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Living Waters of Grace for May 18th, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  He came to save us from being influenced and controlled by the
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  passions of the fallen nature. And if you know down deep
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  inside, man, I know what I should do.
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  But I can't help myself, Clark. I just can't get out of this.
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  I understand you can't. I've been there.
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  The only way you can get out is to get saved.
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  And when you get saved, God lifts you out of that control of
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  the flesh and puts a spirit in you.
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  And now the Holy Spirit enables you to overcome all the things
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  that are going on in your life that are destructive.
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  Have you hit a point in your life where you feel like no
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  matter how hard you try, you can't kick your sinful habits?
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  Every self help book you've read, every new hobby you've
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  taken up, every bit of counseling you sought out, and
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  still nothing works. At least not long term.
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  Today, Pastor Clark teaches you that there is one important part
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  missing from the change that you're striving to make.
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  Without Jesus, sin will continue to wage war against you, and you
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  will continue to fall victim to it.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 19 with
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Revelation 19, verse 17 Then I saw an Angel standing in the
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  sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying, To all the birds
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  that fly in the midst of heaven, come and gather together for the
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  supper of the great God, that you may eat.
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  The flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty
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  men, the flesh of horses and those who sit on them, and the
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  flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.
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  And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and the armies
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  gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse
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  and against his army. And then the beast was captured,
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  and with him the false prophet, who worked signs in his
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  presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of
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  the beast, and those who worshipped his image.
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  These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with
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  rim stone, and the rest were killed with the sword which
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  proceeded from the mouth of him who sat on a horse.
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  And the birds were filled with their flesh.
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  This is probably one of the most horrendous declarations of the
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  judgement of God on the face of the earth outside of some of the
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  chapters in the Old Testament we read when God went into certain
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  communities and wiped out every living thing because of the
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  decadence and the sinfulness of the people.
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  And I want you to understand today that God is love.
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  And you might read this and say, how in the world can God be
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  loved and do something like this?
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  And we'll get to that in a moment.
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  So we're just going to go through this verse by verse and
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  trust that it'll come alive and make sense to you.
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  As we look at it now, we see in 17 and 18 this particular Angel
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  that is standing in the midst of the sun.
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  His brightness is so powerful. The glory of God is all over
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  this Angel. He's a representative, a
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  spokesman for the glory of God and the purposes of God, and
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  he's the one that's declaring what is going to come to pass.
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  Now, the week before we studied about Christ, and he's the one
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  that is on this horse leading the armies of heaven to the
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  earth to bring destruction upon all those who are living on the
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  earth at this current time that are enemies of God.
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  People who hate God, who have made a decision in their minds
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  that they don't want to live for God.
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  They don't want to have anything to do with God.
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  They've already accepted the mark of the beast, which is the
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  mark that is the Insignia on the heart of the unbeliever
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  signifying that they are enemies of God and they hate the Kingdom
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  of God and they're enemies of Jesus Christ.
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  And so he's saying to all these birds that fly to prepare for
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  this great slaughter, which is called Armageddon.
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  Some of the movies you guys have seen can't come close to their
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  horrendous destruction of what's going to come upon the earth at
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  this time. Birds of the air, birds that
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  fly. Some people feel there's a
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  symbolic meaning behind some of these terms because of the
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  technology that we are living in these days.
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  I've sort of like to stay with the little rendering unless
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  something would cause me to the sensors.
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  There's something beyond that. But I I know that the Hawks, if
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  you see them fly around and they find something dead, doesn't
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  matter how small or how big it is.
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  Deer, whatever, they get down and they pick at it and eat it
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  until there's nothing left, right?
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  They tear all the meat off the bones and there's absolutely
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  nothing left of the flesh. And this is what's going to
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  happen. And it says this is going to
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  occur, the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains.
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  So we see all the important human beings on the face of the
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  earth. There is no discrimination with
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  God's judgement. He'll deal with the small and
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  the great, the famous and the those who aren't famous and the
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  representing. This flesh is the life.
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  As I read in Romans chapter 8, it's lived in sin against God.
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  The flesh is an enemy of God. And I want you to flip over to
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  Galatians 5 for a minute so we can reflect on this a little bit
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  more. There's nothing evil about the
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  skin on my bones or yours. This is the tent that God's
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  given us. What's evil is the capacity of
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  the heart to use this body that God has created against his will
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  and his purposes and his truth and his word When we take this
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  physical body and use it for things that God has not intended
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  it to be used for. Now we're going to look at
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  Galatians 5 and it's going to talk about this war that we all
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  struggle with the difference between the the flesh and the
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  spirit. And it says in verse 16 of
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  Galatians 5I say, then walk in the spirit and you shall not
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  fulfill the lust of the flesh. Now, before we're Christians,
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  and some of you were adults here, some of you were younger.
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  So depending on how long you've lived on the earth, you, you've
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  experienced different things. But I can remember a time in my
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  life where this flesh, this desire, this wicked heart did
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  all kind of bad stuff. And it didn't bother me.
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  I mean, my conscience told me it was wrong, but I blew my
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  conscience off. I did what I wanted to do.
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  I was a child of God's wrath. I wasn't a child of God at one
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  time. And so I just had a propensity
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  to do evil and wicked things. I did many of them in my life.
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  And the wages of sin, the Bible says is death.
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  And so if it wasn't for the grace of God working in my life
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  and turning my heart toward him and and saving me and changing
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  me, I would be hell bound as we speak.
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  So we're either walking in the power of the Holy Spirit or
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  we're walking in the flesh. Now that says the flesh lusts
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  against the Spirit means that wars against God's will, and
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  it's contrary to God's will that you don't do the things that you
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  would like to do. So if you're here today and you
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  don't know God and the Holy Spirit isn't in you, you're just
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  going to do what your flesh tells you.
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  If it tells you to get drunk, you're just going to get drunk.
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  If it tells you to be immoral, you're going to be immoral.
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  If it tells you to steal or to be greedy or to be vindictive or
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  vengeful or hateful or bitter or angry or drug addicted, it's
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  just going to control you. It's like a bondage.
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  It's like, that's why we need to be saved.
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  Christmas Eve, I said Jesus came to save his people from their
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  sins. He came to save us from being
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  influenced and controlled by the passions of the fallen nature.
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  And if you know down deep inside, man, I know what I
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  should do, but I can't help myself, Clark.
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  I just can't get out of this. I understand you can't.
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  I've been there. The only way you can get out is
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  to get saved. And when you get saved, God
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  lifts you out of that control of the flesh and puts a spirit in
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  you. And now the Holy Spirit enables
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  you to overcome all the things that are going on in your life
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  that are destructive. It says if you're led by the
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  Spirit, you're not under the law.
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  Meaning if you're without Christ today, you're going to be judged
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  at the judgment seat, the great white throne, the book will be
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  open and you'll stand there saying, well, I was good, I help
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  people, I did this, I did that. I didn't do this.
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  I didn't do that. Well, God's law is going to say,
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  well, did you do this? Did you hate?
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  Did you honor God above all things?
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  Did you commit adultery? And some of us might sit here
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  and say, well, I never did that. So I'm pretty good.
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  Well, the Bible says if you looked upon a woman with lust,
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  you've already committed adultery.
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  How many men here have looked at woman with lust?
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  Raise your hand. Every one of us.
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  So we've broken that law, right? We've broken that law, all of
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  us. So we're guilty.
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  We don't have a chance. We don't have a way out.
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  The books are open and God says you did this.
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  And the Bible says if you've offended God in one, you've
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  offended him in all. So you're guilty of everything
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  that the Bible says is sinful. But if you're a letter of the
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  Spirit, you're not under the law.
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  What a relief. We'll stand at the judgment and
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  we're accepted into the heavenly Kingdom because we're part of
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  his family now. The Holy Spirit dwells in US.
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  The Holy Spirit lives in us. We're not habitually sinning
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  anymore, and that doesn't mean we still don't sin.
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  We're tempted and, and as Christians we still fail, all of
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  us. But when we fail, we want to
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  repent, we want to get right with God.
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  We just don't say, well, that's just the way I am, no big deal.
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  Our conscience bothers us and the Holy Spirit corrects us and
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  brings us back into a place of obedience.
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  So then the more we grow in the word and the more we know the
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  Lord, the more we walk according to the Spirit.
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  We're not interested in following the following desires
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  anymore. They're not appealing to us.
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  There's no, there's no interest. The desires have been lifted out
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  of our hearts. What are the works of the flesh?
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  What does a person do if they're under the influence of their
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  sinful nature? What says it's evident?
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  Adultery, Fornication. One time someone came to me for
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  counseling a guy and his girlfriend, and they said, we're
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  in the Bible. Does it say, yeah, you can't
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  have sex before marriage? And I said, and I read him and
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  he said, well, what's that mean? Well, fornication means any kind
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  of sexual relationship outside the confines of marriage.
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  Uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery.
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  That word for sorcery has also been translated pharmakeia in
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  the Bible, meaning any kind of influence of messing around with
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  any kind of drugs, marijuana or whatever it is, hatred,
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  contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
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  ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,
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  drunkenness, partying around rubber leaves, the like of which
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  I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, and
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  this is the Apostle Paul warning this church in Galatia, and you
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  might want to underline this in your Bible, that those who
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  practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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  So if this is your lifestyle, this is how you're living,
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  doesn't matter what you say you believe Christ isn't your
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  savior, He isn't your Lord. If you're living this way, you
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  won't get into the Kingdom of heaven.
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  Now, if you're here today and you know you're living that way,
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  the Lord would want you to repent.
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  He would want you to come clean with him and say I'm in trouble,
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  Lord, and I know it and I can't leave here today unless you save
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  me. Can't leave here today unless
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  you save me, Lord, because I know today that if I continue in
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  this way of life, I'm going to end up in hell and I don't want
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  to be there. And God doesn't want you to be
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  there. He loves you, for God so loved
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  this world that he gave his only begotten Son.
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  Why did he give Him? So that we wouldn't have to go
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  to hell, that we could be forgiven, and that we could
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  become descendants of God and have nature like God and live
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  like God, and be sons and daughters of God and do godly
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  things, not ungodly things. And it says those who are Christ
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  have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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  It means they don't have the ability to influence and control
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  you anymore. If you really belong to Christ,
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  the Lord has overcome in your life through the power of the
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  Holy Spirit that you don't have to submit to the temptation and
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  the desire. Some people say, well, I have a
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  drinking problem. Well, if you have Christ in your
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  heart, you're not going to have a drinking problem anymore.
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  You're just not going to drink. You're not going to want to.
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  The Holy Spirit's going to give you the ability and the power
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  not to drink. But if you say, I've asked, but
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  he won't help me and I keep doing it and I, well, there's
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  something wrong there. Because if the Spirit of God is
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  in you, you're not going to have to be under the control of that
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  influence anymore. And that's in every area of our
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  life. Some men struggle with
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  pornography, or some people struggle with drug addiction, or
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  some people struggle with being lazy on their job or bitter or
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  whatever it is. You don't have to allow any of
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  this sinful nature to control you anymore.
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  So that's what's great about being a Christian.
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  You're free from sin. You don't have to sin anymore,
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  and you actually have the capacity to not sin.
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  I mean, when that begins to sink in and you realize that you're
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  free, it's incredible. Yeah.
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  It makes you a whole new creation, a whole different type
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  of human being. Because before crisis in our
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  life, all we do is just keep doing the stuff that we know we
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  shouldn't do. It's it comes naturally because
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  we're all sinful people. But when Christ comes into our
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  life and changes us, all of a sudden we have the ability and
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  the power to make choices now and say, I'm not going to live
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  this way anymore. I'm not going to do this
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  anymore. We're going to have to maybe
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  talk to some people and say, guess what?
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  My relationship with you is ended as of now.
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  And they'll say, well, why? Because I can't live this way
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  anymore. I can't sleep around anymore.
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  I can't do this anymore because God lives in me now.
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  They'll probably look at you like you're nuts.
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  That's OK. They might ask you, what do you
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  mean God's in you? And then you can tell them
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  what's happened to you. And then perhaps God will save
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  them as well. And it says if we live in the
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  Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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  So that's the major difference between this teaching and
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  revelation regarding why is he going to destroy all this flesh
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  on the earth at this time? Because these people are enemies
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  of God. They're walking this way,
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  they're living this way, and they don't care.
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  They've heard the truth. They know the truth from the
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  standpoint of it being communicated to them.
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  But they're the kind of people that refuse to submit and
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  repent. And perhaps you're here today in
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  that camp, you're refusing to repent.
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  Well, God wants you to know today that if you refuse to
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  repent, this is what you're going to face.
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  And even worse, if you don't end up in this situation, you die
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  before this event occurs. You're going to be in hell
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  forever. That's a cold hard fact, but
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  it's the truth. You're going to be in hell
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  forever and ever. Philippians chapter 3 verse 3
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  says we're not to have any confidence in the flesh, not any
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  confidence in our own self ability.
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  And this, this is important for Christians today in our jobs, in
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  our marriages and our raising of our children and our ministries,
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  whatever. If we depend upon our own
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  abilities and we're trusting in our own wisdom, we're having
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  confidence in our fallen nature, which will do nothing but mess
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  things up. We're not to have any confidence
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  in human ability. The world today teaches us about
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  self esteem. To be confident, feel good about
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  yourself, you have to love yourself.
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  Well, the Bible says we already do love ourselves.
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  I mean that's a that's a given because all our focus is most of
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  the time on ourselves. So it proves that we have this
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  insatiable love for self that we have to constantly deny.
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  Jesus says if any man will follow me, let him deny himself.
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  That's the hardest thing to do as a human being, to deny
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  yourself will. But it says not to have any
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  confidence in your human ability.
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  It says Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 5.
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  Not that we're sufficient of ourselves to think of anything
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  as being from ourselves, but our sufficiencies from God.
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  In other words, I receive my esteem from God.
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  Where God says you're beloved, you're accepted in the beloved,
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  holy and without blame. That should make all of us feel
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  fantastic. It's not what you think of me or
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  what I think of you or what we think of one another.
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  I mean, it's nice to think good things about you.
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  Don't want anybody to hate you or not like you or disrespect
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  you. But it really shouldn't bother
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  us because God says He loves you with an everlasting love.
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  He cares about you, He's for you and He's not against you.
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  He has plans for you in the days ahead, plans of hope and plans
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  of a future. John 663 says it is a spirit who
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  gives life. The flesh profits nothing.
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  If I'm up here trying to motivate you today and my own
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  ability and my own passion and my own desire as a human being
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  and trying to persuade or cause your mind to think differently
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  through my own strength, my own ability, it'll profit nothing.
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  The words that I speak to your Spirit and they are life.
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  And that's my prayer for us as a ministry, that it's a spirit
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  that's speaking. It's not the flesh, it's not
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  human ability, it's not the wisdom of man, but it's the
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  wisdom of God. First Corinthians chapter one,
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  verse 2631. If you flip over there for a
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  minute and if you pick anything up as we're studying together,
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  pick up the difference between a life that's directed by the
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  Spirit and a life that's directed by pride of fallen
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  natures. Verse 26 for you see your
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  calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh
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  human ability, right fallen nature, not many mighty not many
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  know Bo are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the
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  world to put the shame the wise and God has chosen the weak
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  things of the world to put the shame.
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  The things which are mighty and base things of the world and
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  things which are despise God hath chosen, and the things
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  which are not to bring to nothing.
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  The things that are that no flesh should glory in his
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  presence, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
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  But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom
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  from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption
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  that it is written. He who glories, let him glory in
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  the Lord. And so we're here today as
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  brothers and sisters for the most point.
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  Most of us are Christians here today, and God is calling all of
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  you for some purpose. And he's not looking for people
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  who are highly educated. Of course, he can use highly
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  educated people, but he doesn't have any kind of agenda.
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  When he chooses people to serve him, He chooses people who the
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  world might say many times are losers.
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  He chooses the outcast, the downcast.
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  He chooses the insecure. He chooses people who know down
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  deep inside I can't do this, Lord.
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  He chooses people who have failed.
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  And so he looks out in an audience and he says not many
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  wise out there today, not to put anybody down.
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  Not many noble, not many mighty are called, but God has chosen
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  the weak and the foolish things of this world.
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  How many of us are weak and foolish here today?
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  That's all of us. So he's calling all of us to
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  serve him. And you might say, well, I can't
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  do this. I'm not as good as him or I'm
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  not as good as her. That's sinful.
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  When God says he's choosing you because you're weak and foolish,
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  just admit it, Lord. I'm not going to compare myself
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  with anybody else. I'm what you tell me in your
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  word, I am. I'm weak, I'm foolish, but I
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  want to surrender this body to you for you to use for your
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  glory. And as God begins to use you and
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  work in your life and bless people through your life, you
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  will know it has nothing to do with you.
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  And that's why it says there in 31.
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  He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.
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  I remember when we were training to be missionaries and my sister
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  in law's here today, she was with the new trials mission in
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  Africa with in Senegal and boot camp was tough.
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  It was the second phase of the training.
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  We went to Bible college. We got all that great head
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  knowledge, right. We had to memorize the book of
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  Ephesians. We thought we were really it
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  right? I mean, we really thought we had
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  it together. We had a handle on the word and
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  all that. We go to the boot camp and we're
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  around these deep Christians that are training us and, and
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  they're telling us why we got to get from what's in here down to
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  here because we're all in. There is a bunch of immature,
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  proud, self willed people that are claiming that they're being
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  called by God to be missionaries.
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  And, and the truth was that, yeah, God's calling us to serve
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  him, but there's work that needs to be done in our life before we
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  can serve him. They had a Tuesday night
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  meeting. It was an open night meeting
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  where you'd all sit here like this and they do worship.
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  And then you'd wait on the Holy Spirit to speak.
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  And sometimes 10 minutes, nothing's happening.
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  And they'd play some more music. And then someone would come up
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  and they'd share the words, you know, and they'd break it.
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  And they'd maybe 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15, and whatever the
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  Holy Spirit's leading them. And, and they would be speaking
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  to the body. And then they'd sit down and
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  someone else would get up and share.
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  And maybe a woman would come up and sing a song or read a Psalm
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  or it was powerful and dine deep inside.
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  As you're sitting there, you know God wants to use you too,
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  that you're afraid because you're thinking, what if I look
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  like a fool? What if I say something that's
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  stupid? What if I'm not correct?
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  Or what if I blow it or whatever, you know, and God's
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  like that, your heart's thumping.
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  You know you're supposed to say something.
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  You don't. You've all had those
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  opportunities when you're in a meeting and you know God wants
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  to use you at Wednesday night study to say something, to pray
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  or whatever, step out in faith. And it's scary.
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  And I remember the first time I went up there and I thought I
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  had something to say When I got up there, I looked in the Bible,
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  I realized I had nothing to say. It was terrible.
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  I got up there and I'm supposed to say something.
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  I have absolutely nothing to say and I could have read something
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  here, but the Lord whisper in my ear, you're a phony clerk.
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  You're a phony. If we got to deal with you're
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  going to be humble and you're going to be and I'm like
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  freaking out and at the back of the wall.
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  It says this first to bring to naughty the things that are that
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  no flesh should glory in his presence.
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  It says in First Corinthians 1550, flesh and blood cannot
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  inherit the Kingdom of God. The part of us we war against
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  will not be in heaven. That's good news.
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  The fallen sinful nature will not follow us into the Kingdom
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  of God. When we get into the Kingdom of
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  God, the former things that pass away, there'll be no more pride,
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  there'll be no more selfish ambition.
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  There'll be no more anger or hatred or unforgiveness or
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  bitterness or lust. All that stuff is going to be
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  gone, the unyielded self life that we still struggle with and
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  as a pastor I have to constantly bring my will under subjection
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  of the Lord and say Lord not my will but your will be done in
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  every area of my life. That unyielded tendency in our
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  lives that fights against us in this body, the flesh, to try to
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  make excuses for sin or attitude won't be in the Kingdom of
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  heaven. In the Book of Revelation,
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  Pastor Clark is taking us through all kinds of events and
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  happenings that are predicted for the future.
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  But for those who believe and follow Jesus, there's much to
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  look forward to in heaven with Jesus.
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  However, for those who are here on earth during the Tribulation,
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  there's all kinds of chaos that will unfold.
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  The Bible talks about an Antichrist, a false prophet, and
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  of course that evil enemy Satan. You see how there are such
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  clever attempts for the enemy to disguise himself as God and even
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  the Trinity, the true Savior of the world is God and how he
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  comes to rescue through his triune nature, God the Father,
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  Jesus the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
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  Just like Satan tried to take over for God in heaven and was
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  cast out, Satan will try to convince people on earth that he
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  is the triune God to be worshipped instead of the
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  legitimate God in heaven. It's an attempt, and although he
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  will capture plenty in his schemes, he will not win.
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  The true God wins, and Revelation unpacks how that will
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  all happen in detail. Be encouraged because there's a
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  way out for all of this madness that will ensue on this earth.
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  But you don't want to wait indefinitely to make that
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  decision about Jesus. We don't know when the church
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  will be raptured, and you want to be ready to be with Jesus.
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