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Living Waters of Grace, April 10th, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  I mean, you just couldn't wait to tell people about what the
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  Lord's done for you. You were yakking and blabbing
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  and wanting to grab everybody and take him into heaven.
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  And then what happens so many months or years later?
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  You're. Oh yeah.
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  The good old days When I was born again, I remember that I
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  was really on fire. And boy, I wish I could go back
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  to those days. Well, you can go back to those
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  days, get rid of trying to do it in the flesh, and ask the Holy
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  Spirit to fill you again and control you and empower you.
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  When a child gets a new toy, what's the first thing they do?
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  They show it around to everyone, showing just how cool it is.
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  But what happens after a couple of days?
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  Well, the toy becomes old news and they forget about it.
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  We cannot let that happen to us when it comes to the gospel
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  today, Pastor Clark says when we choose to follow Jesus,
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  initially we want to share with the whole world, but then over
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  time it becomes a memory we refer to.
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  The Bible calls you to make disciples of all nations.
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  Don't take that lightly. Now here's Pastor Clark in
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  Galatians Chapter 3 with today's edition of Living Waters of
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  Grace. We get so weighed down at times
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  and we like all I'm just not passionate about the Lord
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  anymore and I don't want to read his word and and I don't, you
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  know, I don't, I know I should be involved or plugged in and
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  served and where, but I just don't have the energy and I'm
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  lukewarm and I'm backslidden and we make all these excuses of God
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  and God's like, what's your problem?
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  I mean, you know, what do you expect?
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  You think you're going to do something?
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  No, it's through the power of the Spirit, by faith.
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  And so we ask God to do for us, in us, through us, what there's
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  no way we could do ourselves. That's why Paul said be filled
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  with the Spirit, walk in the Spirit.
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  It's a command. Be energized in your daily life
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  by the Spirit, because what the flesh profits nothing.
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  Have you tried to prop up your humanness, your your fleshly
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  abilities to try to do something for God?
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  It doesn't work man. And it's something we all have
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  to fight against every day of our life because it's just, it's
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  just, it seems like it's endemic in human nature to somehow want
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  to justify itself by its so-called self righteousness.
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  You know when someone criticizes you for something or they make a
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  statement to you about something, some failing in your
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  life or weakness, are you insulted?
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  And your ire goes up and you think, well, who are they to
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  tell me about whatever it's self righteousness because you're
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  wanting to prove to someone else that you're better than you
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  really are, instead of just saying, hey, you're, you're
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  right. I'm even worse than that.
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  That's freeing, you know? And then say, but pray for me so
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  that God can work in me, so that I can be what He's intended in
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  me to be, not by my own abilities, but by the work of
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  the Holy Spirit in and through my life.
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  And so he says in verse 4, Have you suffered so many things in
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  vain? If indeed it was vain, Therefore
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  he who supplies a spirit to you and works miracles among you,
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  does he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
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  faith? The question again, just as
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  Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for
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  righteousness, therefore know that only those who are of faith
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  are the sons of Abraham. So when you look at all the Jews
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  who have ever lived throughout the course of history, those who
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  are part of the remnant in the Old Testament and the New
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  Testament who have believed in the Messiah to come by faith are
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  justified. Abraham for sure never proved to
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  you or me by his life that he was perfect, nor did he ever
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  make a statement that he was accepted to God, accepted by God
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  because of what he's done, but because of what Christ has done.
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  And he's noted in the book of Hebrews as the father of faith.
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  And so it says the Scripture foretelling that God would
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  justify the Gentiles by faith, preach the gospel to Abraham
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  beforehand, before Christ was even born, saying in you all the
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  nations shall be blessed. So Abraham's out there that
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  night and God gives him a vision, shows him the stars.
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  And it says as a in this heaven, and as the grains of sand in the
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  sea, so shall be my descendants, those who believe in that
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  Messiah. This is Abraham has.
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  And so the scriptures for seeing this would justify the Gentiles
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  by faith. Preach the gospel to Abraham
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  beforehand, saying, in you all the nation shall be blessed.
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  So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing
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  Abraham, there's only one way to get to heaven.
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  And Jesus said you must be born again If you flip over to John
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  chapter 3. For some of us, it seems
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  somewhat elementary, but if you're dragging around your
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  human carcass trying to live the Christian life, you need to be
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  reminded, as I did, that you and I, if we're Christians, that
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  they didn't get here by something we worked up in
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  ourselves. It was a miracle.
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  And if you remember back when the Holy Spirit came into you
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  and you were born again, wasn't life exciting the Christian
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  life? Wasn't it exhilarating, Huh?
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  I mean, you just couldn't wait to tell people about what the
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  Lord's done for you. You were yakking and blabbing
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  and wanting to grab everybody and take him into heaven.
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  And then what happens so many months or years later?
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  You're. Oh yeah.
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  The good old days When I was born again, I remember that I
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  was really on. Fire and boy, I wish I could go
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  back to those days. Well, you can go back to those
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  days, get rid of trying to do it in the flesh and ask the Holy
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  Spirit to fill you again and control you and empower you.
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  And when the Spirit here, it empowers us, life gets thrilling
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  again and exciting. And I can talk about this by
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  experience. I got saved when I was 20.
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  And long, long pilgrimage of ups and downs and walking in my own
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  humanness and my weakness and my flesh.
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  And I'm learning, as you know, as I go on a little more every
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  day, to really believe it when the Lord says it's not by Mike
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  Clark, not by your human ability, it's not by your power,
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  it's not by your intentions, it's not by your obsessive
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  compulsive behavior, it's not by anything but by my spirit, saith
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  the Lord. And it takes the pressure off me
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  guy, and you guys too. I mean, if you're here today and
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  you know, you know that it's been a long time since you've
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  drunk from that fountain of life that brings living water to your
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  soul. It's here today.
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  He's here, It's him, He's available.
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  And all you got to do is say, Lord, I've been trying to do
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  this myself again, and I'm giving up.
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  And the Lord is not going to say, what do you mean you're
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  giving up? You can't give up.
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  I'm depending on you. I need you got the Lord's a
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  good. Now I can take over.
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  Yeah, well, now we can begin to get some things accomplished
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  because I'm in charge, not you. So Jesus says you must be born
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  again. He's speaking to this guy in
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  verse one Pharisee name Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
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  And the man comes to Jesus by night and this is a Jewish
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  leader and he's a servant in the in the fair recidical movement.
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  And he addresses Jesus as rabbi teacher.
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  We know that you're a teacher coming from God, for no one can
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  do these things that you do unless God is with him.
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  And Jesus answered him and said, most assuredly, I say to you,
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  unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
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  He wasn't talking to him about obeying the law and fulfilling,
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  fulfilling the law. He was talking to him about
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  something he never heard in his life before.
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  He said, and Nicodemus says to him, how can a man be born when
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  he is old? Can he enter a second time into
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  his mother's wombs and womb and be born?
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  And Jesus answered most assuredly I say to you, unless
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  one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the
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  Kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is
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  flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit.
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  Do not marvel that I say to you, you must be born again.
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  The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,
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  but cannot tell where it comes from, where it goes.
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  So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
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  And Nicodemus answered and said, How can these things be?
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  And Jesus answered to him and said to him, Are you the teacher
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  of Israel? And you do not know these
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  things? Isn't that interesting?
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  The blind leading the blind how many churches a day on a Sunday
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  throughout the earth are trying to tell the people they got to
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  get better, they got to work harder, They got to do this and
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  they got to do that and they're condemned and they're beaten
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  down and they're walking out. Man, I got to do that.
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  I'm such a loss. I just can't do it and instead
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  of the shepherd's taking the load off and Jesus said my yoke
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  is easy and my burden is light right coming to me, all you that
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  labor and are heavy laden. I'm that isn't my guilt trip.
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  That isn't what I'm giving you learn of me, for my yoke is easy
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  and my burden is light. And Jesus is saying you're a
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  teacher of Israel and you don't know these things.
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  Most surely I say to you, we speak what we know and we
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  testify what we've seen and you do not receive our witness.
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  And there's a struggle in society and Christian society
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  today of a group of people that believe in works, righteousness,
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  and a group of people that believe in grace.
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  And Paul couldn't have gone any clearer in Ephesians 289.
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  For by grace you've been saved right through faith.
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  And this is not yourselves. It's what a gift of God, not of
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  works, bless. Any man should boast.
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  We need to praise our Lord for what he's done for us.
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  Amen. We need to thank him for his
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  grace. We need to praise him for his
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  grace and Be Walking in Grace is a great book, if you've never
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  read it, called Why Grace Changes Everything.
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  It's the whole philosophy of what Calvary Chapel is about.
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  And I encourage you to read that book if you haven't read it yet
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  because we can forget. And Paul wrote the book of
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  Galatians to Christians in Galatia who were starting to
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  forget that they were saved by grace and they were trying to
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  get back in God's good graces by the energy of the flesh.
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  And that's why he said, oh, foolish Galatians, who deceived
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  you? So he says, no one has ascended
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  to heaven, but he who came down from heaven, that is the Son of
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  man who's in heaven as Moses was lifted up, as Moses lifted up
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  the serpent and the wilderness, Even so must the Son of Man be
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  lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but
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  have eternal life. For God so loved the world that
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  he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him
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  should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  This is a good news for you and me today.
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  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the
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  world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
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  He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not
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  believe is condemned already because he's not believed in the
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  name of the only begotten Son of God.
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  So today there's two groups of people here.
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  We have the condemned and the free.
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  If you're here in Christ today, you're forgiven, you're under
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  his mercy and his grace, and you're free.
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  But if you're here today and you reject the message of Christ,
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  you're condemned already because there's no other way to be saved
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  but through the miracle of new birth.
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  And you might sit here and say, well, I don't know if I've ever
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  had that happen to me. If you're, if you're saying that
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  today it hasn't happened to you, but it can happen to you.
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  And there's many here that can testify of the power of the
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  spirit and, and the experience of being born again.
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  I remember when I was 2020, I was living at the shore and I
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  was working in a parking lot and I was just coming out of hippie
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  thing. And, you know, I, I still, you
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  know, thought that way and that I was slowly changing because
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  the Holy Spirit had come into my heart and my bedroom.
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  I was reading the Bible and I was saying, God, if there's, if
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  this is real, I need you to reveal yourself to me because I
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  think I'm going to lose my mind from the abuse of drugs in my
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  life. And I started with Matthew and I
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  went through Mark and I went through Luke and I went through
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  John. And by the time I got to John, I
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  was in love with this person, Jesus Christ.
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  I said, I've never met or discovered or read about anybody
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  like him. He was cool all the time.
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  He handled every situation perfectly.
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  He had a love that I wanted to emulate my life for people.
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  And when his love apprehended me, it changed my life.
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  The beginning of the road that leads to life.
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  And so I, these guys are saying, you know, you go to this church,
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  man, it, you know, it's good down there.
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  And that's a church, man. I've been in church.
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  I'm not interested in church. You know, I've been in these
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  dead churches. I don't, I'm not into the
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  instant American, you know, I'm not into the institutional
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  church and had such a disdain for it that Cindy and I refused
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  to get married in a church. We had to get married outside of
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  church because of what it had represented to us growing up,
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  both of us. So I remember, you know, they
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  said we'll get down here, man, it's cool.
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  You know, there's people down there talking about Jesus and
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  I'm thinking people in church actually talking about Jesus and
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  they love him and they want to follow him.
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  You know, I'm thinking that I've never seen anything like that.
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  So I went in and right across the top of the church, big
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  Brownwood statement, you must be born again.
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  I walked in. I was like, that's what happened
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  to me. That's what happened to me.
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  You know, my hair is jumping down and I had my multi colored
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  quarter away pants on. And people are like, yeah, man,
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  you know. But the pastor, he, he just like
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  he, he knew what it was about. He knew what had happened in my
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  life. And so he began to mentor me and
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  eventually Cindy and and you know, so if you haven't been
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  born again, I highly recommend it.
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  Acts chapter 4 again, this is the power of the Holy Spirit
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  through the apostle and he's preaching and this is the the
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  power of God through this man's life.
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  Peter and verse 8 filled with the Holy Spirit said to them in
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  verse 8 of chapter 4, rulers of the people and elders of Israel.
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  If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless
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  man, by what means has he been made?
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  Well they just the Lord just healed.
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  This guy says let it be known to you all and to all the people of
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  Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you
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  crucified, whom God raised from the dead by him, this man stands
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  here before you whole. This is a stone which was
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  rejected by you builders, which has become the chief
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  cornerstone. Nor is there salvation in any
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  other, for there is no other name under heaven given among
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  men whereby we must be saved. So the the authority of the
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  Apostle Peter, a born again Jew, filled with the power of the
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  Holy Spirit, speaking to his own people.
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  You guys missed it. You're trying to build these
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  tabernacles and do all this religious worship and, and all
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  this stuff you're trying to be so precise with and so detailed
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  with. And the main thing that makes us
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  all work is Jesus Christ. And you've just pushed him
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  aside. And so your structure and your
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  building and everything you've stand stood upon in regards to
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  your spirituality is going to fall and be decimated because it
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  can't stand up against the truth of the person of Jesus Christ.
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  So again, you can't get saved through Buddha, Krishna,
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  Muhammad, any everybody but Jesus Christ Jesus said I am the
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  way, I am the truth, I'm the life.
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  No man comes to the Father but through me.
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  So today in Revelation 1217 we see the Jewish remnant and to
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  the day as we think about Israel, they're filled with
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  unbelief for the most part. As I said earlier, the virtually
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  the whole world is anti Israel and the stage is being set in
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  these last days for the tribulation events that are
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  going to come upon the small nation of whom the Lord loves
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  Iran of Jennidad, however he pronounces his name.
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  That guy thinks daily his purpose in life is to wipe
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  Israel off the face of the earth.
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  He's he's not a fool. This guy is focused, he's
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  determined and he's not going to let anything set him aside from
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  his goal. Now we're thankful God's
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  sovereign and and it's not going to happen the way he predicts,
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  but nonetheless, he could be used by the evil one that caused
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  great chaos in this nation. And every day there's pressure,
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  the mounting in that part of the world because of what's going on
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  in that part of the nation. Now, what's God's heart for
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  Israel? If you turn to Luke chapter 13,
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  as we begin to wind down, it's real important to get a picture
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  of how the Lord feels about this country, how he loves it.
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  Luke chapter 13, Luke chapter 13, verse 34 and 35.
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  This is Jesus lamenting over his beloved city, Jerusalem.
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  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and
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  stones those who are sent to her.
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  Think about all the Old Testament scriptures where they
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  rejected God's prophets and his messengers.
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  How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hand
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  gathers her brood under her wings.
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  But you were not willing. See, your house is left to you
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  to desolate. And assuredly I say to you, you
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  shall not see me until the time comes when you say, blessed is
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  he who comes in the name of the Lord.
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  The Bible says when Christ returns at the second coming,
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  every eye will see him coming down out of the clouds of glory.
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  And the Jews, the remnant, all the people who are on the face
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  of the earth, it says they will look up and see him whom they've
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  pierced and realize He's their Messiah.
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  And there'll be a great in gathering of multitudes of
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  people into the heavenly Kingdom at that time.
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  Now flip over to Romans Chapter 11, Romans Chapter 11, verse 23.
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  And they also, if they do not continue and unbelief will be
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  grafted in, for God is able to graft them in.
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  Again, this is talking about the nation of Israel.
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  OK, they they rejected Christ and it appears that there's no
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  interest, but that's not the way it ends.
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  This is what the Lord's able to do if they don't continue an
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  unbelief. In other words, if they begin to
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  become believers and and there are many born again Jews over
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  the last since 1948 when the nation was restored.
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  There's this movement toward the homeland and and Jewish people
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  all over the world. It's like a magnet.
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  They're not a they don't understand why all of a sudden
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  they want to go to Israel, but God has put it in their heart.
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  That's their homeland, that's their, their birth land.
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  And so there's this movement of, of immigration into this nation
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  from all over the world. But the Lord has a heart and a
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  purpose. And he says that he can graft
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  them in again. For if you were cut off of the
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  olive tree, which is wild by nature and were grafted contrary
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  to nature into cultivated olive tree, how much more will these
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  who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive
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  tree? So the wild branches where they
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  Gentiles people like us that God in his mercy transformed us and
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  made us fit into his eternal plan.
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  But he didn't set aside the nation of Israel, his remnant,
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  his people and he's going to be able to graft them in again.
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  Who are the the natural born people that God has intended to
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  save from the beginning and verse 25 for I do not desire
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  brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery.
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  And so the Lord telling us today his brothers and sisters in
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  Christ here at Calvary. He doesn't want to us to be like
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  confused about this stuff mixed up.
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  I mean, it's amazing how many evangelical churches that they
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  have different opinions about this subject.
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  Lest you should be wise in your own opinion.
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  That blindness, in part, has happened to Israel until the
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  fullness of the time of the Gentiles has come in.
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  And so now we see that the body of Christ is the Gentile
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  movement. The time of the fullness of the
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  Gentiles is when that last person gets saved as as the
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  gospel goes into the ends of the earth, when that bride of Christ
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  is complete, then we're taken out.
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  The rapture occurs. But the Lord is not finished
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  with Israel though. And the good news is that Israel
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  was set aside for a period of time so that God can have his
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  perfect will and work and our hearts and lives.
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  Now Revelation 17 flip over there.
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  We're going through a lot of flipping around today, but
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  that's good because that way you'll get familiar with these
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  things and you can share them with other people.
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  Revelation 17 says Behold, he's coming with clouds, every eye
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  will see him, even they who pierced him, and all the tribes
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  of the earth, referring to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac
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  and Jacob of the earth, will mourn because of him.
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  Even so, Amen. They pierced him.
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  They rejected him. Zechariah chapter 12 refers and
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  details the ones who are identified as the ones who
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  pierced him as the House of David and the inhabitants of
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  Jerusalem. And he prophesized that they
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  will have tears of true repentance because of what they
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  did to their Messiah. And it says here in Revelation
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  17, all the tribes will mourn. Zechariah 12/10 says, And I will
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  pour on the House of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
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  the spirit of grace and supplication.
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  Spirit of grace. That's what we need, isn't it?
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  All of us. I pray that this place is a
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  spirit of grace for you, that God's Holy Spirit pours out on
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  you and builds you up and strengthens you and encourages
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  you in the grace of God. For there's nothing else that
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  can sustain you and me but by the grace of God.
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  And then they will look on him whom they Pierce.
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  I like to end in reading Psalm 122 tremendous messianic Psalm
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  prophetical that will one day be completely fulfilled.
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  It says I was glad when they said to me, let us go into the
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  House of the Lord. Our feet have been standing
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  within your gates of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is built as a city
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  that is compact together where the tribes go up, the tribes of
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  the Lord to the testimony of Israel to give thanks to the
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  name of the Lord. For Thrones are set there for
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  judgment. The Thrones of the House of
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  David. Pray for the peace from
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  Jerusalem. We support the ministries in
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  Jerusalem. We pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem, because until there's peace in Jerusalem, there will
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  be no peace on this earth. Peace be within your walls,
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  prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and
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  companions, I will now say peace be within you.
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  Because of the House of the Lord our God.
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  I will seek your good. Does God have a plan for Israel?
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  Amen. He sure does.
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  Does he have a plan for us? Yes, he does, as I have not seen
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  nor ear heard nor entered into the heart of man the things that
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  God has prepared for those who love him.
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  If I was a dancing pastor up here, I'd be dancing all around
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  like a maniac. I'm psyched today.
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  I mean, I just, I mean, this, this stuff, if it doesn't like
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  wake us up out of our complacency and lethargy, man,
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  what do we need? We need a blood transfusion,
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  right? Not a human blood transfusion,
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  but a Holy Spirit poured out. Holy Ghost Jesus, blood
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  transfusion. Amen.
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  We are digging into the Book of Revelation here on Living Waters
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  of Grace. Pastor Clark is tackling this
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  challenging book as we try to discern the messages that are
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  within its pages. There's so much imagery and at
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  times you're not always sure what's literal and what's
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  metaphorical. At one point there's a reference
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  to an adulterous woman riding on a beast.
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  And as someone else mentioned, at one point it almost sounds
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  like a rodeo from hell. And in actuality it kind of is.
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  You learn about the downfall and demise of a sinful and
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  rebellious world, falling down in worship to someone who is the
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  anti hero, the enemy, Satan working his insidious ways into
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  the minds of fallen people. It's sad and it's heartbreaking,
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  but it's a classic story of good versus evil.
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  Thankfully, we know how this story ends.
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  Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and evil is conquered once and for
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  all. We pray and trust you've
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  received Jesus as your Savior. But if you haven't, don't wait
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  until the events in Revelation become what's happening on the
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  streets. None of us wants you to be there
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  at that time. Instead, we'd love for you to be
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  with us in heaven as we celebrate the marriage supper
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  with Jesus as his bridegroom. To get a better understanding of
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  where we are in the Book of Revelation, to listen to any
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  messages before or after this one, you can find them at our
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  website, calvarychapelonline.com.
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  That's it for today's edition, but we hope you'll want to hear
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  Pastor Clark teach more from the Book of Revelation.
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  It can be exciting to think about the future for believers,
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  but it can feel a bit harrowing for those who don't believe.
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  Come hear more next time on Living Waters of Grace.