reign supreme.
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Let your words reverberate and resound through the rafters.
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God, in the highest places, in the loftiest places, the name of
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Jesus Christ high and lifted up and exalted above every other
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name. For yours is the Kingdom, and
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the glory and the honor forever. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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and precious name that I pray. Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one, the elder unto the elect lady
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and her children whom I love in the truth.
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And not only I but also all they that have known the truth is
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John, who is very elderly at this time.
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He's no longer just an apostle, but now he is an elder.
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He's probably around 90 years old, AD 90.
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The temple in Jerusalem has already been destroyed, and here
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he is writing covertly to this lady.
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Perhaps he's writing to a church.
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Perhaps the children here are the congregants, the Christians
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during the time of persecution, and he did not want to just name
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somebody. They've already tried to kill
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John and they could not. They put him in oil.
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He would not die. He's been on the island of
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Patmos and here he is. And as an elder, writing perhaps
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to the church which he personifies as the lady and the
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congregants as the children. Verse 2 for the truth's sake,
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which dwells in US and shall be with us forever, Jesus Christ is
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the truth. And we spent five chapters going
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through first John talking about love.
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Love and God is love and we don't even know love and we
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can't even love unless we know God and he loved us first.
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And it's all about love. And here he has to
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counterbalance it with truth, which is the whole premise of
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Second John. He wants to talk about truth.
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He wants us to be rooted and grounded in truth.
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And we must speak the truth in love.
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It is possible to love somebody into hell by not telling them
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about the plain truths of what the Bible teaches.
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We can be so loving that we are silent on the matters that God
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has spoken of so plainly. And that is what John wants us
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to talk about. He wants us to know.
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It's what God wanted, John to sit down and pin these words for
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us, these eternal words, these God breathed words for us to
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study. And the basis is truth.
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And we must stand on the truth, friends.
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We cannot just be wishy washy. We cannot just be double minded.
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We cannot just say that we believe something and then be
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silent on those matters. When it comes to people who are
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living in sin, we must speak up and speak out about the things
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that are on God's heart. And abortion, friends, is murder
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and homosexuality is a sin. And we need to be talking about
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these things to people in love. It is not that we are hateful.
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It is not that we are closed minded.
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It is not that we are misogynistic.
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It is not that we, our people, who exude the hatefulness that
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the world wants to stamp upon us.
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That is not what is truthful. To speak truth in love is to
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tell people about what the Bible says.
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And the Bible is plain that it is one woman and one man.
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The Bible is plain that we should always choose life.
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The Bible is plain that the family unit is on the heart of
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God and that marriage is to be honored and that the Bible is
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the authority over the land. We don't get to fudge on these
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realities. We don't get to marginalized
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them. It is not our place to try to
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make an apology for what God's word says.
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We stand on the solid rock friends.
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We call things for what they are based upon the word of God.
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But it is ignorance of the word of God that is plaguing the
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church at large. It is because we refuse to get
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in it into digest it, into meditate upon it.
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And we just want these popcorn sermons.
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We just want all of these little short videos.
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We want these sound bites. And we want to just go about our
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way and have our little cushy life without having to be
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confrontational with our neighbors.
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And that is what is plaguing us, and it is cancer in the bones of
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the church and God here through John, John writing to the
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church, wants us to know that we must not only love, but we must
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stand on truth. And Jesus Christ is the way, the
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truth and the life. And no one comes unto the Father
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except through Him. And we do not make any apologies
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for that reality. Verse 3 Grace be with you, mercy
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and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ
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the Son of the Father in truth and love.
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So here you can see all these attributes that belong to God
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and are available to us. He wants to give us grace.
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He wants to shower us with grace.
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He wants to love us. He wants to be merciful towards
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us and give us the peace with God.
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He wants us to have a relationship with not only God
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the Father, but the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son.
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And it's all hinged upon him. We come to the Father through
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Jesus Christ and we experience the truth because Jesus is the
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truth and we don't even know what love is unless we know God.
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Verse 4I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking
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in truth as we have received a commandment from the Father.
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So here John is looking, and he says that he is rejoicing
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because he sees that people are following after the Lord Jesus
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Christ, and it brings him so much joy to see a healthy,
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vibrant community. 5 And now I beg you, lady, not as though I
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wrote a new commandment unto you, but that which we had from
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the beginning, that we love one another.
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So here he has just gone through a discourse of talking about the
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truth and standing on the truth, and he wants it to be
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counterbalanced with love. Now he returns back to the five
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chapters of first John talking about the love of God for US.
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Six. And this is love, that we walk
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after his commandments. This is the commandment that, as
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you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in
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it. It is not some vague
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presupposition, guesswork. When it comes to what the Lord
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asks of us, He is plain and it is clear.
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Friends, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
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all your mind, with all your strength, and to love your
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neighbor as yourself and everything is wrapped up.
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All the commandments are wrapped up in that.
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It is love, friends. Love is the basis of it all, and
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it is hateful for us to withhold the truth from people and to
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allow them to believe that they are justified in their
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behaviors, lifestyles, actions and choices by us being silent
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about it. And Jesus says unless you hate
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your mother and father, your spouse, and you have no part
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with him. And that is what it looks like
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whenever we choose the world over Jesus Christ.
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That is what happens when somebody in your family comes
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out, somebody in your family tells you that they're
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homosexual and you choose their lifestyle over the plain
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teachings of the word of God that says it is an abomination,
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friends. And we all make our own choices
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in this life and we have to live with them.
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And we all make mistakes. And the blood of Jesus Christ
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covers all of our sins, past, present, and future.
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This is not condemnation, friends.
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This is the love of God. He gives us the remedy and He
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offers the forgiveness if we will take it.
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But we cannot continue to live in perpetual sin and say that we
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love God at the same time. That is not reality, that is not
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truthful, that is a lie. Is if you say you love God, but
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you continue on to live in a sinful lifestyle and you see
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nothing wrong with it. 7 For many deceivers are entered into
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the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the
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flesh. This is a deceiver and an
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Antichrist. This is not the Antichrist.
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This is the spirit of the Antichrist that has already gone
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out into the world and they deny the deity of Jesus Christ.
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Plainly they do not believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that
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Jesus is God, that Jesus is the Godson, fully man and fully God.
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They do not believe it, they deny it.
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He is just another Jesus. He is an other Jesus.
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He is a marginalized Jesus. They call him the Son, but they
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say that he is not deity. They call him a prophet, but
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they do not acknowledge that he is God.
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And that is the spirit of Antichrist friends.
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And they creep in. And this is the Antichrist is a
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replacement Christ. And if you go back and study
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Isaiah chapter 14, if you go back and study Ezekiel 28,
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you're going to find that Lucifer wanted to be higher than
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God. He wanted to be worshipped as
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God. And it is no surprise whenever
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he sets up a false religion to be worshipped by and he will not
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acknowledge that Jesus Christ is eternal and that Jesus Christ is
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the Trinity, God the Father, and God the Son and God the Holy
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Ghost. Three in one, friends.
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They will not acknowledge that. And they say the right jargon.
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They have all of the right words that trap people in that
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religion. But when you peel back the
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layers of it, it is satanic at its core.
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A look to yourselves that we lose not those things which we
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have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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So you can see that you can lose your rewards, you can lose your
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footing with the Lord if you are not scrupulous in all of your
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study and all of the meditation upon God's Word, if you are just
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skating by, if you're just skimming the surface, if you
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refuse to grow and to mature in your faith, then you will be LED
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astray and lose your rewards. 9 Whosoever transgresses and
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abides not in the doctrine of Christ has not God.
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He that abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father
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and the Son. They're synonymous.
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They are the same friends, different persons, but the same
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in their deity, and all from the beginning before the foundations
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of the earth. And far be for us to try to call
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any of it into question, and to try to call God into the
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courtroom and ask Him to explain to us how it could be.
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So we read it and we believe it, and that settles it, friends.
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And he's saying if you transgress and you do not abide
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in the doctrine of Christ, he could not have made it more
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plain. He came here as a little baby.
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He lived a perfect, sinful, sinless life.
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He'd never sin. He was innocent, friends, and He
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suffered on a criminal's cross, and took our sins, and gave us
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His righteousness. He imputed to us His perfection,
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His innocence. Friends, it cannot be any more
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plain that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
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Jesus Christ is the only begotten.
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It is God who put on flesh. It is God who put on humanity to
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come and to offer a remedy for our sinful lifestyles, friends,
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and that's available to anybody. If you woke up this morning,
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there is a chance for you to make it right to put your full
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faith in Him. And it does not matter if you're
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stuck in a sinful lifestyle or if you have made 1000 sinful
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decisions. Today is the day of salvation.
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You give your life over to Him today.
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You don't wait, friends. Tomorrow it might be too late.
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Your life is but a vapor. It's here today and it's gone
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tomorrow that this is the day of salvation.
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This is the time, friends, that we are to put your faith in Him
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and all of the sins that you have ever committed will become
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covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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They are forgiven and will never be counted against you if you
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will turn away from that sinful behavior and that sinful
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lifestyle and turn towards a loving, gracious God who gave us
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the covering so that we could be passed over in the Day of
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Judgment. And if there come any unto you
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and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house,
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neither bid him Godspeed. So here what John is wanting us
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to know is we do not need to support those people
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financially. We do not need to support those
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people in deed or in action or in hospitality that are
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spreading the false gospel. We do not need to put on a good
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face and a good show. We need to speak the truth in
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love and just tell them that they are in a cult.
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Tell them that they are deceived.
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Tell them that you have nothing for them but you are going to
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pray for them and pray for their salvation but don't have
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anything to do with them in the sense of supporting them.
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Friends, do not say Godspeed to you, which by the way was about
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3 mph when Jesus Christ walked this earth.
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Do not say Godspeed to them, which is a way of saying God
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bless you, God bless your ministry.
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And that is not what we are to do.
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God is not in it. When people are propagating
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false doctrine and false theology and leading many people
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astray, unaware, we who are rooted and grounded in God's
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Word know better. And when they come to us and
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they deny the Trinity, they deny God the Father and God the Son.
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They deny God the Holy Ghost when they deny it.
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Friends, we have nothing to do with them.
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Pray for them only 11 For he that bids him Godspeed is
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partaker of his evil deeds. It is evil for these people to
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go around trying to deceive people.
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They have the spirit of the Antichrist in them, and they're
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leading people astray in droves. The Jehovah's Witnesses, the
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Mormons, the Roman Catholic, the Muslims, they are leading people
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astray in droves. Friends, they are teaching a
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false Jesus, and it is not from God.
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It is evil in its core. 12 having many things to write unto
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you. I would not write with paper and
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ink, but I trust to come unto you and speak face to face that
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our joy may be full. So John is saying, I'd rather
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just speak to you. But we know that this is an
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inspired letter. God breathed, Holy Spirit
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ordained, and we are eternally thankful that John sat down to
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write this letter, moved, and he was.
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Inspired by the Holy Ghost and now we can have it and imagine
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all the conversations that he had that were not recorded
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friends imagine all the beautiful things he had to say.
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But aren't we eternally grateful for these words being pinned
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down and God breathed for us to have.
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We'll end on 13. The children of your elect
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sister greet you. Amen.
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Perhaps another church in that vicinity sent greetings to this
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church and they were all congruent together.
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This beautiful tapestry, this network of primitive churches
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that John was writing to, as they started to get some feet,
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started to grow some roots as John, the very last apostle out
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of the 12 disciples left as at a old age.
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He's already seen the temple destroyed in 8070, and now he is
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writing to these little startup churches, encouraging them.
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What an amazing book in God's word.
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I hope you've been blessed by it.
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I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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of you. I love you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.