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Living Waters of Grace 12.19.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis
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  Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland
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  County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  So he said Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners
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  and Paul's acknowledging and he says, and I am chief, I'm one of
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  the worst. And when he says that, he's not
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  saying while I compare myself to your sin, oh, my sins worse than
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  yours. That's not what he's talking
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  about. I've even heard that before
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  people comparing sins. Well, you should see what I used
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  to do. Paul's saying compared to God.
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  Would to God that we would see ourselves this way as sinners
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  saved by the grace of God, and also would to God that we would
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  see everyone else this way who has come into a saving knowledge
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  of faith in Jesus Christ. So often we do exactly what
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  Pastor Lewis said a moment ago. We compare, well, my sin isn't
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  as bad as his, but that's not what the point of sin is or the
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  fact that we are separated from God.
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  Yes, the point is that everyone is a Sinner and we all need
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  Jesus, no matter what we've done.
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  Now here's Pastor Lewis in the Book of First Timothy, chapter
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  one with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  We ain't getting started yet, so we're going to.
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  I want to thank also those who are listening behind prison
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  doors. I pray that the worship and the
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  praise today blessed you. And I pray that the Word of God
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  ministers to your heart today. Amen.
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  Well, let's get ready to get into the Word of God.
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  Can we please turn in our Bibles to the first chapter of First
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  Timothy? And this week we're going to
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  look at verses 12 through 21st Timothy chapter 1, verses 12
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  through 20. Let's pray and go into the word,
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  Father, God in Jesus name, just as the song said, Lord, have
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  your own way. Have your own way, Lord.
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  I pray, Father, that You speak through these scriptures to us,
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  Lord, that You would touch our hearts, Lord, that You would
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  open our eyes and show us the glorious and wonderful and
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  marvelous things that are in Your word.
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  I pray, Father, today that You reveal to us truth, because
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  truth is revealed and not discovered, Lord, so reveal to
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  us Your truth. Cause our hearts, O God, to be
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  made softly. So when we leave here today,
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  cause, us, O God, to know something more about You.
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  Cause us, O God, to have something more that we can pray
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  about giving over to You and 'cause this most of all, Lord,
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  to be more surrendered to you. So we ask these things in the
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  name of our Savior and our Lord. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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  Amen. Let's go to first Timothy
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  chapter one verse, verse 12. I'm going to read this and then
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  we're going to go back and we're going to discuss it.
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  It says, and I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled
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  me because he counted me faithful, putting me into the
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  ministry, although I was formerly A blasphemer, A
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  persecutor, and an insolent man. But I obtained mercy because I
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  did it ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord was
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  exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ
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  Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and
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  worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world
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  to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
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  However, for this reason I obtain mercy, that in me first
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  Jesus Christ might show all long-suffering as a pattern to
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  those who are going to believe on Him for everlasting life.
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  Now to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible to God, who
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  alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever.
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  Amen. This charge I commit to you, son
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  Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made
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  concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, or
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  that you may fight the good fight, or that you may fight the
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  battle wells other ways that some of the other participations
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  may have, some of the other versions of the Bible may have.
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  Verse 19 says having faith and good conscience, which some,
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  having rejected concerning the faith, have suffered shipwreck.
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  Of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I deliver to
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  Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
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  Amen. Lord bless His word.
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  So as we go into this, the first thing that we have to do is to
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  think about what we talked about in verses one through 11.
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  So if we go back and we look at that, just a couple of things.
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  Now, Paul is writing this letter to Timothy, and this is one of
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  the three epistles, one of the three pastoral or leadership
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  epistles that Paul is writing to.
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  And the purpose of this is to give encouragement and direction
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  and the things for the New Testament church, the things of
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  the Lord for the New Testament church.
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  And as he's writing this, he's commanding Timothy that the
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  first thing you have to do is to make sure that they don't teach
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  any other doctrine, no other doctrine.
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  Don't let teachers come in, false teachers come in and
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  totally derail the people by teaching things that are not in
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  accordance with good doctrine. And then he lists a number of
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  different things as he talked about how this false teaching
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  was mainly connected to the law, the teaching of the law and how
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  it the law was misrepresented Senate.
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  And he talked about some of the sins or some of the lawless
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  deeds that people could commit that are listed in the law.
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  And and he talked about how it's not, this is not an exhausted
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  list, but he says, and if there's any other thing
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  concerning sound doctrine, then he gets to verse 11.
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  And this is going to be key for where we're going today.
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  In verse 11, he says, according to the glorious gospel of the
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  blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
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  And that's where we're going today.
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  Paul is now mentioning that this gospel, he's acknowledging that
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  this gospel, this glorious gospel, the very gospel that he
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  heard that changed his life, the very gospel that he heard that
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  he rejected, that very gospel is now committed to his trust.
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  And so as we go over to verse 12, from there to the end of
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  this chapter, we are basically going to hear Paul talk about
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  how amazing it is that this gospel is committed to him
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  because he does not deserve it. His efforts in his life was
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  totally to go against this gospel, but yet because of God's
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  grace and mercy, it is now entrusted to him.
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  So as we look in verse 12, we see a couple things.
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  He says, I thank Christ Jesus and he's very thankful.
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  He's very thankful. Paul spent many years going down
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  the wrong track. He spent many years as a
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  legalist, many years as a religious person persecuting and
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  going after people who were going the way of Jesus Christ.
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  He spent many years, but in God's faithfulness, when it was
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  right for God, he came and he delivered Paul from that.
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  He saved them and delivered them from that.
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  And Paul is grateful. Paul is grateful.
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  And I can understand that because I feel like I felt I
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  spent a majority of my life running after something that was
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  empty, running after something that had no eternal value.
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  And I thank God that he didn't leave me there.
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  So I'm thankful. And if we think about our own
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  lives, if we think about the things that we did prior to
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  coming to Christ, we should be thankful.
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  We should be thankful. So Paul says, I'm thankful.
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  And he's given three things that he's thankful for.
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  Right here in verse 12. He says #1 I'm thankful because
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  the Lord enabled me. So not only was Paul called to
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  the ministry, but the Lord enabled him.
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  What does that mean? That means that the Lord
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  strengthened him. The Lord equipped him to do the
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  ministry, which is the same thing He does for you.
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  When the Lord calls you in the ministry, He doesn't just put a
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  passion on your heart to go and do something in the ministry,
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  but as He's calling you, He's enabling you.
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  He's equipping you supernaturally.
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  He is strengthening you to be able to do the ministry so that
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  you can do it as unto him. So Paul says, first of all, I
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  thank God for enabling me. Second of all, he says that he
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  thank God because God counted him faithful.
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  Now this is not ability. This has nothing to do with his
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  ability. It has nothing to do with his
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  gifting. It has nothing to do with him
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  being able to go out and preach people to tears.
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  Has nothing to do with that. Paul says that he entrusted this
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  ministry to me because he counted me faithful.
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  That just simply means that he counted him to be trustworthy.
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  He accounted him to be trustworthy in the ministry.
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  There's a lot of things that we cannot control about the
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  ministry. We can't control how well we do
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  it. The power of God does that.
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  But what God is looking for, he's looking for faithful
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  people. He wants people who would be
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  faithful to the call, people who would be committed and
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  surrendered to Him to do what he called you to do.
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  That's all He'll do the rest, He'll take care of the rest.
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  But we need to be faithful. And it's even God that helps us
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  to do that. He doesn't even leave that up to
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  just ourselves. So he says, first of all, I'm
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  thankful that he counted me faithful or, or I'm thankful
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  that he counted me trustworthy. And then the third thing is that
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  he put me into the ministry. And this is really important
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  because there's some people who put themselves in ministry.
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  There's some people who put themselves in ministry.
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  When I was younger, I used to hear my grandmother.
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  They would say, she would say to me, you know, well, you know,
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  this person's having trouble in ministry and, you know, he's not
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  necessarily preaching the word. And I said, well, Mama, Mama,
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  why? Why?
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  Why, you know, would he be standing up there if if he's not
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  doing it right, why would he be standing up there?
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  She said, because some people were sent and some just went.
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  That has more meaning to me today than what it ever did when
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  I was 11 or 12 or 10. And it's so true.
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  Some people just go and just do whatever they think they, they
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  want to do. It doesn't matter what they're
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  called to do. They just do whatever they want
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  to do. And, and that's why he's saying
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  that he put me into the ministry.
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  All the ministries that we're involved in are ministries that
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  the Lord put you in. It doesn't matter what it is,
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  doesn't matter what it is. The Lord puts you there.
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  And if he puts you there, he puts you there for a purpose.
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  He has a purpose. He has a purpose and if His
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  purposes are fulfilled through you, we know His word does not
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  return unto Him void. So whatever He purposes to do,
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  it's going to be accomplished. It's going to be accomplished.
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  So he puts you there, He enabled you, and we can do all these
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  things through Christ Jesus. You know, you know Paul in first
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  Corinthians 15 and 10, Paul says I am what I am by the grace of
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  God, I am what I am. And then in Philippians 4 and
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  13, he says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens
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  me. So you never have to question
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  your qualifications or your ability to do a ministry.
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  You never have to question that God will empower you to do it.
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  He will strengthen you, enable you to do it.
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  If he puts you there, he will make sure that you have what you
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  need to do the ministry to fulfill that ministry.
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  So then we go on to verse 13 and he says although I was formerly
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  A blasphemer, A persecutor and an insolent man, Paul's now
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  getting into his testimony a little bit.
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  Paul's looking back and saying he did all this for me.
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  He put me into this place. He's counting me trustworthy.
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  He's enabling me to do this ministry.
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  And formerly this is the kind of person I was.
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  I was a blasphemer. I was a persecutor and an
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  insolent man. Paul's talking about his BC for
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  Christ's life when he when he conducted themselves in a manner
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  in which in which he, you know, before he conducted himself in a
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  manner which he does now. Paul shares about his testimony
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  and and he's very humble about it.
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  He says I was a blasphemer. A blasphemer mean that Paul
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  denied the deity of Jesus Christ and forced others to deny it.
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  He slandered them, he cursed them.
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  He hated those who follow Jesus Christ.
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  He said he was a persecutor. He was physically.
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  Paul used physical power to try to destroy the church.
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  He was violent. He tried to destroy the church
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  through physical means. I mean, he actually, and Jesus
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  said in Acts 9 and four, he said, why are you persecuting
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  me? Paul thought he was just
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  persecuting the people. Paul is persecuting Jesus
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  Christ. When somebody offends you or
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  when somebody persecutes you, you're not the only one.
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  He's being persecuted. They're persecuting Jesus Christ
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  when they don't receive you in your word.
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  They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting Jesus Christ.
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  They're rejecting Jesus Christ. So when someone says I don't
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  agree with you, no, it's not me you don't agree with, You don't
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  agree with Jesus Christ. This is his word.
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  I didn't write it and that's exactly what Paul is saying.
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  I used to persecute Jesus Christ and he said he was an insolent
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  man. That means he was violent.
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  He was a murderous man. He was arrogant, injurious.
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  Paul was an angry man. He was an angry man and this was
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  just part of who he was. I want to go over to Acts real
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  quick. If we can drop over to Acts
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  chapter 26. Paul kind of.
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  He articulates, in my opinion, he articulates his testimony a
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  little bit more clearly over here in Acts 26.
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  Look at verse 9. He says, indeed, I myself
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  thought I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of
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  Nazareth, verse 10. This I also did in Jerusalem and
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  in many Saints. I shut up in prison, having
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  received authority from the chief priests, and when they
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  were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
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  In other words, Paul is saying that I was supporting the death
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  of people when they were being put to death, these Christians
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  who they will find in the way, and they would mandate that they
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  be put to death. Paul said I was one of the
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  people who gave my vote to put them to death.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Kill them. Get rid of them.
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  How Can you imagine that on your conscience?
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  But he didn't care at that particular time.
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  He didn't care. Just like the sins that we used
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  to commit. We didn't care if it was hurting
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  somebody else. We were selfish.
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  Long as we got what we wanted out of it, that's what we really
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  cared about. And this is what Paul is saying.
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  I didn't care that I was hurting people.
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  I didn't care that I was tearing up families.
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  I didn't care. He thought he was actually doing
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  God's work. He thought he was actually doing
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  God's work. He said I voted against them and
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  then in verse 11 says and I punish them often in every
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  synagogue and compelled them. This is interesting and
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  compelled them to blasphemy. So not only did I blasphemy, but
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  I wanted to convince them or compel them to blasphemy.
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  I wanted to force them to renounce Jesus Christ in that
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  life. I wanted to convince them to do
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  it. And there's people like that
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  today, not only do they not believe, but they didn't want
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  other people. They try to convince other
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  people to not believe. They want you to denounce him.
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  And they do it all kind of different ways.
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  Mainly they do it through peer pressure.
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  That's one of the ways they do it.
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  You can't, you know, we, we just won't call him or her up to hang
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  with us because if they going to keep talking like that and keep
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  acting like that and they keep talking about that Jesus, then
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  we just won't hang out with them at all.
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  And that's one of the ways that they try to get you to denounce
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  Jesus Christ. But you stay strong.
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  You stand on that faith, You stand on that truth.
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  You may have to stand alone, but stand, but stand.
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  It may be lonely, but stand. You may feel like you missing
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  out on a lot of things, but stand, your reward is coming.
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  Your reward is coming. Amen.
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  And then he says, and being exceedingly enraged, that means
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  he was greatly he was just angry, angry.
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  He was enraged against them. I persecuted them even to
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  foreign cities. Paul's saying not I was so angry
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  with these people who were in the way at that particular time
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  that I persecuted them from one city to the next city to the
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  next city to the next city. I followed them to track them
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  down so that I can drag them out of the synagogues and bring them
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  before the council so they can be pronounced to death.
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  And just like he did with Steven and when he was just a little
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  kid, he stood there and the people put, you know, their
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  clothes because when they stoned people, they would take their
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  clothes off. They would put their clothes at
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  Stevens feet. He guarded the clothes and he
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  was in agreement with that Stony in agreement with it.
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  This is where Paul was delivered from, and this is what Paul is
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  saying here. He says, but I obtained mercy.
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  Wow. But I obtained mercy.
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  Think about your life, think about things you've done, and
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  then think about the fact that God gave mercy.
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  He gave you mercy and didn't even go on any further.
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  And he said, because I did it ignorantly and in unbelief.
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  And I just want to throw this out at you now in the Old
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  Testament, because Paul was very, very, very adapt to the
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  law. He knew the law very well.
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  So when he says this here, there's a chance, there's a good
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  chance that he was probably referring to the law because
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  back in the law in Leviticus chapter 5, it talks about the
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  fact that if you sin unintentionally, you can be
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  forgiven. All you have to do is give your
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  give your sacrifices, the, you know, the appropriate sacrifice
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  for that sin and you'll be forgiven.
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  You'll be forgiven. It's all good.
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  It's all good today. We don't have to worry about
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  that. Jesus Christ paid the cost for
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  all those sins. He was the sacrifice.
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  But this is probably what Paul's referring to because he, he
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  understood the law and he knew he was talking, you know, the
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  people who were probably listening to the law or gone by
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  the law. But he said he did it ignorantly
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  in unbelief. And now, son, our sins were in
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  unbelief. We didn't believe that Jesus was
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  who he was. And it wasn't until that was
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  revealed to us that we realized that our sins were abominable or
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  that our sins were against him and that it was wrong.
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  But until then we didn't care. And then in verse 14, so he says
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  he obtained mercy. And then in verse 14 he says,
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  and the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith
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  and love which are in Christ Jesus.
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  You know, I read that and I just think about the grace of God.
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  So he talked about in 13 he talked about having the mercy of
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  God. And then in 14 he talks about
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  the grace of God being exceedingly abundant on his
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  behalf. What we know that God is rich in
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  his mercy. He tells us that over in
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  Ephesians chapter 2, verse 4, God is rich in mercy, and thank
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  God He is because that means He had enough leftover for me
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  because I needed it. I needed a lot of it.
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  But he also tells us in Ephesians 2 and seven that it's
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  the riches of His glory, the riches of his grace, the riches
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  of his grace. In Ephesians 2 and seven, he
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  talks about the riches of his grace.
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  So he's rich and in mercy and he's rich in grace.
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  And all that was pulled upon Paul, all of that was poured
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  upon Paul. And then he goes on, and for me,
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  this is the thing that's most exciting.
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  He says it was exceedingly abundant with faith and love
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  which are in Christ Jesus. That's the first part of what's
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  exciting to me. And when you think about this, a
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  picture word to me, because when I think about this exceeding
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  abundance of grace and in his mercy, I just think about the
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  ocean. I think about the ocean and I
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  remember one time being out at the ocean and going out, being
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  on vacation and going out to the ocean very early in the morning.
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  And it was still a little dark. And as the waves were coming in,
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  you can see the foam of the waves and they just kept coming
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  and they just kept coming and they just kept coming over and
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  over and over again coming these waves.
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  And I, I sat there and I thought about, I said, that's just like
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  God's mercy in his grace. It just keeps coming.
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  It just keeps coming whenever we need it.
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  It's there whenever we need it. Paul said.
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  Let us go boldly before the throne of grace that we may
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  obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need.
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  Well, you'll find that grace and you'll find that mercy because
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  he's rich in both. We're sin abound, grace bound
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  even much more. We are blessed that we serve a
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  God that has so much more grace and mercy even than we have
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  sinned. It's abundant, exceeding,
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  abundant. And then in verse 15, the best
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  line in this whole Scripture, he said this is a faithful saying.
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  That means it's a trustworthy saying and worthy of all
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  acceptance. That means everyone, everyone
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  should accept this. It's worthy for everyone to grab
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  hold of this. What is that word?
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  This is the best news in this entire chapter, that Jesus
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  Christ came into the world to save sinners, to save sinners.
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  He didn't come to save the righteous.
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  He didn't come to save those whose garments have never been
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  soiled. He didn't come to save the
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  perfect. He didn't come to save the ones
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  who had never sinned, those who were so good, you know, oh,
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  that's a good person. And that's a good person.
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  Then God didn't come for you. God came for us who are messed
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  up, those who were sinful, those who blew it in the past, those
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  who understand our need for him. That's who God came for.
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  That's who Jesus Christ came for.
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  So he said Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
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  And Paul's acknowledging and he says, and I am chief, I'm one of
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  the worst. And when he says that, he's not
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  saying, well, I compare myself to your sin.
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  Oh, my sins worse than yours. That's not what he's talking
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  about. I've even heard that before
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  people comparing sins. But you should see what I used
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  to do. Paul's saying compared to God.
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  Here on Living Waters of Grace, we're in the books of First and
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  Second Timothy. Pastor Lewis Harrell is walking
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  us through these letters written from Paul to Timothy.
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  Toward the end of these letters, Paul is anticipating that his
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  time here on earth is coming to a close.
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  He's giving some final words of advice to his mentee.
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  Paul writes in Second Timothy 4, verse seven.
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  I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race.
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  I have kept the faith. Wherever you are in your journey
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  of faith with God, our hope is that you have the willingness to
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  fight for what's true, not compromising, but holding fast
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  to the word of God. Paul was reminding Timothy of
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  this. And it's a good reminder for you
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  and for me today, too. For helpful input throughout
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  this series, why not listen to all of these teachings from
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  First and Second Timothy on our website?
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