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What is Sin? [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Win a family. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: So we're here, We're back in the studio. It's good
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  Speaker 1: to have you, a man. I'm blessed to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of your routine, your morning day, your start of
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  Speaker 1: the day, the end of the day, the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the day. Amen. Whenever you get a chance, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not live with us right now, whenever you get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to be inspired by the word of God a man,
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  Speaker 1: and to get into what God wants to put in
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  Speaker 1: the Amen. And that's the Word of God. So you
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  Speaker 1: can live a life in abundant, in abundance, a life
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  Speaker 1: of abundance. So today I have a question that true story.
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  Speaker 1: I know a brother in Christ who started to lead
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  Speaker 1: a church a man recently, and the church that he led,
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  Speaker 1: he realized or he found out during a meeting when
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  Speaker 1: he offered him to be the pastor of the church.
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  Speaker 1: During a meeting, the leadership told them to kind of
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  Speaker 1: like not talk about what we're going to talk about today,
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  Speaker 1: the sin word si n sin. They hadn't preached about
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  Speaker 1: it for over a decade in this church. The obvious
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  Speaker 1: question was like, if you haven't preached about sin or
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  Speaker 1: talked about sin during a preaching, what were you preaching?
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  Speaker 1: Then right, it's not the Gospel if it doesn't include
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  Speaker 1: the problem of sin, because the problem of sin was
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  Speaker 1: resolved by the good News of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: by the Lord himself. A man, brother Orlando, God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: my bro. Long time, no hear no, Amen, God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: miss you, my bro. Thank you for coming through to
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  Speaker 1: the morning devo. Good morning to you, and God bless you,
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  Speaker 1: my bro, my friend. So the question is what is sin?
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  Speaker 1: That three letter word that a lot of people want
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  Speaker 1: to avoid. They try to avoid, but according to the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible to avoid. It's all up in there. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the solution to the sin problem sin itself. What
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  Speaker 1: is it? A man said, We're going to get into
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  Speaker 1: it real quick. I can't take a deep dive because
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  Speaker 1: this is a morning devo, so you get to get
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  Speaker 1: a little bite sized idea about at least what I've learned, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and the short time that I've been with the Lord
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  Speaker 1: compared to eternity, it's been like a breath that I
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  Speaker 1: have been with the Lord, Amen since two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is not just doing bad things. First and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: while I'm doing bad things, that means I'm sinning. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just doing bad things. It's a rebellion against God's
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  Speaker 1: holiness and authority. Is that serious? You know? People are
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  Speaker 1: like to have this attitude like, oh, I just did
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  Speaker 1: a little dirt, or I just you know, dial a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of this, a little bit of that. God's
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  Speaker 1: looking at it. Well, you're rebellion against me. I'm holy
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  Speaker 1: and God doesn't dwell in sin. So it's a rebellion
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  Speaker 1: against God's holiness and authority. Sin creates a deep divide
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  Speaker 1: that no human effort can cross. In other words, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way that I could fix the issue of sin.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way that you could fix the issue of sin.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to go to the person who fixed
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  Speaker 1: it right, who made a bridge between man and God,
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  Speaker 1: a way out a way of escape a man. He
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  Speaker 1: resolved sin once and for all, and that was the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. Were gonna be in an old covenant,
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  Speaker 1: old Testament, Isaiah the Prophet, chapter fifty nine, Verse number two,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah fifty nine and two. We're gonna see how this
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  Speaker 1: old whole thing unfolds, not the whole thing, a man,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of it. Because sin, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, if you look up sin in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: you get to see a whole lot of scriptures, a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of situations. And people who were, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: trapped in it. Amen, they stepped on the glue trap
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  Speaker 1: of sin. Sin to me is like one of those
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  Speaker 1: glue traps that you put out in your kitchen to
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  Speaker 1: try to catch a mouse. Once you step in it,
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  Speaker 1: it's like almost impossible, almost impossible to escape, Amen, without
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  Speaker 1: leaving something behind, without leaving a piece of hair, a finger,
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  Speaker 1: a foot, amen of a mouse behind. So the Bible
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  Speaker 1: is clear that sin is rebellion against a holy God.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter three backste up and confirms that. So if
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  Speaker 1: you have any questions, comments, concerns, prayer requests, or anything
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  Speaker 1: along those lines, please, by no means, don't hesitate to
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  Speaker 1: leave it on a live chat. Don't be afraid, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: There's no debating here, no arguing here. Amen. That's just
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  Speaker 1: sharing here, Amen, a lot of love, a lot of sharing,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of caring, Amen, a lot of prayer, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of word. If it's not the word that
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking of, just change the channel. Amen. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear a whole morning devotion of my opinions.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to hear home morning devotions of what
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  Speaker 1: I think. We want to get into the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: So that way we could change out with thinking according
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  Speaker 1: to the Word, not according to the world or according
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  Speaker 1: to me, or according to a preacher, evangelist, a prophet,
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  Speaker 1: an apostle, or teacher. Amen. If it's not the word,
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  Speaker 1: then what are we doing. I don't want to waste
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  Speaker 1: your time, and you know I'm not wasting nobody's time.
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't waste that time either. So what is sin?
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  Speaker 1: That's today's topic on the morning devo the question? Amen,
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  Speaker 1: If you want to go ahead and answer that according
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  Speaker 1: to your words, you can get ahead and use a
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  Speaker 1: live chat for that. We're gonna pray first. After we pray,
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  Speaker 1: we'll shut us out for like sixty seconds. Just help
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  Speaker 1: me shut this out. And then when we come back
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of those sixty seconds, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to dive into Isaiah chapter fifty nine and verse number two.
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joanne, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the morning deep with my sister, my friend. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So let's pray. Father. I thank you that you have
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  Speaker 1: settled the issue of sin once for all when you
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  Speaker 1: died on the cross, because you didn't stay in the grave.
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  Speaker 1: You rose again on the third day, declaring and showing
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  Speaker 1: the whole universe and proving to every single person that
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  Speaker 1: you are above sin, that you are above death, that
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  Speaker 1: you have the keys of life in your hands. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lot God for loving us so much that
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  Speaker 1: you sent your in the form of a man, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: to live a sinless life right then to die on
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  Speaker 1: a rugged cross, and three days later prove that you
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  Speaker 1: are God by raising yourself from the grave. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God for the victorious ways of your word. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God for allowing us to observe what you have
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  Speaker 1: done in the past, which is your resume of what
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  Speaker 1: you can do for us right now and in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for all your promises. Lord, I pray a
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  Speaker 1: hedge of protection over us physically, emotionally and spiritually in
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  Speaker 1: a powerful name of Jesus. I pray that over myself,
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  Speaker 1: my wife, our children, our grandchildren, every single person on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the screen representing their families as well,
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  Speaker 1: and on the other side of this mic, I pray peace.
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  Speaker 1: I pray Lord God, that you will help us understand
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  Speaker 1: what sin is according to your definition, according to your word,
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  Speaker 1: and you gave us examples all throughout your word. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God for your forgiveness of it all. And I
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lord God that we're positioned for a blessing
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  Speaker 1: today as we dive into your word through your prophet
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah and Jesus Holy Name. I prayer is by faith
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  Speaker 1: and for all those who agree with the prayer, we
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  Speaker 1: say Amen to the Amen, which is the Lord himself.
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  Speaker 1: So help me share this out. Sixty seconds count down.
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  Speaker 1: We'll share this out. When we get back to it,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be in a scripture. I'll be right back. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of groups, not a lot of time, but Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So listen, let's get into it. Time is running out here.
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  Speaker 1: What is sin? Is the question that you have to
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  Speaker 1: our people who call themselves Christians and follow Christ. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want to deal with this question because I think
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  Speaker 1: it deals with change. Right. If Jesus told some people
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  Speaker 1: in the scriptures, go and sin no more, that means
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  Speaker 1: what are he's saying? Go and whatever you were doing
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  Speaker 1: that you got forgiven for, don't do it any more,
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  Speaker 1: because now you have the power to not do it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus clears you from the sin that it cleared you
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  Speaker 1: and me from the sin. That that means we don't
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  Speaker 1: owe sin anything anymore. Amen, or we could live debt
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  Speaker 1: free from sin. Amen. Now I'm not saying because you could.
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  Speaker 1: AI is gonna be a dangerous thing. Man. You could
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  Speaker 1: take this image, my voice, everything and just recreate what
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  Speaker 1: I just said. So be prayed up, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Truth could be changed in the way of AI, not
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  Speaker 1: truth in its absolute way, just truth on social media,
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  Speaker 1: truth on video, through videos, through audio can be changed,
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  Speaker 1: like what I just said could be changed. So I
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  Speaker 1: just want to put that out there because I've seen
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  Speaker 1: some videos that you look at them, you look at
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  Speaker 1: the people in the videos, even people who are not
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  Speaker 1: even alive anymore, and you're looking and AI is dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: showing things that have never happened, but it's making people
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  Speaker 1: believe that it really did. This question will remain whether
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  Speaker 1: AI is here or not. What is sin? Amen? This
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  Speaker 1: is an ancient question that has today's answer. Amen. If
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  Speaker 1: that makes any sense, Let's go for it. Let me
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  Speaker 1: put this on the screen for those who are watching,
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  Speaker 1: for those who are just listening, no worries, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read this word for word. I try
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  Speaker 1: to put the eerious graphic on the screen. Amen. Being
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  Speaker 1: that we're in the the Halloween season, for those who
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  Speaker 1: are with Halloween celebration and all that stuff, this is
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  Speaker 1: how ugly and my estimation, sin is when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it for what it really is. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at the graphic, Amen, I made sure I made
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  Speaker 1: it ugly. Amen. So this is the graphic I chose.
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  Speaker 1: Sister Joyce, I see you. Good morning, God, bless you,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to the morning. Devote my system, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your blessed over the group in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: Really grateful for that, my sister, a man. So listen.
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  Speaker 1: The Prophet Isaiah in chapter fifty nine, verse two says this,
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  Speaker 1: but your wackedness has separated you from your God, and
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  Speaker 1: your sins plural have hidden his face from you so
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  Speaker 1: that he does not hear. What horror that would be
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  Speaker 1: if God didn't hear me anymore, or if God didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear you anymore, or if that God hid his face
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  Speaker 1: from us. Why because of our wickedness, our sin, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, separates us from a relationship with a holy God. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the Prophet Isaiah and the old Covenant
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  Speaker 1: before Jesus stepped on a scene in the physical. Because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus always has been and always was, There's never a
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  Speaker 1: time that Jesus was not a man. But according to
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  Speaker 1: the chronological scriptures, right, if we look at it historically
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  Speaker 1: at that point, and Jesus wasn't on his earthly ministry.
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  Speaker 1: So the prophet Isaiah saying, this is what separates us
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  Speaker 1: from a holy God. Our wickedness, our iniquities, our sins,
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  Speaker 1: our rebellion a man separates us from a holy God.
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  Speaker 1: That should be terrif for anybody who cares about eternity,
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  Speaker 1: the people who are in the back, who just think
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  Speaker 1: it's all about now here and now and then when
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  Speaker 1: you pass on, you just go to the ground and
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  Speaker 1: that's it, and this doesn't matter to you. Right, you
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  Speaker 1: have no hope. There's no hope for a person who
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  Speaker 1: is godless. There's no hope for a person who is
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  Speaker 1: without Christ. There's no hope for a person who is
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  Speaker 1: not forgiven of their sin. The only hope we have
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  Speaker 1: is the hope that God placed in us by way
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  Speaker 1: of his Holy Spirit, through the forgiveness, the shed blood
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  Speaker 1: of the life Jesus, the forgiveness of the Lord. And
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  Speaker 1: now we have Holy Spirit God living inside of us,
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  Speaker 1: which is actually the hope of glory on this side
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  Speaker 1: of eternity for all the earth. Right, that's why there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pushback on Christianity or on Christians by
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  Speaker 1: the enemy, because he knows that we have the goods
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  Speaker 1: and men, and he knows that we have the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows that we know the way and the life,
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  Speaker 1: that we know Jesus, and that Jesus, his gospel, his
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  Speaker 1: message will set the captives free from the bondage of sin.
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  Speaker 1: So sin separates let's get that straight. Because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't want to talk about what separates us
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  Speaker 1: from a holy God, which is a shame. Because people
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  Speaker 1: are trapped in sin and they want to know, how
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  Speaker 1: do you get out? And if you have the answer,
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  Speaker 1: and I have the answer, we have the word. We
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  Speaker 1: have the living Word of God is the answer. We
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  Speaker 1: can introduce people who are trapped in iniquity, sin, all
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff going on in life, and we're just
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  Speaker 1: going to pass them by without telling them the truth.
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  Speaker 1: That's not loving. So a congregation, like I said earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the opener that I know about that hadn't spoken
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  Speaker 1: about sin or their preacher never preached about sin for
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  Speaker 1: over a decade, that's not love. Man. That's actually I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. It's not the Gospel. And
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  Speaker 1: man You can't have the Gospel without bad news, the
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  Speaker 1: good news of Christ, because it's good. That implies that
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  Speaker 1: there's something bad. Right within the Gospel. There is something bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's called sin, separation from God. Sin is not just
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  Speaker 1: doing bad things. Like I said earlier, separation from a
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  Speaker 1: holy God. Our rebellion separates us from a holy God.
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  Speaker 1: You know what that does, at least the spiritual death,
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  Speaker 1: because without the spirit of God in us, we just
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  Speaker 1: existing on this planet. You realize the cutest baby who
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  Speaker 1: is born today because I know there's a baby born
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  Speaker 1: today somewhere in the world, somewhere in America, in the world,
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  Speaker 1: there's a baby born today, very cute. Amen, That precious
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  Speaker 1: baby right is now born into a sin full world.
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  Speaker 1: And that baby is born a sinner. Not because God says, okay,
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  Speaker 1: a'ty MENI miny moe. This baby is not a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: This baby's a sinner. No, it's because of the fallen world,
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  Speaker 1: the fall of man. Genesis chapter three introduced a separation.
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  Speaker 1: Have you noticed that if you ever read the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis chapter one, chapter two, beautiful, chapter three, the fall, well,
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  Speaker 1: what was happening? Well, everything was perfect in a perfect garden,
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  Speaker 1: perfect environment. Amn, husband and wife, Adam and Eve walking naked,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we're not ashamed of that. Until there
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  Speaker 1: was a line Serpent speaking to Eve and lying to
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  Speaker 1: her about what God said about the forbidden fruit. So
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  Speaker 1: because of the lie and the deception, that Eve, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like understood as truth to be true and
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  Speaker 1: gave it to Adam, the forbidden fruit. Because of that disobedience,
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  Speaker 1: it caused sin, sickness, death, and what we're having now,
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  Speaker 1: what we're experiencing now, that was the first atom who failed.
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  Speaker 1: But the last atom, the Lord Jesus Christ right settled
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  Speaker 1: the score, settled the issue. That's why the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: in John chapter three, verse number three. I think it
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  Speaker 1: says you must be born again. We must be born
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  Speaker 1: again to inherit the kingdom of God. So we're born intocent.
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  Speaker 1: Even that cute little baby is born intocin amen. So
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  Speaker 1: when that baby low willing gets old enough, that baby
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  Speaker 1: will be taught the ways of the Lord right in
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  Speaker 1: the perfect family and a good family if they know
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  Speaker 1: the truth, and they would come to a point where like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I need to be forgiven for these sins that I've committed,
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  Speaker 1: and they go to the Lord who forgives and would
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  Speaker 1: never turn anybody way, the Bible says, and from that
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  Speaker 1: point on you'll be born again. So sin is serious,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Gospel, according to the scriptures, according to
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  Speaker 1: the prophets. Why why sin so deadly? Well, because when
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  Speaker 1: you're a sinner, you are actually working for a sinful system,
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  Speaker 1: in a sinful system, under a lying boss, which is
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  Speaker 1: the devil. And the Bible says in Romans, chapter sixth,
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  Speaker 1: verse number twenty three, for the wages, the payment of
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  Speaker 1: sin is death. So why would anybody want to work
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  Speaker 1: for death penalty or a death sentence? Right? Well, I did.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. Before Christ, that's what I
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  Speaker 1: was doing. I was a professional sinner working for aligning
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  Speaker 1: system and aligned boss. Was it fun in a certain way?
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  Speaker 1: I guess it was because everybody else was doing it
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  Speaker 1: in my circle. So we were sinning and we were
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  Speaker 1: getting paid paycheck of death. That's literally what's happening for
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  Speaker 1: people who are without Christ. That's literally happening for people
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  Speaker 1: who are blinded by the devil, the world system, and
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  Speaker 1: their own evil, fleshly desires. Then the light of the world,
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus appeared right and took the penalty of that
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  Speaker 1: sin debt upon himself willingly and made away for us
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  Speaker 1: to be set free from that sin debt. Incredible. There's
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  Speaker 1: no other God like my God. There's no other Lord
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  Speaker 1: like Jesus. Amen, He's the Lord of lords, the King
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  Speaker 1: of kings. Since the Joyce says, Amen, sin steals, kills
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  Speaker 1: and destroyers keeps you from faith in God. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: we know that now. Thank you, sister Joyce for that comment,
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  Speaker 1: because that's true. It steals, kills and destroyers. That's the
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  Speaker 1: work of the enemy. That's the work that the devil
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  Speaker 1: is doing on a day to day basis. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he takes any days off, no vacation time
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  Speaker 1: for the devil. He's on a relentless mission to kill, steal,
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  Speaker 1: destroy as many people as he can. That's why the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel has urgency all up in it. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at Jesus his life when he came and started preaching
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  Speaker 1: at the age Amen, the first sermon or the first
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  Speaker 1: speech or the first preaching that he did was about repentance.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't about, Hey, let's go play a game of
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  Speaker 1: softball and we'll talk to the disciples and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a debate afterwards. No, he said, repent for the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. The kingdom of heaven is near. So when
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  Speaker 1: you hear preachers telling the congregations to repent, they're actually
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  Speaker 1: following the ways of the Lord. Amen, repentance, turning from
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  Speaker 1: your wickedness that we saw in the book of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifty nine, verse two, that says, our wickedness separates
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  Speaker 1: us from a holy God. Amen. So when we repent,
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  Speaker 1: we're turning away from the wickedness the sin a man
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  Speaker 1: and turning to the righteousness of the Lord Jesus. That's
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  Speaker 1: true repentance, according to how the Bible describes it. So
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  Speaker 1: my let me own this. My iniquities separated me from
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  Speaker 1: my God. My sins because of my sins, God was
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  Speaker 1: hiding his face from me Isaiah fifty nine and two.
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  Speaker 1: Personalize the scriptures. Amen, it hits differently, right. That's why
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  Speaker 1: the Gospels urgent people without Christ. Listen closely. People without
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  Speaker 1: Christ are not just unfulfilled people, right. They're never going
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  Speaker 1: to be satisfied. They are spiritually dead and facing judgment
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  Speaker 1: unless they receive the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We're not supposed to be judging right, well, judgment is coming, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And without Christ in your life and in my life, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we're still under the wrath of God. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how us to explain it. But listen, there's bad
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  Speaker 1: news for those who are without the good news for
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  Speaker 1: those who don't receive the good news of the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. The bad news is that
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  Speaker 1: when you do everything you want to do in this world.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the Bible says, what does the profit a
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  Speaker 1: man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?
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  Speaker 1: Because remember the wages of sin, sex, drugs, violence, premattural sex,
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  Speaker 1: gender identification issues, all kinds of stuff. Killing excuse me, murder,
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  Speaker 1: not killing, because if killing was a sin, then we
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  Speaker 1: won't have nothing to eat because we have to kill animals,
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  Speaker 1: we kill plants and all that stuff. So it's murder
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  Speaker 1: actually is the issue when it comes to disobeying God's commandments.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, Sin, all that sin
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  Speaker 1: that the Bible literally honestly says that sin is pleasurable
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  Speaker 1: for a season, not for eternity for a season, because
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  Speaker 1: what does it do that actually satisfies the flesh or
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  Speaker 1: it pleases the flesh for the moment. But when the
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  Speaker 1: results or when the consequences of that type of life,
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  Speaker 1: when the consequences come because of that type of life,
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  Speaker 1: it'll bring sin, brings death through sickness, disease, mental issue, witchcraft, rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: which is a former witchcraft, manipulation, which is a former witchcraft.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus shows up. He knows what he's here for. He
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  Speaker 1: knows his mission. He sees the world, He sees the
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  Speaker 1: people who, by the way the Bible says, Jesus went
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  Speaker 1: to his own people, and his own people rejecting him
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  Speaker 1: a man, I'm paraphrasing. Well, Jesus shows up regardless. He
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  Speaker 1: knows his mission, he knows the condition of men's heart,
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  Speaker 1: and he shows up on a mission. Jesus shows up
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  Speaker 1: in the world that promotes many paths to truth. Because
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  Speaker 1: even in Jesus stated, people were saying there's different ways
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  Speaker 1: that you could get to the truth. But Jesus, in
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  Speaker 1: his bold declaration that no one has ever been able
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  Speaker 1: to refute or to say he didn't say it, or
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  Speaker 1: this fight here is God's statement. John fourteen six, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Way, the truth and the life, not
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  Speaker 1: the lights A lot of people will say, lights I
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  Speaker 1: am the Way, the Truth, and the life. No one
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  Speaker 1: comes to the Father except through me. This means twenty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: there is no salvation through religion. There's no salvation through
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  Speaker 1: good works or self improvement, which means there is no
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  Speaker 1: other name on the heaven which people can be saved.
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  Speaker 1: Acts four and twelve. The Bible says salvation is found
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  Speaker 1: in no one else but the Lord Jesus. And this
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  Speaker 1: is true today. It was true, then, it's true, now,
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  Speaker 1: it's true forevermore so, this truth, even though it sounds
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  Speaker 1: exclusive because it is exclusive, because truth by definition, by
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  Speaker 1: its plain definition, is exclusive, but it's actually inclusive because
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus offers salvation to everyone who believes, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: their background, regardless of their past, or regardless of their status. Man.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the gospel message dealing with the bad
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  Speaker 1: news that we get to the good news. Amen of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope that helps you out.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's a big question of what is saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big question for a morning devo. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get totally into it. There's a lot more to say
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  Speaker 1: about it. Amen. Go to Isaiah chapter fifty nine. We
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  Speaker 1: wear a verse number two, but take time read Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine the whole chapter so you could get the
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  Speaker 1: context of why the statement was brought up by the prophet. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for hanging out with me
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  Speaker 1: for these morning DeVos. I hope and pray that you
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  Speaker 1: continue to read the Word for yourself. Get the revelation
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  Speaker 1: of who Jesus is. If you're not saved, what are
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  Speaker 1: you're waiting for? Admit that you're a sinner and asking
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  Speaker 1: Jesus forgive you for those sins. Believe in his word
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  Speaker 1: and believe in the Word over your life. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: then confess the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord
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  Speaker 1: and savior everywhere you go, and you will be blessed
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  Speaker 1: for it. Amen. God bless you all, God keep you all,
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  Speaker 1: and remember always that God is good. Peace.