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Episode 75: The John Epistles - Part II · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we want to thank you for your great love that you've
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shown towards us while we were yet sinners. Christ died for us to redeem
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us from all iniquity, to purify to himself a people, a peculiar people,
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holy people, a royal priesthood. Lord, and we are now your
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people, the sons of God. Doth not yet appear what we shall be,
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but we know that when you shall appear, we are going to be
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like you. And Lord. Today we want to just say thank you.
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Thank you for the blood of Jesus that were shared for the remission of our
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sins, so that we might now have a right to the tree of life.
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Thank you for coming to give us life and life more abundantly. Blessing.
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Now your word within our hearts to day, help us to be obedient
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hearers, not forgetful of the things which you have spoken, Lord, that
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we might live a man, a life pleasing to you, and be found
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worthy to escape the things that are coming to pass. We give you praise,
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glory, honor in all things, a man and a man all right,
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God, bless you again. We thank God again for this day that
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the Lord has made, and we are certainly glad to be breathing the breath
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of life that comes from God, our Savior, God the Creator, Amen,
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God the Sustainer. Amen, God, the giver of life. We
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live in him, we move in him, we have our being in him,
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and without him, apart from him, we do nothing. Amen.
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We are nothing. Amen. So we thank God again for life and life
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more abundantly brought down to us by Jesus, the Christ of God, Amen,
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the Christ of cavalry, the Christ and a man champion of our salvation.
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Amen. And again we are certainly grateful to the Lord. Amen.
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For Amen, all of his benefits, all of his benefits towards us.
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Amen. All right, those of you who may be listening for the first
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the Lord. That's what we're here to proclaim, a man to preach the
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word. Be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke,
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exhort with all on suffering and doctrine. Amen, Because the time has come,
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as the apostle Paul, a man prophesied and not will come. It
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is here. The time has come when people do not want to hear sound
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doctrine. We are living certainly in that age. Also, this is something
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I've been meaning to do for a very long time. I'm going to give
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an email address where I can be contacted, and I will respond as as
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I get the time to. So please be patient. If you do contact
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us by email, a man, I will respond and due course as the
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time permits. I do not have a staff of people a man to a
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man filter through, and or a man to respond to emails and contact and
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all of that uh communications. Rather, so I will have to a man
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respond to you in due course. The email address If you would like to
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contact me, if you have any questions, concerns, or comments or whatever,
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you can contact me by way of email E t R m U s
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A at gmail dot com. That is E for End Time Revival Ministers us
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at gmail dot com. Amen. We welcome your comments. We also welcome
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your amen, questions and or criticism. If you have something that you would
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like to a man address, perhaps something that I said misspoke, A man
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feel free. We will certainly address any concerns also as time permits. As
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time permits. All right, we're in a series that I've just begun on
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last week in the epistles of John the Apostle, and of course, by
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way of introduction, in our last session we certainly spoke of this apostle as
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being, of course one of those who was with Jesus during his entire earthly
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ministry period of three and a half years. He was one of those also
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who was in the inner circle, as it were, along with Peter and
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James, a man that also witnessed certain events, for example, the transfiguration
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of Jesus, that the other disciples did not a man have a man the
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privilege of seeing, but a man. This man, of course was also
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Uh the author of the Gospel of John, as well as the revelation of
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Jesus Christ that the Lord showed to him a man while he was exiled on
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the isle of Patmos. So this apostle was not only one who was close
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to Jesus. He has the authority the first hand first person, I witness
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a man account of a man many if not all, of the events Uh
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that that he could have possibly witnessed, I suppose, in the a man
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earthly ministry of Jesus. So we're not getting from someone who was a second
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hand or third or fourth hand source. Were getting a man words and doctrine
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and instruction from some one who was a first hand, a man day to
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day, a man, disciple of Jesus, who was right there, a
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man all the way to the very end. Even at the crucifixion of Jesus.
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He was there with the Mother of Jesus and some of the other women.
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He was there, amen, and the Lord gave him a man some
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words from the cross. And John again, a man is an eyewitness,
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a man, first hand eyewitness of the amen ministry of Jesus while he was
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here on this earth. And also he was there when the Lord ascended back
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up to heaven. He saw the risen Savior. He ate with him,
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and this is what he was talking about. We've touched him, we handled
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him a man, the word of life, the word that was manifested a
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man and shown to us a man. John was there, a man.
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So we are delving into a man, the writings of this rate apostle,
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a man that the Lord chose to a man give the revelation a man of
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things succom the revelation of Jesus Christ also was given to this great man.
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All right, today we're going to be in chapter number two a First John.
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He wrote three letters, the first of these we are in beginning with
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chapter two. We're gonna conduct a portion of this chapter on today, and
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then we are going to a man, go to a man the other section
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as time permits. So First John, chapter number two, and beginning at
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verse number one, I'm going to read, and then I'll go back to
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our exhortation and just a expository preaching of this, teaching of this, and
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just a few moments. So if you have your Bibles, you can go
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with us to First John, chapter number two. I'll begin reading at verse
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number one. My little children, these things write I unto you that you
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sin not, And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the
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Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous, and he is the propitiation for our
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sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
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whole world. And hereby we do know that we know him. If we
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keep his commandments, he that saith I know him, and keepeth not his
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commandments. Is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But
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to whoso keepeth his word in him, verily is the love of God perfected
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hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith, he abideth
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in him, aught himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
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Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but in old commandment,
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which he had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you
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have heard from the beginning. A new commandment, he says again, a
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new commandment. I write unto you, which thing is true in him and
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in you. Because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
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He that saith, he is in the light, and hateth his brother
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is in darkness. Even until now, he that loveth his brother abideth in
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the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he
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that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in darkness. And
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nor not that whether he goeth, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.
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I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for you,
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forgiving you brother for his namesake. I write unto your father's because you
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have known him that is from the beginning, I write unto you, young
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men, because you have overcome the wicked. One. I write unto you,
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little children, because you have known the Father. I have written unto
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you fathers, because you have known him. That is from the beginning.
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I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and
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the word of God abideth in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.
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Verse fifteen. Love not the world, neither the things that are in
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the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father
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is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust
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of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life
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is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world
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passeth away, and the lust thereof. But he that doeth the will of
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God abideth for ever. Amen. First John chapter two. We read a
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portion of it in your hearing. Verse number one. We go back a
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man to this beginning of this portion of this letter from this apostle, this
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great apostle, writing to the people of God, the children of God,
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as he addresses the us as little children. And that's what Jesus said,
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by the way, except you be converted and become as a little child.
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Amen. We are the children of God. And we are the children of
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God by adoption. I mean, we're not by birth the children of God.
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We are the children of God by adoption a man. And so he
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says, my little children, these things I write to you so that you
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may not sin. There we have purpose here, Amen, purpose, and
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that's what we're gonna get to. By the way, just a minute.
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This is God. God's word has purpose in it. Amen. And John
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states that purpose here for writing these things to the church so that we may
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not sin. But listen what he says, and if anyone sins, we
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have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous and the power.
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This is the power of the word of God, the efficacy of the
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Word of God. Amen. The power and the efficacy of the Gospel of
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Jesus Christ. In its potency a man, the written word, the spoken
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word of God, a man, it is able to keep us from falling
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into sin. Amen, Thy word, the Psalmist said, have I hidden
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where in my heart that I might not sin against you? The psalmist on
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David understood this. He wrote this. Amen. He understood the power and
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the efficacy of the word of God, wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his
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way by taking he there too to thy word. Your word or Lord is
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a lamp until our feet. It is a light unto our pathway. And
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so John says, I write these things to you so that you you may
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not sin. We don't have to sin, Amen, We don't need to
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be falling into sin, falling in and out of sin, living in sin,
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having sin take over us and direct us. And no, no,
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no, no no, Romans Chapter six. Sin shall not have dominion over
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you. He that is dead. If you're dead in Christ, you are
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free from sin. The power of sin, the shackles of sin, the
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bondage of sin. He whom the sun sets free is what free. Indeed,
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Amen, the word of God is quick, the Bible says, powerful,
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sharper than any two edged short, and the word of God penetrates the
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inner mary and bones. This is what John understands, as again as all
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of the Amen, the prophets of old. Amen. Jesus himself when he
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spoke of the power of the Word, and that's why he spoke what he
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spoke, Amen. And that's why they said, no one has ever spoken
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like this man, No one ever spake like this. Amen. This is
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a very word of God incarnate a man and God Amen again, when he
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speaks a man. These are not idle words. It has power, it
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has authority. Amen. And the word of God is quick and powerful and
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sharper than any to ag short. It penetrates the inner marrow, the bone,
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the inner man a man. It goes right to the heart. Amen.
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The Bible tells us it is a discerner of the thoughts and the intense
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of the heart. That's how powerful the word of God is. Amen.
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And the will of God is for us not to sin, not to live
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in sin, not to practice sin, Amen, not to fall in sin,
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not for sin to have dominion over us. That's the will of God.
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And that's why we need the word of God. Amen. However,
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if we do sin, and if any man does sin, the Bible says,
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we have an advocate. Oh my God, Thank you Jesus, Amen
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for being there for us. Amen. At the right hand of the Majesty.
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Amen, Jesus Christ, the Righteous Amen, the mediator between God and
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man, the one who makes intercession for us, the Holy One, Amen,
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interceding on our behalf. Amen. Thank God for Jesus Amen. Amen.
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Not only did he die for our sins, but he even now as
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we are being perfected, as we are being sanctified, Amen, and washed
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and renewed. Amen. Ah, He's there. He's there for you,
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He's there for me. Amen. We have an advocate, We have someone,
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a man who is for us. Amen. Who is with us?
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Amen, who is the one who forgives us? Amen. He is on
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your side, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God. Jesus Christ
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is for you. Amen. He wants you to make it. Amen.
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It is designed for you to make it, not to fall. Amen.
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God has not appointed us to wrath, but the Bible says, but to
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obtain salvation through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen, all that come to
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him, all that are truly saved. We're gonna make it. Not because
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of our good not because we're holding on to him, not because of our
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good works or uh uh or our own power a man. No, no,
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no, no, no no. It's because Jesus Christ is interceding on
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our behalf when we sin, when we fall short of the glory of God.
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He's there. Amen. As he said on the cross, Father,
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what forgive them? Forgive them? Amen. Look at verse number two.
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He himself, Jesus, Christ, himself is the propitiation for our sins,
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and not for hours only, but also for the whole, where Christ Jesus
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is the propitiation. In other words, Jesus came into this world, he
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said, for this cause, I have come to this hour. He came
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to give himself Amen, to shed his blood a man. And what he
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did in that death, Amen, in that a man laying down of his
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life Amen, on this earth, surrendering himself to the will of men.
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Amen, their wicked hands, because of their own motives, taking him and
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murdering him. Amen. He gave himself to them to become our substitute.
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Amen. And in doing so, he took on himself the obligations of our
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sin, debt of our guilt. Amen, and he expunged it, that
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is, all of our sins. He expunged it. By Amen, this
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vicarious Amen, punishment, this sacrifice that he endured in his body on the
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cross. Amen, that's what he That's what happened there, ladies and gentlemen,
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when Jesus died that death. That's why he was praying in the garden.
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Amen. Amen, If it be possible take this cup from me,
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nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. What cup? Was
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he talking about the bitterness of the sins of all of us? Amen,
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in that cup that he had to take upon himself. He knew in that
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moment that he would be separated, that darkness would come, that he himself,
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who knew no sin, would become sin. He would become and the
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worst, the most vile of all sinners at that moment, because he took
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on all of our sins. That's what it means when we were talking about
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propitiation. He paid the price, He paid the debt. He was the
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substitute for something that we could not do ourselves. And when he offered himself
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and he drank from that bitter cup, that was a transference of guilt from
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us to him and a transference of righteousness from him to us. He paid
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in full the sin debt we could never have repaid. That's what he did.
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He became the propitiation, he became the substitute, and we were the
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scapegoats. Amen. He was the lamb that was slain, the lamb that
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was altered up offered up, Amen, and we escaped the death. Amen,
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that we deserve. To die. The bidle says, the wages of
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sin is death. Jesus did not sin. Jesus did not deserve to die.
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Amen. So what he did he took my place, He took your
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place. And that's why he is the propitiation for our sins. Amen.
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God hates sin, and he put it all on Jesus. So you don't
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have to die. So I don't have to die. We can live,
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amen, and have life a man more abundantly because of his great sacrifice.
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Verse number three says, now by this we know that we know him if
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we keep his commandments. Amen. To know Jesus is to obey Jesus.
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All who truly know him keep his commandments. And now you don't have to
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take that from me. I'm just relating to you what the Bible says and
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the Gospel of John. Also this same apostle who wrote this letter, in
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his Gospel of John chapter fourteen, he recorded the words of Jesus himself,
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who spoke about keeping his commandments. Amen, those who are truly his disciples
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will keep his commandments. Looks at what the Bible says, John chapter fourteen,
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Beginning at verse twenty one, I'm gonna read a few five verses here,
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I believe Versus twenty one through twenty or four verses brother, Verses twenty
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one through twenty four. He who has my commandments and keeps them, it
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is he who loves me. There it is just as plain as day Jesus
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said. This is not what the apostle John said. This is not what
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I'm saying. I'm telling you on the authority of what Jesus himself says.
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The one who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves
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me. And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and
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I will love him and manifest myself to him. Judah's not as scary,
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It said to him, Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself
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to us and not to the world. Verse twenty three. Jesus answered and
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said to him, listen what Jesus says. If anyone loves me, he
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will keep my word. If anyone loves me, he will keep my word,
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and my father will love him, and we will come to him and
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make our home with him. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
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The one who love Jesus has Jesus in them, has the love of the
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Father in them. They have God himself in them, the Spirit of God,
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amen, the Living God, the Word of God, the power of
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God, the manifestation of God, Amen, the presence of God in them.
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That's what Jesus said, My Father will love them, and we will
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come and make our home with them. Amen. But he who does not
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love me, this is only opposite end of the spectrum. If you will,
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he who does not love me does not keep my words. Amen.
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So don't, and we're gonna get to that man. He who does not
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love me does not keep my words. And the word which you hear is
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not mine, but the Father who send me. Now again, there are
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many professing to know Jesus, but they live lives contrary to the doctrine of
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Christ, to the commandments of Jesus, to the teachings of Jesus, to
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the word of God. You cannot say that you love Jesus when you're living
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contrary to everything that Jesus teaches. You cannot. Jesus said, if you
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love me, you'll keep my words. And Jesus himselves called such people workers
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of iniquity, And the Bible says, you are deceiving yourself. Amen,
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You're deceiving yourself. Lip service is not and that's why Jesus, even in
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his day, a man pointed out the hypocrisy of those and even this goes
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back to the Old Testament. These people honor me with their lips, but
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their heart is far from me. Lip service doesn't do it, folks,
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Amen, lip service alone won't do it. A lot of people professing a
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lot of people saying, a lot of people give Jesus lip service, but
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they don't love him and they don't obey him. Amen. And it shows
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by their actions, by their deeds. Amen, Jesus said, by their
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fruit, you will know them. What comes out of them, What are
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they doing, how are they conducting their lives, what are they producing?
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What works come out of them? Now, it doesn't mean that works save
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you, but with shows, it shows a man who and what you are
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and what you're all about. Amen. This is what the apostle Paul said.
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They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him,
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being abominable and disobedient. And to every good work they'll reprobate. They're not
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there. They're not for it. They're not with it, Amen, the
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good works, they're not with it. Their actions show who they really are.
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Amen, he who does not love me, does not keep my words,
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those are the worst of Jesus. Let me go on verse number four,
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First John. Back to first John again, He who says this is
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the professor's y'all. Again, a lot of folk professing. He who says
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I know him, I know Jesus and does not keep his commandments. These
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are the worst of the apostle. John. Now, and by the way,
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John got this from Jesus, because that's what I just read you,
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what Jesus said. So what John writes came from Jesus. Amen, he
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who says, he who professes to know Jesus and does not keep his commandment,
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John rights is a liar and the truth is not in him. Somebody
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is lying, and it ain't God. Somebody is lying in It ain't Jesus.
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Somebody is lying and it ain't the apostle. John. If you are
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professing to know Jesus, professing to be saved, professing to be a Christian,
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and you are living contrary to what Jesus taught, you are the liar.
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You you you are the liar, period, and you are deceiving yourself.
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You're living in delusion. You're living in deception if you think that you
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can live the way that you want to live, contrary to the word of
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God and still be a child of God. And it's going to be acceptable
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to Jesus. Oh no, no, no, no, Jesus said,
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I'm going to say to you in that day, depart from me, you
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worker of iniquity. I never knew you. You claim to know him,
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the Bible says, but you don't keep his commandments. You're a liar.
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Period, You are a liar. Your lifestyle shows what you're all about.
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Many other professors name in the name of Jesus, but they do not do
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as he commands. And it was Jesus, by the way, himself,
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who said, why call ye me Lord Lord? And do not the things
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I say? And again John bluntly states, without equivocation, again, it
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came from Jesus. That's such a professor, such a one who claims to
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know Jesus is a liar. And the truth of God is absolutely, unequivocally
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not in them. Period. No, you're a liar. Period forget verse
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five. But whoever keeps his word, whoever obeys the word of God,
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whoever has the word of God, in them lives by the word of God.
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That's what the Bible tells us, even of old in the Old Testament.
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Y'all, this is all the way back. There's nothing new. Man
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shall not live by what bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out
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of the mouth of God. See all, we like sheep go astray.
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What do we need? We need the word of God to lead us,
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to guide us, to protect us, to direct us. We got to
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have the word of God. This is why we're living in a world gone
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crazy. We have abandoned the word of God. This is why we're living
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in with churches so weakened, so ineffective, because we have abandoned the word
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of God. But whoever keeps his word, Amen, loves by the word.
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One Old Testament person said, I extreme the word of God higher than
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my necessary food, my daily food. The word of God is pre eminent.
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The word of God is first in my life. Amen. Whoever keeps
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his word truly the love of God. Listen what the Bible says is perfected
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in Him. By this we know that we are in Him, and the
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love of God is being perfected in your heart. It is obedience to the
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word of God. That brings about the perfection of the love of God in
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our lives now, not in glory, not when we get to heaven.
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No, right here, in this present world. The love of God is
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to be perfected in us. Amen. Love, love, forgiveness, that's
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all. That's a mark of having the love of God able to forgive.
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Amen. Amen. Yes, he who says he abides in him. Look
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at verse six aught himself also to walk just as he walked. Listen,
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following in the footsteps of Jesus is not just a matter again of lip service,
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as a lot of people like to do lip service, they say,
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they profess. But when it comes to footsteps, when it comes like like
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like the the the young ruler that came, and you know he had all
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these he had the lip service, he had all of the you know,
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the uh, the works. So to speak, good Master, what can
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I do? What can I do? What can I do to obtain eternal
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life? You know the commands? Oh I've kept all that? What else
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am I like? And go? Sell all you have, give it to
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the poor, Come and follow me, and you have treasure in heaven.
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Oh well, we're gonna get to that in just a minute. About the
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world see. Amen. But you want to walk like Jesus walk, make
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yourself from no reputation, take on the form of a servant. Amen.
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Walking as Jesus walk. Demands that we deny ourselves. These are the words
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of Jesus. Except we deny ourselves, take up the cross and follow him,
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we cannot be his disciple. His king them comes first. His word
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is pre eminent. His will rules over our own desires, ambitions, and
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dreams, and all of that. He's first. He is lord of all
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over all, or not lord at all. Amen. And there can be
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no other God with him beside him. Amen, no other There is no
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other God. Brother. In verse seven, I write no new commandment to
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you, but in old commandment, which you have had from the beginning.
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The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning. Again,
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a new commandment. I write to you, which thing is true in
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Him and in you, Because this is what he says. The darkness is
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passing away, and the true light is all ready shining. That's what Jesus
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came to be, the light in the world, the world that is filled
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with darkness, A man God who who commanded the light to shine out of
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the darkness has shined within our hearts. Jesus said, I am the light
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of the world, and if you follow me, you won't be in darkness.
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A man, the darkness is passing away the true light. Amen,
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that light of glory, that same light that blinded the Apostle Paul, a
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man that came from heaven, That light is now shining into this world of
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darkness, into the hearts of men and women everywhere, to illuminate them.
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Amen, to awaken them, to quicken them. Amen to the truth of
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is by the way the power of God
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into salvation to everyone that believes. A man, now, anyone who says
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verse No. Nine that he is in the light, oh, and he
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hates his brother, uh, oh, is in darkness until now. Let
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me read that again. He who says he is in the light again,
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a lot of people professing a lot of people professing to be saved, to
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be Christians, to be followers of Jesus. He who says he is in
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the light and hate his brother. The Bible says, you're in darkness.
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The manifestation of hatred comes out of a heart that is not a heart of
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love and that's what God is. God is nothing. You heard me,
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I've read it earlier, what Jesus said, they would come to living you
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to be in you. Now, God is. If God is in you,
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if God is in your heart, if the Holy Spirit is in you,
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the spirit of the Living Heart is in you. You have the love
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of God in you. And if you have the love of God and you,
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how can there be hatred inside of you? It is out of the
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heart of man, Jesus said, proceeding, proceeding, out of the heart
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of man, all of these works of the flesh. And it begins with
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a lot of our emotions, our seat of reasoning, our thinking. As
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a man thinks in his heart, so is he. Amen. And so
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this is why the word of God is so important, so necessary. Amen
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to to again, direct us, to correct us, to discipline us.
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Amen again. Hatred will rise up. Listen, hatred will rise up in
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you. You can profess all you want to be in the life. And
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if you have hatred in your heart, the Bible says, you're not in
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the light. You're in the darkness. Because the true love that is from
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God, that is God, will not permit hatred to co exists inside of
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Us first number ten. He who loves his brother abides in the light,
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lives in the light. In other words, Amen, and there is no
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cause for stumbling in him, no reason to stumble. Amen. Again,
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the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost that
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is given to us Romans chapter number five. Amen, the love of God
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is shed abroad, shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. That
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if you don't have the love of God, and you guess what you don't
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have. Also, you don't have the Holy Ghost. And if any man
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have not the spirit of the Living God, he is none of his.
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Any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is none of it.
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You don't belong, You're not saved. You're in the darkness without the
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Holy Ghost, without the spirit that Jesus Christ promised to sin. The promise
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of the Father. Is why he told his disciples to tarry, wait for
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the promise of the Father. Wait till you being endued with power from Ohai.
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That's the power of the Holy ghosts, who will be in you.
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As Jesus said, I will be in you a well of water, We
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will be in you. Amen. If you hate, if you have hatred
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in your heart. Oh no, no, no, no no. But
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listen. Conversely, verse no. Ten, he says, he who loves
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his brother abides in the light, and there's no cause for stumbling in him.
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But he who hates his brother is in darkness, walks in darkness,
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does not know where he's going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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My God, delusion, deception, that's what it is, and it comes
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from the devil. Amen. He was a murderer from the beginning. Jesus
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said, Amen, the spirit of murder, and that's why hatred. That
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why, by the way, thats what make your murder comes from hatred.
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The spirit of murder comes from the spirit of hatred. And this is why
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it's so important. Amen, again that the word of God and the love
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of God. Amen, the spirit of the Living God be in us.
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Amen. I write to you little children Verse twelve, because your sins are
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forgiving you for His namesake. Oh God, let me pause here for just
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a moment. I've got to reiterate this. Amen. We must never ever
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and I do mean never, never never never never never never never never,
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and I do mean never never forget why your sins are forgiven. Don't ever
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forget. It is nothing that you did. Well. Our came, and
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our our assault, Jesus and our no no, no, no, no
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no no. God did this for his namesake, for his glory. Amen,
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And he made us partakers of his glory. Don't ever forget the reason
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why your sins are forgiven in you. They are forgiving you for his namesake.
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Is not because of anything whatsoever that any of us have done. Nothing
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on our part. Nothing. We are unworthy, we are unfit to even
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approach his presence. And the only reason we can approach him is because he
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opened up the way for us to come. And that way, that one
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way, that only way, is Jesus the Christ, the only mediator between
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God and man. Otherwise we would have no hope. We were dead in
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our trespasses and sins. We were born in sin, shaving in iniquity with
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our or hearts and minds. The Bible says, heart of man, desperately
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wicked, wicked from our youth up a man running away from him. Nothing.
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We've done nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing we've done to deserve the
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gift of God's love, his forgiveness, his mercy. Amen. Nothing we
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have been forgiven, and we have been pardoned for his name sake. This
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is the profound gift of God. Listen, this is what the apostle Pause
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wrote in this letter to the Ephesians. Amen, not by works, not
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of nothing. Please don't ever forget that. Amen, it is the gift
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of God. It's not of works. Less any of us should boast,
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not of works nothing. All of our righteousness is as filthy rags in his
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sight. Amen, Your sins, my sins, are forgiven for his name's
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sake. Never forget that verse thirteen. I write to you, fathers,
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because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you,
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young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to
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you little children, because you have known the Father. I have written unto
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you fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I've
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written to you young men because you are strong and the Word of God abides
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in you, and you have overcome the wicked one. So listen, let
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me just take just a quick moment here. This is very important again,
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overcoming, overcoming, overcoming, and this is this is exactly why we have
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been equipped with the Word of God, with the power of the Holy Spirit.
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A man in order to and not to even mention all of the weapons
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that God has given to us, and we put on the whole armor of
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God a man and use the weapons that God has given to us. There
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is absolutely ladies and gentlemen, it's listen. Do you not, Oh?
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I wish I had the time. I don't even have I do not have
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the time. Weak and I y'all hurt me. If you've listened to this
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broadcast podcast over the last however long you've you've no doubt you've hurt me.
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Reiterate over and over again, how it is impossible for or any true child
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of God to lose or to be lost. Amen. We cannot lose,
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ladies and gentlemen, We overcome. We win. How why how by the
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blood of Jesus, Because his blood has washed away our sins, His blood
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has made us new creations in him, the forgiveness of our sins. I'm
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talking about people who have truly forgiven. He who has been forgiven much loves
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much. Jesus says, who has been forgiven little loves little. Amen.
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I won't I won't take the time to delve into that. But uh,
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if your sins have been truly forgiven, if you are truly a man washed
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in the blood of the Lamb, and you know let me let me go
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back to what the apostle wrote earlier about knowing Jesus. When you know Jesus,
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you know what Jesus did. You know what Jesus took upon himself.
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You know the Christ that he paid. Amen. And you appreciate that.
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Amen. You don't take it for granted. Amen. And you don't live
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your life again in in in a contrary way to what he has taught,
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what he is commanded of us. Those who are truly forgiven, who are
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truly washed in the blood of the Lamb. Amen, They live their lives
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Amen, in obedience to the word of God. Amen. Now please understand.
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Doesn't mean that they never sin, doesn't mean that they don't stumble at
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times and fall short of the glory of God. All have sin and falling
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short of the glory of God. That's why John wrote, we have an
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advocate. If any man sins, he's talking about us. He's not talking
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about people in the world. That's what they are doing practicing. They live
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in sin. They practice sin. They are sinners by nature and continuing to
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sin until and unlessen until your mother, they come into the knowledge of the
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truth. But those of us who have been saved, we are not to
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be practicing sin. But if any man, any man, does sin,
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the Bible says, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ,
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the Righteous. And we are overcomerce again, not by our own power,
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not by our own might, not of our own doing, but with the
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weapons that God has given to us, with his spirit in us, with
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his word that He's provided to us, with him a man on our behalf,
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as our mediator, as our intercessor. How can we lose. That's
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how we overcome the wicked one. Amen. That's how we are strong.
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Listen what he says. I've written to you, young men, because you
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are strong and the word of God abides in you. That's how you overcome.
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That's how you conquer more than conquerors. Amen. All right, let
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me finish up here. Verse fifteen. Do not love the world or the
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things in the world. If anyone loves the world, oh watch this,
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the love of the Father is not in him. I'm gonna read that version
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one more time. Do not love the world. That's a command, y'all.
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Or the things in the world if anyone loves the world, the love
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of the Father is not in him. Now. The world hated Jesus then,
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while he was here during his earthly ministry, he spoke of that the
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world hates me because I testify of its deeds, that they are evil.
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The world hates me. Amen. Jesus said that the world hated him then,
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and the world hates Jesus. Now, make no mistake about it,
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ladies and gentlemen, this world hates Jesus. Now. We are either with
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Jesus, or we are with the world. We love Jesus, or or
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we love the world. We obey Jesus, or we obey the world we
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walk according to the dictates of this world. Can I be both? We
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cannot be true disciples of Jesus while loving a world that despises, that detests,
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that hates, that rejects Jesus. Don't tell me if that's not what
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the Bible says. You cannot be a lover of this world and a lover
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of Jesus at the same time. Anyone who is in love with this world,
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the Bible says, does not have the love of God in him.
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Anyone who is in love with the things of this world does not have the
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love of God in him. Jesus put it this way. You have heard
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me say this before. No man can serve two masters. You're gonna love
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one hate the other. You're gonna clean to one or clean to the other.
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The Bible says verse sixteen, for all that is in the world,
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the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride
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of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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This world is filled and operated by selfish ambitions, greed, covetousness, and
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pride. That's what rules in our world system today. And those who are
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seeking after and longing for the temporal treasures and pleasures of this world, they
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are not the children of God. Verse seventeen tells us the world is passing
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away and the lust of it. But he who does the will of God
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abides for ever. Let me close you out with these words from Second Peter,
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chapter three, so that you do not forget. Do not forget.
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Is so easy to when you walk around, look around and surmising your carnal
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mind, with your narrow perspective on this world, that you think that these
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monuments, these buildings, these beautiful places in cities and all this stuff will
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be here always. Your magnificent three thousand, five thousand square foot house is
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going to be here for no, no, no, ladies and gentlemen,
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This world, this earth as we know it, it's not going to always
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be here as we know it. Second Peter, chapter three, verse eight.
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Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing. That one day is
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with the Lord is a thousand years and a thousand years. It's one day.
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise. Some men count slackness,
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but as long suffering to us, what not willing that any should perish,
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but that all should come to repentance. But the day, listen, ladies
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and gentlemen, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
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night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,
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and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also, and the
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works that are therein shall be burned up. That's why your treasure there must
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be in heaven. That's what Jesus told us. Put your treasures in heaven.
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And men, seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner
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of persons ought ye to be in holy comfort in all holy conversation and godliness,
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looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord,
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wherein the heavens being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall
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meet with fervor and heat. Nevertheless, we, according to His promise,
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look for new heavens and a new Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore,
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Beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that ye may
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be fond of Him in peace, without spot and blameless love. Not this
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world, this world, this world, system, everything in it, all
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the works in it, burned up, burned up, burned up. Where
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your treasure is, That's where your heart is going to be. I pray
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today that your treasures are being stored up in heaven, laid up in heaven,
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as Jesus commanded us a man, so that you will not be bankrupt
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when Jesus returns. Father, help us today to walk worthy of this vocation,
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to speak the truth and novel heart, to love you above all else,
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all others, all things, the things of this world. Keep from
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us covetousness, greed, and pride, so that we may be found in
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you, blameless and spotless God, get the glory out of the lives of
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your people everywhere. In Jesus name, we pray and give thanks a man
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and a man