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Living Waters of Grace for May 13th, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  The world system satisfies the desires of the fallen nature.
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  So even though we're Christians, we still deal with sin, right?
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  And we'd be lying if we say that something doesn't affect us at
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  times or attract us. It does.
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  We got to fight against it. The Bible tells us as men to
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  flee youthful us at war against the soul.
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  You have to put yourself in a place that you're not going to
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  be attacked by the world system, but the world system is designed
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  to satisfy the fallen part of your nature, your flesh and your
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  mind. Hey, we're all human, right?
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  We all have cravings and desires.
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  If you're trying to lose weight, you're not going to go hang out
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  in the donut shop or at the ice cream parlor.
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  If you're trying to do a digital detox, you've got to get out
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  into nature, away from technology.
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  In today's message, Pastor Clark expresses to you the importance
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  of being on guard against the sinful system of the world.
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  Don't let the world entice you to compromise your walk with
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  Christ, but steer clear of all of its fleshly lusts.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 18 with
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  In spite of the darkness and this last day of the
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  tribulation, God's glory is going to shine, because the
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  Angel illuminates the earth with his glory, so the darkness can't
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  ever outshine the light. And it talks about this
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  judgment. It says the nations have drunk
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  of the wine for the wrath of her fornication.
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  The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
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  and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the
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  abundance of her luxury. This Joel judgment is spoken
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  about where Babylon is fallen shows that in chapter 17, the
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  ecclesiastical system is fallen with a great harlot we studied
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  about several weeks ago. And now in chapter 18 we see the
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  political financial system becoming affected by what's
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  going on. And Babylon's going to receive
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  double for her many sins. The dwelling place of Satan.
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  There's so many places on the face of the earth today that is
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  the dwelling place of Satan, of demons.
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  I think bars are and nightclubs are the dwelling place of
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  demons. Unfortunately, I attended some
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  of those places after I became a Christian for a while.
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  I knew down deep inside that I shouldn't be in those places
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  because I didn't. I wasn't like that anymore.
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  But you know, through business situations or whatever, I was
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  compelled to go to some of these places at different times.
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  And I'll tell you like it's sense of darkness and what
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  happens as a Christian, if you hang out with people who are in
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  the dwelling place of demons, it will have a tendency to pull you
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  back from the direction that God wants you to go in.
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  It will cause you to go backwards in your spiritual life
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  that we use that word backsliding.
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  And so there's many, many places that are the dwelling place of
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  demons. Now here is a mine which has
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  wisdom. The seven heads are the seven
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  mountains in which the women says this judgement has become
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  the pollution of the whole world.
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  I know you folks that have kids. You love your kids.
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  Some of you have chosen to homeschool them.
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  Some of them you haven't you? You got them in public schools.
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  I'll tell you guys, it's your responsibility to train your
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  kids in the way of the Lord. In these days, you can't depend
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  on anybody else to train your kids up in the way of the Lord.
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  It gives us warning in the Old Testament that the children of
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  Israel were told to teach their kids from the morning when they
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  got up to when they went to bed at night.
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  They would read the word, they would disciple them, they would
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  teach them the ways of God. Unfortunately nowadays, and I'm
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  not saying any, you guys do this, but too many people depend
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  on the Christian School to educate their kids spiritually,
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  or they depend on the church that teach their kids
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  spiritually. And the church has a
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  responsibility to teach everybody from the baby up to
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  the oldest person. But one day a week for 45
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  minutes isn't going to cut it, right?
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  It isn't. It's your responsibility to
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  teach your kids, but what's happening is all this pollution
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  is affecting your children. And if you're not on top of it,
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  when your kids come home from school and you're asking them,
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  well, what is it you learned today about science?
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  Or what is it that they taught you about how the world
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  developed? And you're not circumventing the
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  darkness that's coming in to infiltrate their lives and to
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  cause them to become jaded in regard to the things of God.
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  You're going to have a real problem when they get older and
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  they become adults. The world system that we're in
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  today is opposing Christ and every angle.
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  It exists today to make you and me a slave to its system.
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  And the only thing that can free us from the system is the
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  person. And the power of the Holy Spirit
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  is Christ. And the Father sent him forth to
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  do the work of convicting the world of sin and of
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  righteousness and of judgment. The apostle Paul tells us we're
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  not to be conformed to this world.
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  It's not a suggestion, it's a commandment not to be conformed
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  to this world. One of the easiest way to be
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  conformed to this world is allow that to, to be on 24/7.
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  I, I personally don't see a whole lot that's worthwhile
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  watching on there. It's like a waste.
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  You might think I'm a fanatic, but you know, I still have ATV
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  because my wife still likes watching it, but I, I don't have
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  any interest in that television. It's a waste of time.
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  Tell me one thing that's good on there.
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  Football. That's about it, you know, But
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  the problem is you got to deal with the commercials in between,
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  right? And that's when you go
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  backwards, scantily clad women with the beer commercials and
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  the fancy car commercials. And you know, it's just like,
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  brother, I'll tell you. But you know, the TV is what
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  conforms you subliminally to think the way the world does.
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  It takes your kids and causes them to have a worldview that
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  isn't Christian. It's a worldview that's fallen.
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  And so Paul tells us not to be conformed to this world.
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  The world system satisfies the desires of the fallen nature.
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  So even though we're Christians, we still deal with sin, right?
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  And we'd be lying if we say that something doesn't affect us at
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  times or attract us. It does.
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  We got to fight against it. The Bible tells us as men to
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  flee youthfulness at war against the soul.
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  You have to put yourself in a place that you're not going to
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  be attacked by the world system, but the world system is designed
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  to satisfy the fallen part of your nature, your flesh, and
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  your mind. That's why it's going to be very
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  easy for the Antichrist to deceive the masses in the last
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  days, because he's going to promise them all these
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  possessions. He's going to promise some
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  wealth and prosperity, and everybody's going to have the
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  sense of entitlement. And that's why I keep bringing
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  up through this book, the prosperity gospel that's being
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  preached out there today is a perfect segue into what the
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  Antichrist is going to promise the masses, using the false
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  religious system to get people to be interested in greed and
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  themselves rather than being interested in giving and being
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  sensitive to others. And verses 4 through 8, he hears
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  this voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, lest
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  you share in her sins, unless you receive of her plagues.
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  The Lord saying the sins have reached up to heaven and God has
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  remembered our iniquities. In other words, sin has gotten
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  so high and so much in God's face that there'll be a time
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  when God says that's it, it's over, enough's enough.
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  I'm going to eradicate this blight from civilization and
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  humanity, and it's not going to have control upon people anymore
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  because it's going to be put to death once and for all.
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  Call sin and death one day and the Book of Revelation will be
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  thrown into the lake of fire. And so we see that God's
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  faithfulness and His warning is to the people who are left on
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  the earth at the time of this tribulation.
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  There'll be many people that will come to know Christ during
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  the tribulation, and they can't take the mark of the beast, so
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  they can't buy and do commerce and sell and do business because
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  they don't have the code and the number to get them into the
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  system. So they're going to be like
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  nomads running the earth, hiding out, trying to protect
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  themselves from the internment camps and that kind of stuff.
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  But God is warning the people on the face of the earth at that
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  time that do know him, that are part of his remnant that come
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  out from among these people that are on the face of the earth
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  that are worshipping the fallen world system.
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  And he says come out and be separate.
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  In other words, they have to avoid defilement or they'll
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  become partakers of the sins of the people.
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  And today, some of us might have become defiled by situations and
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  places we've been recently or things we've watched or heard or
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  seen or purchased that have had an ungodly influence in our
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  life, and we need to avoid this defilement.
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  First Timothy chapter 5 says neither.
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  Be partakers of other people's sins.
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  Don't share in other people's sins.
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  Keep yourself pure. Ephesians chapter 5 starting
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  with verse 8, it says for you were once darkness, but now
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  you're light in the Lord walk as children of light.
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  In other words, there was one time all you did was dark
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  things. That's all you thought about.
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  I remember there was a time in my life every day I get up and
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  think, OK, what bad things am I going to do today?
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  I had a whole list of them and it wasn't a good day for me
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  unless I accomplished my list of of sin.
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  It says you once were like that, but now you're light and the
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  Lord walk as children of light. In other words, don't walk the
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  way you used to walk, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all
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  goodness, righteousness, and truth.
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  Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord, what's acceptable
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  to you, Lord, that's my prayer. Now, what is pleasing to you?
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  Not what's pleasing to my fallen nature, the way I used to be.
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  I want to live in a way that's pleasing to the Lord.
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  It says have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness,
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  but rather expose them. And we can't be around darkness
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  any of us. We shouldn't be messing with
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  that stuff. We shouldn't be in places where
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  darkness is being glorified and where people are ignoring the
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  truths of the Kingdom of God. It says don't hang out with
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  them, don't have fellowship with them, rather expose them.
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  If you're going to do anything, preach the gospel, share with
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  people their need of Jesus Christ, he says.
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  It's shameful even to speak of those things which are done to
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  them in secret. But all things that are exposed
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  are made manifest by the light for whatever makes manifest as
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  light. So we're in a place of
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  ungodliness. We're in a place of the
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  unfruitful works of darkness. The Holy Spirit lives in you.
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  If you're a believer, there's light in you that's exposing the
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  darkness. Now, you can try to hide the
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  light. You can try to ignore it like
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  it's not in you and participate in the darkness for a while.
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  But the darkness can't outshine the light.
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  And God will eventually have to chasten you and discipline you
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  and put you in a place in your life that you're going to repent
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  and get back on track again. He says in verse 14, Awake you
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  who sleep arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.
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  See, then you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but
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  as wise. A fool walks in darkness after
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  they become a Christian, redeeming the time because the
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  days are evil. Things are getting worse and
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  darker and worse and darker. Therefore, do not be unwise, but
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  understand what the will of the Lord is.
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  Do not be drunk with wine and which is dissipation, but be
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  filled with the Spirit. Drunkenness is not to be
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  tolerated in the believers life. None of us have a right to get
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  hammered anymore. We shouldn't be doing that.
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  Now I'm not saying you can't have a drink because the Bible
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  doesn't teach that total abstinence, but the Bible is
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  real clear that you're not to be drunk anymore.
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  Amen. And so everybody has to know
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  when they're moving into a place of inebriation and stop.
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  So my job to judge you if you have a glass of wine or you to
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  judge me. But if you see me drinking more
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  than one glass of wine, you have a right to say, Clark, you're
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  heading in a dangerous direction.
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  What the apostles saying here in Revelation isn't just so much
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  for the people that are going to be left here, but where are you
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  today? Are you living as an unwise
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  person? Are you in places of darkness?
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  Are you allowing yourself to participate in things that
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  Christ had to shed his blood and die for and so he's warning them
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  in revelation to be protected as a repent so that they won't have
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  the plagues in verse 8 come upon them in that day that the
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  remnant is spared from the plagues.
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  So what sins will be judged? Well, we've already looked at
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  many of them here we see idolatry.
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  We see in verse 7 it says in the measure that she glorified
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  herself. Pride lifting themselves up in
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  this time, living in a way that is ostentatious is one thing to
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  have wealth is another thing to use your wealth in a wise way.
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  I've known people who are very, very wealthy that live like they
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  have no money, and they use their money in ways that are as
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  wonderful in the sense of helping other people.
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  You know Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, that company is the
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  biggest retail corporation in the world today.
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  When Sam Walton developed his business and became extremely
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  wealthy, he lived in the same modest ranch home.
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  He never sold it. He drove his used pickup truck.
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  He could have bought anything he wanted, but that wasn't how he
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  was wired. He was a fascinating individual
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  and even all the money he had set up for the generations of
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  the family, the kids, the grandkids, the great grandkids
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  that have all come on down the road.
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  He set the trust up so that there was only so much money
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  given to them at certain periods of times in their lives so they
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  wouldn't go out and squander their wealth.
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  Because he knew that the danger of money could cause a lot of
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  problems, as the Scriptures say, in people's lives.
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  So we see here the pride. We also see the the heart of the
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  Church of Jesus Christ and the last days in Matthew 25 prior to
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  the final judgment. Now a lot of people say, well,
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  you know, I'm I'm saved, I'm going to heaven.
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  Well, how do you know why? I pray to prayer and I'm going
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  to, you know, I believe in Jesus, I'm going to heaven.
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  That's all there is. You know, well, thank God for
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  the simplicity of the gospel. But the gospel is much fuller in
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  the sense of what real belief entails.
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  In real belief entails change of conduct.
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  Then I'm not walking in darkness anymore, because if I'm still
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  wanting to walk in darkness, I haven't been converted yet.
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  If my heart still desires the fruitful works of darkness and I
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  want to do those sinful things, Christ hasn't conquered my
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  heart. I'm still rebelling.
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  I'm still lost. I'm still in my sin if that's my
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  main propensity and focus of my everyday life.
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  But this is the final judgement here and this is shocking to a
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  lot of people, says this is the Son of Man who'll come and he's
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  going to judge the nation's. When the Son of Man comes in
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  verse 31 of chapter 25 in his glory and all the holy angels
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  with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
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  Picture this. All of us will see this
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  encounter. All the nations will be gathered
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  before him, and he will separate them from one another as a
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  shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.
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  And he will set the sheep on his right hand.
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  If you're a believer here today, you're sheep, the goats on the
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  left. If you're an unbeliever or a
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  poser or a phony, you're on the left.
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  And the king will say to those on his right hand, Come, you
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  blessed it of my father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you
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  from the foundation of the world.
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  Listen to this. I was hungry and you gave me
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  food. I was thirsty and you gave me
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  drink. I was a stranger and you took me
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  in. I was naked and you clothed me.
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  I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to
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  me. And the righteous will answer
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  and say, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or
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  thirsty and give you a drink? When did we see you as a
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  stranger, and take you in or naked and clothe you?
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  Or when did we see you sick or in prison, and come to you?
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  And the King will answer and say to them, assuredly, I say to
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  you, in as much as you did it unto one of these, the least of
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  these, my brethren, you did it to me.
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  So in a church what we do is for one another, right?
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  It's Christchurch, and everything we're trying to do as
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  a body of believers is for the sake of people that don't know
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  him yet, for the sake of people who do know him, to help our
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  missionaries get the gospel out to the ends of the earth.
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  When there's a need presented, we're involved in meeting that
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  need because everything that we do in the microscope of God's
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  judgment, when God sees are we living for the sake of others?
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  Many say to those on the left, depart from you cursed into
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  everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
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  For I was hungry and you gave me no food.
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  I was thirsty and you gave me no drink.
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  I was a stranger. You did not take me in.
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  I was naked. You did not clothe me.
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  I was sick and in prison. You did not visit me.
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  And they will answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you
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  hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or
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  in prison, or did not minister to you?
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  And he will answer them, saying, assuredly, I say to you, And as
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  much as you did not do it to the one, the least of these, you did
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  not do it to me. And these will go away at the
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  everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.
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  So the world system is either compelling you to move away from
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  it. So you take what it is that
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  God's allowed you to have and prosper you with.
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  And you pray and you say, Lord, what's the decisions you have
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  for me? What missionaries am I going to
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  help? What person is going to show me
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  they have a need? And I'm either going to ignore
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  them and blow them off whenever I have enough to take care of
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  that need and I'm going to walk away.
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  Or I'm going to use what it is and God's going to put it in my
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  heart to say, God, Clark, help that person or do this or do
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  that, that be sensitive to that situation that's being
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  disconnected from the world system.
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  The world system, though, is telling you no, you can't do
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  that. You're a fool.
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  You don't know that person. You don't know what they're
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  going to do with this or that. All this skepticism and all this
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  fear and trying to hoard everything you have for yourself
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  and where's it going to end? It says these will go away into
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  everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.
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  So what's the priorities of our stewardship in this world system
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  today? The plagues are going to come.
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  The entire economic empire, the Antichrist is going to collapse.
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  The remnant are going to rejoice to God's righteous judgment.
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  But what about you and me today? Where are we with this system
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  that we're still influenced by? Jesus talks about the importance
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  of laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven in Matthew
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  6. Do not lay up for yourselves
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  treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where
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  thieves break in and steal. But lay up for yourselves
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  treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys,
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  and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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  So I have to say to myself today, as we begin to conclude
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  in regards to the world system, I can teach this stuff, I can
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  talk about it, I can exhort you, but I need to exhort myself.
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  Where's my stewardship? Where's my heart affections?
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  Where's my priorities? Does God own what I have?
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  Do I surrender my life to God, every part of it, everything I
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  have, everything that is mine, or does it have a hold on me?
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  Does my stuff have a hold on me? Am I giving more allegiance to
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  the present world system? Is my treasure you Jesus, or is
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  it the treasures of this present earth?
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  What is it that you and I are putting our focus upon as we
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  live our lives today? The last thing I want you to
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  look at is Second Corinthians chapter 6, because these things
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  are going to happen. When they do happen, if we're
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  with him already, we're still going to have to give an account
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  for what we did with our lives. And the Lord will say, well, you
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  know, you believed in me, you trusted in me.
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  You're in the Kingdom and the Bible says that some of us will
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  be saved as oh by fire. I don't want to find out what
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  that means. I hope you don't either.
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  Doesn't sound good. It's good to be saved, but it's
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  the be saved by as oh by fire. Sounds like this is skin of our
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  teeth and we were on the edge of being cast into the fire.
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  The Second Corinthians chapter 6 tells us here again, the warning
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  that I read about at the Lord's Supper.
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  Allow the Lord to deal with your hearts, all of us, and allow the
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  Lord to separate from your heart what might be there that is
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  causing you to be tied into the world too much.
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  But the Lord deal with that stuff and he'll, he'll help you
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  to be free from it. He'll lift it off of you.
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  He'll put things in priority and he'll put things in place in
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  your life. You know, the cost of
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  selfishness and the cost of greed affects your marriage, it
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  affects your kids, it affects your relationship with the
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  people you work with, the people you're concerned about, your
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  burden for. There's no power outside of
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  yieldedness to God. And God wants us to yield to
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  him, all of us. How much does he want of my
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  life? He wants it all.
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  And that's something that I have to look at in my own life every
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  day. Every day I have to fight
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  against the pressures of the world.
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  Every day I have to make a decision what I'm going to do
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  with my checkbook. Every day I have to make a
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  decision what I'm going to do with what God trusts me with.
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  And it's, it's, it's not easy guys, as you all know, if you're
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  honest, but you know, prayer is a wonderful place to come
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  because we can say, Lord, help me to understand the dynamics of
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  this place. I live in this earth that the
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  ancient Israelites said wasn't their home.
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  They were looking for a city whose builder and maker was God.
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  It says they dwelt in tents as temporal dwellers, as
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  sojourners, as nomads, not putting roots down in this world
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  because they were looking for a city whose builder and maker was
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  God. And the church today is so
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  anemic and so weak because believers have chosen to give
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  allegiance to the world system instead of the Kingdom of God.
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  And the Bible says in the last days that we're to come out from
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  among that kind of living and that kind of concept and be
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  separate. It says judgment has to 1st
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  begin with us and us meaning the House of God, but that we would
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  listen to what Paul says when he says what agreement has the
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  temple of God. That's you with idols if there's
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  idols in your life and lay them at the feet of Jesus so he can
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  smash them and pull you out of the bondage that they've allowed
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  to control your life. For you are the temple, the
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  living God. As God has said, I will dwell in
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  them and walk among them. I will be their God and they
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  shall be my people. Oh, may we be able to say that
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  today that He is our God and we are His people.
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  Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.
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  Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you.
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  If you're touching unclean stuff.
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  Stop it today, deal with it today, and walk out with a firm
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  conviction by the power of the Holy Spirit that from this day
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  forward you're not messing with certain things that you were
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  messing with. I will be a father to you and
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  you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord
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  Almighty. Therefore, having these
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  promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
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  filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in
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  the fear of God. His has been Living Waters of
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  Grace With Pastor Clark, we're going through the challenging
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  and also intriguing Book of Revelation.
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  Whether you're a fan of reading ahead in books of fiction,
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  there's such a benefit to reading ahead in the Bible to
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  read about how it all ends. But in an interesting turn of
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  events, the Book of Revelation is not really the end, but
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  rather the beginning. It's the end of life as we know
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  it here on earth. But there's so much to look
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  forward to for what comes after all the judgement of the earth
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  and those who reject God. There's a lot to work through,
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  and it can be heartbreaking to read through the intense
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  judgements and wrath that will come on those who hate God with
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  all their might. The thing is, God has given
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  chance upon chance to these people.
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  They don't want it. So the outcome is that there are
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  judgements and consequences for those who've rejected the good
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  news and the gift of salvation that's offered through Jesus's
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  death and resurrection. Are you one who has heard about
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  these things but doesn't really want it because you want to live
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  life on your terms? Trust me, living for Jesus is so
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  much better. That doesn't mean it will be
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  easy. As you listen and read through
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  Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark realization that you
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  don't want to be on earth when the apocalypse happens.
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  So check out Calvary Chapel online.com to learn how to come
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  to a saving grace through faith that will allow you to be with
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  Jesus for eternity. We'd also love to meet you in
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  person at Calvary Chapel Westmoreland.
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  Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh St., Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA
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  15601. This has been living Waters of
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  Grace.