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Want Spiritual Strength_ Listen to This Every Morning · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: You say, well, how can you abstain in our culture? Well,
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  I want to tell you you can't without Christ. There
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  are not very many people that have the will power
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  to say no. But if you have Christ in your heart,
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  you'll have the power to say no.
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  Speaker 2: There had no temptation taking you, but such as this
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  common demand.
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  Speaker 1: But God is faithful who will not allow you to
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  be tempted above that which you're able, but will with
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  the temptation, make a way to escape.
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  Speaker 2: There's always a way to escape.
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  Speaker 1: God provides it every time to the believer, so there's
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  no excuse for any believer committing that sin.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have the body.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to present your body a living sacrifice
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  to God tonight?
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  Speaker 2: That's what he demands if you were to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: If you are to come to the cross and have
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  your sins forgiven and follow Christ, you must present your
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  body a living sacrifice to God, and say, Lord, here's
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  my appetites, here's my lust, here's my body, my eyes,
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  my hands, my feet, my private members, all yours. Somebody
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  said a penny for your thoughts, But your thoughts are
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  worth farm more than a penny in God's sight.
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  Speaker 2: The true wealth of your life is in your thoughts.
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  How rich are you?
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  Speaker 1: The literature, the television, the radio are competing.
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  Speaker 2: For your thoughts constantly.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Bible says to study to show yourself approved
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  under God.
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  Speaker 2: A workman that needed not to be ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to be studying and reading the Bible all
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  the time in all of our spare moments. I'm to
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  study constantly all my life the word of God. You
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  see an idle mind as the devil's workshop. Give your
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  mind to Christ. The scripture says he the root of
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  his spirit is greater than he that take of the city.
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  Your mind is a heaven or a hell all the time,
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  which isn't When you come to Christ. You must bring
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  your mind to him. There's a lot in the Scripture
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  to say about the mind. He's to be lord of
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  the mind. And Paul wrote to the Philippians and said,
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  what sever things are true? Whatsoever things are honest? What
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  sever things are just? Whatsoever things are pure? What sever
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  things are lovely? Whatsoever things of good report? If there
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  be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on
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  these things.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you're to be thinking about. Pure, lovely, righteous
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  God that will keep him in perfect peace.
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  Speaker 1: Whose mind is stayed on thee. Keep our minds on Christ.
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  Many minds here tonight are filled with pride and anger
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  and envy, jealousy, lust.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible speaks of those who have hostile.
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  Speaker 1: Minds, minds that are blinded, reprobate minds, doubtful minds, carrently minded,
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  or shaken in mind, or troubled in mind, or double
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  minded man some have blown their minds on drugs. The
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  Bible promises that we can be transformed by the renewed
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  of our minds. You can have your mind tonight transformed.
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  You can have it renewed and surrendered to Christ, and
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  the peace of God will keep your mind. Habacca promises,
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  then shall his mind change? The Lord has actually asked
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  you to change your mind. See he doesn't ask you
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  to change your heart. He asked you to change your mind.
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  That's repentance. Change your mind. He'll change your heart. Change
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  your mind, and he will come in and regenerate you,
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  and you will be a born again person. Paul told
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  the Corinthians that there must be of a willing mind.
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  Speaker 2: Are you willing that your mind be surrendered to Christ tonight?
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to uppoint a new committee to find
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  out what's wrong with the world. It's the human heart
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  and the human mind and body.
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  Speaker 2: It's man. Man is what is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The human heart is of Volcana, and the Bible teaches
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  that it's far from God.
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  Speaker 2: This people draweth nigh unto Me.
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  Speaker 1: With their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but
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  their heart is.
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  Speaker 2: Far from me. I want you to think about that
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  a moment.
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  Speaker 3: You draw close to Christ with your lips, with your profession,
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  with your mouth, but your heart is.
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  Speaker 1: Far from Singing on Sunday morning, all hail the power
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  of Jesus name, and your thinking about a deal that
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  you've got on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: You see you're singing the songs of Zion, but your
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  heart is still somewhere else. Is that true of you?
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  How many of us.
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  Speaker 1: Are really hypocrites if you want to just call it
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  what it really is and what Jesus called it. Because
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  Jesus' great fight was with the religious leaders of his day.
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  He didn't fight with the sinners, he loved them.
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  Speaker 2: It was with religious people.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder if he came to Central Florida tonight, what.
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  Speaker 2: He would say, who he would talk to.
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  Speaker 1: Would he talk to church people and say, oh, yes,
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  you go to church and you have a lot of religiosity,
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  but you don't have the real thing. Your body, your mind,
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  your heart doesn't really belong to me one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible teaches that you have a rebellious heart.
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  Speaker 1: In Jeremiah five, it says, but this people have a
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  revolting and a rebellious heart.
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  Speaker 2: They're revolted and gone.
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  Speaker 1: When we read the ten Commandments and read the Sermon
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  on the Mount where we say.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to keep that. I can't keep that.
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  Of course you can't.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody in this audience can keep the ten commandments.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you can't even keep.
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  Speaker 1: One command Jesus said, if you look on a woman
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  or a person of the opposite sex and have lust
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  in your heart, you've already committed it. I've never killed
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  anybody but hated to be jealous of someone.
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  Speaker 2: You've broken that commandment.
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  Speaker 1: But then the scripture says, suppose you have done pretty
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  well with all of them. If you break just one commandment,
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  tell one little lie, you've broken all the commandments. And
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  to break the commandments is the definition of sin. Sin
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  is a transgression of the law. And you have broken
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  the law of God and all of us have to
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  say to God as we stand in front of the cross,
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  I'm a sinner.
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  Speaker 2: I have to say it. You have to say it.
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  Everybody here has to say it. I have a sen
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  We've broken God's law.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Bible says, your heart can be hardened.
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  Pharaoh hardened his heart. Now God knows the heart.
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  Speaker 2: He knows your heart.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to sit and try to tell him
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  and rationalize the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: He knows it already.
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  Speaker 1: Shall not God search this out for you know it
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  the secrets of the heart.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm forty four. He knows the secrets of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: He knows what you're hiding, He knows the things you've
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  swept under the rug.
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  Speaker 2: He sees all of that. He knows the hypocrisy of
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  it all.
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  Speaker 1: We would be afraid to stand before God and face
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  the judgment with him searching our hearts and knowing our record,
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  unless we had been to the cross and been provided
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  with a righteousness. There was not our own that Christ
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  provides by his death on the cross and by his
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  resurrection from the dead. Yes, God knows your heart, and
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  he searches your heart. You can't hide from you because
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  the penalty for a sinful heart is death and judgment
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  and hell. And throughout the scriptures we have the expression
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  the blood of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Has your heart been under the blood of Christ? Has
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  it been cleansed with the blood? Christ gave his life
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  on the cross for you.
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  Speaker 1: He took your sins, your penalty, your judgment. You're hell
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  on the cross in your place.