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514 | God’s Love Never Ends · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Livin' her life for Christ She's a happy girl,
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  She's a happy girl.
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  She's a happy girl In a world where love is hard to find, we must cling to the
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  truth that God's love never fails, doesn't run out, and will always be with us.
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  He never leaves us or forsakes us, and His love is unconditional.
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  You can't earn it, and you can't lose it. God's love is faithful and true.
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  Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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  journey through the scriptures and allows God's word to reveal his marvelous.
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  Matchless love to each of us.
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  Thank you all for joining us as we study the book of Romans.
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  Well, just a section out of the book of Romans in Romans 8, 38 and 39 is our
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  key verses, but I want to back up to Romans chapter 8, verse 35.
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  It says, who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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  Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword.
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  As it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long.
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  We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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  Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities
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  nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor heights nor depth nor any
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  other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
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  which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  I absolutely love this verse, and I think all of us need to be reminded from
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  time to time how much we're loved.
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  We need to be reminded of God's love is not only abounding in us,
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  but it is surrounding us, and it never ceases.
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  And I'm often asked, well, how can you tell me that God's love is for all when people go to hell?
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  And I can answer that clearly.
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  He says that he wishes that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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  God loves us even though we reject him. And in order for a person to be saved
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  and spared hell and receive that free gift of salvation, they have to believe
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  in the only begotten son of Jesus Christ.
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  And so no one is sent to hell and everyone is given the opportunity to receive
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  the grace and the mercy required through the blood of Jesus Christ to escape hell.
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  And so anyone that ends up in hell is because of their own choice,
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  their own choosing, because they have chosen to reject Jesus Christ.
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  And we're told here that nothing separates it.
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  So even those who have rejected him to the point of no return,
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  where they are passed from death into eternity, he still loves.
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  And it must grieve his heart to know that everything he did and all the love
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  that he demonstrated, they chose not to receive.
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  And they ignored him and rejected him. And I believe as Christians,
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  we need to be very aware of the salvation plan Christ has is for everyone.
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  Even the people that you don't like, you don't dislike them enough to want them
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  to spend eternity in hell.
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  And more importantly, Christ loves them as much as he loves you and me.
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  And we need to be cognitively aware of that. But in our everyday lives,
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  those of us who've given our heart and our lives to Jesus, there are just some
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  days that we just don't feel loved.
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  Some days just aren't going the way we want it to go.
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  Some things just aren't lining up in a way that we would choose.
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  And we can get our mind away from the love of God and away from the will of God.
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  And we can open it up to other things as we look left or right of who God is.
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  And we can begin to find ourselves feeling unloved.
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  That is a trick of the devil. That is a tool he uses, isolation,
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  depression, oppression.
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  These are the things that the devil uses in order to try to get you to not focus
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  on the amazing, incredible, precious love of Jesus.
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  And I'm here tonight to get us back into the center of Romans chapter 8 and
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  to be able to look at who God is.
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  In fact, if you back up just a little bit to verse 28, he says,
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  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,
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  to them who are called according to his purpose.
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  When we understand the incredible love of Christ, when we understand that he
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  has a plan for us to prosper us and to give us a hope and expect it in a wonderful
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  future, his plan isn't just a plan.
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  It's a good plan, and it's for our good and his glory.
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  That's what we're told in Jeremiah 29, 11. When we understand that all that
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  he writes in his scriptures are the promises he has for the people he loves, which is every one of us.
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  These are the things that come about when we really live Proverbs 3,
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  5, 6, and 7, which says to trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not
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  into thine own understanding.
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  In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.
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  Be not wise in thine own eyes.
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  Depart from evil and fear the Lord. Actually says fear the Lord and depart from evil.
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  These are the things that make Romans 8 come alive for us because when we trust
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  him, when we fully embrace him and his plan for our lives,
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  then we understand that regardless of what's going on around us,
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  we are held in the precious nail-scarred hands of Jesus Christ,
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  and everything coming into our path is being sifted through the demonstration
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  of his love, because his hands are nail-scarred to pay the price for our eternity in heaven.
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  There is no greater love. Scripture says no greater love has any man than this,
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  that a man would lay down his life for his friends.
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  And we are his friends.
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  We might have some amazing friends in our lives, and I certainly do.
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  But there is no friend like Jesus. He sticks closer than a brother.
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  He is the great I Am. And he is beside of you, loving you and caring about you.
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  His amazing love will never cease. And so you need to come to the Lord in prayer.
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  And we need to ask him to take captive those thoughts in our head and in our
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  mind that tell us we are unloved, that tell us that we are unworthy. We are precious.
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  We were worthy of the precious blood of Jesus, not because of who we are, but because of who he is.
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  And we are saved from the guttermost to the uttermost because of his amazing, far-reaching love.
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  And John 10, 28 says that no man shall pluck us out of his hand.
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  We are safe, and we are secure, and we are loved beyond measure.
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  And every single day, we must put on that armor of God that he talks about in Ephesians 6.
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  That helmet of salvation covers our brain with the glory of Christ,
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  with the love of God, with the mercy and grace of the Trinity.
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  And when we do that, He'll take captive those thoughts that don't belong there.
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  If you woke up this morning or you walked at any moment in this day thinking
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  God had forsaken you, I promise you he hasn't.
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  He said he would never leave or forsake us in Hebrews 13.5.
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  If you walked through the day thinking that you were unloved,
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  I promise you you're not.
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  John 3.16 says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  I promise you, if you thought you were forgotten, you weren't.
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  Scripture says that he never sleeps nor slumbers, and his eyes are watching
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  to and Sometimes we wait, and.
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  Before he gives us what we are desiring, because sometimes our desires need
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  to be put in the potter's will, and he needs to mold us,
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  and he needs to correct us, and he needs to make us a vessel fit and worthy
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  and capable of holding all the blessings he has for us.
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  He's the potter, and we are the clay.
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  And sometimes the pressure around that he puts, it's uncomfortable. It's awkward.
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  Sometimes it's just simply not what we want, but it's always what we need.
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  His grace is sufficient.
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  He loves us. This I know for the Bible tells me so.
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  And his love is unconditional. except for God so loved the world that he gave
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  his only begotten son, that whosoever, you'll be called a lot of things in your lives.
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  I know I certainly have been, but nothing as precious as a whosoever,
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  because that entitles me to a personal relationship with the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
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  and he loves me so much that he directs my footsteps when I allow him.
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  He loves me so much that he knows the number of hairs on my head.
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  He loves me so much that he knows the intents of my heart.
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  And his word, which was made manifest and dwelt among us, is a discerner.
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  He knows you, and yet he loves you.
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  It never ceases to amaze me that the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
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  he walks with me and he talks with me.
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  In Jeremiah 33, 3, he says, Call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee
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  great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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  He is not just there silent.
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  He is walking beside of you, leading you, guiding you. In John chapter 14 and
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  verse 27, he's bringing to remembrance those things that we have need of when we have need of them.
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  He is comforting us. He is teaching us.
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  He is loving us. He's the light of the world.
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  And when we walk in him, because he says, I am the way, the truth,
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  and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by me.
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  When we walk in those steps that he is leading, he's the way.
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  And when you're there, you're going to have the blessings of God.
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  You're going to walk in his full fellowship, you're going to know the abundant
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  joy he promises in John 10.10.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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  And then he tells us in Romans 8, as I read in your hearing,
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  who shall separate us from the love of God?
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  And then he lists a bunch of things.
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  And then he reminds us, just as we were told that man born of a woman and a.
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  Few days full of trouble, there's tribulation cometh, but be of good cheer,
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  for he has overcome them.
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  And he is greater than is in you than he that is in the world.
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  We are loved beyond measure, and it is a trickery of the devil.
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  It is a lie and deceit of Satan to make you feel otherwise,
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  because he's only got a few things that he can throw at you,
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  and all of them are pieces of weaponry that you've given him because you're
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  speaking into your existence and into your life things that he hears,
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  and he knows how to get your number because he cannot read and understand and
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  hear and know the intents of your heart.
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  That is reserved for Jesus.
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  So don't be talking to him. Don't give him the strategy.
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  You talk to Jesus and ask for faith to overcome because he tells us that we're more than a conqueror.
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  That means we have more than enough to overcome.
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  We are victorious through Christ Jesus. We don't just barely win the battle.
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  We are more than conquerors. We obliterate Satan when we allow God to be the
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  one fighting our battles because the battle's not ours. It belongs to the Lord.
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  David proved this to us as he fought the giant in his life.
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  And he threw the slingshot rock through the slingshot.
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  And it hit the giant in the forehead. and the giant fell forward.
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  If it had been the rock, the stone that he hurled, the giant would have had
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  to have fallen backwards.
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  But he didn't. He fell forward on his face because the rock,
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  Jesus Christ is the rock. He's the firm foundation.
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  We don't fall. He doesn't crumble. He lets us stand upon him. He loves me, this I know.
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  He fights our battles. 1 Samuel 17, 47, David lets us know.
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  In that account, battle's not ours. It belongs to the Lord.
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  He's never lost a battle, and he's not going to start by losing yours.
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  Today, I want you to look at what he says. We're counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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  We don't belong in this world.
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  And the world is never going to understand us.
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  And we're going to be awkward because we're to be peculiar people,
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  zealous of good works. We're not to blend in.
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  And so the world's going to look at us and think that we are weak,
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  but we are strong when we lean on Jesus,
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  us, when we allow the Lord to rise above our pride, when we allow the Lord to take hold of our lives,
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  when we realize that he chose to live in us and greater is he that is in us
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  than he that is in the world,
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  when we understand that we are a vessel for his power to flow through,
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  we are a conduit for the love and the mercy and the grace and the power of God,
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  because he can do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,
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  according to the power that works in us,
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  according to Ephesians 3.20.
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  So we may look like sheep headed to the slaughter, but we are sheep following
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  the shepherd who is taking care of us and loving us.
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  And he loves you so much that he will go after you even when everybody else
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  is in line. He will pull you in.
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  You can't go so far that his hand can't reach you.
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  You are loved and nothing, nothing is going to separate you from that love.
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  So I ask you this.
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  Can you say, I am persuaded that nothing will separate me from the love of God?
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  If you can say that if you believe that if you trust in that.
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  Then there'll be a peace that passes all understanding and a joy unspeakable
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  that fills your heart, floods your soul, and permeates your life.
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  And when troubles come, which they will, you won't try to attack them on your own.
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  You will battle them on your knees.
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  And you will understand that he said, be anxious for nothing.
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  But in everything, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God,
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  and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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  This world is not our home. We are pilgrims just passing through.
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  And I want you to know, we've won.
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  We belong to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. I've read the back of the book. We win.
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  But I'm not waiting to get to heaven. to enjoy my relationship with Jesus,
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  to live a victorious life.
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  No, I refuse to let that roaring lion that walketh about seeking whom he may
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  devour win, because he said I'm more than a conqueror.
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  He said that I'm victorious through him that loves me, Christ Jesus.
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  He said greater as he that is in me than he that is in the world.
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  He said, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.
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  He doesn't just love you. He cares about you. And he's never away from you.
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  And one day, he's coming back.
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  That's what he tells us in John chapter 4. When he says, in my Father's house are many mansions.
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  And if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you,
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  that where I am you may be also.
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  And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.
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  He said, Peace I give you, not as the world giveth you, but I give it to you.
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  So the world didn't give it to you, so the world can't take it away.
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  So tonight stand your ground in the blood of Jesus Christ that's never lost
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  a battle, that's never backed away, been afraid, or been uncertain of what to do.
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  And you plant yourself in the center of God's will, and you ask him to lead you,
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  to guide you, and you keep your eyes completely focused upon Jesus Christ,
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  and you will accomplish more than you can imagine because nothing is impossible to him that believes.
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  And my friends, when you walk hand in hand with Jesus, eyes fixed on him,
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  purposed and determined to do his goodwill and to do his works,
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  to follow his commandments, you'll do miraculous things.
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  Peter did. He got out of the boat and he walked on the water as long as his
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  eyes and his mind was fixed on Jesus. us.
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  But the moment he looked left or right, the moment he employed his logic,
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  the moment he allowed himself to be the one directing what was going, he sunk.
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  But I leave you with this. In 1 John 1.9, he says, if we confess our sins,
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  he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  And Peter, as he was sinking, I like to believe head under, throws his arms
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  up, and he says, Lord, save me.
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  And immediately, Jesus reached down, picked him up, drew him to himself,
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  and carried him to the boat.
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  Friends, you've got to have the confidence to get out of the boat,
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  to know who he is, and to trust him for what he says he is, and live with the
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  assurance that you are loved.
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  There is never a moment, a day, or any event that you are not loved.
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  Jesus loves you. This I know, for the Bible tells me so. Bye.
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