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929. Bible Study: Psalm 15 (Who will live on the Holy Mountain of Jerusalem?) · Faith by annm2705

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Psalm 15 from the book of Psalms.
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First, let's pray, dear Lord, please be with us as we read
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through the Psalm and open our eyes, our hearts, our ears to
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what you have to say through David.
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We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So this is Psalm 15 is another
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Psalm of David. It's very short.
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There's only three study Bible questions, so I'll go through
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those and then I'll get into the other things that I that came to
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mind as we started, so I'll read through it first.
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Lord, who may dwell in your sacred tent?
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Who may live on your holy mountain?
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The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who
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speaks the truth from their heart, whose tongue utters no
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slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor and cast no slur on
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others. Who despises A vile person but
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honors those who fear the Lord? Who keeps an oath even when it
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hurts and does not change their mind, Who lends money to the
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poor without interest, Who does not accept a bribe against the
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innocent. Whoever does these things will
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never be shaken. And that's the end of Psalm 15,
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so I will read what the study Bible says.
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What is the sacred tent here? Sacred tent means the Tabernacle
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where God promised to be present so his people could come to
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worship him. Jerusalem's temple wasn't built
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until after David's death. Where is this holy mountain?
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The psalmist often referred to Mount Zion, the site of the
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temple in Jerusalem, as a quote. Holy mountain, Some thought this
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was the same mountain where God tested Abraham.
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When does charging interest become sinful?
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Ancient Israelites were not permitted to charge interest on
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loans to fellow Israelites. Certainly, Christians today
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should be as generous to their brothers and sisters.
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On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with Christian
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employees of banks and other financial institutions charging
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market rates for loans to fellow Christians and that's all that
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the study Bible says about this verse.
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So there's several things first of it.
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First of all, in the past Psalms somewhere up to 15, I discovered
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the I wanted to look at God, Lord and these different words
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that are used and and go back to the Hebrew to see who is this
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actually speaking about R2 because we talked about Elohim,
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El Adonai, Yehovah and others. So anyway, what I wanted to do
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is I actually this was in the middle of the night where this
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was. I don't know why it made me
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think of it, but I was wondering you like, what is the proper
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name of God? We we found that out when we
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went back to Moses and the burning Bush where there was an
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interchange about and this is my name.
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And so we learned that the name is actually in blue letter
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bible.com, the Hebrew pronunciation.
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And I might get this a little bit off, but it's something like
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Yehovah, Yehovah. And, and so that's what I've
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been saying every time. So then I was wondering, I don't
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know where I saw this. I was like Yahweh.
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Now everybody says Yahweh and then there's Yehovah and you
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know what's right? What's the correct 1?
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And so I searched that and I found someone who was speaking
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about Hebrew literacy and found that the both of them, this is
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like a pronunciation difference is really all that it is.
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Yehovah and Yahweh are the same word.
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It's the way people pronounce them or the translation that
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came about is is actually what it is.
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But supposedly scholars say that Yahweh is probably the more
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proper accepted word instead of Yehovah.
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But the blue letter Bible uses Yehovah so art Yehovah and and
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so The thing is there were 4 letters in Hebrew and for us in
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English it would be YHWH. And so then I could see how
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Yehovah would be similar to that.
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But Yahweh would be more similar because Yahweh uses the West and
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Jehovah uses the V. And then I thought, well I
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wonder what the actual ancient Hebrews how they pronounced it
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because I think like in in other languages the West and the V
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sound different than they do in English when we see that
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written. So then what I found was that
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modern day the modern day Israelites or modern day Israel
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pronounces it with AV but ancient Israel or ancient
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Hebrews actually pronounced it with AW sound.
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So this all, you know, I think God knows our hearts and God.
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And the question is like really what is his name?
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And and the the Jewish people do not use the name of God because
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they believe it that the name of God is so sacred and they don't
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want to profane the name of God. So they rarely use it.
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And a lot of times they will call him Hashem.
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I never knew what Hashem meant, but Hashem means the name.
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So it's very like alluded to throughout scripture.
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But I always wondered, well, not always, but I just wonder when
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that interchange between Moses at the burning Bush and it said
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this will be my name forever, it would.
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You know, I think that names are really important to God.
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And unfortunately from the information that we have, it's
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like, who do you believe, one or the other?
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Well most scholars believe Yahweh is correct.
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And then and then this whole thing in English how we took AY
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and made it into AJI. That again is also I think
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dialect is what I read. Like Jesus's name was Yeshua and
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Yeshua translated into English is Joshua.
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So how did we get Jesus? I did watch a video on that.
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But it just these are all these different like translations.
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And so we can only know or rely upon the information that we
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have. And if we have bad information,
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then we say things improperly. And so I would say that I as
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Scripture says that God looks at our heart, that God looks at how
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we say it. And I I think, you know, his
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name is very important and it should be used with high at a
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high regard of respect. I think we all agree that agree
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with that and in reverence. So the question is, you know,
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it'd be nice to know what is real, the way it's really
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supposed to be stated. And I guess someday we will know
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that for sure. Like, and just even like our
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dialect, even if we speak a name differently than another nation
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or another tongue or another area, even within English,
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people make words sound differently.
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So none of us should be prideful about knowing that we know the
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name of God. So if you go back to the actual
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characters of the name of God, the characters when you look at
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Jehovah or you look at Yahweh, it's the same for characters.
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And it's the YHWH in English and there were no vowels in there.
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So anything that adds the vowels is actually making it up because
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it's not really there. So some say that it's almost
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like a breath, like breathing in and breathing out is his name.
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So we don't know and I'm not going to be prideful about this,
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but when I what I'm going to do is just continue because it's
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from the Blue Letter Bible. I'm going to continue to say
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like if it's Yehovah and we'll know that that's also Yahweh or
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if it's Elohim or if it's L or if it's Adonai, all of those
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different versions of God. Then I think like Elohim is
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actually a reference to the way I understand it is the reference
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to the the Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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The God God is 11 in spirit and then either Jehovah or Yahweh is
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Yahweh is the name of God the Father.
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As I understand it now, some people make this to Jesus, but
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then there's another I heard something else too where it said
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that there was like a something about like God saves and maybe
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that's what Yeshua means. So I didn't go that deep into
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it, but my current understanding right now, and you can search
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this on your own, is that Yehovah or Yahweh is God the
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Father and then Yeshua is Jesus, the Son of God.
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And they are one. They are one in spirit and
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through the Holy Spirit. And just like Jesus says in
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prayers, and I talk about this all the time, where he prayed to
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the Father and said for all of us, you know, all of us who
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believe to that he was praying that we could all be made one as
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he is one with the Father. Like the Father is in him and he
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is in the Father. And there's just like it's like
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the two become one. It's kind of, it's like that
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marriage and even the return of Jesus and Jesus being called the
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bridegroom where it's all like about a wedding.
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And that's what God said about a man and a woman, that the 2
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become one flesh. But this is like 1 spirit with
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God. So it's an analogy almost like
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as a marriages here on earth, that's what it will be like in
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heaven with God, like we will become one, just like a a
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marriage is an example of that here on earth.
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So anyway, just wanted to cover that because I was talking about
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the words and then somehow I decided to look this up in the
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middle of the night. So that's the only clarity that
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I have is just different resources.
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But and if you disagree with that, you can look it up too.
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But I think essentially it's like what does what does God
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want us to know and what's in our heart?
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And I, the only reason why I want to translate back to what I
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see in blue letter Bible is that sometimes it's, you know, this
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is calling on God by his name. So this is a Psalm of David.
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When it says Lord, he's not saying add and I he's not
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calling him Lord. He's calling him by his name.
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The name was given to him. So I think that's it's very
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personable is really what it is. And then when we get into like
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who must dwell in your sacred tent and who may live on your
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holy mountain, we start seeing all this righteousness listed
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and about that's who's going to be living on the mountain.
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So which is the future Kingdom where Jesus will rule from.
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And so that made me think about a holiness because that's what
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God says is to be holy because he is holy.
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So I did go back to Scripture to read those references.
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So what I found was in Leviticus Chapter 11 verse 44, he said I
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am the Lord your God, consecrate yourselves and be holy because I
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am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean
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by any creature that moves along along the ground.
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That's kind of interesting too when you think about Satan being
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that serpent that moves, you know he was moving around the
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ground and and destined to eat dust in the the book of Genesis.
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OK then Leviticus 11:45 I am the Lord who brought you up out of
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Egypt to be your God. Therefore be holy because I am
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holy. Leviticus 19 speak verse 2,
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speak to the entire symbol assembly of Israel and say to
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them be holy because I the Lord your God am holy.
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And again, I'm not actually. What I maybe should have done
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was go to the Hebrew translation of this to, you know, go through
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the Lord and God and all of that and clarify that.
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But I'll just keep going where I am right now.
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I'm doing the NIV version right now.
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So Leviticus 20 verse 7 says consecrate yourselves and be
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holy because I am the Lord your God.
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And then in Leviticus 20 verse 26, it says you are to be holy
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to me because I the Lord your God am holy, and I have set you
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apart from the nations to be my own.
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So this is specifically talking to the people of Israel.
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So I think the application can also be made to Christians and
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Gentiles because of what Paul says in the New Testament where
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it says that those who are not Jews are grafted in to the vine
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and become a part of the vine. So originally this was stated to
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the Hebrews or to the Israelites.
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So Leviticus 21 verse six, they must be holy to their God and
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must not profane the name of their God because they present
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the food offerings to the Lord, the food of their God.
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They are to be holy. And then Joel the prophet says,
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then you will know that I the Lord your God dwell in Zion, my
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holy hill, Jerusalem will be holy.
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Never again will foreigners invade her so.
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This will be when Jesus reigns. Never again will foreigners
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invade her. So that her is referring to
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Jerusalem. Jerusalem is referring to Zion
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and that is talking about that place being holy and it ties in
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with what David said. You know who may live on your
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holy mountain. And then again a reference to
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the holy mountain is in Obadiah chapter one, verse 17.
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But on Mount Zion will be deliverance, it will be holy,
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and Jacob will possess his inheritance.
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So this is where the Israelites will actually possess Jerusalem.
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They will. That will be their inheritance
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as God had promised, and it will be holy.
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Now we get into the New Testament, and in Ephesians 1
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chapter 4, it's Paul says, For He chose us in him, just like we
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spent two hours at the last podcast talking about what in
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Him means. For He chose us in Him before
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the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight.
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Then Hebrews 12/14 says make every effort to live in peace
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with everyone and to be holy. Without holiness no one will see
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the Lord. Now that that makes you
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certainly think that without holiness no one will be will see
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the Lord. And then you think, wow, we also
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know that no one is good from the last Psalm that we read.
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And I went into no one is good and spent two hours talking
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about all of that. Well, then that that comes to it
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makes you question, if no one is good and we aren't holy and only
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the holy will be on his mountain, does that mean
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everybody's excluded? No, it doesn't mean that.
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It just means that we can't do it on our own.
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We have to rely on Jesus and the Holy Spirit for that.
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And I, that's my next part of this discussion.
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So we can be holy is what I'm getting at.
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Not on our own, though. And that's what we have to
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recognize. We have to humble ourselves and
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realize that no matter what effort we try, no matter how
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hard we try, we are going to fall short, short in our human
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form, our existence, because of our sin nature.
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Because sin is within us and we can't get rid of it until we die
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or until Jesus returns. And those who are still living
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are instantly like it says, in a blink of an eye are changed.
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So that is, you know, it's the wages of sin is death.
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That means we're all sinners. So we all have to die.
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But there is that one group of people that is talked about in
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Thessalonians. I forgot which chapter and
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verse, but where. When Jesus returns, those who
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are alive and remain will be changed in an instant.
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In the blink of an eye, they will be changed to their
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immortal, incorruptible bodies. And so as we have talked about
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another podcast, I think the whole thing about holiness, God
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is always trying to protect us. Because I do think that when God
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is present, His Holiness is he's a consuming fire.
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And if we are not purified, it will burn us up.
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And so God's distance from us is actually protection.
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Even though he is near us in spirit, His physical distance
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from us is actually protecting us.
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And where I get this is when Moses was directed to do certain
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things before Moses was able to visit with God on the mountain,
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when he received the 10 commandments and God prepared
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him but told him nobody else can touch the mountain or if they
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do, they will die. Like we've talked about with the
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Ark of the Covenant. God gave specific, you know, he
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purified and made them holy, the Levitical priestly line.
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They were the ones that could only carry the Ark of the
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Covenant. Anybody else who did it that was
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not prepared, they could die. Now somehow it was transported
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by other entities that were not holy.
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And I didn't really research that in the Bible.
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That just came to mind. But something there didn't
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happen. And they were actually evil ones
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that had it, but they didn't die.
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So I, I don't quite understand that.
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But we don't know all of the spiritual things.
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Just like Jesus said to Nicodemus.
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I'm trying to tell you, Nicodemus, about earthly things
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and you don't understand. How can I tell you about
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heavenly things? So there's a lot of the
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spiritual realm that we don't understand.
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But we do see here that God's command is to be holy.
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And it says without holy, without holiness, no one will
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see the Lord. Now Jesus in John chapter 3 said
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you must be born again, born of the Spirit, and then no one can
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enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born of the Spirit.
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So the Spirit is. How we become holy and we
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receive the Spirit through Jesus.
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So I'm going to get into that a little bit too.
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So then also in first Peter chapter 1 verses 15 and 16, he
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said, but just as he who called you referring to God is holy, so
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be holy in all you do. And then it in verse 16, it
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says, for it is written be holy because I am holy.
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That only makes sense. If we are to be the children of
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God, sons and daughters of God, wouldn't we reflect the image of
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God? And if God is holy, wouldn't he
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want his children to be holy? So it all makes sense.
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But it's just like, how do we do that?
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How do we become holy? That's not in our nature.
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We're not naturally inclined to that.
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Well, it's through God. God himself makes us holy
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through the Holy Spirit who can dwell within people.
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And so that's what we have to understand is the Holy Spirit is
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and it's through Jesus. So anyway, Revelation 2211 says
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let the one who does wrong continue to do wrong, let the
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vile person continue to be vile, let the one who does right
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continue to do right and let the holy person continue to be holy.
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So there's this is talking about, you know, the progressing
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to the time of Jesus return and just there's going to be a lot
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of people all doing their own thing, what they are, you know,
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what they however they respond to God.
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And there's going to be some who keep on doing wrong, some who
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keep on being vile, some who do what's right.
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And then there's others who will be the holy person who will
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continue to be holy. It's a process that is called
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sanctifying. And so I, that was my next
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search was, you know, how do you become holy?
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How do you get sanctified? And this time I went to the
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Hebrew version with the Hebrew names version.
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And in Exodus 31 verse 13, it talks about this.
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Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, most assuredly
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you shall keep my Shabbat. For it is a sign between me and
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you throughout the generations that you may know that I am the
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Lord who sanctifies you. So this is interesting because
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to keep the Shabbat that would be our the you know, the day of
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rest. And it's a sign, the day of rest
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is a sign between God and Israel for generations so that the
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Israelites may know that it is God who sanctifies them.
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God gives them rest and he gives them rest through Jesus who died
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on the cross, just like in There's so much symbology with
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that. But Jesus at one point in the
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New Testament, he says that I am Lord of the Sabbath.
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Like Jesus is in charge of the Sabbath.
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He is the day of the rest. He gives us rest, rest from from
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works, from works of trying to be good enough to be in God's
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Kingdom. But it doesn't stop there.
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Like Jesus did, his death on the cross made it possible for
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people who cannot keep the word of God, all the commandments who
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cannot keep that to. This is where the possibility
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comes in for us to be in God's Kingdom.
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But what Jesus says that Jesus himself said that we need the
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Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does that next
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part of the work. It comes from the Father only
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through Jesus. So unless you believe in Jesus,
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you will not have the Holy Spirit.
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So that's something else that's really important for everyone to
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know that we need to believe in Jesus, believe that he was the
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is the Son of God. He came to earth, he died on the
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cross and he resurrected and went back to the Father.
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And his purpose of going back to the Father was to prepare a
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place for his brothers and sisters, his disciples, his
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followers, and that he promised that he would also return so
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that they could be with him where he was.
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And so that is the next thing that Jesus will be doing.
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He will be coming back to gather his people.
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And that's where that says he comes in the cloud.
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And 1st the dead will rise. And then all who you know, all
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the dead in Christ, not all the dead, but only those who are in
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him, which is why the two hour podcast was probably a good
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thing to know. You want to know what's what is
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in him mean. So if we are in him, if we have
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the Holy Spirit, if we are being sanctified and we have
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surrendered our life to to God and we are willing, that's what
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I always say is willing to be obedient and we allow the Holy
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Spirit to guide us, we will start to become obedient.
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And obedience isn't how we earn. We don't earn anything from God.
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It's Jesus. Death on the cross was a gift to
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us. But obedience shows God that we
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love him. He says it over and over again.
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If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
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So we can't get away from this obedience part.
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And if if we want to truly understand what the Bible says.
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So anyway, and the only way that we can probably respond to God
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the way David has, and so many times where David was known as a
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man after God's own heart, he clearly had the Holy Spirit
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because I think at one point he even said, Lord, do not take
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your spirit from me in one of the Psalms.
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So David had this and he knows God by name.
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He's calling him by his name in these psalms.
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He's not just saying this like, like we use God.
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That could mean a lot of different things, you know,
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referring to God, but it could mean the Father, Son or Holy
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Spirit. But here, you know, He is
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personalizing this and speaking directly to the Father now.
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And let's see where was I going with us afterwards?
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OK, so I'm in the middle of reading about sanctification.
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So in Leviticus 20 verse 8, there's only 11 verses here.
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So we're almost finished. Leviticus 20 verse 8, You shall
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keep my statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies
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you. So right here we say, you know,
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keep the statues and I'm sanctifying you.
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This is God speaking. Leviticus 2115 He shall not
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profane his seed among his people, for I am the Lord who
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sanctifies him, Leviticus 21, verse 23.
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He shall not come near to the veil nor come near to the altar
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because he has a blemish that he may not profane my sanctuaries,
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for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
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So again, they are not doing it on their own.
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It's the Lord who is sanctifying them.
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And this makes me wonder, like when this goes back to the Old
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Testament, like how do how do they not see that it's the Lord
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who's doing this for them? And even though he gave them the
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the 10 commandments, I think, you know, those are really the
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guardrails to protect people. If you can keep all of those
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perfectly, you can avoid a lot of tragedy, sin, you could avoid
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separation, but nobody really can.
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So those are just like guardrails to protect.
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And if we do break them, we do need to ask, we need to repent,
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we need to turn away from that. We need to ask for forgiveness
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and then have it in our heart that we are never going to do
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that again. And if we mess up again, then we
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immediately go back to God and ask for help.
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Because if we try to do it on our own, we're just going to
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frustrate ourselves. And that's one of the things
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that I learned after the fact, before I agreed or before I
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decided, before I actually committed to getting baptized, I
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wanted to make sure that I was going to be able to truly intend
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to follow God's commands. Like I wasn't going to get
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baptized with the intention of I may or may not live the way God
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wants me to. Like that was not going to be
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the way that I did it. I didn't want to be a hypocrite
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because there's enough hypocrites in the world where
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they call themselves a Christian, but they don't live
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it. And so I didn't want to be that.
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But it was also a hard decision for me to make.
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And I, I knew I wasn't, you know, good at that.
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And I guess I think I did the right thing by delaying my
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baptism till my, it was in my heart that I truly wanted to be
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obedient because if you don't really want to be obedient,
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you're probably not going to be obedient.
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So it's a heart decision. It's, it's not necessarily your
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mind like, you know, this is what I should do, but I just
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can't. But there is a time where you
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just don't rely on yourself. You realize I can't, but it is
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God who can. And then you surrender that to
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him. You surrender your will, just
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like Jesus did before he died on the cross when he was like, if
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there's any other way, because he knew what was coming for him
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on the cross and the, the abuse that he was going to have upon
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him and the torture that he was going to have.
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If there's any way, you know to let this cup pass or do it in
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some other way, but if not, your will be done.
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That's what Jesus said to the Father.
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So he was obedient to the Father in doing this for all of us
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because it was his blood that was shed that provided the
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atonement. Without the shedding of blood,
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there is no forgiveness for sins.
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So if Jesus didn't do that, we wouldn't have the possibility of
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being in God's Kingdom. So Leviticus 22 verse 9.
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They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for
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it, and die therein. If they profane it, I am the
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Lord who sanctifies them. So again we see the Lord is the
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one who sanctifies them, Leviticus 22 verse 16.
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And so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt when
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they eat their holy things, For I am the Lord who sanctifies
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them. Ezekiel 20 verse 12.
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Moreover, also I gave them my Shabbat to be a sign between me
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and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who
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sanctifies them. How many times does it say the
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Lord sanctifies them? Ezekiel 3728 The nations shall
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know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my
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sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.
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So that's a future prophecy. Matthew 23 verse 17 says you
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blind fools. For which is greater, the gold,
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or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
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Matthew 2319. It says it again, you blind
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fools. For which is greater, the gift
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or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
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And then in Hebrews this is the last one, Hebrews 2, verse 11.
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For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all
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from 1:00 for which 'cause he is not ashamed to call them
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brothers comma might want to just read that one.
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So this is again let's let's read this Jesus briefly humbled
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Hebrews 2 verse 9. Let's see, I want to chapter 2
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verse 9 from Hebrews. But we see Him who has been made
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a little lower than the angels, Yeshua, because of the suffering
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of death, crowned with glory and honour, that by the grace of God
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He should taste of death for everyone.
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For it became Him for whom all are all things, and through whom
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are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the
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Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all
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from one. For which 'cause He is not
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ashamed to call them brothers, saying, I will declare your name
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to my brothers in the midst of the congregation.
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I will sing your praise again. I will put my trust in Him
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again. Behold, here am I and the
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children whom God has given me. Since the children have shared
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in flesh and blood, He also Himself in a manner partook of
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the same, that through death He might bring to nothing Him who
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had the power of death. That is the devil.
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So we can see right there if we get mad about somebody dying,
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that the devil had the power of death.
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Well, he started it all when he knew, I guess the spiritual law
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that the wages of sin is death. And then he manipulated Eve into
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having that, doing that sin. So anyway, it says that start
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reading that through death, Jesus's death, he might bring to
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nothing him who had the power of death, that is the devil.
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So Jesus defeated the devil on the cross.
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That's kind of probably why he had to kind of let it happen
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when he when Peter wanted to stop them from taking Jesus away
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and he cut off one of the soldiers ears and then Jesus
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healed the soldiers ear. And then he also said to Peter
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something like, I think it was all in this scene where he said,
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get behind me, Satan, for you are thinking about, you know,
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things of the flesh were I don't remember the exact words, but he
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saw that Satan was influencing Peter, trying to stop his death.
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But Satan probably didn't know that what was really going to
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happen. So it was somewhat of a secret
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what was going to happen, the salvation that would come on the
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cross when Jesus died. Jesus knew it, but Satan
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apparently didn't know it or he wouldn't have had it arranged to
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where Jesus, Jesus would die. I think Satan was looking at it
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from a lack of wisdom. He doesn't know everything and
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he was thinking, oh, if the Son of God dies, then we get the
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inheritance. That's what he was probably
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thinking, but it backfired on him.
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So Hebrews 216 for most assuredly not to angels does he
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give help, but he gives help to the seed of Avraham.
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So that's Abraham. Therefore he was obligated in
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all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a
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merciful and faithful. Cohen Goodall and things
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pertaining to God to make atonement for the sins of the
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people. For in that he himself has
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suffered being tempted, He is also able to help those who are
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tempted. Well, that's just a lot about
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what Jesus did for us and why he had to have the flesh and why he
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had to be a human to have the death to defeat the enemy.
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So just God's redemption, like his salvation is all by we don't
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do anything to get his salvation.
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It was all from God. God knew the way around.
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I mean, He created the laws. He knew what had to be done.
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He himself loved us so much that He gave His own life for us so
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that we can be in His Kingdom. Just think of the things that
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God has done for us and that we should be so grateful for.
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And it is him that will sanctify us, but he gives us free will.
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We could say no, we don't want to be and refuse Him and rebel
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against Him, which is what we do before we actually our eyes are
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opened. And then we come to Christ, come
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to God, repent and turn to Him. But when we're sincere about it,
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that's what we're so God is so loving and merciful that he even
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he even does this for us. Like he starts sanctifying us,
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like it's still subject to our free will.
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He doesn't ever take that away from us.
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And we still could choose to be guided by the Holy Spirit or to
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reject the Holy Spirit. But if we allow the Holy Spirit
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to guide our life, and even though we probably all hate
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guilt, that feeling of guilt, when that feeling of guilt about
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something that we know we should have done but we didn't do, or
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we did something that we should not have done, and then we feel
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guilty about it. So guilt could be either doing
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something or not doing something.
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And when we feel that, nobody likes to feel that because it's
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a horrible feeling. But I believe that is the Holy
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Spirit guiding us. And when that happens, that's,
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that's that conviction by the Holy Spirit.
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And that's when we need to respond.
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And you know, just talk to God in your own words, like God, I'm
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sorry, I messed up. I messed up here again, that's
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not what I want to do. I want to be guided by you.
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Please, next time the situation comes up, help me, give me
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strength, help me overcome myself and do what you want me
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to do. Just like Jesus said to him, You
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know, if there's another way, let me know.
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But if not, your will. That's what we needed to do too.
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It says something about like taking up your own cross.
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I mean, in a sense that's what it is.
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I mean, in our everyday life, the things that we may not feel
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like doing, we may not want to do, but we need to communicate
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with God and be guided by God. And, and then when that guilt
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feeling comes on, listen to it because I believe it is the Holy
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Spirit. And if we listen to it, it will
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be a good thing. There will be good results from
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it because God is good. God is the only one who is good,
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as we learned before. So I don't want to turn this
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into another two hour podcast and I'm going to stop here.
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This is even longer than I thought it would be, but
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