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Hebrews chapter 13. It takes us a little while to
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get through what it is. We need to cover.
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I really want to preach to the book of Isaiah but that's 66
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chapters, I'm not sure I'm going to live long enough to do that
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one. So I'm going to choose smaller
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books in the meantime. But what we try to do is prepare
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way in advance. I've made it through out the
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time here at Christ Community Church, 28 years to be exact,
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almost 29 that we always prepare in advance.
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So, my sermons are always written eight months to a year
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or more. For the time I preach him.
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In other words, I know that we're doing first Thessalonians.
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Next, that's already been written and done.
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I know after that. The next series that will take
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us into the new year. That's already been written and
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done. I know that in the fall, we're
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going to begin our series, after job on the building blocks, for
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the best marriage and family possible, that will take us
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through the fall into next year. All the way to next May.
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Those are done. We do it in advance, I do it
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Advanced simply because I think it's important, never one to be
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prepared because I never know what's going to happen during
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the week, right? So I always try to be prepared
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get it done, but also I do an advance.
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So when I preach it you don't think I'm picking on you.
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Because what I'm preaching on is, what was written eight
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months to a year earlier. And so, if you come to church on
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a particular day and I'm preaching on a particular
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subject or topic reverse, and it kind of hits you between the
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eyes. Know that that's the sovereignty
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of God. And you coming on that day, to
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hear that sermon. Because I think it's important
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for you to realize that the word of God speaks to us, no matter
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where we're at, no matter what, we're going through, no matter
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what we're doing. So we started the book of
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Hebrews 6 years ago, this week and it was all about the
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supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ Our Lord we wanted
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you to see how Supreme and sufficient Christ is so much so
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that you, you are completely committed to following him no
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matter what The writer of Hebrews spends all this time.
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Twelve chapters talking to us about why Christ is sufficient,
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why Christ is supreme and why you need the, leave the old
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Covenant, and come to the New Covenant, why you need to
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embrace him? For who he is, for what he's
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done? Because everything about Christ
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centers around, the identity of the Christ and the ministry of
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the Christ, And then he comes to chapter 13.
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And now wants to talk to you about your responsibilities to
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the identity and Ministry of Christ.
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Paul does the same thing, the book of Romans, he spends 11
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chapters talking to us about Doctrine helping us understand
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who Christ is, and what Christ did the identity and Ministry of
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the Christ. Then from chapter 12 onward, he
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beseeches them to present their bodies, a Living Sacrifice.
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Now, here is your responsibility in light of that.
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He does the same thing in the in the book of Ephesians.
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The first three chapters are all about Doctrine and and who God
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is, and what he's done. And then in light of that, the
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last three chapters talking about our responsibility to
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follow, what God has done. And so that that permeates the
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scriptures. That's all throughout the Bible.
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Once we know who Christ is in the Bible is all about the
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Christ. We then know what our
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responsibility is. But you really don't know your
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responsibility until you understand the identity of the
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ministry of the Messiah himself. And so the word of the Lord
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speaks to us in such a way to help us understand.
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Who he is and what we are to do. now, in light of that, It's
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important for us to realize that when we speak about our
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responsibility and we will in Chapter 13 because we're going
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to tackle 10 Timeless truths out of chapter 13, those ten
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Timeless truths that we need to tackle are going to hit some of
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us very hard. And yet, it's imperative that we
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understand our responsibility in light of the identity and
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Ministry of the Messiah, who is all-sufficient and all Supreme?
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This way, the Bible always gives the expectation.
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Be careful how you here. Take heed to what you hear.
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Why? Because how you hear is
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important? How you listens important?
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In fact, in the Book of Proverbs the 13th chapter, it says in the
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13th verse these words, the one who despises the word will be in
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debt to it. But the one who fears the
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commitment will be rewarded. In other words, when you when
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you hear the word of God, do you despise?
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What you hear? Do you look down upon what you
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hear? Do you or are you disgusted with
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what you hear? Are you the kind of person that
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Delights in what you hear? Or do you have disdain for what
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you hear? Solomon warns.
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And quite aptly. The one who.
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Despises the word. We'll be in debt to it.
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In other words, you will suffer the consequences if you despise
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the word of God. In other words, if you despise
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it, you will be destroyed by it. They says, but the one who fears
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a commandment will be rewarded. So, you have a choice to Revere
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the word and be rewarded or despise the word and be
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destroyed. Those are your two choices when
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you come to church on Sunday? There's no in-between choice.
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That's your choice. You can Revere it because you
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fear the word of the Lord, you understand the word of the Lord
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and therefore you will be rewarded by it or you will
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despise what you here. You'll be disgusted with what
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you hear, you will. Turn away from what you hear and
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your heart be calloused and Harden.
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How does that manifest itself? Well, that's easily said and are
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easily understood in the book of second Chronicles chapter 36.
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Which by the way, is the last chapter of the Hebrew Bible.
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The last chapter of our Bible is the Book of Malachi.
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That's the last book, but in the Hebrew Bible, it second
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chronicles could because the Hebrew Bible ends with the
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destruction of the temple, on the Temple mount.
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Second Chronicles chapter 36. And with that comes, The
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destruction. Of the people.
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Who despised? What they heard?
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It says in verse number 15, the Lord, the god of our fathers, or
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their fathers, sent word to them again, and again, by his
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Messengers because he had compassion on his people.
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And on his Dwelling Place, why did God keep sending Messengers?
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Keep sending prophets? Keep sending those.
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Who would deliver the word of God to his people because he had
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compassion on his people. The Lord knew that the only way
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they can respond. In a way that would honor him
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was to be submissive to the word of God.
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He knows that. So you just keep setting
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messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger for
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16, but they continually mocked The Messengers of God.
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Despised his words saying word. Use a proper 13, verse number
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13. Despised his words and scoffed
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At His prophets, until the Wrath of the Lord arose against his
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people, until there was no remedy.
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That's just heartening. God will send the messenger
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after messenger after messenger and they would say you know what
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that doesn't mean anything to me.
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I don't care what you have to say.
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Or or in today's vernacular that messenger, doesn't speak to me
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anymore. I don't understand what they're
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saying, I don't get it. In the beginning to despise the
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word of God become disgusted with the word of God.
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And that's what happened with Israel.
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And of course, you know that the Babylonian captivity took place
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over three deportations of the nation of Israel into Babylon.
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And they were there for 70 years, began a 605 BC.
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And God had to get us people's attention.
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Because he just would not listen.
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So back in the Book of Proverbs the 13th chapter, it says the
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one who despises the word will be in debt to it.
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Otherwise you can't afford to be disgusted with What God Says.
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You can't afford to disregard What God Says.
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You cannot afford. You cannot afford.
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To disdain What God Says. If so you'll be in debt to it.
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You'll suffer the consequences. But the one who fears, the
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Commandment that was rewarded. You Revere me, you?
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Revere my name. You'll be rewarded.
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Verse 14, the law of the wise, which is the word of God is a
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Fountain of Life. In other words, God's law is
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like a fountain. It fills you.
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It's like it's like drinking running water when you're you're
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dying of thirst. The the law of the wise, at each
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of the wise, is a Fountain of Life to turn aside from the
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snares of death. It protects you and watches
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over. You turns you away from the
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snares of death. Good understanding produces
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favor. But the way of the treacherous
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is hard. The way the treacherous is this
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callus, it's cold. It's hard.
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Every prudent or wise man acts with knowledge.
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But a fool displays folly. Every wise man acts according to
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the knowledge given to him through the word of God.
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In other words, he hears the word of God doesn't disregard
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the word doesn't despise the word, right?
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Is not disgusted with what he hears.
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Instead, he Delights and what he hears Because he gives him
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knowledge about his God and who he is.
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And what is responsibility is to his God, the fool.
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Displays folly. That's why earlier Solomon.
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Say these words, Proverbs 1 verse number 22.
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How long o naive Ones? Will you love being
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simple-minded and scoffers Delight themselves and scoffing
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and fools hate knowledge? Turn to my reproof behold.
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I will pour out my spirit on you.
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I will make my words known to you because I called you and you
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refused. I stretched out my hand, and no
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one paid attention. And you neglected all my counsel
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and did not want my reproof. I will also laugh at your
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Calamity. I will mock when your dread
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comes. When your dread comes like a
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storm and your Calamity comes like a whirlwind when distress
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and anguish come upon you, then they will call upon me, but I
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will not answer, they will seek me diligently, but they will not
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find me why? Because he didn't knowledge.
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They hated the understanding of who I am.
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They despise me, they were disgusted with me.
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It did not choose. The fear of the Lord.
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They would not accept my counsel.
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They spurned all my reproof. So they should eat of the fruit
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of their own way and be seated with their own devices, for the
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waywardness of the naive will kill them and the complacency of
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fools will destroy them. But he listens to me, shall live
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securely in BT's from The Dread of evil.
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He listens to me. He listens to me will be at ease
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from The Dread of evil, they will live securely, they will be
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rewarded. That's why it's so important to
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understand that when you come and you hear the word of God or
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when you open your Bible and you read the word of God that you
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understand that God is specifically speaking to you at
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that time. We like to think that God is
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speaking to my neighbor at that time, or to my wife or to my
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children, right order the guy in the other aisle.
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He couldn't possibly be speaking to me at that time, but he is
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see. In the moment, you think that
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he's speaking to somebody else? He's really speaking to you.
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That's so important. And God wants you to hear his
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word. And understand his word.
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Everything is based on who Christ is from, who he is, in
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terms what we do. So when you come to Hebrews
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chapter 13, it's all about what we are to do in response to who
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he is. He is all Supreme, he is all
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sufficient. He is the king of the earth.
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He is the Messiah of Israel. And he has fulfilled the law and
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the prophets. You come to him?
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By faith, you Embrace him. When you do, this is how you
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live that out. That's Hebrews chapter 13.
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Now. To believer the point, a little
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longer. It's important to understand
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that this is the way God always does it.
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It's all throughout the scriptures.
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So, because we just talked about Mount Sinai.
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Go back with me to if you were to Exodus chapter 20, for a
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brief moment. remember Mount Sinai the Earth began to shake
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The mountain trembled, fire and smoke and God's voice thundered.
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And that's it. Chapter 20.
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The people say we don't want God to speak to us any longer Moses,
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you talk to us don't let God speak to us.
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Because they were absolutely terrified.
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Because on that mountain, God, gave the Ten Commandments,
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right? But I'm sure if you could, if
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you could quote The Ten Commandments, you could probably
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quote them, pretty much verbatim, which is probably a
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good thing. But everything about the Ten
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Commandments was Central to the teaching in the Messiah.
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Because everything centers around what, loving God?
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And loving your fellow, man. First four Commandments deal
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with God and your relationship to who God is.
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You shouldn't have any other gods before me.
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Shouldn't carve-out. Any other Idols?
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Idolatries wrong on the priority worship?
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Own only me. Make sure you keep the Sabbath.
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The first four Commandments deal with our relationship with the
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Living, God. And what I shared with you on
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Wednesday nights, very important, God never just puts
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Pages stuff on a page haphazardly.
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Everything has specific order to it.
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Everything has a specific reason for it when it's spoken when it
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said where it said, how it said, this is the inspired
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authoritative word of God, that is relevant in everything.
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It says, so the way God says it is important.
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First understand. And so when you look at the Ten
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Commandments, you realize that God gave these commands to his
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children, Israel, that they would understand who God is,
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because the Commandments himself embody the personality, the
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character, the nature of the Living, God, and he wants them
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to only worship him, only serve him, only honor him and then he
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gives the Letter, six Commandments.
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Verse 12, honor your father, and your mother that your days may
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be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you
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don't murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not
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bear false, witness against your neighbor, don't cover your
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neighbor's house. Yada, yada, yada yada yada Why
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does God do it that way? If the order is significant, And
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it's important. What is got do it that way?
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Why is it if I love God? And I want to serve God and not
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have got the very first commandment when it comes to my
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relation. With man is not don't covet or
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don't murder or don't steal or don't commit adultery.
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It's not there there, but not first.
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What's first? Honor your father and your
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mother. Why?
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Why does God do that? I'm going to tell you the same
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thing. I've been telling you for 30
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years. It's this, if your Christianity
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doesn't work at home, it doesn't work at all.
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You're a hypocrite. God knows that.
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How do we know you love God? How do we know you're not an
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idolater? How do we know you want to serve
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the true and living God? How do you know that God is your
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priority and nothing else is It's evidence to wear.
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At home. At home.
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It's not evidence to church. You all look like, Christians,
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the church. You all talk, like, Christians
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to church. You can smell like, Christians,
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the church. but at home, That's where the rubber meets the road.
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That's where the real you shines, right?
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The real, you shines at home and the Lord makes it very clear for
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the very beginning when he gives the Commandments Israel.
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He says, look everything is about me but the way I know
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you're really into me. And the way I know you're really
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committed to me and the way I know you really love me.
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Is you honour your father? And your mother.
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Now, this is replete throughout the scriptures.
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Listen to The Book of Leviticus 19 chapter.
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God, says to Moses speak to all the congregation of the sons of
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Israel and say to them, you shall be holy for.
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I the Lord your God am Holy Book of Leviticus is all about the
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Holiness of God, right? I want my people to be as holy
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as I am Holy. I want them to be a stet apart
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from corruption and set apart from creation, as I am set apart
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from corruption and creation. Because to be holy is to be set
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apart. I want my people completely set
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apart from everybody else. And how do I know you are
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committed to being as holy as God is Holy how will I ever know
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that Nick's words? Every one of you shall Revere
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his mother and his father. Again.
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Your love for me is demonstrated primarily in your relationship
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with those closest to you in your home.
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Exodus chapter 20 Your commitment to Holiness and
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wanting to be as holy as I am. Holy.
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Where is that seen the most? When you Revere your mother and
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your father See, then he goes on and says this.
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He says, and you shall keep my sabbaths.
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I am the Lord, your God, do not turn to Idols or make for
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yourselves. Molten Gods.
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I am the Lord your God. How can we can put that first?
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Why do you put it reviewing your mother and father first before
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those because the way you demonstrate how holy you are, is
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in the relationship with those closest to you.
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That's why It's so important. See because people tend to think
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they're holy. Tend to think they love God.
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But those closest to them, they treat the worst.
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And the Lord knows that. So what does he do?
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He uses the same example with the people that are the most
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religious people on the planet. When he was here.
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The Pharisees. The scribes.
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The religious establishment believed that they were the
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holiest of the holies, right? They were the most righteous
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people when they prayed they prayed.
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So, all could hear when they fasted, they made.
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Sure, you knew they were fasting when they gave they blew
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trumpet. So you knew they were giving and
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everybody to, oh, man, those guys are holy.
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Look at them. Give look at them.
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Pray, look at them fast. Everything was external.
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In the Lord, has the most scathing indictments against
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religious people. The religious establishment
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Thursday. So in Mark's gospel.
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The Pharisees are upset because his disciples don't keep the
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traditions of man. so, the word addresses that Now, listen
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carefully. Verse 6 of Mark, 7, Riley did
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Isaiah prophesy of you Hypocrites, as it is written.
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This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far
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from me, but in vain in emptiness in uselessness, do
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they worship me? Teaching as doctrines the
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precepts of men? Your worship of me is useless.
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It's worthless. Why?
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Because the doctrines of men the way you want it to be, is more
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important than the way I told you.
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It should be. That's why your worship is in
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vain. That is this.
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Neglecting the Commandment of God.
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You hold to the truth to the tradition of men.
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He was also saying to them, you are experts that steadiness
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aside, the Commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.
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In other words, you are so good at what you do, you can take the
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Commandment of God, you can set it aside because you despise it,
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you disregard it. You don't think it nearly as
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high as you and your tradition and your opinion is.
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So you take the law of God, you set it aside.
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Lift your opinion, your tradition above what the word of
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God says, and hold it in higher Steam.
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So what is he saying? From Moses says, what?
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Honor your father and your mother why these guys are
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adults? These guys are old.
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There Pharisees, their scribes there.
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Sadducees their Levites. These guys are older men.
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It says, honor your father and your mother, he speaks evil of
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father. Or mother is to be put to death.
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Is that just for kids, oh no. He's talking to adults, not
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talking to kids, he's talking to adults our age.
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This is this. But you say if a man says his
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father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is
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Corbin or devoted to God, you no longer permit him to do anything
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for his father or his mother. Thus invalidating the word of
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God by your tradition which you have handed down and you do many
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things such as that. In other words, you want to say
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you're religious people, but yet you dishonor your father and
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mother, let me show you how to do that, you take your money.
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And you refused to help those who are in.
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Need your mother, father, who raised you, who changed your
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diapers, who fed you, who clothes you, who made?
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Sure, you got your education to care of you.
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Bought you your first car or your first cheerleader.
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First horse or first donkey, whatever the case may be, and
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they got it for you. They did all this for you but
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now they're older. Now, they're in need now you
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won't give them any Aid. Why?
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Because Corbin I've devoted everything I have to God, it's
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all gods and you think you're so religious and so pure.
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And and so holy because you've devoted this amount of money to
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God, you cannot honor, your father and mother any longer.
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You just invalidated the authority of God's word in your
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life. You despise it.
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You disregard it. And you will be in debt to it.
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God, does this all throughout the scriptures?
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Why? Because you love me.
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And you honor me and I'm a priority in your life.
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Everything I tell you to do, You like yes, Lord.
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I'll Follow You, Lord. I will do what you say.
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Lord. I want to serve you Lord.
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But they would take the law of God.
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Set aside lifter tradition of men because they wanted to keep
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their money. They won't get their money from
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Mom and Dad. They want to do that.
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And that's, they disrespected. They Dishonored.
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They did not Revere. Those closest to them.
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And what did he do? He put it out very clearly.
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That the way I know you love me is demonstrated.
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In your family. The way I know you're committed
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to holiness. Is that it's demonstrated in
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your family, those closest to you because if your Christianity
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doesn't work at home, it's simply just doesn't work at all.
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That simple. because he know you We don't know you.
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We don't live with you. We don't see.
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You get upset, throw pots, and pans and yell and scream and
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kick and do all this thing and get in your car and drive off.
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We don't see that. That part of you.
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Which family does? if you want to be as holy as I
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am, Holy Those closest to you will see it.
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More than anybody else to see it. because if they don't see
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it, guess what? You're not nearly as holy as you
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thought you were. And you don't love me near him
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as much as you thought you did. So why do I tell you all that?
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Because it's replete throughout the New Testament over and over
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again, who I am my identity and my ministry will always
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determine your responsibility. so, when you hear about, who I
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am, and what I've done, Don't disregard it, don't despise it.
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Don't do ride it to the light in it.
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Embrace it and follow it. Why?
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Because it manifests itself in those closest to you, So when
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you come to the book of Hebrews long introduction to Hebrews,
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chapter 13, verse number 1. He wants you to know.
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That now this is the out working.
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Of your belief that God is all sufficient in all Supreme.
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And what does he say? Hebrews 13 verse number one.
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Let love of the brethren. Continue.
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Let love of the brethren. Continue.
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He doesn't say, start loving the brethren.
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He says, let love for the brethren.
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Continue. The only way something can
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continue, is this already made available to you?
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Is it not true that Romans? 5:5 says that the love of God
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has been she'd abroad in our hearts.
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Doesn't Galatians, 5:2 lasat. The fruit of the spirit is the
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first thing love. The actual out work in the
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spirit of God demonstrates his self in love.
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The very fact that that God is in us, his love is shed abroad.
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Within us. In fact, over in Hebrews chapter
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6, he already said this, Hebrews 6 verse number 10.
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He said for God is Not unjust. So, as to forget your work and
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the love, which you have shown toward his name in having
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ministered and instill, ministering to the Saints.
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In other words, you've already shown your love to the Saints.
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This is what you do. Now, continue your love for the
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brethren. There are ten truths that must
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be tackled. That are all timeless.
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And of great necessity. And the first one, is this
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respond with love to the needs of others.
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Respond with love to the needs of others.
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Paul said that this way, Romans chapter 12.
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Let love be without hypocrisy. In other words, your love should
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be undone hypocritical. He says app or what is evil
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cling to what is good, be devoted to one another in
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Brotherly Love, be devoted to one another in Brotherly Love.
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Well how am I going to do that? Tells you giving preference to
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one another in honor How do I know I'm devoted to you?
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And brother in love, I'm going to give preference to you in
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honor. Other words, I'm going to give
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preference to you over, who me? How does Brotherly Love
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continue? It continues because I prefer
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you over me. Why does the church have such a
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hard time? Loving one another because I
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prefer me over you. It's just that simple.
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I always prefer me over you. But brother lives.
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Can we continue if I prefer you over me I got to be devoted to
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one another in brotherly. Love how he tells you give
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preference to one another and honor not lagging behind and
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diligence. In other words, don't lag behind
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in this. You got to be very diligent do
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this because you don't want to do this.
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You got to be very energetic and doing this because you don't
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tend to want to do it by Nature, simply because you love yourself
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so much, but you got to prefer them other than yourself, and
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you got to be diligent in doing it.
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And they says, this fervent in spirit serving the lord, don't
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lag behind it delicious, but be fervent in spirit zealous of
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spirit. Why, because who you serve him?
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You serving the lord. None primarily serving them.
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You're serving the lord. Going to put God on display, you
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want to honor the Lord? That's what you want to do. and
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so let Brotherly Love continue be devoted to one, another give
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preference to one another Self-love is always the
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deterrent. To brotherly.
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Love. Self loves comes because of my
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pride in my arrogance. I love me more than you.
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And yet in the church, the body. Weirder give preference to to
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others. Peter says that this way First
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Peter chapter Chapter one. He says verse 22 since you have
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in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a
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sincere or a genuine love for the Brethren.
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Fervently one, another love one another from the heart.
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You have this love for the brethren.
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Do it from the heart. In fact, he later says in
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chapter 4 verse number 7 of Rhythm rate, above all keep
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fervent in your love for one another because love covers a
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multitude of sins. Be so committed.
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So firm, it's weird that when you when you when you go to work
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out, you stretch your muscles and your you want to do as much
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as you possibly can. Extend them as far as you can
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for as long as you can. As hard as you can.
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That's what you do for the brother or sister in the body.
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You are. Fervent your love for them.
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Why? Because love covers a multitude
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of sins. It is the glory of a man to
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overlook a transgression. Right?
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What his men at his best. When he refuses to bring up a
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transgression. Just let it go, it's okay.
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Promise today, we wear our feelings in our sleeves.
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And he's had some assistant, they gets it for like get still
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distraught. Become bitter.
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Hold a grudge. But we're not fervent our love
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for one another. This is what?
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Is evidenced. In the body of Christ.
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Once you understand the identity and Ministry of the Messiah,
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this is your responsibility to man.
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That brotherly love. Continue.
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You know, the Bible. Is so clear. when the Rich,
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Young Ruler came to the Lord. He said, good teacher.
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What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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And Jesus said, why do you call me good?
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No one is good. Except God.
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So you must recognize that I'm God if you're calling me good
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because only God is good. He says, you know, the
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Commandments, do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not
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steal, do not bear false, witness, don't defraud honor,
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your father and mother, he gives the latter half of the
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decalogue, right? He said, um, teacher, I have
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kept all these things from my youth up.
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I've done that. I've honored my mother and
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father, I'm a committed adultery.
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I don't like I haven't stolen anything.
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I don't covet my neighbor's wife.
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Don't covet my neighbor's horse. Is donkey his belongings.
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Anything And Lord felt love for him.
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She's one thing, you lack go and sell all your possessions and
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give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven and come
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and follow me. But these words he was saddened
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and he went away grieving for he was one who owed much property.
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He thought he could keep the Commandments.
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When it came to dealing with. His fellow man. but then when
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God questioned his commitment to him, What he realizes that he
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was an idolater. There was something more
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important to him than God. It was, his money couldn't sell,
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it couldn't get rid of it. Couldn't come follow Christ,
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because that was his God. Because that was his God.
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Loving God can only be seen in your love for man.
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So he lied about loving man because you didn't love God.
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And later on, in Mark's gospel. Our story in Luke's gospel.
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A lawyer stood up and put it to the test saying, teacher, what
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shall I do to inherit eternal life.
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He said to him what is written in the law?
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How do you read it? And he answered, you shall love
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the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with
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all your strength, with all your mind, and your neighbor as
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yourself. He said to him, you have
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answered correctly, do this. You will live in other words, he
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summed up the law of the prophets.
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He summed up the decalogue. You should love God with all
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your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all your strength.
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All you have, you're going to love God, and then you going to
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let your fellow man so much. You won't commit adultery, you
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won't steal. I won't lie, you won't covet
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your honor your father and mother.
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You do all those things. Chris has yet to correctly.
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But wishing to justify himself. He said that Jesus, who is my
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neighbor? Just for clarification purposes.
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Who, who is my neighbor? Because if my neighbor is my
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best friend, I'm good, I can do that.
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If my, if my neighbor is, is the guy I work with, I'm good with
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that. So just clarify for me, Jesus,
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who is my neighbor in? Jesus gives them a parable, you
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know, the parable pair with a good samaritan. and the priest
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walked by the levite went by That's a man have been beaten
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but even bloody and bruised on his way from Jericho or
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Jerusalem to Jericho. But a Samaritan who despised one
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saw his need bound. His wounds took him to an inn
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paid for his room in the end right.
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In Christ asked this question, which of these three.
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Do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell
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into the robbers hands? He said, The one who showed
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Mercy to him. He couldn't even say the
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Samaritan. Just the one who showed Mercy to
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him. Then Jesus said to him, go and
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do the same. Who is my neighbor answer?
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Anyone who has a need is your neighbor.
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That's your neighbor. That's the one you love.
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That's the one you help. So, when the writer of Hebrews
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says, let love for the Brethren continue to not neglect to show
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Hospitality to strangers. Neighbors that might not be from
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across the street or somebody you work with the go to church
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with. But a stranger for by this, some
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have entertained angels without knowing.
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Remember the prisoners as though in prison with them and those
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who are ill treated, since you yourselves also are in The body.
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Respond. In love, or with love to those
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who are in need. That's truth.
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Number one. Now, let me just add this to
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you. So, you understand this?
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Because this is very important. We misunderstand what loving my
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brother really looks like? But there's a verse in the Old
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Testament that makes it very clear to us.
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It's found in that same chapter of The Book of Leviticus 19th
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Chapter. And says in verse number 17
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because I know that none of you in a room will say I hate my
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brother. Let's see if you do or you
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don't. You shall not hate your fellow
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countrymen in your heart. You must surely.
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Rebuke him. But shall not incur sin.
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Because of him. Do you love your brother enough
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to rebuke him to reprove him? Because you see, if you don't
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love him enough to reprove him, you really don't love him.
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You hate him. If he's in the wrong or she's in
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the wrong, you need to go to that and reprove them.
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And tell them this is wrong. You can't go down this path.
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This is not how Christians operate, this is not what we do.
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But instead, what are we doing? Well, tell somebody else about
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my friends problem. But won't go to my friend.
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The one I say I love but in reality I really do hate because
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that's what God says. You can say you love somebody
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but what you say, Doesn't Matter What God Says, doesn't matter,
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right? Well, thank you and at 18 men of
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Helen What God Says, matters. What you think doesn't matter?
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You approve your brother. Or what happens?
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You participate in their sin. Now.
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Now, what do you do? See if you love your brother.
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You will rebuke your brother. When they're in sin.
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When they done that, which is wrong.
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Because you love himself. And you want to know, walk with
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the Lord, yet their spiritual. Welfare is more important to you
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than anything else. That's why truth above
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relationship matters. Because if your relationship
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with this person is so valuable. That you'll compromise the
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truth. Even curd their sin.
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But not rebuking them when they've sent.
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Let Brotherly Love continue. How about you?
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Would that be said of you would be said of me US individually as
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well as corporately, would that be us?
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If Christ is all sufficient in all Supreme, he rules and Reigns
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above all, he's everything. He says he is and he is The
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identity and Ministry, the Messiah, dictates the
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responsibility of the people who fall that Messiah.
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Therefore we let Brotherly Love continue.
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That's pretty good. Father, we thank you, Lord, for
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today, in the opportunity to give us study the word.
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Thank you, Lord. Jesus that your words.
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Very clear. May we as your children follow
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specifically, What you have said.
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And may we lured live for the glory of your name?
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They not ourselves. but your name, In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen.