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Understanding God's Word and Love - David Craley · CyberBlessed

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Music.
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Heavenly Father, in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ, how we thank you,
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Father, for another day just to be alive and to know your amazing grace unto
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us, your people, to hear your word.
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And may your word, Father, so live tonight that it reaches out to bless every
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heart of every man, woman, and child whom you have called to this ministry of your your grace.
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Father, for your love and your goodness to us for another day,
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we thank you in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen. You may be seated.
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Did you all have a wonderful Valentine's Day, Friday, just like I did? It was terrific.
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You know, they sort of Shanghai'd me and took me to a Sadie Hawkins dance and got me married off.
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I got a lot of valentine's too on friday
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do you get a lot of valentine's you know i can remember the
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old days i remember one particular day when i got one valentine years ago and
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it was addressed to occupant do you ever have days like that just amazing the
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grace we stand in today brothers and sisters we can give each other valentine
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hugs and kisses open your bibles tonight to psalm,
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psalms 19 that's a great song to open up the teaching tonight amazing grace
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you know thinking back on some of those old days when i was a little whippersnapper
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i would often go out in my backyard,
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And I would take my trusty telescope. You know,
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I'd save my nickels and my dimes and I bought a telescope and I would sit out
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there on balmy spring or summer evenings and I would look at the heavens and I would wonder.
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I think that's when I began really to wonder what this was all about.
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The heavens, the stars, the moon. Those were the days of Sputnik too.
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Remember Sputnik? Are you all young enough to remember Sputnik? and
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I'd see Sputnik up there and I'd track it in my reflector
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telescope all the way across the heavens and then
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I'd find Jupiter and I'd see four or five of the
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moons and I'd see Saturn with rings around Saturn and I just began to wonder
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more and more why Psalm 19 is a very exciting Psalm it begins with the creator
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and it ends with man's redemption let's read the first few verses verses of Psalm 19,
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the heavens, meaning the expanse, declare the glory of God and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
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Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge or information or prophecy.
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There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
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Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world.
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In them, in the heavens, meaning the expanse. Now, God is not talking about the stars here.
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He's not talking about the moon and the sun and the planets and the asteroids
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and all those other things we learn about in Star Trek.
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He's talking about the expanse, the heavens.
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Continuing in verse 4, in them, in the heavens, hath he set a tabernacle for
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the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
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and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
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His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it.
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And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
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Verse 7, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
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Soul the testimony of the lord is sure making
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wise the simple the statutes of
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the lord are right rejoicing the heart the commandment
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of the lord is pure enlightening the eyes did
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you know that the whole redemption of man is written in the
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stars the whole story of mankind and his redemption and the story of jesus christ
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and what he would accomplish for us is written in those stars no No wonder you
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and I were sort of led to those stars to look at them and to wonder and to begin
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to feel in the depths of our souls, what is this all about?
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What are the stars about? What are the heavens about?
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Did you know that before God ever made the stars, the moon and the sun, that he made the earth?
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Look at Genesis chapter 1.
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Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens,
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meaning the expanse, not talking about the stars, the moon, the sun, and the earth.
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Verse 14, jump over to there. After all these days have passed by and God said,
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the word of God said, let there be lights in the firmament or the expanse, the heavens,
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of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs and
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for seasons and for days and years.
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Verse 15, and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.
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And it was so. In verse 16, and God made two great lights, the greater light
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to divide the day or to rule the day, the lesser light to rule the night.
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He made the stars also after he had made the earth.
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Did you ever see that before in
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the word? The earth is the reason for this universe that we see out there.
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God made the stars, the moon, the sun, the heavens or the universe for the earth.
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Isn't that amazing? Amazing.
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Now, if the earth is the reason for the universe, what's the reason for the earth?
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Look at verse 26. Verse 26, and God said,
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after he had made the earth, after he had made the stars, the suns,
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and so on, and the plants, and the soul life, and those creeping things went
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creeping around, and the whales, and the fishes, and so on.
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He said in verse 26, let us make man in our image.
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After our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over
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the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every
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creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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So God created man is his image. In the image of God created he him.
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Male and female created he them.
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God created man in his image. We know from John 4, 24 that God is what? Spirit.
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When God created man, he made man whole, not like natural man today,
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but he made man with body, with soul, and with what he is, spirit.
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Man had spirit in the beginning.
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So if the earth is the reason for the universe, and man is the reason for the
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earth, what is the reason for man?
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These are questions, you know, that astronomers have asked
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one another for years and years and years one of the current
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theories and i think the most popular theory in astronomy today
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is the theory of the oscillating universe you
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ever heard of that the oscillating universe the top
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scientists say and these are phd intellectuals they
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say that the universe was created by a
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big bang suddenly in the beginning there was a bang and
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everything began flowing out from one another but
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they'd only read the word of god that would blow their theory of
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the oscillating universe sky high but you
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know scientists and astronomers and physicists
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and so on they take their telescopes like
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we did when we were kids and they look at the heavens and they try to decide
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what's going on out there and what it's all about by looking through their telescopes
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but you know the heavens and the earth and man were made in the the beginning
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by the word of God. God is spirit.
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You cannot ascertain or you cannot synthesize or analyze spirit by means of
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a telescope or a Bunsen burner or a microscope.
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So if the earth is the reason for the universe and man is the reason for the
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earth, what is the reason for man? It's very very simple.
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God's love. Look at Ephesians 3.
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Ephesians chapter 3. I have to talk about Ephesians tonight.
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Ephesians chapter 3 comes right after chapter 2. Yes, here it is.
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This word is put together very systematically.
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Ephesians chapter 3, verse 14. For this cause, meaning the cause of the great
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mystery that the Apostle Paul is talking about,
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I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family
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in heaven and earth is named.
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You know, God uses figures of speech in his word so that we can understand him, right? We're man.
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We can only understand God in terms of our experiences.
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So he gives himself traits like a man so god calls himself a what a father god is a father and.
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The whole family in heaven meaning the angels and the earth is named after the great father god,
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The heart of God is the heart of a father. Man was created in order to have
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fellowship with a father.
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That is the whole reason for man, to have fellowship with a father who is love.
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Elena Whiteside wrote a beautiful little poem in the last issue of the magazine about love.
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And she said, in order for love to be, it has to be shared.
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God wanted his love to be shared. He wanted to have sons who would love him,
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who would know the heights, the depth, the length, and the breadth of the Father God who was love.
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That's the whole reason for man. And when man was made, formed,
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and created in the beginning, he was given that spirit so he could have fellowship with the Father.
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And he had that great fellowship until he blew it, right? You all know that story.
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And he lost that spirit. He lost the ability to have fellowship with the Father.
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Look at John 4, Gospel of John chapter 4 and verse 23.
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Jesus is talking to the woman at the well here and he says, The hour cometh,
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and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
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For the Father seeketh such to worship him. him.
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Man has been trying to worship God in his own way, with his idols,
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with his telescopes, with his systematic theology,
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trying to get back to God, not knowing that the only way you can truly worship God is in spirit.
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You've got to be born again, right?
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It's the only way you can really worship God. And God made man to worship him.
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God is love. He wants to be worshiped. He He wants to be loved.
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He wants to be adored. He wanted to have sons who would be able to walk with
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him and talk with him in the garden.
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To walk in the light of his word. To know the depths of his love.
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Look how God's image has been tainted through the years. People think that he's
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a wrathful God. People think that he's an angry God.
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The word says that God is love.
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And he wanted man to know that love. And so he gave him of his own spirit that
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he could walk in holy communion with him.
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Verse 24, God is spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. truth.
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Look at 1st John chapter 1. You may surmise by now that we're talking about fellowship with God.
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The whole reason for the creation is that God could place his man on this earth
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that he could have fellowship with him and walk in love.
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1st John chapter 1 verse 3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto
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you that you also may have fellowship with us.
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And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
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And these things write we unto you that your joy may be what? Full.
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It is God's will that our joy be full. It is God's will that we walk in fellowship
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with him day by day, that we believe his word, that we obey his word,
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that we may know the height, the depth, the length, and the breadth of his love.
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Back in psalms 19 you don't have to turn back there well i think that's a good
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good thing let's let's turn back there psalm 19 again maybe you kept your finger there.
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Back in psalm 19 let's pick up again with verse 9 where we left off the awe
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of the lord is clean enduring forever the judgments of the lord true and righteous altogether together.
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More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold,
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sweeter also than honey in the honeycomb.
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Moreover, by them is thy servant warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward.
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Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults.
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Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.
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Let them not have dominion over me, then shall I be upright,
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and I I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
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But the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy
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sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
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See how this verse, declaring the glory of God, how it begins with the creator
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and it ends with man's redemption.
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You know, Dr. Whirlwall has written sort of a poem. It was in the last issue of the Way magazine.
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And I'd like to read that to you right now. he sums up in these few statements
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everything that you and I have as sons of God because we have been redeemed
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because Jesus Christ came that we might have life and that we might have it more abundantly,
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and this is what Dr. Werwill says in his article.
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Jesus Christ is not God. Speaking about Jesus Christ, he writes,
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it is he who sought me out from darkness.
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And I think we can all say the same thing as I read this.
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It is he who gave me access to God. Even now he is my mediator.
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It is he who saved me when I was dead in trespasses and sin.
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It is he who gave me the new birth of God's eternal life, which is Christ in me the hope of glory.
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It is he who gave me remission of sins and continues to give forgiveness of sins.
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It is he who filled me to capacity by God's presence in Christ in all the fullness
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of God's gift of Holy Spirit.
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It is he who was made unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
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It is he who called me and set me in the heavenly.
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It is he who gave me his joy, peace, and love.
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It is he who appointed me as a spokesman for God's accurate word.
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May I be found faithful in that calling. It is he who is all in all to me that
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I might give my all for him.
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It is he who is God's only begotten son. Can you say amen to that?
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You know, it's It's absolutely fantastic what God has done for us through Jesus Christ.
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What he set up for us in the beginning.
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And despite the fact that man blew it, we all have it back and greater.
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We have that sanctification. We have that wisdom. We have that redemption.
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Didn't you always want to be a king's son?
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Didn't you always want, you girls, didn't you always want to be a princess?
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Wasn't that a longing in your heart? I always wanted to be a prince. Yeah.
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God has done that for us. He has made us joint heirs in Christ.
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He has made us heirs of the kingdom of God.
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You know, either all of this is true or none of it is true.
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Either it's all true, what we've been reading in the word tonight, or none of it is true.
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And if it is not true, then we're playing games with each other,
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aren't we? And we might as well go back to our telescopes and start looking at the stars again.
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Either all of it is true or none of it is true. And there comes a time when
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a man in this ministry has got to decide in his heart to say yes to the word of God.
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We said yes in the beginning when we first heard the word, didn't we?
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When we took that class on power for abundant living. Think of the excitement
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we had in our hearts when Dr. Wirt was on that screen.
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And he looked you right in the eye and he said, it's Christ in you,
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the hope of glory. Didn't you stand up on the inside when he said that?
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Boy, I did. I'll tell you, I dropped my good and plenty all over the floor.
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That's some kind of movie.
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Christ in you, the hope of glory. No, we've got to start believing that.
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We've got to start believing the accuracy of the word and acting on that word and walking out on it.
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Because God has called us, in the least common denominator, to have fellowship
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with him, that our joy may be full. Look at Psalms 40.
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Psalms 40, verse 16. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee.
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Let such as love thy salvation say continually, the Lord be magnified.
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After you've taken the class on about power for abundant
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living it becomes a walk you know that you are
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a son of god and it becomes a walk when you
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are born again you have sonship that
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you can never lose and you have at that point
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perfect fellowship with the father and now
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it is up to you and to me to walk in the
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light of that fellowship just as jesus christ did
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look at the things he did look at the goals he had
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look at the things he accomplished for man how he
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was a blessing to people we've got to be
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that same kind of blessing and the secret to being
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that kind of a blessing and to bringing to pass the
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great goals that you have for your life is sustained fellowship
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with the father we are seeking in this ministry that christ god in christ in
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us be magnified more and more and our old selves less and less that's what it
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is to see through the eyes of jesus christ,
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That's what it is to walk in his steps.
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That God in Christ be magnified in us more and more and our old selves less and less.
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That's what takes us to higher ground.
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Have you ever seen a picture of those great big fat balloons that have gondolas in the bottom of them?
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And they have ropes that hold those gondolas on and men get in them sometimes
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and they take off into the wild blue yonder. I think somebody did that this
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past summer, got in a gondola, took off over the wild blue yonder.
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His destination was Europe. Nobody ever heard from him again.
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Well, this example of the balloon with a gondola, do you know how they take off?
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They throw off the sand or the bricks or the leaden weight or whatever so that they can lift off.
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And then that helium that they have in the balloon takes them off the ground.
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We are seeking in this ministry as we walk in fellowship with the Father to
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lift off to the higher ground.
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But the senses would say that we concentrate on the ballast,
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that we take the ballast and we throw it off out of the gondola.
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God's word says that if we
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concentrate on the light of his word then he
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lifts us into higher ground and the ballast
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in our lives the sins that do so easily beset us the heavy weight that Hebrews
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12.1 talks about those things begin to disappear and our old man becomes less
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and less as the God in Christ in us is magnified,
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if there is one thing that defeats us us from lifting off to higher ground that
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keeps us out of fellowship with the father,
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it is sin consciousness we've got to get rid of that in this ministry and in our walk as.
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Becoming more and more mature christians we've got to get rid of that sin consciousness,
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we've got to claim all the promises and the greatness of
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the word of god that he has shown to us that we
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have so attentive tentatively listened to
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and heard we've got to get rid of that sin consciousness and
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there was one way to do it by concentrating on the light who
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is jesus christ and you know what happens when you have that sin consciousness
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you're defeated look at romans chapter 14 god would not have us defeated he
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doesn't want beaten sons he wants sons who are are standing up on the inside in every capacity.
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Romans chapter 14.
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And in verse 22, hast thou believing?
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Have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that
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thing which he alloweth.
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And he that doubteth is, and the text reads, frustrated. Not damned.
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We're not damned. We're born again.
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He that doubteth is frustrated in the thing that he does.
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Because he eateth not of, what? Of believing. is the text.
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For whatsoever is not of believing is sin or broken fellowship.
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When we're not believing the word of God, we're out of fellowship.
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God does not want us out of fellowship. He knows we're not going to get anywhere.
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He knows we're going to be frustrated in the things that we try to do for him.
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Look at Hebrews chapter 12.
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Hebrews 12 and verse 1. Seeing we also are are compassed about with so great
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a cloud of witnesses as were itemized in chapter 11,
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with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin
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which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is
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set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of faith who for the
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joy that was set before him endured the cross,
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despising the shame and is set down at the right hand of God.
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Mary Loughran in the magazine department mentioned to
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me just a few days ago that she had asked some people in the ministry what goals
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they had what were their goals where were they going what were they trying to
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do with their lives now that they knew that they were son of God that they were
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more than conquerors in every situation and Mary told me that most people just didn't have any,
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they were waiting I suppose for God to push them off the deep end God doesn't do that,
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God relies on you and on me to obey his word. And then we see.
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First we believe and act and then we see. And he guides us. But he wants us
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to have. Do you have a goal for your life?
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Do you have a great goal that just thrills your heart and your soul?
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You ought to think about it. Jesus Christ had goals.
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There was something that he did that absolutely thrilled his soul every time
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he did it. And that was to teach the word.
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Because Jesus Christ was called to fully declare God.
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Whenever he was on those hillsides of Judea walking
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along the shores of Galilee and people were
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following him to be blessed by the word that he spoke you know
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that he was just thrilled in his heart every time he could share that
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word his goal was to teach the word and to redeem mankind and he understood
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the fullness of his goal only as he obeyed the word and literally walked out
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on it look at first John chapter 3 1 John 3 and verse 18.
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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
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And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him.
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For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.
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Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
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Then have we trust toward God.
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You know, there's another place, I think it's in Ephesians, where it says the
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light makes manifest that which is not in fellowship, the substance of that
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verse. Do you remember that verse?
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You can know when you are in fellowship and when you're not in fellowship.
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What does your heart say?
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Do you have confidence toward God? Are you really believing his word?
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You will know as you continue to walk in the light of that word,
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becoming more and more rooted and grounded in it, whether or not you're in fellowship.
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And only when you're in fellowship can you have confidence toward God.
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Look at Galatians chapter 5.
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Verse 16. This I say then, walk in the spirit, or in the light of the word,
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and you shall not be subject to the over-desires of the flesh.
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For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, the spirit against the flesh,
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Question these are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would.
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Have you been wondering why you haven't gotten everything done at this point
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in your walk? Maybe it's simply broken fellowship.
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But God has called us to do great exploits for him and says somewhere in the
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word. And we hear it in prophecy lots of times.
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He has called us to walk in the light of that word. He has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
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We are his handiwork. He's called us to great exploit.
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But if we don't believe the word then we're never going to get anywhere on it,
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we've got to get going on our life's goal.
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That's really what i want to say to you tonight that sustained
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fellowship with the father is the
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secret to getting done in your life what god
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has called you to do look at second corinthians chapter
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13 second corinthians 13 all the way to the end verse 14 the grace of our lord
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jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with
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you all this word communion Communion is the Greek word koinonia, means fellowship.
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The fellowship of the Holy Communion. Have any of you experienced those very
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tender moments when God whispers sweet somethings in your ear?
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You know what I'm talking about? When he whispers those sweet somethings in your ear.
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Boy, oh boy, you just know that the word is true, don't you, when that happens.
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You just know that you're really a son of God. you know
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you've got that communion with him you know you've tapped
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in like the hotline to
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the father when he whispers oh
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sweet something's in your ear as you continue to read
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the word faithfully day by day to speak in tongues no astronomer will ever understand
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that no physicist will ever understand that spiritually spiritual things are
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spiritually discerned but man when we We speak in tongues.
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We know that we're a son of God.
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But even further down the road in our walk, when he whispers those sweet somethings
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in your ear because you're in fellowship, when he guides you,
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when he lifts you, what a fellowship, what a joy divine.
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Look at 1 Kings chapter 19. 1 Kings 19 verse 12.
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This is a story about Elijah, a great man of God who was walking in fellowship
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continually with the Father.
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But even he got weak and faint of mind every once in a while like we all do.
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God knows that. He lifts us up as we look to his word.
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But even Elijah got a little bit weak and a little bit faint in his mind.
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And in verse 12 let's start
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with verse 11 and he
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god said to elijah go forth and stand upon the mount before the lord and behold
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the lord passed by that mountain that elijah was standing by in a great and
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strong wind rent the mountains and break in pieces the rocks before the lord
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but the Lord was not in the wind.
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And after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.
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And after the earthquake, a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.
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And after the fire, a still small voice.
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What a beautiful record how God teaches his people the great somethings,
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The sweet somethings that he whispers in your ear,
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even in the midst of the earthquakes and the fires around us and the towering
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infernos and the crashing 747s and capsizing ocean liners and the economy and
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everything else that's going on in this crazy mixed up world.
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As we walk in that sustained fellowship with him, he whispers those sweet somethings
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in our ear and we hear that still small voice and we know that everything that
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he has said in his word is true.
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As sons of God, we have been called out of the darkness of this world.
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We've been handpicked by God before the foundation of the world to have holy
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communion, to have that beautiful, tender fellowship with him.
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We have joy, we have love, we have peace, and we have freedom as men and women
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to the measure and to the extent that we do one thing, and that's obey his word.
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We have got to get on with the business of obeying the word.
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To be everything that our father has said
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we are through Jesus Christ is to obey the word you and i must determine once
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again in our hearts to stand up in the light of the word to be willing to leave
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everything in the past behind us and without looking back,
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to say yes to the word of god once upon a dot a time we dared to say yes to
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that word when we We heard that it was Christ in us, the hope of glory.
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And for the first time when we heard that and believed it and understood it,
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our lives acquired profound meaning and direction.
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And through the days and the months that have passed by since then,
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maybe a few of you only a few days or a few months, others of us a few years,
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we have learned to say yes to more and more of that word of God and to walk
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in that tender fellowship with him and to see results because of it.
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When we do not obey this word of God, this call of love, when we do not make
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that spiritual leap of believing that the whole senses world says is crazy,
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then we are saying simply that we do not believe the word.
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When we know and understand this, how can our lives be anything but a yes?
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Amen. Amen, Heavenly Father, for the great light of your word that you've given
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us to live, to walk in, to enjoy.
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Father, for this sweet tenderness of fellowship, how you lift us up when we
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faint in our minds, how you guide us, how you love us, how you bless us, how you strengthen us.
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We thank you tonight and thank you for the wonderful day and week ahead of us.
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Thank you father for teaching us for
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guiding us for loving us and for calling
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us before the foundations of the world to be
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your sons and to shine as lights in the world that others may know that god
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is love for this great word father in this great calling in this great life
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we thank you through jesus christ our lord amen.
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Music.