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Sunday Message: Tackling Ten Timeless Truths, Part 7 · CCC West Covina

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True with me, if you would to Hebrews chapter 13, as we seek
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to tackle and the treasure 10 Timeless truths.
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If you've been with us, we began a few weeks ago.
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Look at Hebrews 13, verse number one.
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And there we learned that we need to respond with love to the
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needs of others. That was verses 1 to 3.
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Verse number 4, need to reaffirm your loyalty to marriage.
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That was the second truth. You need to tackle and to
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treasure number three was to resist.
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The love of Of money. That's verses 5 and 6.
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Verse number 7, you need to remember your leaders and follow
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their example. Number five is found in verse
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number 8 and that is to relish the unchangeable character of
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our great God, Jesus Christ, Our Lord.
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And then number six was last week and that was refused to
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listen to wrong teaching. Today, is is number seven.
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And that is, you need to realize the importance of separation
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from the world. Realize the importance of
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separation from the world and that's in verses 10 to 14.
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Let me read them to you. It says verse number 10, we have
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an altar from which those who serve the Tabernacle have no
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right to eat for the bodies of those animals.
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Whose blood is brought into the holy place, by the high priests,
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as an offering for sin are burned, outside the camp.
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Therefore Jesus also that he might sanctify the people
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through his own blood suffered outside the gate.
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So let us go out to him outside the camp.
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Bearing, his reproach for here, we do not have a lasting City,
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but we are seeking the city, which is To come.
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Now, you read that. You think what on Earth is he
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trying to say How do you get the principal realize the importance
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of separation from the world out of those four verses?
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Well, remember, we're not Jewish.
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If we were we'd really have no problem understanding what he's
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saying, but, because we're not, we need to kind of come to grips
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with what he's trying to get across to this Hebrew audience.
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What is he saying? Well one of the keys is the
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phrase outside, the camp. Verse 11, verse 12 outside, the
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gate verse number 13 outside the camp.
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So whatever is on the outside is different from what's on the
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inside and so there's a separation there.
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And what is that separation? What does he want us to
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understand? When you think about it?
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And you And Jewish history. It's not that difficult.
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The problem is, if you read different commentators on this,
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you'll get a variety of different interpretations of it.
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I'm not going to go through all those with you this morning.
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We wouldn't have enough time to do that, but let me just give
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you what I believe the writer is trying to say.
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He gives us an illustration that he gives us an exhortation and
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then it gives us the motivation. Okay?
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So if you can just remember those three points when it comes
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to realizing our need the importance of separation from
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the world, there's an Tration, there's an exhortation and then
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there's a motivation. What is the illustration?
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Well, look at verse 10, we have an altar.
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Who's we? The Jewish Nation?
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We have an altar, they know the altar in the temple, the new of
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the altar, in the, in the Tabernacle, they knew of the
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altar, in the tent of meeting, we have an altar, from which
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those who serve the Tabernacle have no right to eat.
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Well, who's that? Well, read on for the bodies of
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those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by
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the high priest, as an offering for sin are burned outside.
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The camp. So there is a an offering which
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cannot be eating eaten and what is the only offering that the
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priest could not eat? It was the offering offered on
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the day of atonement the offering which once the animals
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were sacrificed, the blood was sprinkled in the holy of holies
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on The Mercy Seat. The carcasses of those animals
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were taken outside the city outside the camp, and they were
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burned. Why, why is it?
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The high priest could partake of any other offering offered, but
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on the day of atonement, he can partake of this offering.
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Which was offered instead, it had to be taken outside the camp
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and burned because it happened on the day of atonement the day
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in which the high priest would go in and offer sacrifice for
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the sins of the people anticipating their sins in the
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new year and looking for forgiveness of sins from the
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previous year. And the reason they took those
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animals outside the city in the burned them was because it
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symbolized a separation. There's our keyword from their
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sin. In other words, I'm offering a
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sacrifice on behalf of my family on behalf of the nation for
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their sins. And there needs to be a
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separation of my life from that sin.
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So there was great, shame in great reproach upon those
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carcasses that were burned because of symbolized me, truly,
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repented of my sin. I want nothing else to do with
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that sin, I'm going to separate myself from that sin.
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The blood sacrifice has been offered.
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My sins have been covered, therefore, I don't want to go
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back into that sin. That's why the carcasses were
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taken outside the city. And they were burned.
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Then he says this. Therefore verse 12.
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Jesus also. Jesus.
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Also that he might sanctify the people through his own blood
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suffered outside the gate. Now we know that Jesus suffered
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outside the gate because outside the Damascus gate is Mount
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Calvary, the place of the skull with crucifixion took place in
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Christ was crucified outside the gate, but Christ also was
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rejected like the sacrifice the carcasses that were burned were
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rejected. So Christ to was rejected by
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those of the Jewish Nation. And he was crucified outside the
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gate, but the problem is Christ was the Fulfillment of
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everything, the Old Testament offering pictured.
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Christ was the Fulfillment because he was the one sacrifice
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that once offered would not just cover the sins but remove all
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their sins. So Christ was the Fulfillment of
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what the day of atonement was pointing to so as they would
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reject the carcasses and burn the carcasses to separate
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themselves from their sin, Jesus himself was also crucified
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outside the gate that's where he suffered and he did it very the
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reproach of the people he did it bearing, the sins of the people
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But yet, they not not only just removed themselves or rejected
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the carcasses of those that were burned or that were sacrificed.
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They rejected the one fulfillment of what all the Old
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Testament pointed to and they wanted nothing to do with him.
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So he tells them, therefore, Jesus also that he might
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separate. If I make holy the people
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through his own blood, he suffered outside the gate,
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otherwise he's taking them back to the fact that this is a
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fulfillment of New, Covenant promise that everything that the
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old Covenant pointed to Christ fulfilled it.
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But yet you rejected him they says this.
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So let us go out to him outside. The camp.
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Now, think about this in the book of Exodus, Exodus chapter
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33 33. Moses moved the tent of meeting
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from inside the camp, Two outside the camp.
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Okay, Israel had committed idolatry immorality.
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Israel had said we will obey all that.
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The law says, but Moses was taking too long to come down
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from the mountain and so they they took their jewelry and they
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made this molten calf as golden calf and began to worship the
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golden calf and the Lord was incensed with them.
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And so he took the tent of meeting and moved it outside the
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camp of Israel. And so if you wanted to approach
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God you couldn't approach him inside the camp.
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He had approached him outside the camp.
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It's what Moses was. Go outside the camp to the tent
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of meeting and the glory of the Lord would come down and the
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people would go outside their tents and stand.
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And observe Moses was outside, Moses was separated from those
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who are inside the camp and the only way to approach God was to
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approach him outside the camp not inside the camp because
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inside was a reminder of idolatry and immorality on the
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outside is reminder of Holiness and purity.
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So the writer of Hebrews is right, these people who know all
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this. See they get it.
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We don't know all this but they do.
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They knew what happened on the day of atonement.
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They knew why the carcasses were burned outside the city.
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They knew they wanted nothing else to do with their sin,
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although they would commit the same sins.
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Again, it was symbolic of separate themselves from their
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sin. They knew that Christ was
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crucified outside the gate. They knew that the Jewish people
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rejected him as their Messiah, okay?
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Even though he was the Fulfillment as a right if he was
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instead, Throughout the previous 12 chapters, he was the
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Fulfillment of the New Covenant yet.
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They rejected him as they rejected the carcasses.
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And they wanted nothing to do with him, but he was the atoning
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sacrifice for their sins. So now he says, listen you need
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to go outside the camp. Need to approach this one Christ
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need to go to him. Now, when you think about the
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context of everything you realize that member last week,
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he said these words in verse number 9, he says do not be
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carried away by varied and strange doctrines or teachings
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for his good for the heart. Art to be strengthened by Grace,
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not by Foods. Look, it's not your dietary
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laws. It's not your ceremonial laws,
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they're going to strengthen you. He says through which those who
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were so occupied were not benefited.
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In other words, they don't benefit you anymore.
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When Christ came, the ceremonial laws were done away, with all
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those rituals were done away with the only law that stands is
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the moral law of God. And Christ came to fulfill the
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law of the prophets. And now just like those dietary
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laws, don't benefit you but you need to be strengthened by his
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grace. So to nothing inside the gate,
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nothing inside the camp is going to benefit you.
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You have to approach the one outside the camp.
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The one that was crucified for your sins, the one who bore your
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reproach in his body that you might be set free from your sin,
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you are to approach him outside the camp.
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And that's what he's trying to say.
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It's an illustration, it's no stration of being separate from
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the world system being separated from legalism being separated
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from ceremonialism, being separated from your judicial,
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Judy istic practices, and come all the way to Christ to worship
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him, and to adore him. It's all about separation.
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And then he says this. So let us go out to him outside
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the camp bearing. His Reproach.
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Bearing his reproach. There's something unique about
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that separation. And that separation cause you to
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Bear the reproach of Christ. Remember, Moses talked about him
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months ago, he was 11. It says these words verse 26,
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that Moses considering the reproach of Christ greater
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riches than the treasures of Egypt.
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Other words to Bear. The reproach of Christ was a
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greater treasure than all the treasures in Egypt.
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Moses recognize that. So here is the writer of Hebrews
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going back to that helping you understand that when you go out
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to Christ, when you approached him on his terms, his way his
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time, the one who bore your sin, now you're able to go to him and
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when you do You will suffer along with him.
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Why? Because that's what Christianity
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is. It's taking up your cross and
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following Christ. It's bearing.
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The reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of
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anything else. So important to understand, so
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he gives us exhortation. If you want to approach Christ,
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you separate yourself from the world system, you separate
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yourself from all. That's that's keeping you from
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being totally committed to your God.
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I thought about that and I thought to myself.
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Wow. How many times do we let the
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world take control of Our Lives? Over the years, I've told you.
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Very simply. That you can't care about the
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things of the world. Because once you begin to care
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for the things of the world, you will soon become companioned
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with the things of the world. James 4:4 he who is a friend of
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the world is an enemy of God. So many times, we are so
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concerned about the world, we're we care so much about the things
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of the world. I'm not talking about the world.
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In terms of its physicality, I'm talk about the world.
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In terms of its its influence, And having it attitude of
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worldliness. The Bible says that the world is
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passing away and the lust thereof.
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He doesn't will of God, abides forever Christ said in sync with
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these chicks, come out from among them and be separate.
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Crisis, always called us a separation.
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He died to sanctify us. He died, two, separate us for
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the world system. We are in the world, but we're
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not to be of the world. Remember Lot's, wife.
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In Luke's gospel, he tells us remember Lot's wife.
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Why? Because you see a lot of this
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family. They were.
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They love Sodom. That's why they were there.
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And the angel said, you got to go because the Lord's going to
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story Sodom but but they weren't moving.
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So the angel had to grab them and remove them from Sodom
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physically remove them. From Sodom and we know from
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Peters account that lot was a righteous man.
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We would have never known that. Had Peter not told us that but
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he was a righteous man and God removed him.
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The angel remove them from Sodom and said to them, do not look
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back. Don't look back.
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Look straight ahead, move on, get out.
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But Lot's wife, she couldn't resist the temptation.
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She couldn't, she couldn't come to grips with the fact that
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everything that she had in Sodom, she would have no more
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her hairdresser. Her mole, her shoes.
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Everything she ever wanted was all in Sodom, is she couldn't
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bear the fact that it was all going to be destroyed.
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And so even though I said Don't Look Back.
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Lot's wife. She couldn't she just couldn't
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resist. She turned and looked back with,
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probably a tinge of of paying in her heart and tears, in her eyes
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that she lost everything. She was immediately turned into
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a pillar of salt. The Bible says remember Lot's
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wife as she cared for the things of the world.
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And when you care for the things of the world, you soon will be
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companioned with the things in the people of the world.
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And if you become companioned with the things of the world,
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you will become contaminated by the things of the world.
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You will James 1 verse number 27.
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James makes it very clear that pure and undefiled religion in
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the sight of God and Father, is this to visit orphans and widows
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in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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Unstained by the world. But you see if you care for it.
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You're gonna be companion with it.
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You'll become a friend of the world. and if you become
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companion with the world, you'll be contaminated.
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By the world. If you're contaminated by the
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world. You'll be conformed to the
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world. What does Paul say in Romans
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chapter 12? And be not conformed to this
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world? But be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind. How many people that, you know?
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Care so much about the things of the world that they dabble in
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the things, the world and soon they become contaminated by
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those things. Because they became a friend of
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the world. And because they were
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contaminated, all of a sudden, everything about them becomes
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conformed to the world. The jokes they tell.
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The words, they use the way they dress, the places they go.
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To become so mold into the world's image instead of
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Christ's image. And those who care.
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For the world. And become companion by the
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world. And become contaminated by the
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world and conform to the world. Our soon controlled by the world
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and we're Dimas 2nd, Timothy 4 verse number 10.
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He has left me. Paul says why because of his
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love for The world. His love for the world.
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And he was controlled by it. So, if that's the case, If you
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don't become convicted. You'll be condemned along with
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the world. First Kings. 11:32 Paul says,
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when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord are
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disciplined by the Lord, that we should not be condemned along
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with The world. But when the writer of Hebrews
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says, listen. You know, we have an altar.
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You know what took place on that altar?
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On the day of atonement. And their priests were not
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allowed to eat of that offering, because that offering was a sin
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offering. And when that was taken care of
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in the blood was sprinkled on The Mercy Seat, you took that
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offering you took that carcass, you took it outside the camp and
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you burned it because you want to nothing to do with you want
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to separate yourself from that sin and likewise Christ.
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He was the Fulfillment of all that the day of atonement
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pointed to but she rejected him as well. and he went out
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bearing, the reproach of the people Bearing the sins of the
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people so that so that you will be separated Sanctified by his
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blood. For without the shedding of
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blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
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So here's your expectation. You want to approach him.
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You need to approach him in a way that you are outside the
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camp. Bearing, his reproach.
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In other words outside the world system outside the legalists
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system outside. All those things that are
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tempting to control you and contaminate you that you might
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be conformed to those things. Remove yourself from those
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things and go to him. Refuse.
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Refuse to engage in sinful behavior and realize the
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importance of separation from the world. for, when you do,
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You'll bear the reproach of Christ.
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You will. Because Paul said those who
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desire to live Godly in Christ, Jesus will suffer persecution
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Christ. That if they persecuted me,
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they're going to persecute you. Christ said, take up your cross
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and follow me. Paul said, he wanted to learn
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The Fellowship of the Lord's suffering.
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In the motivation for all this verse 14. for here, we do not
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have a lasting City, but we are seeking the city which is to
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come What's the motivation to going to Christ?
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What's the motivation to separate yourself from the
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world? This world is passing away, but,
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but you have a city, that's an eternal City and 12.
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It was a, it was a kingdom. That was an unshakable Kingdom
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right here. It's a city, same city that, and
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he was 11, Abraham looked to then Abraham anticipated, whose
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architect and Builder was God himself.
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What motivated, Abraham that lasting City, what motivated?
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Moses, it tells us, he was 11. He chose rather to endure Rio
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treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the passing
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pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater
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riches than the treasures of Egypt for he was looking to the
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reward. For by faith.
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He left Egypt, not fearing the Wrath of the king for he endured
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as seeing him who is unseen. You see, he was able to perceive
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the invisible. Because he preferred the
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imperishable. He preferred the reproach of
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Christ as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt.
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Therefore he can endure as seeing him who is unseen.
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The right if he was comes back to that and says, listen, here's
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your motivation. This is all passing away.
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It's all going off the scene. It's not going to last. if you
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keep seeking the city which is before you the Unseen city of
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God, the heavenly Jerusalem, the opportunity to bring the
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presence of God forever. That'll keep you.
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Keep you motivated. It's always the motivation in
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Scripture. Always motivation member the
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clearer. You see the future?
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The cleaner you stand in the presence.
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That was all through the Book of Daniel.
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Right. Daniel saw the future.
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God gave him visions of the future.
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You're hard-pressed to find anybody in the scriptures
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cleaner than Daniel. Percy, clearly perceive the
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future. He could stand clean in the
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present, it's always the motivation.
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Keep seeking those things which are above not below, right seek.
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Ye first, the kingdom of God and all these things will be added
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unto you. Everything is about searching
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for that, which is imperishable that, which is eternal.
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That, which is filled with the glory of the Lord.
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So, A truth. You must tackle.
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And you must treasure is to realize the importance of
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separation from the world. That's number seven.
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Let me give you a number eight. Two in one day.
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Hold on there. And that is return all glory and
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praise to the Lord. Return all glory and praise to
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the Lord verse number 15 through him.
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Then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God.
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That is the fruit of lips that give thanks to his name and do
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not neglect, doing good and sharing for with such
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sacrifices, God is pleased. Now, listen carefully.
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If you're a Jew. And you're converted to
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Christianity. One of the questions you're
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going to ask is. I've been offering sacrifices
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all my life. What sacrifices now do I offer?
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He tells me, first of all, you offer the sacrifice of yourself.
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By not associated Association associated with the things of
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the world. And then you, you offer
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sacrifice of song. And then you offer a sacrifice
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of substance. In other words, you offer
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sacrifice of your person, right? I beseech, you, therefore
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Brethren by the mercies of God, that you offer yourself a
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sacrifice unto God, right? Well to do that.
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You're going to Bear the reproach of Christ to do that.
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You're going to separate yourself from the world.
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He goes on to say and be not conformed to this world, but be
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transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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That's, that's Romans 12:1 and 2.
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So there's the sacrifice of person, then the second Vice of
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praise and then there's a sacrifice of your purse where
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your money is. We are substance is see, he's
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telling them, they're still a sacrifice.
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Everything that Christ did fulfilled Old Testament,
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promised everything Christ. Did he came to show you that?
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He fulfilled. All of that.
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Through his one. Sacrifice on calvary's Cross.
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But yet there's still a sacrifice, you offer.
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In the first sacrifices yourself.
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You don't want to be conformed to the world.
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You'll be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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You want to, you want to separate yourself from the world
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and sacrifice of myself as unto God.
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If you don't do that. You won't offer sacrifice of
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praise and you certainly won't offer sacrifice of your purse.
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You see people meeting, the needs of others is easy, when
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they've already sacrificed themselves.
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But sacrificing for the needs of others is very difficult if I'm
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unwilling to sacrifice myself. For God's purposes for God's
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glory. So, you return all glory and
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praise to the Lord by offering a sacrifice of praise to his name.
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Specific substrate wives, you don't know what circumstances,
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you know, my situation, you know how bad things are for me?
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No, I don't but God knows and you hear people say it all the
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time, you know, I'm like I'm like job.
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I'm going through all this Affliction and all this
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difficulty and my answer to that is no no.
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You haven't read the book of job.
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If you think you're like job, you haven't read the book.
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If you read the book, you can realize you're nothing like Joe,
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because jobs the epitome of suffering and affliction.
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Beyond anything we could ever imagine.
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Yet, he honored and glorified his God, and praise His name.
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And so, we too are to offer sacrifice of praise continually
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says perpetually. Repeatedly.
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Listen, if you are constantly offering a sacrifice of praise,
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there is no room left. For you to grumble.
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If you're continually offering a sacrifice of Thanksgiving to
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God, there's no room for you to speak, bitterness and anger.
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And Grumble and murmur and complain.
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Because your mouth is filled with praise.
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That's a sacrifice. because if you look at our lives, They're
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not necessarily characterized by Praise.
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The characterized by all sorts of things.
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And yes, important that we realize.
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That we offer a sacrifice of praise unto God.
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Continually. Repeatedly.
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All the time. We should do this on a regular
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basis. We should praise him in the
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midst of your Affliction as bad as it is.
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You can say, Lord, I Thank you that I'm not like job.
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And I haven't lost everything. I thank you that I'm not like
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Joe but I can't sleep at night. I think about why I'm not like
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Joe because I don't I have the Affliction but I don't have all
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the loss associated with the Affliction Lord.
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I Thank you that that I'm not like Joe because I don't have
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friends like Joe had. I have good friends.
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I have a church. I have a support system.
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People that were pray for me people that will love on me,
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people that were bringing meals. You've been had that But I think
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it works for what you've done. To give praise to his name.
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And he talks about offering. A substance to people.
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Neglect, doing good and sharing for with such brats sacrifices.
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God is pleased. The great to be able to, please
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the Lord. Don't you want to please him?
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When you sacrifice your person, your praise and your purse, he's
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pleased. Because you're putting him Above
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All Else. You're returning glory and
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praise to his name. And that's what God wants us to
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do. Isaiah 43, 21.
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The people I have formed for myself.
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They will declare my praise. It's not optional, it's going to
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happen. The people I have formed for
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myself, they will declare my praise.
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That's just what they do. That's who they are.
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Their people appraise, read the songs, right?
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The song was over and over again.
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It is good to give, thanks unto the Lord.
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It is good to give praise to the Lord.
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It is good to give. Thanks to the Lord over and over
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and over, and over again. Effect.
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Psalm 33 says this seeing for joy in the Lord O you righteous
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ones for praise is becoming to the upright, it's fitting for
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the upright. It is beautiful.
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For the upright, what makes the person beautiful?
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Their praise. You ever been around a
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complainer? You're not very pretty.
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Your medicine is bitter. They're not very beautiful.
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But should be around someone who praises the Lord and glorify his
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name and lifts his name up on high.
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That's a beautiful person. You want to be around that
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person. You want to hang out with that
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person? Because they see God in every
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situation and every circumstance.
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Praise is befitting be coming. Is beautiful.
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For the upright. As you think about this week in
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passion week in the sacrifice of Christ outside the gate.
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And how he would bear the sins of the people.
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In his body. He did that.
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So that his sacrifice would allow you to be able to receive
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the beauty of his, his gift of salvation.
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And she might be set free from your sin.
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She might learn to praise him. And give yourself to him. and I
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wonder how many of us today sitting here can actually say I
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do want to be separate from the world.
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I don't want the world to control my mind and my, my
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actions. I don't want to be controlled by
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a worldly system, that's narcissistic and is antagonistic
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toward my God. I want to stand firm for him.
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Remember what Peter says the first Peter 4?
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Therefore, since Christ has suffered In the Flesh, which he
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did arm yourselves also with the same purpose.
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Because he who has suffered In the Flesh has ceased from sin.
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So as to live the rest of the time in the flesh, no longer for
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the lust of men, but for the will of God For the time already
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past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of
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the Gentiles. Having pursued past tense, a
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course of sensuality lusts, drunkenness carousing drinking
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parties and abominable idolatries and all this, they
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are surprised. That you do not run with them in
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the Saint excess of dissipation. And they malign you.
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My testimony. What a testimony that the people
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used to hang around with? The things you used to do with
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them. You don't do anymore.
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Why? Because of Christ's sacrifice on
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the cross. And you gave your life to
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Christ. And your friends malign you.
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And rightly. So, Because you went outside the
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gate. With outside the city outside
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the camp. You left the worldly system.
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You left a legalistic system? You left every human system in
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went to the Living. God, And gave your life to him.
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And now your life is filled with sacrifice.
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Sacrifice of myself and all of my song and all of my substance
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it's all about God, praising his name.
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Glorify his name returning, all glory to him, because you're
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consumed with his glory, not your own, your consumed, with
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his sacrifice, your consumed, with his finished work on the
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cross. You're consumed with his honor.
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Now, your honor. It will cost you.
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Maybe not right away. but if you stay true to the Lord, And love
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him, unconditionally and serve him with a whole heart and a
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ready mind. Those who are not into that.
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Well, they're going to malign you.
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Now, what happened? but the good thing is, there's a
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city. A city in which you are a
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citizen of. You're going to citizen of
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America. Or California.
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Or Los Angeles. You just live here.
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You have another citizenship. Your sister ships in glory.
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We are citizens of another country.
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We are truly aliens and strangers in a foreign land.
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Do you act as if America's foreign land to you?
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You act as if the city you live in is a foreign city.
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Because you don't speak the language of the people in the
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city. You don't live the life of the
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people in the city. You know, the Life of Christ.
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when people see you like, they would see anybody from another
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country in this land of ours, they would see you as completely
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different Because the language you speak.
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Not the language they speak. The life you live is not the
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life, they live. Why?
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Because you are a citizen of the great city of God, you're a
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child of the Living. God, Over the years, I told you
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umpteen times. My parents used to always say to
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me, when I left the house, remember who you are?
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And what you are. You're a child of the king?
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Live like a child of the king. Dress like a child of the king
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speak like a child of the king. Because the king is watching.
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I pray that would be us today. Let's pray together.
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Father, we thank you Lord, for all you do.
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You are the king. The king of glory.
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I pray for everyone in the room. The pull of the world is great.
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It's so strong. Parents trying to raise their
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children today. Realizing that their friends are
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of the world. And they pulled her children in
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different directions. I pray that you give us
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strength. And the grace we need to stand
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strong when the precepts of your word. to live for you and honor
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you to instruct our children in the ways of God, that they might
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perceive the city of God, Live with the motivation to honor and
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glorify their God. I pray.
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Father for those in the room were struggling.
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With the things of the world. That Lord, they would treat them
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as if they're burned carcasses and want to separate themselves
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from any kind of reminder of their sin.
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Separate them. Then I live unto Christ and your
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glory. And Lord.
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We always pray for those in our midst.
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To do not know you. It could be any number of
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people, we don't know. Only, you know that?
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And we pray and work for them. They realize you're need to go
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outside of the city of the camp of worldliness.
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Embrace Christ as their savior. Their Messiah, the deliverer.
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The true God, the true and living God.
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Then I live for you. In Jesus name, amen.