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2 Corinthians chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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2nd Corinthians chapter 5. Let us pray.
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Lord God Almighty, who reigns on high, we love you, Lord Jesus,
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and we thank you for all the many blessings that you've
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already poured out upon us today.
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Thank you for life and thank you for breath.
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God, thank you for marriage. God, thank you for children.
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Thank you God for jobs. God, thank you for
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transportation. Thank you, God, for able,
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willing bodies. God, I pray, Lord, that you will
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give us the mind of Christ. Give us our marching orders.
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God, continue to bless us. Lord, bless us with your
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presence. Lord, bless us with more
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knowledge and love and understanding of your holy
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scriptures. Lord, I pray that we can be your
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hands and feet today. God, I pray that we'll take the
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whole word to the whole world. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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for a supernatural zeal to consume us.
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God, I pray it'll eat us up. Father, I pray that we won't be
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able to be quiet. I pray that we'll be able to go
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out and to tell all the people that we meet today about your
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goodness and grace. Lord, we open up our hearts as
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we open up your word. I pray that you will jump in to
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our minds and our hearts and our bodies and our psyche and our
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conscience is God. We hide your word in our hearts,
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God, and let them come up and bubble up when in the time of
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need, whenever we are looking for the right thing to say or
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the right way to look at something.
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God, I pray that your word will never return void God, and you
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will never be mocked, God. And so, Lord, I pray in the name
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of Jesus for all those who have not yet placed their faith in
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you, Lord, I pray that today is the day of salvation, Lord.
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I pray that many will see their need for repentance.
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God, I pray that the church will rise up and be the church.
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God, I pray that we will be your hands and feet and the ones that
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the people come to. Lord for sound counsel.
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God, I pray that you will give us the ability to see this world
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all around us the same way that you do.
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Father, I pray that we will be able to rightly divide the word
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and rightly judge situations. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you'll help us. Lord, be our everything, be our
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guide. We pray the Holy Spirit will
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fill us today, overflowing. We pray God for sound doctrine,
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sound theology. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that bodies will be healed and sight will be restored, the ears
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will be able to hear again, that people will be able to walk
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again. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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all the unclean foul spirits, all the demonic spirits to come
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off of the mentally ill, Lord, all those that are suffering
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from a mental disorder. God, I rebuke the Devourer from
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off of their minds, Lord, and I pray in the name of Jesus, Lord,
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that you will give us sound minds that we're able to reason
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and come together, God, and that we're able to learn from your
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word and be edified, Lord, and to grow and to mature, Lord, and
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to be sanctified today. God, I pray for the church at
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large. I pray for every brother and
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sister in the name of Jesus Christ to be encouraged.
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Lord, I pray encouragement over the church today.
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God, I pray that you'll stir something within us, fresh wind
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and fresh fire. God, as we trim the wigs, as we
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fill the lamps, God, I pray for the baptism of fire.
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God upon this house. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you'll help us to see Yeshua high and lifted up.
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We love you. God, we thank you, Father, yes,
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Jesus, come, Lord, come soon, Lord, man off of the Spirit of
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the Bride say come. We wait patiently and
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expectantly, knowing that your ways are much higher than our
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ways. Your thoughts are much higher
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than our thoughts. And so God help us to wait.
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Well, help us, God, to snatch firebrands out of the fire, God,
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and give them new clothing, God, clothe them in your
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righteousness. Make them white as snow, Father,
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in the way that you did for us. Thank you, Lord, that all of our
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sins are forgiven. Thank you, Lord, that they'll
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never be counted against us. Thank you, Lord, that we can one
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day stand in your holy presence covered in the blood of Christ.
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Thank you, Lord, for all the eternal paths and truths that
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you've revealed to us. God, continue to to sanctify us,
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continue to show us your glory, Father, come and get your glory.
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God, glory in us as we choose you.
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We love you, Father, and it's in your holy and precious name that
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I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one for we
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know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were
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dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands
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eternal in the heavens. So that is what happened
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whenever you came to the Lord Jesus Christ by faith is he
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deposited the Holy Spirit inside of you and now you have a piece
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of divinity that lives inside of you.
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Which is why when Jesus was talking to John the Baptist
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disciples, he said of all those born of woman, there have never
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been one greater than John. But the least in the Kingdom of
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God is greater than John the Baptist.
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Because we actually house and hold the third part of the
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triune nature of God Almighty. We have the Holy Spirit living
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inside of us friends, and He will share His glory with no
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one. Far be it from us to bring idol
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worship into the temple, friends.
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Far be it from us to bring graven images into the temple,
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friends. Far be it from us to bring
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vanity and greed and pride and materialism into the temple,
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Friends 2 For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be
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clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven.
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So we can only see in part. We see dimly and darkly,
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friends, but one day we will see in fullness and be known,
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friends, as He is known. And you need to understand that
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we groan all of creation groans for Jesus Christ to make all
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things new. And we only have it in part now,
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but we will see it in the entirety and in its fullness
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eventually. But we must wait well.
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Do not outpace God. Stay in His perfect and pleasing
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will for your life. Do not try to manufacture your
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destiny, friends. Sit in the calling that God has
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placed upon your life and be content in that place today and
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wherever He found you. Friends, stay in that unless it
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is a sinful environment. God uses whatever arena that
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you're in to reach the people that only you can reach.
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There are people in your circle of influence that I cannot
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reach. They will not listen to me, but
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they will listen to you, and that is God's plan.
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Friends, we yearn and we groan, and we desire to have our
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immortal bodies, because God has placed eternity into the hearts
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of men. Three, if so be that being
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clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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So we are clothed in Jesus Christ righteousness.
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Friends, when we leave this earthly tent and we receive our
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immortal bodies, we will be clothed and unashamed, because
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we have the righteousness of Christ. 3 or 4 Four.
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We that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not
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for what? Not for that we would be
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unclothed, but clothed upon that mortality might be swallowed up
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of life. So when you come to the Lord
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Jesus Christ and you receive the Holy Spirit, you yearn and you
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groan for the fullness of what you have tasted and seen, and
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God is the only one that could completely satisfy you but leave
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you longing for more. And that is what is referenced
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here. We long for the day that we will
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see Jesus face to face. We long for the day when we will
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take off this earthly tent and we will put on our immortal
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resurrected bodies that will last for all of eternity and
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they will be perfect. We we see.
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We look at the new wrinkles on our face every day.
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We look at the new Gray hairs that pop up every day.
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Our knee is bum, our elbow has tendonitis.
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We are falling apart and we see that this is not our home and we
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are just pilgrims passing through.
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We desire that mortality might be swallowed up with immortality
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friends, because that is what has been placed inside of us
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when we come to the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the Holy
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Spirit. 5 Now he that has wrought us for the self same
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thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the
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Spirit. So you can see the triune nature
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here of God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
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3 and 1, You can see them all being played out right here,
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That it is for God's glory that Jesus Christ went to the cross
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and that He won for us our salvation so that we can put on
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His righteousness and He can impute into us His perfect
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purity so that we can house the Holy Spirit, friends, and be
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made right with God in his sight.
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And we're going to stand before Almighty God, and he's going to
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say, well done, good and faithful servant, come into the
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rest that I have prepared for you, friends.
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And we will be there only by what Christ did, not by anything
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that we do, friends. It is only what he did nothing
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of what we do or do not do Friends 6 Therefore, we are
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always confident knowing that while we are at home in the
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body, we are absent from the Lord.
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God wants us to have a know so kind of faith.
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He does not want you to have a hope So maybe so kind of faith.
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You need to ask yourself, if you were to die today, do you know
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where you would spend eternity? And really the only difference
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is if you have the blessed assurance, if you have the
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confidence of knowing that the blood of Jesus Christ is enough
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and blessed is the man who sins will never be counted against
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him, friends. And that is what you need to
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understand. And here he is referencing when
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we are absent from this body, we will be present with him.
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And you need to understand there is no soul sleep and there is no
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purgatory. God lives outside of time and we
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are already seated with Him in heavenly places.
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And this is hard for the futile mind to grasp and to understand.
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But when you take your last breath, just like He told the
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thief on the cross, today you will be with me in paradise. 7
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For we walk by faith and not by sight.
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We have to put our faith over feelings, friends.
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We cannot trust our feelings. Friends, feelings will lie to
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you. Feelings are the caboose that
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rocks back and forth at the back of the train.
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It is commitment unto our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Friends, being sold out to Jesus Christ that is the engine that
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pulls us over the hill. We cannot rely on feelings and
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emotions and circumstances to gauge where we are with the
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Lord. Sometimes God leaves us in
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seasons of silence. Sometimes God allows the sifting
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in our lives and it looks as if God is distant or that God is
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mad at us. And God doesn't allow these
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things in our lives to see what we'll do.
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God already knows what we're going to do, but God allows it
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in our lives so that we will see what we will do when we're
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sifted and when he feels distant.
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Will we go back to our old ways? Will we revert and regress and
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to digress back into sin and self and despair when God is
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distant and whenever the sifting comes?
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Or will we remain resilient? Will we be battle hardened
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friends and trust God? We walk by faith and not by
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sight. Eight.
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We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from
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the body and to be present with the Lord.
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That is what you need to understand.
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We are just pilgrims passing through a very strange land.
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When you finally get the blinders taken off, when you can
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finally see and hear the world all around you the way that God
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does, is something feels awry. Something feels a miss.
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Something feels as if we were created for more.
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We were created for a world beyond this one, friends, and we
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yearn for that. And that is what is referenced
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here. We want to be there with Him.
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But just remember the words of the Apostle Paul.
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To live is Christ, and to die is gain. 9 Wherefore we labor,
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that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
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So he's saying, Make sure that while you are here on this
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earth, you are working as unto Christ, but make sure that
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whenever you take your last breath, you're covered in the
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blood of Christ where you can enter in.
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It is not by works. It is not by how much money you
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gave, how many times you attended church, how many Bibles
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you own, how many eloquent prayers you prayed.
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It is not about that. It is all about Jesus Christ,
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and the innocent blood is what gets us into heaven. 10 For we
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must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that
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everyone may receive the things done in his body according to
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that he has done, whether it be good or bad.
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This is the Bema seat. This is where he says he's
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coming and his rewards are with him.
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During the seven-year tribulation, all of the Saints
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from John the Baptist all the way until the rapture of his
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church, every single person who has ever placed their faith in
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the Lord Jesus Christ, the dead being raised 1st and then the
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living, all go together to meet Him in the clouds.
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And we will sit at the Bema seat of Jesus Christ and receive our
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rewards while the entire world is hell on earth, unlike
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anything that this world has ever experienced.
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It'll be like the days of the Nephilim.
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It will be like the days before the flood when every thought
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continuously was evil and it grieved God that He had made
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mankind. And the Bible tells us that if
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He had not shortened those days, no one would survive.
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But you need to go over to Revelation chapter and you need
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to reference where it says because you have kept my word, I
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will keep you from the hour that is coming to test all the
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inhabitants of the earth. Friends, that is the promise for
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the Saint. That is the promise for those
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who have chosen to put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ 100%.
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Now not holding anything back, not being reserved, not having a
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lukewarm Christianity. Friends, you need to be hot or
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cold for God Almighty. 11 Knowing, therefore, the terror
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of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto
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God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
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You need to understand that this is the motivation of every
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pastor, preacher, every leader who is accurately in tune with
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God. They understand the terror that
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is to come for every single person who takes their last
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breath and did not place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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It is a death a billion times over and you cannot die.
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There is this terror of the Lord which is why He tells us now to
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work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
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It is this terror, friends, of what we have escaped.
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When you finally understand what was your due penalty for the
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sins that you were committing, then it will bring you into this
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terrible state where you do not want anyone to have to suffer
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that way. 12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but
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give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have
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somewhat to answer them, which glory and appearance, and not in
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heart. These Corinthian Christians were
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much like the Christians of today, and they looked at the
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outward appearance, and they wanted to glory at all of the
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looks, and all of the handsomeness, and all of the
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beauty, and all of the eloquence.
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And they thought that by seeing all of of the nice attire and
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all of the homes and the cars and the private jets and all of
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the blessings of God upon a ministry, that it meant that
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they were blessed. But Paul saying that God does
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not look at the outward appearance, but He sees the
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heart, friends. He knows the heart of man,
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friends. And that is what he told Samuel
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whenever Samuel was trying to leave David out in the fields.
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Whenever Jesse was trying to leave David out in the fields
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and he says, look, I do not look at the outward appearance, but I
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judge the inner man. And that is what we need to
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understand, friends, that there are a lot of ravenous wolves in
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sheep's clothing and there are many who like Christ.
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There is nothing to draw us to them, and they have eternal
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words of God that they are pushing and preaching.
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That is accurate theology and doctrine.
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But we gloss over them because they're offensive to look upon.
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And Paul is telling the Corinthians do not look at the
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outward appearance, but judge the inward motives of a pastor
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and of a teacher and an evangelist.
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Are they just after your money friends?
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Are they just after the position?
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Are they just after the manipulation?
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Or are they accurately speaking for God Almighty?
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13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God, or
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whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
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So he's saying that they are out of their mind for God Almighty.
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They have lost all touch with reality for God Almighty.
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And he's saying, but if we are in our right mind, it is for
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your benefit, so that you do not see us completely undone.
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And you know, Paul was accused of being out of his mind
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whenever he presented his gospel, the gospel of the Lord
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Jesus Christ of Festus. And then you can also see that
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Jesus was accused of being out of his mind by his own brothers
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and mother. And you can see here that we are
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in good company when we are ridiculed and we are made fun of
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and people don't understand how we would stiff arm the things of
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this world for the gospel of Jesus Christ sake.
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We're in good company, friends. 14 For the love of Christ
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constrains us because we thus judge that if one died for all,
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then we're then we're all dead. And that is what he's saying is
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every blood vault born again believer who's going to bust
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heaven wide open has to die to self because of what Jesus
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Christ did on the cross. We can stiff arm all of the
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things of this world and think of them not as strange things
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and it is just a light affliction for us.
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It is just a reasonable service unto Him when we are not
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conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of
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our minds. It is the love of Christ that
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hems us in and every time you try to step out of the calling
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that's been placed on your life, something just does not sit well
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with you and you return back to it.
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Return back to your first love today. 15 And that he died for
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all that they which live should not henceforth live unto
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themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.
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That is the whole crux of the Christian walk, friends, is that
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we die to self. We take up our cross, and we
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follow Him, knowing that it is imminent death.
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We know that death is on the table.
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We know that martyrdom is on the table whenever we set ourselves
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in an arena full of hostile demonic haunts who desire to
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snuff us out and who desire to shut us up.
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But we do it all for the Lord Jesus Christ, counting the cost
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before we ever took that seat in that arena. 16 Wherefore
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henceforth know we know man after the flesh.
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Yeah, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
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henceforth know we him no more. He's saying that he desires to
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know Christ and Christ crucified, not just the life of
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Christ, but Christ crucified and resurrected.
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And that is where the power of our immortal bodies come in, is
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from the down payment of the Holy Spirit within us. 17
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Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creation.
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The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become
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new. And that is what Christ is
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wanting and desirous of. He makes all things new.
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And you need to understand that if you are a regenerated man,
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the carnality has to go. That Romans 7 Christian.
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The gap keeps closing in as time goes on.
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God sanctifies us and we become more like Jesus Christ every
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single day. We do not get stuck in our sin
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patterns, friends. He breaks those things off of
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us. We become completely new
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creations and we need to be regenerated daily.
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We do not need to just trust in the old submission in in the old
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surrender. We need to surrender and submit
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every single day and get into the Word of God and get on your
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knees and pray for the world and pray for God to fill you with
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the Holy Spirit today. And we need to turn off all of
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the secular garbage. And we need to fill our minds
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with what is holy and what is pleasing and what is good,
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friends. And we need to make sure that
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we're replacing all of the evil that is on the external with all
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the holiness that God offers unto us.
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We are a new creation in Christ. We're not bound by all of our
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sinful behaviors. 18 and all things are of God, who has
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reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and has given to us
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the ministry of reconciliation. We are ministers of
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reconciliation, friends. That is the role that we step
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into whenever we come in to the fold, whenever we are part of
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His flock. You need to understand that He
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places this ministry on you and you are called to be a peace
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maker, friends, not just a peacekeeper, but someone who
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makes peace by the very presence of the Holy Spirit inside of
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you. The holiness of God Almighty
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exuding out of us, friends. That is what He is after.
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For every single arena that we step into, we are the ministers
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of reconciliation, and He moved towards us while we were yet
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sinning. Christ died for us, Friends, He
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is the one who instigated this imputation.
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He took on our sins and He gave us His righteousness.
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And it is in that righteousness that we are made holy as He is
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holy, and we are able to be Saints, and we are able to be
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useful unto God through His Son Jesus Christ, to go out and to
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change the world for Him, friends, and to be the
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difference maker in this generation for such a time as
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this. 19 To wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world
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unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and has
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committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
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This is a beautiful picture of what was happening at Calvary.
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Jesus Christ said, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
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You need to understand that this is the picture of what you can
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see. God and Jesus and the Holy
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Spirit all working out that day on the cross. 20 Now then, we
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are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beg you by us.
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We pray you in Christ's stead be you reconciled to God.
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He instigated this reconciliation.
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We can be holy because he is holy and is not of works, is not
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of anything that we've ever done in all of our righteousness is
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filthy rags. And he took all of our sin away,
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and he gave us His Holiness and his innocence and his purity and
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his righteousness, so that we can stand before an almighty
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God, a holy God, and we can be entered in to all of eternity
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because of what Christ did for us.
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He begs, we'll end on 21 for he has made him to be sin for us.
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Who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in
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him. The righteousness of God is what
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we have and that is the only way that we can stand before
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Almighty God is because we have His righteousness imputed into
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us as Christ who knew no sin, took on the sin of the entire
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world. Where Adam sold us out, Jesus
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bought us back. How amazing is our God and His
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plans? Trust in them today.
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Know that you know that you know that you know that you're going
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to make it there today. And it's not a question of have
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you ever. The question is, are you now?
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Hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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I know I sure have. I'm praying for you.
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I love you. See you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.