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Episode 226 - Salty Shining Lights · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, omnipotent, who
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  Speaker 1: reigns forever and ever. Great is the Lord, greatly to
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  Speaker 1: be praised, from the rising of the sun to the
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  Speaker 1: going down of the same. The name of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is to be praised. He alone is worthy, the Lamb
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  Speaker 1: who was slain, to receive riches and glory and honor
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  Speaker 1: and power, both now and forever. He reigns. reigns supreme
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: end time revival ministries usa podcast i am your host
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  Speaker 1: pastor al zachary and again we as always are grateful
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  Speaker 1: to the lord for his new mercies his faithfulness his
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  Speaker 1: long-suffering his graciousness kindness compassion forgiveness His great love wherewith
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  Speaker 1: He loved us while we were yet sinners and enemies
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  Speaker 1: of God, haters of God, the Bible tells us. But God,
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  Speaker 1: who is rich in mercy, He loved us with an
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  Speaker 1: everlasting love and He called us to this great hope
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  Speaker 1: and salvation that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And
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  Speaker 1: we are forever thankful and we count it a privilege
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  Speaker 1: to be a spokesman, an ambassador. Amen. A witness, a martyr. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We lay down our lives in deference to the one
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  Speaker 1: who gave himself for us so that we would have
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  Speaker 1: life and have it more abundantly. So we rejoice in
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  Speaker 1: this great hope in which we stand and we look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that day when the Lord shall return for
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  Speaker 1: his people. Amen. And forever, the Bible tells us, We
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  Speaker 1: shall be with the Lord. Amen. We are to take
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  Speaker 1: comfort in that while we, amen, sojourn through this land. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: As pilgrims and strangers here, count it all joy, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us, when we fall into diverse temptations. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Lord knows how to deliver. He has promised
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  Speaker 1: and he will deliver his people today. out of all
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  Speaker 1: of their troubles. Amen. All right. God bless you again.
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  Speaker 1: We thank God for each and every one of you
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  Speaker 1: who pray for and or support the work of this ministry. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you, maybe perhaps through your prayers. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you also perhaps through your sharing this podcast with others. Amen. However,
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  Speaker 1: And there are certainly those who give financially. We don't
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  Speaker 1: tout that. We don't even advertise it necessarily. But there
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  Speaker 1: are those who give also, have given to support, amen,
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  Speaker 1: whatever costs we have associated with disseminating, amen, this, amen, ministry, amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we want to do it, amen. increasingly, especially as
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  Speaker 1: we see the day of the Lord approaching, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: we are in the last of the last days. And
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  Speaker 1: we pray that the word of the Lord will have
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  Speaker 1: free course and that you can participate, certainly, and will
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  Speaker 1: participate by simply becoming a subscriber and sharing this podcast
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  Speaker 1: with someone else. Amen. Friend or foe, Share the podcast
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  Speaker 1: with someone else so that they can hear the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. And we are not the only ones.
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  Speaker 1: God has many witnesses. He will never be without a witness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But we simply have been called to do what God
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  Speaker 1: has called us to do. And we just pray and
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  Speaker 1: leave it. In the hands of the Lord, through the
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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit, to speak to the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of men and women, to open the blinded eyes. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We pray to that end that the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord will have free course and work within this generation.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We again go to the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the words of the Lord Jesus himself. We are focusing
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  Speaker 1: on until now. Jesus comes and we're going to focus
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  Speaker 1: on the words of Jesus. Amen. Because they are, amen, important.
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  Speaker 1: Man is not to live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So we want to preach the word of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of Jesus. Amen. Very instructive for us, amen,
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  Speaker 1: to live by. Amen. And to have the great hope, amen,
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  Speaker 1: that the gospel presents to us. Amen. All right. We
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  Speaker 1: begin again in the gospel of Matthew, the Sermon on
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  Speaker 1: the Mount, rather we refer to it in Matthew's gospel.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter number five, we'll be reading a few verses from
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  Speaker 1: that text in just a moment. But first of all,
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  Speaker 1: let's take just a quick moment again. as we invoke
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord. Father, thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you for this day, this day,
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  Speaker 1: supplying all of our need according to your riches in glory,
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  Speaker 1: opening doors that no one can shut, healing our bodies,
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  Speaker 1: keeping our minds, keeping us sane in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: delusion and darkness and deception that is in our world. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we just pray for those who are bound by The
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  Speaker 1: devil who are in the darkness, who are groping without
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  Speaker 1: a hope. Lord, open eyes and set the captive free
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  Speaker 1: by the power of your spirit, through the power of
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  Speaker 1: your word, because of the blood of Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 1: for your kingdom and for your glory, majesty and honor. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we ask it in Jesus name. Amen and amen. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Salty shining lights. That's the subject. title of our podcast
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  Speaker 1: on today. Salty Shining Lights. People of God have always
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  Speaker 1: been called out to be uniquely influential in this world.
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  Speaker 1: The world is, of course, we know it, antithetical to
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  Speaker 1: the ways of God. The world is in rebellion against
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  Speaker 1: the will of God. The world is has a diametrically
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  Speaker 1: different view of thinking from the mind of God. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible speaks of in the Old Testament, God's in
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  Speaker 1: contrast to the way of man. He said, my ways
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  Speaker 1: are not your ways. My thoughts are not your thoughts. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We don't think the way God does. The world is
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  Speaker 1: in opposition, is opposed to. And the Bible speaks about
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  Speaker 1: the desperately wicked heart of man. That heart that is
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  Speaker 1: within us, amen, is far removed from the heart of God.
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  Speaker 1: We are estranged from God. We run from him, amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he came seeking to save that which was lost.
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  Speaker 1: He came seeking for us, amen. Jesus the Christ came
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  Speaker 1: down from above as the one who alone would, and
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  Speaker 1: the one who could alone radically alter the course of
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  Speaker 1: this world. Amen. And he did it, of course, by
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  Speaker 1: bringing down to this world the saltiness, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: and the brightness that the world is even now in
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  Speaker 1: dire need of in order for the world to have
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  Speaker 1: life and to have hope. All things are sustained and
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  Speaker 1: upheld by Jesus. In him we live, move, and have
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  Speaker 1: our being. All things were made by him and nothing
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  Speaker 1: exists apart from him. And the world needs to understand
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  Speaker 1: that God is light, that Jesus is that light who
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  Speaker 1: has come into the world in order for us to
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  Speaker 1: live and have life. The world cannot exist without light.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't mean artificial light. It is wonderful that
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  Speaker 1: man has produced technology, has discovered what God placed in
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  Speaker 1: the world. And we have the technology to have light
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  Speaker 1: that we can shine through sources of energy. But The
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  Speaker 1: light that the world desperately needs is the sun. The
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  Speaker 1: earth needs the sunlight. We revolve around the sun, S-U-N,
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  Speaker 1: but the world, this world system needs the sun, S-O-N,
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  Speaker 1: capital S-O-N, the sun. of the living God. And no
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  Speaker 1: other figure in all of the history of mankind's existence
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  Speaker 1: has been so remarkably and uniquely impactful in such an
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  Speaker 1: extraordinarily constructive way than Jesus the Christ. And it is
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  Speaker 1: for the good of all humanity. Not only did Jesus
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  Speaker 1: exemplify this, and not only did he embody this, amen,
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  Speaker 1: this sorely needed graciousness and goodness in this world, but
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  Speaker 1: he taught it to his disciples in order for us,
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  Speaker 1: his people, his called out chosen ones, his church. He
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  Speaker 1: taught it to us. He commanded that we do it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Do as he did after he would ascend back up
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  Speaker 1: to heaven in fulfillment of finishing all that was predetermined,
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  Speaker 1: all that was predestined in the plan of God before
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of And he has predetermined and predestined that
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  Speaker 1: we should be a holy people, that we should be
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  Speaker 1: conformed to the image of his son. Amen. That we
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  Speaker 1: should be also salt and light in this world. And
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  Speaker 1: that is the focus of what we want to, amen,
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  Speaker 1: turn our attention to in the words of Jesus, salt
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  Speaker 1: and light. Light in this world. Matthew's Gospel, chapter number 5,
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  Speaker 1: beginning at verse number 13. Ye are the salt of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. But if the salt have lost his savor,
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  Speaker 1: wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for
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  Speaker 1: nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden
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  Speaker 1: under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world.
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  Speaker 1: A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
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  Speaker 1: Neither do men light a candle and put it under
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  Speaker 1: a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light
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  Speaker 1: unto all that are in the house. Let your light
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  Speaker 1: so shine before men that they may see your good works.
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  Speaker 1: and glorify your Father, which is in heaven. I love
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  Speaker 1: how Jesus, in his foreknowledge, with his power, in his sovereignty,
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  Speaker 1: calls those things which be not as though they were.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus did this in pronouncing as well as confessing
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  Speaker 1: on his disciples, us, the church, the people of God,
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  Speaker 1: the uniqueness of becoming salty, shining light right here in
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  Speaker 1: this fallen world of darkness where there is all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of delusion, despondency, destruction, derision. There is dereliction. There is
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  Speaker 1: decay and certainly It all leads to death. But Jesus
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  Speaker 1: again came to give us light. And he's called for us,
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  Speaker 1: God's people, his people, his disciples, to be salty, shining lights.
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  Speaker 1: And God predestined that those who come to him in
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  Speaker 1: repentance and obedience, we would not live lives of fretting
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  Speaker 1: aimlessly in misery and in hopelessness. Again, this is why
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came down into the darkness. This is why he
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  Speaker 1: commanded the light to shine into the darkness. From the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: he said, let there be light. And there was light. God,
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  Speaker 1: who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, has shone into our hearts. And
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  Speaker 1: this is through Jesus Christ. Christ, our Lord, who is,
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  Speaker 1: as he said in one of the I am statements
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  Speaker 1: in the gospel of John, I am the light of
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  Speaker 1: the world. If you walk in him, if you walk
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  Speaker 1: with him, amen, if you come to him, if you
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  Speaker 1: live in him, you will have no darkness at all
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  Speaker 1: in him. Again, the Bible says is no darkness at all. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is light and in him. Is no darkness. At all.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus now. Amen. Informs us. Amen. Speaking again
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  Speaker 1: those things which be not. Even before. We came to
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  Speaker 1: know him. He declared. He decreed that we are the
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  Speaker 1: salt of the earth. We are the light of the world.
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  Speaker 1: We are. A city. That is set on a hill. And.
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  Speaker 1: You are lights, people of God, that are made to shine.
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  Speaker 1: That's the purpose of light. Light is made to shine.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus easily, so easily, he was so set apart.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was so uniquely different. Even at the
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  Speaker 1: age of 12 years old, one of the, actually the only,
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  Speaker 1: account that we have in the Gospels of Jesus at
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  Speaker 1: that young age. Amen. When he went up to the temple,
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  Speaker 1: went up to Jerusalem with his parents. Amen. They lost Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, but Jesus was not lost. Amen. They,
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  Speaker 1: of course, discovered that he was not among the company
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  Speaker 1: on the way back home. They turned around and by
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  Speaker 1: the time they got back to where Jesus was. They
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  Speaker 1: found him in the temple. He was in discussion. He
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  Speaker 1: was in dialogue with the professors, with the teachers, with
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  Speaker 1: the doctors of the law. Amen. With the well-educated. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Both asking them questions and dialoguing with them at 12
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  Speaker 1: years old He was by far, I mean not even
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  Speaker 1: close again, the most impactful individual, impactful man because he
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  Speaker 1: was the God-man, God manifested in the flesh that ever
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  Speaker 1: walked upon the face of this planet. And he was
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  Speaker 1: and he is that light that will shine in our
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  Speaker 1: hearts that We are to reflect. And that's why he said,
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  Speaker 1: you are the salt of the earth. You are the
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  Speaker 1: light of the world. No one can deny that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was salty. In other words, very impactful. Amen. And also
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  Speaker 1: he said, we are to have good works that are
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. And that will happen when we are, amen,
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  Speaker 1: salty with the light of God shining through us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And in so doing, we will have a life. We
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  Speaker 1: will live a life. Amen. That will bring glory to God.
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  Speaker 1: That is what it's all about. By the way, salt
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  Speaker 1: is a preservative. Salt is also an enhancer. Amen. Salt
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  Speaker 1: is good, the Bible says also. And we know that
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  Speaker 1: it is needed. It is necessary. And again, as salt
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  Speaker 1: is a preserver. We have also been called to preserve life.
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  Speaker 1: We have been called to preserve the truth. We have
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  Speaker 1: been called to preserve goodness. Amen. The goodness of God
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  Speaker 1: in the land. There is no good in any of us.
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  Speaker 1: There is none good. No, not one, says the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the word of the living God. God looked down upon
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  Speaker 1: the children of men and he saw that there was none.
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  Speaker 1: That executes justice and righteousness. But you know what sets
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  Speaker 1: us apart? What makes us different? What makes us different, brother?
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  Speaker 1: What makes the difference in us? It's not our goodness. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's not anything that we've done. Anything meritorious on our part. No. Noah,
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  Speaker 1: for example, found grace in the eyes of God. It
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  Speaker 1: is the grace of God. It is the goodness of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It is the light of God that would shine in
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  Speaker 1: us to bring us, amen, to that place of becoming
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  Speaker 1: more and more like Jesus. We are to preserve. We
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  Speaker 1: are to contend for. We are to fight for. We
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  Speaker 1: are to be in warfare against, amen, the lies and
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  Speaker 1: the deception and all of the delusion that is in
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  Speaker 1: our world. And that is the purpose of us being salty. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: To help pull people out of the fire the Bible
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  Speaker 1: even warns about. Hating the garment spotted by the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: We ought to be difference makers. We've been called to preserve. Preserve.
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  Speaker 1: Just as salt was used as, and is even now,
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  Speaker 1: used as a preservative. Salt as an enhancer. Listen, you
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  Speaker 1: know what Jesus did? As it pertains to life, we
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  Speaker 1: were dead in our trespasses and sin. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus said? I've come that you might have life
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  Speaker 1: and have it more abundantly, more abundantly. Enhance, enhance life.
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  Speaker 1: Give meaning to life. Give purpose to life. What does
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  Speaker 1: it profit a man to gain the whole world and
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  Speaker 1: lose his soul? What can a man give in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for his soul? There is nothing in this world. more
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  Speaker 1: profitable than coming to the light and being the salt
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  Speaker 1: and the light that Jesus has called for us to be. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have life. You think you do. Jesus just
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  Speaker 1: in rebuke of those Pharisees and Sadducees and those who were,
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  Speaker 1: you know, of the mindset steeped in their religion. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't need Jesus. And Jesus said, you won't come to
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  Speaker 1: me that you might have life. Amen. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: come to Jesus, you don't have life. And again, when
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  Speaker 1: he breathes new life in us, we reflect that light.
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  Speaker 1: We live that life and we enhance that. this life
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  Speaker 1: of Christ by allowing it to permeate, penetrate, allowing it to, amen,
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  Speaker 1: be effective, to illuminate, to spread. I mean, and again,
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  Speaker 1: we don't force it. We don't force it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We don't force it. But we, as Jesus says, are
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  Speaker 1: the salt of the earth, not only in this season,
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  Speaker 1: but in every generation. The people of God have been
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  Speaker 1: called to be salt, to be light. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, even when you go back to the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: when he set Israel apart, when he set, amen, the
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  Speaker 1: people of God apart through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the 12 tribes,
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  Speaker 1: when he chose them to be his people, they were
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  Speaker 1: to be a light to the Gentiles. They were to
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  Speaker 1: be a difference-making, peculiar, holy people to the Lord. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course, we know the story. We know the history.
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  Speaker 1: We know how they failed. Nevertheless, that was the reason
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  Speaker 1: they were called out, set apart. Sanctified. To be that.
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  Speaker 1: And we can only be that. In obedience. To the
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  Speaker 1: word of the living God. Salty. Shining. Light. Set apart.
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  Speaker 1: To be a peculiar people. The Bible tells us. Peter writes.
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  Speaker 1: We are holy. Nation. We are a royal priesthood. A
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  Speaker 1: chosen generation. Chosen by God. to be impactful. Listen, what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, Jesus warned us about this. Harmless
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  Speaker 1: as doves, we are the sheep of his pasture, but
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  Speaker 1: we are among wolves. Nevertheless, even in this present world, again, light,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, pierces the darkness. Light penetrates the darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Light extinguishes the darkness. And that is all we have
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  Speaker 1: to do. Allow the light of Jesus to shine through us.
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  Speaker 1: When Jesus came into this world, in the incarnation, wise
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  Speaker 1: men saw the light. We see his light. We see
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  Speaker 1: the light. Where is he? Where is he? We see
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  Speaker 1: the light. They were led by the light to the
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  Speaker 1: place where Jesus was. The light is to shine in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness. Amen. But as the people of God being
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  Speaker 1: set apart, being the salt, being the light, we must acknowledge,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, because again, we have an adversary who
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  Speaker 1: is seeking to distract us. But we must acknowledge, we
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  Speaker 1: must understand that we are pilgrims and we are strangers
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  Speaker 1: and we are simply passing through this world for a
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  Speaker 1: short season in which we will suffer some hardships. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we understand that. We're going to have tribulations. Jesus told
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  Speaker 1: us that. We're going to have trials. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have troubles. Man, it is more of a womanish few
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  Speaker 1: days and full of troubles. Jesus told us in this world,
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  Speaker 1: you will have these things, but be of good cheer
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  Speaker 1: because I have overcome the world. So when we have
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  Speaker 1: these disappointments, when persecution comes, when we face opposition, To
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  Speaker 1: the way of holiness. And righteousness. We just got to understand.
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  Speaker 1: That in this world. In this world that is. Overtly hostile.
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  Speaker 1: To the lordship of Jesus Christ. We. Must. Let. Our. Light. Shine.
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  Speaker 1: Let it shine. Don't make it shine. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: to make it shine. Just let it shine. God. Will
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  Speaker 1: give us. the grace that we need, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: we face, no matter what obstacles, we overcome, we are overcomers,
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  Speaker 1: we are more than conquerors again, loving those things that
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  Speaker 1: God proclaimed about us, calling those things which be not
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  Speaker 1: as though they're, we are overcomers. Now are we the
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  Speaker 1: sons of God. Amen. Knowing that we are going to
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  Speaker 1: face such opposition, church of the living God, we must
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  Speaker 1: nevertheless stand in this evil day Stand and proclaim the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. Stand on the word of God. Be
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  Speaker 1: the salty, shining light Jesus has appointed for us to be.
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  Speaker 1: Salt that has lost its character is worthless. However, real salt,
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  Speaker 1: real salt, ladies and gentlemen, cannot become unsalted. If it's
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  Speaker 1: real salt, it's salt. It can't become unsalty. It will
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  Speaker 1: always be salty. Otherwise, it is not salt. Light that
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  Speaker 1: will not shine into the darkness is useless. Those who
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  Speaker 1: possess the true light that God commanded to shine into
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  Speaker 1: their hearts, will always reflect that light out of them.
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  Speaker 1: It will always be about him. For example, like John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist said, he must increase, I must decrease. His light,
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  Speaker 1: his light. It's about him. His kingdom, his glory, his honor,
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  Speaker 1: his majesty. It shines through those who are truly His
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  Speaker 1: disciples who are truly His own. Ladies and gentlemen, Church
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, we are called to let our
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  Speaker 1: lights shine so that men will see that there is
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  Speaker 1: a difference, that there is a living hope, that there
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  Speaker 1: is a living Savior. Again, we're not commanded to force
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  Speaker 1: the light to shine, but to let light. the light
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  Speaker 1: of God's goodness, of God's glory, of God's mercy, of
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  Speaker 1: God's love, of God's compassion. All of the attributes of
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of the Spirit, let it, let it shine
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  Speaker 1: through us. Amen. We simply need to be available, willing
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  Speaker 1: vessels to be used by the Lord, being instrumental in
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  Speaker 1: leading others out of the darkness and into the glorious
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  Speaker 1: light of Jesus Christ because God causes all things. We
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  Speaker 1: need to keep that in mind. He causes all things.
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  Speaker 1: to work together. For the good to them that love
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. To them who are the called. And that's
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  Speaker 1: who we are. Called out. Called according to his purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And may we as the people of God. Let the
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  Speaker 1: purpose for which we have been delivered from bondage and corruption.
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  Speaker 1: May we allow it in cooperating with the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to work to bring others to the saving grace that
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  Speaker 1: is in Christ Jesus simply by being salty, shining lights
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  Speaker 1: in this world of darkness. Father, again, we thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your word. Thank you that you have
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  Speaker 1: made us, declared us, decreed for us to be salt,
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  Speaker 1: light in this present world. So help us to walk it,
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  Speaker 1: to live it, to be it so that you will
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  Speaker 1: be glorified. You will get the glory and that we, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: will be that people that you have called for us
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  Speaker 1: to be in this generation, in this season, until you
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  Speaker 1: return for your people, we pray. Amen and amen.