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928. Bible Study: Psalm 14 ("There is no God" Is anyone good? Does anyone seek God? ) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 14 from the book of Psalms.
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  First, let's pray. Dear Lord, please be with us as
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  we read through this and as we discuss things that this Psalm
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  led me to. We ask for your Holy Spirit to
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  give us wisdom, insight, open our minds, our hearts and our
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  ears to hear what you have to say through your word.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. This is a very short Psalm but
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  it led me to quite a bit of research and thoughts that came
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  just flooded as I went through this.
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  So you can stay with me as long as you are comfortable doing so.
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  This is Psalm 14. Let's start.
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  The fool says in his heart, there is no God.
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  They are corrupt, their deeds are vile, there is no one who
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  does good. The Lord looks down from heaven
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  on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who
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  seek God. All have turned away, all have
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  become corrupt. There is no one who does good,
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  not even 1. Do all these evil doers know
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  nothing? They devour my people as though
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  eating bread. They never call on the Lord, but
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  there they are overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the
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  company of the righteous. You evil doers frustrate the
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  plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.
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  Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion.
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  When the Lord restores His people, let Jacob rejoice and
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  Israel be glad. And that's the end of Psalm 14.
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  So we see a few things in here just about those who don't put
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  their trust in God, those who say there is no God, those who
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  do not seek God. And those are equated to evil
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  doers. And it says that those evil
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  doers are actually overwhelmed with dread in verse 5.
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  But it says it says for God is present in the company of the
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  righteous. So God is present in the company
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  of the righteous, and then it seems like he's pleading for
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  salvation for Israel and longing for that to come out of Zion.
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  That's almost prophetic in my the way I read it, because Zion
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  is usually referred to as the future Jerusalem area that where
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  Jesus will reign from. It's Mount Zion and it refers to
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  Jerusalem and it says when the Lord restores his people, let
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  Jacob rejoice in Israel, be glad.
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  I believe that's when Jesus returns, that Israel will be
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  brought to full restoration where their hearts and
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  everything will be changed. So I do think that is another
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  prophetic word from David. So this is a Psalm of David
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  again, and there's a couple other things that kind of got me
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  on a really long path, which I guess I'll just read first what
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  the study Bible says, and then I will get into all the different
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  scripture that came to mind as I read Psalm 14.
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  So is every atheist a fool? Such a person person is foolish
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  in terms of what God has revealed concerning our eternal
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  destiny. We have no hope if we assume
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  there is no God who gives purpose and value to our
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  existence. If such an assumption were
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  accurate, our lives would be subject only to the illusion of
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  random chance. So wasn't there even one who did
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  good? Though David was exaggerating
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  his immediate situation, the Bible does teach clearly that
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  everyone is a Sinner. And that references Romans 323.
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  And I don't know that it's necessarily an exaggeration
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  because this is something I'm going to talk about too.
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  It's there's twice in this Psalm where it says there is no one
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  who does good and then it says there is no one who does good,
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  not even 1. And I don't know that that is an
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  exaggeration. I think that's the truth and
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  Jesus quoted that. So that's what that's what
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  started me getting into all of this.
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  So I've got one more question and answer from the study Bible
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  and then I'll get into that side topic.
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  So how is the dread of the Lord different from the fear of the
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  Lord? Though occasionally used in
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  place of the word fear, the word dread conveys a greater sense of
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  foreboding. The righteous have a fear or an
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  awesome respect for God. The wicked, however, experience
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  dread when they consider God's judgment and wrath.
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  So that's all the study Bible has for this chapter.
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  And then I will get into the the places, all the different places
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  that I went after reading these things.
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  So first it was the quote that Jesus said because he said it
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  twice in Mark and Luke. Mark chapter 10, Luke chapter
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  18, the same thing that was documented by both gospels.
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  Jesus answered, Why do you call me good?
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  Jesus answered, no one is good except God alone.
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  And so here I believe he's really putting it in their faces
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  that He is good, He is the Son of God.
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  And because no one is good, it's only God who is good.
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  Then why are they who are not believers?
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  Why were they calling Him good? And I guess we could put that in
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  context to see what was actually happening here.
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  It was it was about the rich and the Kingdom of God as Jesus.
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  So Mark chapter 10, verse 17. As Jesus started on his way, a
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  man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.
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  Good teacher. He asked, what must I do to
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  inherit eternal life? So right away he's saying good
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  teacher. And that's when he goes through
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  the response to that. And then in Luke 18, I will look
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  at that and say, in this version of the gospel, it says a certain
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  ruler asked him, good teacher, what must I do to inherit
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  eternal life? And that's when Jesus said, why
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  do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
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  So then it goes into more detail, which I'm not going to
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  cover, but Jesus said that twice that there's no one good but
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  God. And that is repeated in, well,
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  Psalm 14 there. Yeah, there is no one who does
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  good. I mean, it says it multiple
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  times in that. And then in other Psalms it also
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  says the same thing. It's repeated over and over.
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  It says in Psalm 53 one it says there, there the fool says it,
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  gosh, this is repeated again. The fool says in his heart there
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  is no God. They are corrupt and their ways
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  are vile. There is no one who does good.
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  In Psalm 53 verse three, it says everyone has turned away, all
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  have become corrupt. There is no one who does good,
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  not even 1. So it's A and then Romans
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  chapter three, verse 12, this is another verse that says all have
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  turned away. They have together become
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  worthless. There is no one who does good,
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  not even 1. And that if you go back to it,
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  it says as it is written there, there is no one righteous, not
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  even one. There is no one who understands.
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  There is no one who seeks God. And then it just goes on and it
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  talks about how unrighteous I guess everyone is.
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  And so there's multiple times in Scripture and I think, you know,
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  the study Bible also referenced the Romans 323 where it says for
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  all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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  So basically like sin is, I've heard it explained before.
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  It's like missing the mark. Like basically it says that none
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  of us are perfect. We do not reflect God perfectly.
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  We are were have been made in the image of God, but our
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  character doesn't align with God.
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  We all miss that mark and that's what sin is.
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  But there is a process of restoration that is only through
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  God, through the Son of God, through the Holy Spirit, through
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  the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That is how that restoration is
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  made. And that's what I'm going to
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  probably that's what I will be talking about on the rest of
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  this podcast, how the Bible tells us that that will be, that
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  will be changed with us in us. If we are believers, if we want
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  to, if we choose to believe that Jesus is who he says he is, then
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  we will be changed because we will receive the Holy Spirit and
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  our lives will be changed. And so I'm going to go through
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  how like how that happens or what happens and what the
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  evidence is of that and how you can know for sure that that has
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  happened in your life, because we can find all of that through
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  scripture. And I have so much scripture to
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  talk about. So that's what the the rest of
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  this, the rest of this podcast is going to be about.
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  And, and it's this is meant to, to reflect upon because here's
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  the thing. This is the only reason why I
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  would say anything like this is because we want to be prepared
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  if we happen to be the generation that is alive when
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  Jesus returns, then and it, and it shouldn't be just because if
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  it's that generation, it should just be, you know, for you never
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  know when your last breath is going to be, but just say that
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  there is, there will be a generation someday that is
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  present when Jesus returns. And we need to be prepared.
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  So we need to know what it says in the Bible about these things.
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  And so this, this information should not be taken lightly
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  because if you ignore this information, it says we will
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  still be judged. It says those apart from the law
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  will still be judged by the law. And those are, will be, will
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  still be judged the same way. Even if you just say, OK, I'm
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  ignorant of it, I don't know anything.
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  So then I'm not going to be held accountable for it.
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  The Bible says differently. You are still going to be held
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  accountable for it. So it's important right now to
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  do something about it. Jesus did what we couldn't do by
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  His death on the cross and his resurrection.
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  He overcame the power of the evil one that's affected all of
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  us. That's how sin entered.
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  It entered through Satan all the way back in during the time of
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  Adam and Eve in the Garden when Satan caused Eve to doubt God
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  and then she disobeyed God and included her husband in doing
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  that as well, Adam and then through that then our it's been
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  passed on. I mean what?
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  As soon as that happened, then all of mankind, their all their
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  offspring were destined to death.
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  It's because what it says, the laws are spiritual and we are
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  not spiritual, but the spiritual part of the law says the wages
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  of sin is death. So what we get paid for missing
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  the mark of perfection is death, spiritual death.
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  But that's what Jesus came to give us, spiritual life, and he
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  did what no one can do because no one could be perfect.
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  He was the only one who could be perfect.
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  And God, as part of the laws, a substitute sacrifice was allowed
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  so that a substitute could die. And the substitute was Jesus.
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  He died on the cross for every single person on every single
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  human being on this earth, whether they came before him or
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  after him. And those it, it says that it's,
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  it's the faith of those, those who, you know, they didn't know
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  him if they were, you know, before him, although the
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  prophets did talk about him. But if they had faith in what
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  the prophet said and what was revealed to them at that time,
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  if they had faith, that was counted as righteousness.
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  And Jesus's death covers all the people of the past, all the
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  people today and all the people in the in the future.
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  And and so his death does, but we have to respond to that.
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  Do we believe that's what Jesus did?
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  If we don't believe, and I'm going to get into the scripture
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  that says this, if we don't believe that happened, then we
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  don't have salvation. We're not going to have eternal
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  life. That's why Jesus said I'm the
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  way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father
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  except through me. So when people say, well, I
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  believe in God, I just don't know about Jesus or Jesus
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  wasn't, you know, he was a good man, but and he was a prophet,
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  but he's not the Son of God. When somebody says something
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  like that, then they don't have salvation because Jesus clearly
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  said that it was only through him what he did on the cross no
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  one else could do because no one was perfect.
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  Every human being falls short of the perfection of God.
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  And Jesus was without sin. So it's there's no way around
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  it. And then the other thing that
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  Jesus said in John chapter 3, he said, and I repeat this so many
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  times, but he says that we cannot be in the Kingdom of God
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  unless we are born again, born of the Spirit.
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  We need the Holy Spirit. And Jesus says in Scripture that
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  he requests the Holy Spirit. He receives the Holy Spirit from
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  the Father and then gives it to whomever He desires.
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  So if you don't believe in Him or you deny Him, do you think
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  He's going to give you the Holy Spirit?
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  If you are not truly ready to call Him Lord over your life, do
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  you think He's going to give you the Holy Spirit?
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  Think about this, in the Garden of Eden when they sinned against
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  God, all of a sudden then God put a cherub there with this
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  flashing light or something flashing beam of light to
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  protect the tree of life. Because once somebody sinned, he
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  did, they were forbidden from having the tree of life.
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  And that could all be symbolic, the fruit from the tree of life,
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  that would be like eternal life. And so God was forbidding that
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  no one who sins is going to have eternal life.
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  So once Adam and Eve sinned, that's when he had to put an
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  Angel there to protect the tree of life that they could not eat
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  from that fruit. They chose the tree of knowledge
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  and of good and evil. So they were, you know, that's
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  that. We don't have much more detail
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  than that. And I don't want to get into it
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  because I really don't know. But that's what they chose.
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  They could have chosen the tree of life before they ate from
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  anything, but they didn't. They were deceived by the evil
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  one. OK, and that's a whole nother
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  story that can get really long too.
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  But what I want to talk about is all of us and just that every
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  single person, every single human being has this falling
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  short of being holy like God. None of us are holy like God.
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  I think we can all agree with that.
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  And it's just the what? Maybe the word sin has become so
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  offensive to everybody, but what I understand is that term came
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  from like shooting arrows and missing the bullseye.
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  And that's what that was. That was called sin.
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  And that's what is actually applied to missing the mark.
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  And we are missing the mark, falling short of the holiness of
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  God. We are not as holy as God.
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  And I think everybody can say that's true.
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  So if we can say that's true, then we should be able to say
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  that we are all sinners. We can understand that.
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  When I first was learning about faith things, I didn't
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  understand how a little child could be a Sinner because they
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  didn't really do anything thing. But then the more you look at
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  it, the more you see that oh they are.
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  Because another thing that I've I've noticed after studying
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  longer is that pretty much anything that is selfish is sin
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  where you're putting yourself above other people.
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  Because that's the opposite of what Jesus did.
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  Jesus came as a servant and he expects those who make him, who
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  call him Lord, to also be servants and to others like had
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  that servant, that service attitude towards others.
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  Not in an abused way, because in this world we do have people who
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  are abuse their their power in that way, but in out of love, to
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  serve someone out of love like Jesus did for all of us.
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  So it's important to understand exactly what he was referring to
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  in that way. But if we're selfish and we're
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  only thinking about what's going to benefit us and not be what
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  what's good for other people, if we're not thinking about others
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  and we are only thinking about ourselves, that is pretty an
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  easy way to think about that could very well be sin.
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  So it's something to reflect on and, and we do, we do have the
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  power to overcome sin and we won't be able to do it perfectly
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  because we are still in corrupt mortal bodies, bodies that will
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  die. But inside we, we are being
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  changed by the Holy Spirit. When we, when we receive the
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  Holy Spirit, we are allowing the Holy Spirit to change our lives
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  and our sinful ways will become less and less over time.
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  Now if we are, if we know something is sinful and then we
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  are saying, well, I'm just going to do it anyway, then we are
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  intentionally sinning. And that if, if we're not
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  convicted by that, by the Holy Spirit, then we probably don't
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  have the Holy Spirit. And it's something that we,
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  again, we need to reflect on because if we don't have the
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  Holy Spirit, we can't enter the Kingdom of God.
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  And there are some things that I will read from scripture that
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  talk about how you know, if you have the Holy Spirit.
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  So let's get into the Scripture. I guess the first part that I,
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  I, it was about no one being good.
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  And then I had written about, I guess seeking God, there's
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  seeking God is really something that's important.
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  Back in Deuteronomy 429, it says, but if, if from there you
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  seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with
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  all your heart and with all your soul.
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  So God isn't hiding himself from us.
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  It's just that we tend to not seek God and God wants us to
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  seek him. And it in Psalm 78, it says
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  whenever God slew them, they would seek him.
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  They eagerly turned to him again.
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  Well, that's the way humans operate historically.
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  If some tragedy comes, we seek God.
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  And so if if life is going great for us and we're ignoring what
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  God and we just don't think we need them or life is going along
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  really good, God very well may send some disaster our way so
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  that we turn to him because that's ultimately what God
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  wants. He it says that God punishes,
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  God disciplines. I'm sorry, God disciplines his
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  children, not punishes, but he disciplines his children so that
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  they turn back to him or that they turn to him.
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  And so sometimes he uses disasters and hardships and
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  things like that. He allows the enemy to have
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  access when we have become stubborn and resistant to him
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  calling us. And then Psalm 119 says blessed
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  are those who keep his statutes and seek Him with all their
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  heart. And then in Acts 17 verse 27, it
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  said God did this so they would seek him and perhaps reach out
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  for him and find him, though He is not far from any one of us.
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  And so that just shows that there is there is times that
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  people are far from Him. I was going to read what it
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  said. God did this.
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  It said from one man, he made all the nations that they should
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  inhabit the whole earth and he marked out their appointed times
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  in history and the boundaries of their lands.
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  God did this so they would seek him and perhaps reach out for
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  him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
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  So there's, I don't know, there's a lot the God who made
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  the world and everything in it is the Lord of the heaven and
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  earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.
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  And he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything.
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  Rather he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything
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  else. So it's just talking about
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  that's in Acts 17. If you want to meet, read more
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  in Hebrews 11/6. It says and without faith, it is
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  impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must
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  believe that he exists and he and he rewards those who
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  earnestly seek him. So there's a benefit to seeking
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  God. He, you, you must believe that
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  he exists. That's one.
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  And that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
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  So it's a good thing to seek God.
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  God is a good father. And so the the other thing that
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  we have to remember that since the beginning of the Garden of
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  Eden, when Adam and Eve, the original humans that God created
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  when they sinned and they turned against God, that just affected
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  the entire population thereafter.
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  And so here's what Jesus said about sin.
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  Jesus replied very truly. I tell you, everyone who sins is
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  a slave to sin. So that's kind of, you know,
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  people don't like civil, don't like slavery, but what they
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  don't know or what maybe it's just like Jesus is the wisest
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  person. Jesus is the Son of God.
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  He knows everything and and listen to what he's saying.
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  He's saying truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to
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  sin, a slave. When you're a slave, you are
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  under the control of someone else.
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  If you are a slave to evil, to sin, to missing the mark, you're
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  a slave to that. That means you're under the
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  control of someone else. It says that Satan is the ruler
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  of the air and he is on earth and he's doing these things.
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  He's the one who entered, who brought sin into the picture.
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  He introduced it. I guess Eve is responsible for,
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  you know, proceeding with it. But Satan or the serpent, if you
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  would, whatever you want to call him, he was the one who kind of
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  put it in their heads and their thoughts.
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  So it's likely that it's him or his alliances who are who have
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  the slavery over people. And then Romans 714 says we know
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  that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave
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  to sin. So until we have those that that
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  bondage broken away from sin, we are slaves to it and it will
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  just cause us to have a spiritual death, a spiritual
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  eternal separation from God. And and that's a spiritual
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  matter that we don't really have a lot of information about, I
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  guess, because we only know what the Bible shares with us.
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  So let's see, I've read that already and let's see there's I
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  don't, OK, I'm jumping around here.
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  Let's see, John, John 8, 34 is what I had here.
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  John 834, Jesus, yeah, yeah, that was the verse.
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  Jesus replied very truly. I tell you, everyone who sins is
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  a slave to sin. And then there's another verse
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  that I had here. Oh, this is in John 8 verse 7
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  where it says when they kept on questioning him this they were
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  questioning Jesus, He straightened up and said to
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  them, let any one of you who is without sin be the first to
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  throw a stone at her. So what happened after this was
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  that everyone went away because everyone knew that they were not
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  without sin. And then in first John one verse
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  8, it says if we claim to be without sin, we deceive
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  ourselves and the truth is not in us, so everybody does have
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  it. And then it says if we confess
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  our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our
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  sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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  If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar and
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  His word is not in us. So we have to come to grips with
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  the fact that we are sinners and that by our own power we will
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  not overcome it. Because Scripture tells us that
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  we cannot fully 100% overcome it.
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  We cannot be as holy as God. There's just no way, I don't
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  know that anybody could say that they are as holy as God and they
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  have no sin. And it says if they do, they're
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  saying they're lying about it. So if we can't do it on our own.
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  And in other verses, I brought this up before where God marks
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  out holy things and he tell, he warns people, you cannot touch
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  it. You cannot step on this
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  mountain. You can't touch this area.
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  You can't touch the Ark of the covenant or you will die because
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  it's holy. So for some reason, and I think
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  it's just that in the holiness, like holiness cannot be around
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  sin. And I also think that that this
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  is my own speculation, that in the book of Genesis, it talked
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  about God walking in the garden and calling for Adam and Eve.
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  So God was present walking in the garden.
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  That may have been Jesus, since God is Spirit.
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  And so if there's walking in the garden, then perhaps it was
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  Jesus another topic too. But anyway.
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  But then after sin entered, then there God's presence was gone.
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  And it was gone for a very long time until Jesus came with a
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  purpose to die on the cross and break the curse of sin, the
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  curse of death as a result of sin.
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  And, and so maybe that's what God did to protect all of us.
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  And then when he was on the mountain with Moses, he called
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  Moses and he purified Moses or made him prepared so that he
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  would be protected. But he said, don't let anybody
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  else come near this mountain. And I, I'm just speculating that
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  maybe because, because he said it was holy that somebody would
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  die. And I think he did say that if
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  anybody touched it, they would die.
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  And I think that's part of the spiritual law that unholy things
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  cannot be in the presence of God.
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  And that may be how in the very, very end, when all of these
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  nations, like I'm going back after the thousand year reign of
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  Christ, like at the final judgement, how the people on
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  earth or that rebel against God are finally destroyed.
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  They they all get together to fight God.
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  But then I think it's like with the breath of his mouth, every,
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  you know, everything's gone. Like there is no literal fight.
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  Like it's just over. Probably because God comes, His
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  presence is there, and presence, His presence cannot be in the
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  same place as unholy things or they will just be destroyed.
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  And I just wonder if that's how that happens, just because
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  that's a spiritual law, and that spiritual law has always been
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  present, but we just don't quite comprehend it.
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  It's a thought and supported by different parts of Scripture
• 31:39
  when you think about things. So sin is something we have to
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  get out of our life, but we can't do it on our own.
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  We need the Holy Spirit to do that.
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  Now. It says that like in Christ, in
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  him that we are, I guess, saved when we are in him in Christ.
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  And I started doing a a study. Well, I guess it's a study about
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  that, about being in Christ and how that just knowing, knowing
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  what that means. And I don't know, like I said, I
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  had so many different things. OK, so in Christ Romans 611, it
• 32:30
  says in the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive
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  to God in Christ Jesus. So Jesus brings us life and
• 32:43
  count ourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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  So in Christ Jesus is really important.
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  Romans 623 For the wages of sin is death.
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  What we get paid for our sin is death, but the gift of God is
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  eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  So what it means to be in Christ Jesus our Lord is important
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  because that's where eternal life is.
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  Romans 81 says, therefore there is now no condemnation for those
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  who are in Christ Jesus. So if you're in Christ Jesus,
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  there is no condemnation. You are not condemned to eternal
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  separation from God. Now.
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  Romans 839 says neither height nor depth nor anything else in
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  all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God
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  that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  So when we are in Christ Jesus, there is nothing that can
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  separate us from the love of God like God loves us.
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  I mean that's there's nothing that can separate us from the
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  love that it's in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  Romans 91 I speak the truth in Christ.
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  I am not lying. My conscience confirms it
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  through the Holy Spirit. I think the Holy Spirit is
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  really significant in our lives. That's kind of the I mean,
• 34:23
  that's who we need to guide us when we believe, we can ask
• 34:29
  Jesus and I don't know that we necessarily have to ask him, but
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  that's what we know. That's where the Holy Spirit
• 34:37
  comes from the Father through Jesus.
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  If we don't know if we have the Holy Spirit and we really
• 34:44
  believe, it says that when we believe, Jesus will send us the
• 34:49
  Holy Spirit. But believe is another word that
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  I searched that I think also gets distorted.
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  One verse that comes to mind that you know, people will just
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  say, well, all you have to do is believe.
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  But there's one verse that really clarifies or or kind of
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  gets you on that one. It's like you say that you
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  believe good. Even the demons believe and
• 35:14
  shudder. So the demons believe who he is,
• 35:18
  but that he's not going to be Lord over their lives.
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  So they believe, but that doesn't mean that they are going
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  to be saved. And so getting into scripture
• 35:29
  and really looking at what it says is so important to
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  thoroughly understand it. Romans 12/5 South In Christ we
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  though many form 1 body and each member belongs to all the
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  others. There is this like unison that
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  happens with people who are in Christ and I believe it's the
• 35:54
  Holy Spirit that creates that. And I believe that's what Jesus
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  was praying to the Father. And I will read that at some
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  point too, because I know that was in the scripture that I
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  found was that Jesus said he prayed to the Father and said
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  Father, make them one as we are one.
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  And I believe the Father and the Son are one in spirit.
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  And Jesus said, you know, if you've seen whatever I do, I'm
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  not doing it on my own. I'm doing it because the Father
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  tells me. And it's just like they are in
• 36:20
  complete unison in a complete in, in agreement through the
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  Spirit, the shared spirit. And that's how they are won by
• 36:29
  the shared spirit, the Spirit of God.
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  And that's the only way that I can comprehend it at this point
• 36:38
  through Scripture. So first Corinthians one, verse
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  2 to the Church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in
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  Christ Jesus and called to be his holy people, together with
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  all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ their Lord and ours. So one thing that I noticed
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  about this, it says to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and
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  called to be his holy people, sanctification, holy people.
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  God says be holy because I am holy.
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  So that's something that happens to people who are in Christ.
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  It is because of him that you are in Christ.
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  This is talking referring to God.
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  It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus who has
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  become for us wisdom from God. That is our righteousness,
• 37:36
  holiness and redemption. So this comes through Christ,
• 37:42
  our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
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  So that's another thing. If you are in Christ, there's
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  you're going to see the righteousness holiness coming
• 37:56
  from Jesus in us like he prayed to the Father to make them one
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  with us are you know 1 is we are one when he was speaking to the
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  Father and in one Corinthians chapter 4 verse 17.
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  For this we reason I have sent you Timothy, my son, whom I love
• 38:17
  who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of
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  life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach
• 38:26
  everywhere in every church. So Paul is using himself as an
• 38:29
  example and saying my way of life in Christ.
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  So he is giving people the example of this is how you live
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  in Christ. And 1st Corinthians 15 verse 22
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  says for as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made
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  alive. So as people, as human beings,
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  we are all subject to death, but in Christ all of us will be made
• 38:56
  alive. So it's important to to be in
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  Christ. 2nd Corinthians one verse 21.
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  Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ.
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  He anointed us. So pay attention to this.
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  It is God who makes us stand firm in Christ.
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  Stand firm. It says, you know, like at the
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  end that you can stand firm in Christ.
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  Well, it's God that means that we receive the Holy Spirit.
• 39:30
  The power comes from God is not on our own power that we become
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  righteous or that we become holy.
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  If we try to do it on our own, it's not going to work.
• 39:40
  We need God. We need the Holy Spirit.
• 39:42
  Scripture says this over and over in ways that might be vague
• 39:46
  to us, but when you study it, it's really clear it this comes
• 39:51
  through God, and God will make you make us.
• 39:55
  When we submit to Him as our Lord, and we want the Holy
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  Spirit, He will prepare us to be able to stand firm.
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  It is through His power, not ours. 2nd Corinthians 3, verse
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  14. But their minds were made dull.
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  For to this day, the same veil remains when the old Covenant is
• 40:17
  read. It has not been removed because
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  only in Christ is it taken away. This is referring to the Jewish
• 40:25
  people, I believe, and they have a veil.
• 40:30
  That's how it's described. I guess metaphorically that they
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  it hasn't been removed because only when they believe in Christ
• 40:38
  is it taken away. So they are not seeing it.
• 40:42
  They are even reading scripture that shows Jesus in the Old
• 40:47
  Testament, but they are not seeing it because of this veil.
• 40:54
  In 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 17, it says, therefore, if anyone is
• 40:59
  in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the
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  new is here. This implies that there is a
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  change in a person if you are in Christ.
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  There's a before and an after. The before is full of sin.
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  The after becomes more holy and holy, a little bit holier.
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  It's more in the image of God, never perfect because we're
• 41:26
  still humans, we still have mortal bodies, we're still
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  subject to sin. But over time things change.
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  And it usually is a gradual process.
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  For some people, it does happen rather quickly.
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  But then I know many people where it's taken a long time and
• 41:45
  they are like, I guess baby Christians.
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  And it doesn't happen instantaneously because little
• 41:51
  by little, I guess God is so patient with us that he lets us,
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  you know, gradually submit to him on things.
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  Some things we hang on to. And he's really patient with us
• 42:06
  when we don't want to give up something.
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  And but he's there just like calling us and calling us.
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  And I mean, I, I look back on my life and I know that God was
• 42:19
  probably calling me and calling me and I was resisting and
• 42:22
  resisting. And, and then finally I was
• 42:26
  like, OK, I will, I'll, I'll do it.
• 42:29
  You know, I'll submit, I'll stop hanging on to things that I
• 42:32
  shouldn't be hanging on to. And, and that, you know, that
• 42:37
  thank God that he is patient. We are not as patient as God.
• 42:42
  So thank God, God is who he is. But then there's also a time
• 42:46
  where when we have this like stubbornness to God and this
• 42:49
  what they call like a stiff necked attitude, stubbornness
• 42:52
  where God just says, OK, you can have what you want.
• 42:56
  And then he turns you over to your desires.
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  He lets you have your free will. And that I didn't want to have
• 43:07
  happen to me. After I read the Bible and I saw
• 43:09
  that God did that to some people, I thought, how many more
• 43:13
  chances is God going to give me? Because I know looking back that
• 43:17
  He gave me chances and I was stubborn, so I didn't want to
• 43:22
  test God. I didn't want to see, well, how
• 43:24
  much more time do I get? How many more times can I be
• 43:27
  rebellious and let you be patient?
• 43:29
  That's not a good place to be. Because I think that, I mean,
• 43:34
  that's dangerous territory. I mean, that's where you have
• 43:36
  the fear of God, where the fear of his, his awesome reverence
• 43:44
  that you have for him that are you going to test him?
• 43:48
  Do you want to see his power? Do you want to see what he can
• 43:51
  do? I don't, I don't.
• 43:54
  Not in that way, not in wrath. I certainly don't.
• 43:57
  So anyway, Galatians 216 know that a person is not justified
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  by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
• 44:09
  So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be
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  justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because
• 44:19
  by works of the law no one will be justified.
• 44:23
  So again, this says that we cannot do this on our own.
• 44:29
  There's, there's nothing we can do to make ourselves holy.
• 44:33
  We can, but it's we need the power of God, we need the Holy
• 44:38
  Spirit to do it and and it's, it's having faith in Christ, we
• 44:44
  receive the Holy Spirit through Christ.
• 44:46
  So when we have faith in Christ, we receive the Holy Spirit and
• 44:50
  that's when things can truly begin to change for good for
• 44:55
  permanent that way. So Galatians 3 verse 26 says, so
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  in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith.
• 45:06
  So through our faith we become children of God, brothers and
• 45:11
  sisters to Jesus, and we also will receive the inheritance of
• 45:16
  God's Kingdom through this. So it's amazing what God is
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  offering us to become his children.
• 45:25
  He created us, but doesn't mean that we all, you know, want to
• 45:30
  be his children. The door is open, but we have to
• 45:34
  go through Jesus. Galatians 328.
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  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free,
• 45:43
  nor is there male or female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus.
• 45:49
  So it's just like we're all brothers and sisters.
• 45:51
  It doesn't matter if we're Jew, if we're Gentile, you know,
• 45:54
  whatever people are, we are all going to be brothers and
• 45:59
  sisters. It doesn't matter race.
• 46:02
  There's the Bible is not racist at all.
• 46:05
  It is it is very it's very inclusive of those who choose to
• 46:14
  be in Christ. That's what I should say.
• 46:19
  So Galatians 5 verse 6 for in Christ Jesus, neither for in
• 46:26
  Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
• 46:29
  has any value. The only thing that counts is
• 46:33
  faith expressing itself through love.
• 46:37
  So I think most people like that statement that until you really
• 46:41
  get to know what love means, but everybody likes the love part of
• 46:46
  it because love is has is is ultimately selflessness,
• 46:54
  submission to another, having a servant attitude and towards
• 46:58
  God. Love is obeying his
• 47:00
  commandments. So we can't get away from that
• 47:03
  obedience to his commandments. We don't get anything.
• 47:07
  What we're doing is we're giving something.
• 47:10
  When we obey, we are showing God that we love Him.
• 47:15
  We are giving God something that he sees that we love him.
• 47:18
  I mean it says, if he says, if you love me, you will obey my
• 47:21
  commands. Ephesians one, verse 9.
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  He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his
• 47:29
  good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ.
• 47:33
  So the mystery of God's will was according to his good pleasure,
• 47:39
  he purposed in Christ. Ephesians one verse 13 and you
• 47:47
  also were included in Christ when you heard the message of
• 47:51
  truth, the gospel, the good news of your salvation, when you
• 47:57
  believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy
• 48:04
  Spirit. So when we believe, and so it's
• 48:08
  really important to know what believe means.
• 48:10
  You were marked in him. So we we get a a mark or a seal,
• 48:15
  and that mark or seal is the promised Holy Spirit.
• 48:19
  So when we believe, that's when it comes.
• 48:21
  But we need to know what believe means because it also says in
• 48:24
  Scripture that the demons believe and shudder.
• 48:28
  So it's not the same belief as what the demons have.
• 48:33
  There's a belief that we have to, you know, believe who he is.
• 48:38
  I, like I said, I'll get into that a little bit more from
• 48:40
  Scripture, not my own words. So Ephesians 2, verse 10.
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  For we are God's handiwork. God created us, He create.
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  Let's see. For we are God's handiwork,
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  created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared
• 48:55
  in advance for us to do. So here He did prepare us to do
• 49:00
  good works, but it's not how we get salvation.
• 49:04
  But He makes us for a purpose and we are created in Christ, in
• 49:09
  Christ. God has a purpose in Christ
• 49:12
  Jesus to do good works. So that's what our purpose is.
• 49:18
  And it says which God prepared in advance for us to do.
• 49:22
  So every person has something that God wants us to do, but we
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  probably have to seek God to find out what it is because it's
• 49:29
  different for every person. Ephesians 213 But now in Christ
• 49:37
  Jesus, you who were once far away have been brought near by
• 49:42
  the blood of Christ. Now this whole thing about blood
• 49:46
  is. You can learn more about that in
• 49:48
  Hebrews. It says without the shedding of
• 49:51
  blood, there is no forgiveness for sins.
• 49:54
  So that's why that is so important.
• 49:56
  That's why we have that forgiveness, because Jesus was
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  the perfect lamb, symbolically the perfect human, not human Son
• 50:07
  of God, but in human form. And he was put to death on the
• 50:11
  cross. And his blood that was shed,
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  that came from him on the cross is what gives us the
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  forgiveness, the atonement for our sin.
• 50:22
  That's what broke the curse, the spiritual law associated with
• 50:27
  the curse. That's what broke it on the
• 50:29
  cross, so that we can be in God's Kingdom.
• 50:34
  Ephesians 36. The mystery is that through the
• 50:36
  gospel the Gentiles are errors together with Israel.
• 50:41
  So now you have the Gentiles and Israel, both errors, HEIRS,
• 50:48
  members together of 1 body and sharers together in the promise
• 50:55
  in Christ Jesus. So this salvation is for
• 50:59
  everyone, for all nations. But we have to believe in Christ
• 51:04
  Jesus, in Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God, Ephesians 311
• 51:10
  according to His eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ
• 51:15
  Jesus our Lord. So God had this eternal purpose
• 51:20
  with Jesus and his death on the cross.
• 51:24
  And that's the way he overcome. He overcame death.
• 51:28
  That's the way he overcame the the law that was going to have
• 51:35
  all of us spiritually severed from God forever.
• 51:39
  If Jesus hadn't died on the cross, that's what that's where
• 51:42
  we would be. So then here's the next
• 51:45
  continuing on in Christ, Ephesians 432.
• 51:49
  Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other,
• 51:52
  just as in Christ God forgave you.
• 51:56
  When we are in Christ, God Forgives us because we are
• 52:01
  covered by His blood, the blood he shed on the cross, the
• 52:04
  atonement for our sins. Then in I guess it's Philippians
• 52:09
  3 verse 3. For it is we who are the
• 52:12
  circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in
• 52:19
  Christ Jesus and who put no confidence in the flesh.
• 52:23
  There's a lot there. So it is we who serve God by His
• 52:30
  Spirit, the Holy Spirit. The only way we can boast is in
• 52:35
  Christ Jesus. We have no confidence in our own
• 52:38
  flesh. Philippians 39 and be found in
• 52:45
  him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the
• 52:49
  law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the
• 52:55
  righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
• 53:01
  We have the righteousness from God through Christ, through
• 53:07
  through our belief, through US believing.
• 53:09
  Philippians 314. I press on toward the goal to
• 53:13
  win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ
• 53:18
  Jesus. So I've noticed that Paul is
• 53:22
  very reward based and he's got this marathon that he's he's
• 53:27
  working towards this marathon and he's talking about the
• 53:29
  rewards that he's going to get and he's running the race to
• 53:33
  finish it and to get the rewards.
• 53:37
  So here he's like, I press onward toward the goal to win
• 53:41
  the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ
• 53:48
  Jesus. So Paul recognized his calling
• 53:52
  and he's working on his goal to win that prize.
• 53:55
  So he knows there is a reward for all the things that he did
• 54:00
  and he shares that with us. So I don't know what those
• 54:03
  rewards are, but I think there are some, like there's crowns
• 54:08
  and things, but I don't really know what all of that means.
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  So Colossians one verse 28, He is the one we proclaim
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  admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom so that
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  we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.
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  So the goal is to become fully mature.
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  So we do some there are when we first come to believe when we're
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  I call baby Christians and Paul kind of does too when he talks
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  about people having milk and not meat yet that they're baby
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  Christians are infants. He calls them when they're just
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  starting out, they're still going to be more sin in
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  somebody's lives. And so that's why as anyone who
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  calls themselves a Christian, if you are a longer time Christian,
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  a true Christian who lives in obedience to Christ, the new
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  Christians, don't be so critical of them because it takes time to
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  understand everything that's in the Bible.
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  And God is patient. And don't turn them away from
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  Christianity by being harsh on them because God will speak to
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  them, the Holy Spirit will speak to them and convict them of
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  things that may not be perfect in their lives.
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  But if they're on that path, encourage them, rather than
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  criticizing them of what they're not doing right, encourage them
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  to do what is right and encourage them with, with
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  Scripture because there, there are rewards for it.
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  But the goal is to become fully mature.
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  But it doesn't happen overnight. Just like we grow up, we're
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  immature until we get to be mature.
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  And that doesn't always depend on age.
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  So there are some young people who are more mature than some
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  old people. And it's, it's just a maturity.
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  Colossians 2 verse 5 for though I am absent from you in body, I
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  am present with you in spirit and delight to see how
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  disciplined you are and how firm your faith in Christ is.
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  So then Colossians 29 for in Christ all the fullness of the
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  deity lives in bodily form. That's really powerful if you
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  think about it, if you are in Christ, all the fullness of the
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  deity lives in bodily form is, I mean, that is God working in a
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  person that is powerful. There is no greater power than
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  that. And that's something that I
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  think Christians may not realize.
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  When we have the Holy Spirit, we have the Spirit of God inside of
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  us, and that power is God's power, being able.
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  I mean, God can do anything he wants, but God can work through
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  us like a vessel, like God can do things through us, through
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  us, with our faith, through the Holy Spirit.
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  It's all through the power of God.
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  But that's very significant. I mean, when you really think
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  about that, the fullness of the deity lives in a person who is
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  in Christ, Colossians 2 verse 10 and in Christ you have been
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  brought to fullness. He is the head over every power
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  and authority. So that's another good point is
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  that we may have the, you know, the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  but we are not our own little G gods.
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  We are not our own. We don't operate under our own
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  authority. We are guided by the Holy
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  Spirit. We are submitted to Christ.
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  He is the head and we are the the rest of the body, but Jesus
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  is the head. And that's something that is
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  important for us to know that when all that power comes to us,
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  it is Jesus who is is, you know, has that control of what he of
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  that, of that power. It's, it's through God.
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  So if we're not going to be good stewards of that power, we're
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  probably not going to have the power because God's not going to
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  put the power in the hand of an evil person like that.
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  So First Thessalonians 4 verse 16 For the Lord himself will
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  come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of
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  the Archangel, and with the trumpet call, and the dead in
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  Christ will rise first. So the people who died, but they
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  were in Christ, they are, when Jesus returns, they will rise
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  first. So being in Christ is really
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  important if you want to resurrect and be in the Kingdom
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  of God, if you want to have an immortal body, you need to be in
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  Christ, you need to have the Holy Spirit.
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  So it's important to know what in Christ means to Timothy 19.
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  He has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of
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  anything we have done, but because of His own, His own
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  purpose and grace. The this grace was given us in
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  Christ Jesus before the beginning of time.
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  To Timothy 21 You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is
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  in Christ Jesus. This is a good one, because
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  grace is not something that grace is not being weak.
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  Grace is being strong. Grace is like power.
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  It's the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  It's the power of God. Is this power of the whole?
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  Of the Spirit of God that is in Christ.
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  So here Paul is saying you then, my son, be strong in the grace
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  that is in Christ Jesus. Not our own strength, but it's
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  the strength from the grace that is given to us by God.
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  Second Timothy 2, verse 10. Therefore I endure everything
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  for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the
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  salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory to
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  Timothy 312. In fact, everyone who wants to
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  live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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  So this kind of tells us that if we want to live a godly life in
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  Christ Jesus, be persecuted in some way, maybe by others, maybe
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  by people making fun of the way that you live.
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  Oh, you're extreme or something like that.
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  But if you want to, it says that you will be persecuted.
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  It's like to count your cost. Just know what you're getting
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  into or just get into it anyway because it has more benefits
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  than downsides. But second Timothy 3:15 and how
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  from infancy. So here's where he's talking
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  about those infants. Again, you have known the Holy
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  Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation
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  through faith in Christ Jesus. So we get OK from infancy.
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  You have known the Holy Scriptures, so we get wisdom
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  from the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise.
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  You know, that's the seek wisdom.
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  Above all else, seek wisdom for salvation through faith in
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  Christ Jesus first, Peter 316 keeping a clear conscience so
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  that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in
• 1:02:03
  Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
• 1:02:06
  So again, there's this is another characteristic when
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  you're in Christ, good behavior, good behavior in Christ.
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  First Peter 510 and the God of all grace who called you to his
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  eternal glory in Christ after you have suffered a little
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  while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and
• 1:02:27
  steadfast. So we do have suffering, and it
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  says, and the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal
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  glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will
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  himself restore you and make you strong, firm, and steadfast.
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  And I wanted to read a little bit more about life through the
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  Spirit, since the Holy Spirit is so important to understand.
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  It says, therefore there is now no condemnation for those who
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  are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of
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  the Spirit who gives you life, has set you free from the law of
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  sin and death. So we get life instead of death.
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  For what the Law was powerless to do because it was weakened by
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  the flesh, God did, by sending His own Son in the likeness of
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  sinful flesh to be a sin offering.
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  And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the
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  righteous requirement of the Law might be fully met in US who do
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  not live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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  So the righteous requirement of the Law might be met in US who
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  do not live according to the flesh, but according to the
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  Spirit. So it was through Jesus's death
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  on the cross. And then it says in order that
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  the righteous requirement of the law might be fully and met in
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  US, and it says us is clarified who do not live according to the
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  flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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  It's important to know, OK, who's living according to the
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  Spirit? Who's living according to the
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  flesh? What does that mean?
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  Well, it just tells us. Then those who live according to
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  the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires.
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  But those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds
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  set on what the Spirit desires. So that doesn't really explain
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  it, but the next verse does. The mind governed by the flesh
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  is death. So it's telling you if you're,
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  if you're in a fleshly life, you're that's death.
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  But the mind governed are controlled or guided by the
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  Spirit is life and peace. So we can see that if we are
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  letting the Holy Spirit guide us, we will be receiving eternal
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  life and we will also have peace.
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  The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God.
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  So if you have people who are angry at God, their mind is
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  governed by the flesh. It's not governed by the Spirit.
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  Their mind does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
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  So if your mind is still, that's why reading Scripture, that
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  starts changing the way we think.
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  And if we're not reading Scripture, our mind is not being
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  changed. And it's, I mean, I don't know,
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  it's not like it's, it's just changing us as we're reading
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  truth. And then we are having, we are
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  faced with that decision if we accept it or not.
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  And if we don't accept it, we are hostile to God.
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  If we accept it, then we are welcoming what God says in his
• 1:06:07
  law. So those who are in the realm of
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  the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the
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  realm of the flesh, but are in the realm of the Spirit.
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  If if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you, so does this Holy
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  Spirit live in you. And if anyone does not have the
• 1:06:34
  Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
• 1:06:39
  So again, the Holy Spirit is so important.
• 1:06:44
  Do you have the Holy Spirit? Is your mind governed by the
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  flesh or is your mind governed by the Holy Spirit?
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  Do you have peace? If you don't have peace in your
• 1:06:55
  life, you might want to think about this.
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  But if in Christ, if. But if Christ is in you, then
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  even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the
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  Spirit gives life because of righteousness, just like Jesus
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  rose from the dead. I added that just like Jesus
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  rose from the dead, OK, the verse 11 And if the Spirit of
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  him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, so the
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  Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you.
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  He God who raised Christ or the Spirit who raised Christ from
• 1:07:39
  the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of
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  his Spirit who lives in you. That's again why we need the
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  Holy Spirit. If we don't have the Holy
• 1:07:52
  Spirit, we are not going to resurrect to eternal life.
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  Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but is
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  not the flesh to live according to it.
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  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
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  But if you by the if you by the spirit, you put to death the
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  misdeeds of the body, you will live.
• 1:08:18
  So the Holy Spirit is how we get the power to overcome the sin.
• 1:08:24
  So we put to death the quote misdeeds of the body, the bad
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  things we put to, I mean that'll be put to death by the Spirit.
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  For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children
• 1:08:39
  of God. That's how we become children of
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  God once we have the Holy Spirit.
• 1:08:44
  The Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live
• 1:08:49
  in fear again. Rather the Spirit you received
• 1:08:53
  brought about your adoption to sonship.
• 1:08:56
  And by him we cry, ABBA, Father, the Spirit himself testifies
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  with our spirit that we are God's children.
• 1:09:07
  So then it says, now if we are children, then we are heirs,
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  heirs of God and Co heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in
• 1:09:17
  his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
• 1:09:23
  So those are some powerful things about becoming a child of
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  God and inheriting the Kingdom of God with Jesus as a cohere
• 1:09:36
  with us. Then it says, let's see verse
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  26. In the same way, the Spirit
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  helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to
• 1:09:47
  pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through
• 1:09:50
  wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts
• 1:09:54
  knows the the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
• 1:09:59
  intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God.
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  That's important to think about too.
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  It's the will of God. It it might not be what we want
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  or what we set our desires on, but the will of God.
• 1:10:16
  The Spirit knows what the will of God is, and that He will
• 1:10:20
  guide us. It He searches our hearts, And
• 1:10:23
  he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because
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  the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the
• 1:10:32
  will of God. And we know that in all things
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  God works for the good of those who love Him who have been
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  called according to His purpose. And remember, those who love Him
• 1:10:48
  are those who keep His commands, and also those who have been
• 1:10:52
  called to His purpose. So He has a purpose for
• 1:10:55
  everyone. In verse 37 it says in all these
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  no and all these things we are more than conquerors through him
• 1:11:05
  who loved us. So we can conquer things by the
• 1:11:08
  Holy Spirit. And in verse 39, it says neither
• 1:11:13
  height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be
• 1:11:16
  able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ
• 1:11:21
  Jesus our Lord. So there's no power that's going
• 1:11:26
  to be able to separate us in when we are in Christ from God.
• 1:11:34
  And then Christ crucified is God's power and wisdom.
• 1:11:41
  So there's another thing that his crucifixion is actually,
• 1:11:45
  well, what he did. The result of his crucifixion is
• 1:11:50
  God's power and wisdom. So I'll read that a little bit
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  from this chapter and I didn't get what book this was from.
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  So for the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are
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  perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of
• 1:12:09
  God. That's where we see God's power
• 1:12:12
  on the cross and Jesus's resurrection.
• 1:12:17
  For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did
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  not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what
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  was preached to save those who believe.
• 1:12:31
  Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach
• 1:12:37
  Christ crucified, A stumbling block to the Jews and
• 1:12:42
  foolishness to Gentiles. But to those whom God is called
• 1:12:46
  both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the Christ the
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  power of God and the wisdom of God.
• 1:12:56
  So that's where it's saying that Christ is the power of God and
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  the wisdom of God, and others who don't believe think it's
• 1:13:06
  foolish. They look for signs, they look
• 1:13:09
  for wisdom, but they just don't see it in the crucifixion.
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  They don't get what it's all about.
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  For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the
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  weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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  I always love this verse too because it says also in
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  scripture that we we need to become like children to inherit
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  the Kingdom of God and that you know, that sense of not knowing
• 1:13:40
  humbling ourselves. I think humbling is such a an
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  important aspect of faith. So but God chose the foolish
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  things of the world to shame the wise.
• 1:13:54
  God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
• 1:13:59
  God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised
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  things and the things that are not to nullify the things that
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  are so that no one may boast before him.
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  It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has
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  become for us wisdom from God. That is our righteousness,
• 1:14:20
  holiness and redemption. We read that before.
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  Now here's another part where Paul in first Corinthians 3, he
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  talks about living by the Spirit and also infants in Christ.
• 1:14:38
  So he addresses the in in first Corinthians chapter 3, he says,
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  brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who
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  live by the Spirit, but as people who are still worldly
• 1:14:53
  mere infants in Christ. So I think this is important for
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  Christian, for seasoned Christians, Christians who have
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  been a a Christian for a long time and live by it.
• 1:15:05
  When they see people who are new Christians and they aren't doing
• 1:15:08
  everything perfectly. Paul is a little bit kinder
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  about it. He says they're mere infants in
• 1:15:15
  Christ. They're baby Christians.
• 1:15:17
  They haven't quite matured yet. But don't criticize them.
• 1:15:24
  Help them grow. It's a transition to come out of
• 1:15:30
  sin, and people need encouragement and support to do
• 1:15:35
  that. So Paul says I gave you milk,
• 1:15:39
  not solid food. He's going on this infant
• 1:15:42
  analogy for you were not ready for it.
• 1:15:47
  Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly for since
• 1:15:53
  there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly?
• 1:15:57
  Are you not acting like mere humans?
• 1:16:00
  So we're seeing here from Paul that jealousy and quarreling are
• 1:16:04
  examples of being an infant in Christ.
• 1:16:08
  So if you are a seasoned person in Christ and you see jealousy,
• 1:16:13
  you see quarreling, just realize it's just baby Christian stuff.
• 1:16:18
  That has to be maturity still has to come and let it be.
• 1:16:23
  Don't get involved with it. It says so.
• 1:16:30
  And then he talks about like, you know, growing and I guess
• 1:16:32
  maturing. And in verse 7 he says so
• 1:16:35
  neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything
• 1:16:39
  but only God who makes things grow.
• 1:16:43
  So God is patient. We need to be patient with each
• 1:16:46
  other and let God help the person grow and pray for them.
• 1:16:52
  We are Co workers in God's service and he Paul was saying
• 1:16:58
  you are God's field, God's building by grace.
• 1:17:04
  By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise
• 1:17:07
  builder in someone else's building on it.
• 1:17:09
  But each one should build with care.
• 1:17:13
  No one can lay any foundation other than the one that has
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  already been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
• 1:17:21
  And then he talks about what we build and, and it says like what
• 1:17:25
  happens? Like if what has been built
• 1:17:27
  survives, the builder will receive a reward.
• 1:17:30
  This is where Paul's talking about those rewards.
• 1:17:32
  Again, if it's burned up, the builder will suffer loss, but
• 1:17:38
  yet will be saved, even though only as one escaping through the
• 1:17:44
  flames. So I mean, Paul has an idea
• 1:17:47
  that, you know, and, and also I, I just noticed something today
• 1:17:52
  when I was researching about Paul, he had these like awesome
• 1:17:56
  revelations. And I think I'm going to get to
• 1:17:59
  that scripture maybe where he had these revelations from God,
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  where he wrote all of these books in the Bible.
• 1:18:09
  And his life drastically changed from persecuting Christians and
• 1:18:13
  killing them to then becoming one of the authors of the Bible
• 1:18:19
  that has been, you know, read for thousands of years.
• 1:18:23
  And Paul had a significant change.
• 1:18:25
  But it it does he does clarify that he had this thorn in his
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  side. And then he clarifies what that
• 1:18:33
  thorn is. It was an A messenger of Satan,
• 1:18:36
  an Angel from Satan who tormented him.
• 1:18:40
  And he asked God to take it away, but God didn't.
• 1:18:43
  God let him continue to have that so that his pride from all
• 1:18:49
  of these revelations that God gave him would not get him into
• 1:18:54
  trouble. So that was, see, God sometimes
• 1:18:58
  let's evil have some access to us when we show or when God
• 1:19:05
  knows, oh, that person's going to have pride and pride is the
• 1:19:08
  downfall. So for protection, God may allow
• 1:19:15
  evil to interfere with our life, because if he didn't, we might
• 1:19:21
  get too proud. And if we get too proud and we
• 1:19:24
  start having confidence in our own abilities or thinking too
• 1:19:28
  much of ourselves and we don't have that humility, then we're
• 1:19:32
  going to separate ourselves from God.
• 1:19:33
  And God doesn't want that. So God sees all these things
• 1:19:37
  that we don't. And it is like, you know, a
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  father, a good father, a dad, you know, looking at us and
• 1:19:43
  saying, you know, if you have children, you've probably seen
• 1:19:46
  this where the kids think if they get everything that they
• 1:19:50
  want, then that's a good thing. But the parent knows they can't
• 1:19:54
  have absolutely everything they want.
• 1:19:57
  That won't be a good thing. And that's the way God is with
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  us too, is, is that sometimes he has to not give us everything
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  that we want because it will not have a good outcome.
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  He works all things for the good of those who love him.
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  We have to remember that. And then he talks about.
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  Ourselves being God's temple and that we have the Holy Spirit
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  dwelling in our midst. And then he says if anyone
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  destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person.
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  For God's temple is sacred and you together are the temple.
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  So God's very protective of his people.
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  This was something interesting too, because when we get into
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  all this legality of a trust and an inheritance and those legal
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  terms, in First Corinthians 4, chapter 4, verse 2, it says now
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  it is required that those who have been given a trust must
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  prove faithful. So I think that's very
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  interesting that if you, if you've been given a trust, you
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  must prove faithful. So I care, I care very little if
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  I'm judged by you or by any human court.
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  Indeed, I do not even judge myself.
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  My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent.
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  It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore, judge nothing before
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  the appointed time. Wait until the Lord comes.
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  He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will
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  expose the motives of the heart. At that time.
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  Each will receive their praise from God.
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  So these are all like it was all part of that.
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  What I'm reading from is the letter that he was writing to
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  the Corinthians and they were the the infants in Christ.
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  And then he says, I'm not writing this to shame you, but
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  to warn you, my dear children, even if you had 10,000 guardians
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  in Christ, you do not, you do not have many fathers.
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  For in Christ Jesus I became your father through this gospel.
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  Therefore, I urge you to imitate me.
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  You can kind of see Paul's pride coming out here.
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  For this reason, I have sent to you Timothy, my son, whom I
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  love, who is faithful in the Lord.
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  He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which
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  agrees with what I teach everywhere in church.
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  So Paul's not being a hypocrite. He's living out the life that
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  he's preaching. And then he also says, for the
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  Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
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  So these are very interesting things.
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  And there's another thing that Paul talks about in the same
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  thing about these infants that they, these baby Christians,
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  I'll just call it. And he then he talks to them
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  about sexual immorality that's among them.
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  And he said like a man was sleeping with his father's wife
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  and people were doing nothing about it.
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  So you know this, it doesn't say that the a man was sleeping with
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  his mom. It said he was sleeping with his
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  father's wife. So we don't know ages of anybody
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  or anything. They could have been, it could
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  have been a, you know, a dad with a really young wife and
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  then could be the same age as the son and they were sleeping
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  together. We don't know any of that.
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  But we know that there's a marriage.
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  There is a father, his father and he has a wife and they're
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  married. And then there's a man that who
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  who is sleeping with his own father's wife and nobody was
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  dealing with it. So these were, this is the baby
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  Christian Church that he's talking to.
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  And he says that I have already passed judgement in the name of
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  our Lord Jesus Christ on the one who's been doing this, but he's
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  upset with them. He said, hand this man in verse
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  five, hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the
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  flesh so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  So this was interesting because this is somebody in the church,
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  you know, probably somebody calling themselves a Christian,
• 1:24:42
  but they're doing this and, and Paul is saying, Hey, you guys
• 1:24:47
  are infants. You don't know, this is not
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  allowed here. You need to deal with this.
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  And he's, he's saying, you know, like, just turn him over.
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  Let him, you know, let him, I mean, turn him over.
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  That's kind of like, I guess get him out of the church, out of
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  the community, but let him just do what he's doing because
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  Satan's going to destroy him for doing that, and hopefully his
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  spirit will be saved on the day of the Lord.
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  And then he goes on to say later, I wrote you in my letter
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  not to associate with sexually immoral people.
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  Not at all. Meaning the people of this world
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  who are immoral or the greedy or the swindlers or the idolaters.
• 1:25:30
  In that case, you would have to leave the world.
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  So even back in that time, and that's probably like today too,
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  if you'd say like don't associate with sexually immoral
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  people, you'd have to leave the world because most people are
• 1:25:43
  sexually immoral. But here's what he says, and
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  it's probably holds true today too.
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  Verse 11. But now I am writing to you that
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  you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a
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  brother or a sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an
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  idolater or slanderer, A drunkard or swindler.
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  Do not even eat with such people.
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  What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church?
• 1:26:19
  Are you not to judge those inside?
• 1:26:23
  God will judge those outside. Expel the wicked person from
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  among you. The reason why they want Paul
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  writes this is, and it's been stated before that they talk
• 1:26:37
  about yeast. Yeast is symbolic of sin.
• 1:26:41
  A little bit of sin, a little bit of yeast affects the whole
• 1:26:45
  loaf of bread. So a little bit of sin in a
• 1:26:49
  quote, godly community is going to affect the whole community.
• 1:26:54
  And he's like, no, get it out. You cannot have that in in the
• 1:26:57
  church. If somebody's saying that they
• 1:26:59
  are a believer or a brother or sister, get them out and and
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  that they were just, you know, immature with that.
• 1:27:10
  And then he goes on to talk more about like lawsuits among
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  believers. This is in one Corinthians
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  chapter 6. And then he says in verse 9, or
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  do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the Kingdom of
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  God? Do not be deceived.
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  So don't let anybody tell you the lie that this is not true.
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  Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral,
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  nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men,
• 1:27:42
  nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor
• 1:27:48
  swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of God.
• 1:27:53
  And that is what some of you were, but you were washed, you
• 1:27:57
  were sanctified. You were justified in the name
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  of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
• 1:28:05
  So Paul is not saying, you know, that they never did any of these
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  things. They did those things, but they
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  were, they were washed, they were baptized, they received the
• 1:28:17
  Holy Spirit, they were sanctified and justified in the
• 1:28:20
  name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit, the Holy Spirit
• 1:28:25
  there of our God. So that is what some people are.
• 1:28:30
  But when people are doing this, they, they cannot have the
• 1:28:34
  Spirit in them to do this or they, the Spirit would convict
• 1:28:38
  them of this. So then he says I have the
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  right. He said this is quotations verse
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  12. I have the right to do anything
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  you say, but not everything is beneficial.
• 1:28:53
  I have the right to do anything, but I will not be mastered by
• 1:28:58
  anything. So see that's the the problem
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  there is the Lord your master and that's what I think a lot of
• 1:29:06
  people, they will use the Christian label, but the Lord is
• 1:29:11
  not their master like the word of God.
• 1:29:13
  That's not law to them. They feel like I don't need to
• 1:29:18
  do any of that stuff. And I think that is like baby
• 1:29:22
  Christians. And that's what Paul's talking
• 1:29:25
  here about. Like, yeah, that's not right.
• 1:29:27
  You say food for the stomach and stomach for food, and God will
• 1:29:30
  destroy them both. The body, however, is not meant
• 1:29:35
  for sexual immorality, but for God and the Lord.
• 1:29:40
  For the body. By his power, God raised the
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  Lord from the dead. He will also raise us up.
• 1:29:50
  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?
• 1:29:56
  Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a
• 1:30:01
  prostitute? He says never, never, ever,
• 1:30:06
  never. Do you not know that he who
• 1:30:10
  unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body?
• 1:30:15
  For it is said, the two will become one flesh.
• 1:30:19
  So I guess if you choose that, you can unite yourself with that
• 1:30:23
  prostitute. But then you're one in flesh.
• 1:30:27
  And then it says, but. So On the contrary, whoever is
• 1:30:31
  united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
• 1:30:37
  So are you going to be one in in flesh or one in spirit?
• 1:30:45
  The Spirit's going to rise you from the dead.
• 1:30:48
  You can be the one in flesh with somebody else, but there's no
• 1:30:52
  doesn't look like there's any room for the Holy Spirit there.
• 1:30:56
  And or else he wouldn't tell us this.
• 1:30:59
  Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits
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  are outside the body. But whoever sins sexually sins
• 1:31:13
  against their own body. That's probably why that's the
• 1:31:18
  enemy's greatest, oh, I don't know thing that they tempt that
• 1:31:28
  people get tempted with sexual immorality because it is
• 1:31:33
  pleasing to people. But it's like the greatest
• 1:31:37
  separation from God to fall from that, to have that come against
• 1:31:43
  us because it says that this this is the one thing everything
• 1:31:47
  else is outside the body. But this this effects our
• 1:31:50
  spirit. And it's probably because it's a
• 1:31:52
  spiritual law where the 2 become one flesh.
• 1:31:56
  And, and so I don't understand it fully, but what I do
• 1:32:03
  understand is that Paul says flee from it.
• 1:32:08
  That's not just, I mean, it just says, don't you understand this?
• 1:32:14
  And he puts a whole chapter on this, several chapters on this.
• 1:32:18
  And he also talks about us, you know, if we're participating in
• 1:32:22
  this, that we are not going to be in the Kingdom of God.
• 1:32:27
  So that is something pretty serious.
• 1:32:31
  Like you really have to think about what's more important to
• 1:32:34
  you, the flesh, or do you want to submit to the Spirit and
• 1:32:39
  inherit the Kingdom of God? There's a right way.
• 1:32:42
  I mean, God is not against sex by any means, but it needs to be
• 1:32:47
  in a marriage. I mean, God made it, and he made
• 1:32:51
  it for good, but it's just we, I guess we have the enemy's help
• 1:32:57
  too, to make us look at it in a way that's not godly, in a way
• 1:33:02
  that's not good, the way that God did not intend it to be.
• 1:33:06
  And it's the same thing. But it can be used for good or
• 1:33:09
  for evil. And so Satan tempts us to use it
• 1:33:13
  for evil when we could still have it, but we just have to do
• 1:33:19
  it in the right way, in the way that God tells us to do it.
• 1:33:22
  So it's still there. It's not, it's not that we won't
• 1:33:25
  have it or that we can't have it.
• 1:33:28
  It's that we, there are certain guidelines with it, and if we
• 1:33:34
  stay within those guidelines, it's perfectly acceptable.
• 1:33:38
  It's not that God is like trying to keep anything from anybody,
• 1:33:42
  but what the enemy is doing is trying to make it like that and
• 1:33:46
  then lure people in so that they separate themselves from God and
• 1:33:52
  they are ruled by the flesh. They are under the slavery of
• 1:33:56
  sin like it was talked about earlier and it says do you not
• 1:34:00
  know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who
• 1:34:02
  is in you, whom you have received from God?
• 1:34:06
  You are not your own. You were bought at a price.
• 1:34:08
  Therefore honor God with your bodies.
• 1:34:14
  I talked about that with the next thing that I had was about
• 1:34:18
  humility. But I did talk about that about
• 1:34:20
  Paul, that he had this messenger of Saint Satan to torment him.
• 1:34:25
  And then in Hebrews 10, this is another thing that there was
• 1:34:32
  something that hit me really hard when I read it in verse 14.
• 1:34:38
  First it says for by 1 sacrifice he is made perfect forever those
• 1:34:43
  who are being made holy. So Jesus is 1 sacrifice on the
• 1:34:48
  cross. He is made perfect forever,
• 1:34:51
  those who are being made holy. So again, this shows us there's
• 1:34:56
  a change for those people. The Holy Spirit causes that
• 1:34:59
  change. We have to want that change to
• 1:35:02
  be in the Kingdom of God, and we will begin to be made holy by
• 1:35:06
  the Holy Spirit. It says the Holy Spirit also
• 1:35:09
  testifies to us about this. First he says this is the
• 1:35:13
  covenant I will make with them. After that time, says the Lord,
• 1:35:15
  I will put my laws in their hearts and I will write them on
• 1:35:18
  their minds. Then he adds their sins and
• 1:35:20
  lawless acts. I will remember no more.
• 1:35:23
  And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is
• 1:35:29
  no longer necessary. So this is where these have been
• 1:35:34
  forgiven. So remember that the forgiveness
• 1:35:40
  comes from the shedding of blood, and that shedding of
• 1:35:42
  blood was Jesus's blood on the cross.
• 1:35:45
  And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is
• 1:35:50
  no longer necessary. That's why sacrifices aren't
• 1:35:53
  needed. It's because Jesus was the final
• 1:35:55
  sacrifice. Therefore, brothers and sisters,
• 1:35:58
  since we have confidence to enter the most holy, holy Place
• 1:36:02
  by the blood of Jesus, because we've been forgiven by a new and
• 1:36:08
  living way opened for us through the curtain that is His body,
• 1:36:15
  and since we have a great priest over the House of God, let us
• 1:36:19
  draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full
• 1:36:23
  assurance that faith brings. Having our hearts sprinkled to
• 1:36:27
  cleanse us from a guilty conscience, and having our
• 1:36:30
  bodies washed with pure water, let us hold unswervingly to the
• 1:36:34
  hope we profess for He who promised is faithful.
• 1:36:39
  And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love
• 1:36:44
  and good deeds, not giving up meeting together as some are in
• 1:36:48
  the habit of doing, but encouraging one another all the
• 1:36:52
  more as you see the day, the return of Jesus approaching.
• 1:36:58
  Now here's this is where this is one that really got me when I
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  read it for the first time. This is Hebrews 10 verse 26.
• 1:37:07
  If we deliberately, deliberately, as keyword, keep
• 1:37:12
  on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the
• 1:37:17
  truth, no sacrifice is no sacrifice for sins is left, but
• 1:37:25
  only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that
• 1:37:33
  will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of
• 1:37:40
  Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three
• 1:37:46
  witnesses. How much more severely do you
• 1:37:50
  think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the
• 1:37:54
  Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the
• 1:38:01
  blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has
• 1:38:08
  insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said it is
• 1:38:15
  mine to avenge. I will repay, and again the Lord
• 1:38:19
  will judge his people. It is a dreadful thing to fall
• 1:38:24
  into the hands of the living God.
• 1:38:27
  When I read that, I, I don't know how anybody could not see
• 1:38:33
  that we can't keep on sinning and saying, oh, it's covered by
• 1:38:40
  grace. It's like if we deliberately
• 1:38:43
  keep on sinning, you're rejecting God.
• 1:38:47
  If you're doing that and I don't you, I, I would question if I
• 1:38:54
  were you, I would ask God, do I have the Holy Spirit?
• 1:38:58
  Has the Holy Spirit departed from me?
• 1:38:59
  And there's some people say that it that wouldn't happen, but I
• 1:39:04
  just think about Saul, the first king, where Saul was disobedient
• 1:39:08
  to God and it and it said God took his spirit from him and
• 1:39:14
  sent an evil spirit to torment him.
• 1:39:18
  So we know that if God sent an evil spirit to torment him, what
• 1:39:25
  does God want from that? He wants Saul's life to be so
• 1:39:29
  miserable that he turns back to God.
• 1:39:33
  That's his whole purpose. He doesn't want people to be
• 1:39:36
  separated from him. But when you just keep doing
• 1:39:40
  something over and over and over again, you don't leave God a
• 1:39:43
  choice. But the next thing that's going
• 1:39:46
  to happen is probably likely if history repeats itself, and it
• 1:39:53
  sure seems like it doesn't in Scripture, there's going to be
• 1:39:56
  some evil torment that's going to come to you.
• 1:40:00
  So you could either do it God's way, or you could do it your way
• 1:40:04
  and have this suffering that you could have avoided if you would
• 1:40:10
  do it God's way. But it's just something to think
• 1:40:13
  about. Do you want to risk it?
• 1:40:14
  Do you want to test God? Do you want to deliberately keep
• 1:40:18
  on sinning? It says here and then have a
• 1:40:22
  fearful expectation of judging and raging a judgement and
• 1:40:26
  raging fire that will consume and your then it's you're called
• 1:40:29
  an enemy of God. So read Hebrews 10 and pray
• 1:40:36
  about it. And if the Holy Spirit's
• 1:40:38
  convicting you, then do something about it.
• 1:40:41
  Because I know it did me. It was when I read these things,
• 1:40:46
  there was like way too much in my conscience to continue in, in
• 1:40:51
  things that the Bible said. I would basically be outside
• 1:40:56
  God's Kingdom if I kept doing that.
• 1:40:58
  It's it's not performance based, but when we have the Holy
• 1:41:03
  Spirit, the Holy Spirit sanctifies us.
• 1:41:06
  Are we sanctified if we keep on sinning, if we keep on rebelling
• 1:41:11
  against God? Do we have the Holy Spirit?
• 1:41:13
  Did we make Jesus Lord of our life?
• 1:41:16
  Would Jesus tell us to be doing that?
• 1:41:20
  And Jesus said, if you love me, obey my commands.
• 1:41:24
  So if we if we know what his commands are and we're
• 1:41:28
  deliberately going against, that's what this is talking
• 1:41:30
  about. This isn't talking about
• 1:41:31
  accidental or in a weak moment. And then as soon as you realize
• 1:41:37
  that, you're like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe I did that.
• 1:41:39
  And I'm so sorry, God, I do not want to do that.
• 1:41:41
  That's where I believe that God is merciful.
• 1:41:46
  But this is talking about somebody who just deliberately
• 1:41:49
  keeps on doing something they know they're doing wrong.
• 1:41:52
  It's a big warning. And I don't say this to condemn
• 1:41:57
  anyone. I say it as a warning to, you
• 1:42:00
  know, wake up because I, I don't want to see you or anyone be
• 1:42:06
  eternally separated from God and God just wants to restore that
• 1:42:10
  relationship. So if that's you, then it's get
• 1:42:15
  right. I mean, I don't know who you
• 1:42:16
  are. I don't know who's listening to
• 1:42:18
  my podcast. And I'm just saying that, you
• 1:42:21
  know, like all people, it's, it's time to get right with God
• 1:42:26
  and, and don't let that stuff. I mean, if, if being in God's
• 1:42:29
  Kingdom is important to you, don't delay getting right with
• 1:42:34
  God. Get rid of sin.
• 1:42:36
  Just get it out of your life because it's not worth it.
• 1:42:40
  Our life here on earth is what, maybe 120 years Max and compared
• 1:42:46
  to eternity? So where do you want to spend
• 1:42:49
  eternity? I mean, this is nothing.
• 1:42:51
  This is a broken world. It's not even going to be, as
• 1:42:55
  you know, whatever is so great here, it's going to be nothing
• 1:42:59
  compared to what the greatness will be in God's Kingdom.
• 1:43:04
  So believe, this is another thing that I had looked up to
• 1:43:09
  about believing because I think that's really important to
• 1:43:13
  really know what believe means in the Bible.
• 1:43:15
  And in Psalm 7822, it says for they did not believe in God or
• 1:43:20
  trust in his deliverance. So God will deliver us from
• 1:43:24
  things. Psalm 7832 says in spite of all
• 1:43:27
  this they kept on sinning. In spite of His wonders, they
• 1:43:32
  did not believe. So like this is another thing
• 1:43:36
  talking about keep on sinning. I mean, you don't do that when
• 1:43:39
  you believe Psalm one. O 624 Then they despised the
• 1:43:45
  pleasant land. They did not believe His
• 1:43:48
  promise. We have to look at all Scripture
• 1:43:50
  and know that these things that are in here are going to come
• 1:43:54
  true, if they have not already. And what God says in His words
• 1:43:59
  is going to happen. So we don't it's not wise to
• 1:44:04
  test God and say, well, I don't know if He'll do something about
• 1:44:07
  this. Well, history shows that he
• 1:44:10
  will. And the only thing that right
• 1:44:13
  now where maybe you're not suffering from something if
• 1:44:15
  you're in rebellion to him is that he's being patient and kind
• 1:44:20
  and merciful and hoping that you will actually turn to him.
• 1:44:25
  Proverbs 1415 The simple believe anything but the prudent give
• 1:44:30
  thought to their steps. So some people might doubt their
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  belief and have questions. And I think this is Proverbs is
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  written by one of the wisest people that was written by
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  Solomon. Proverbs 1415 it says the simple
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  believe anything but the prudent give thought to their steps.
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  That's twofold. I mean, if you're struggling to
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  believe something, I think that you know that it's, it's prudent
• 1:44:55
  to, you know, give thought to it to think through these things.
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  And the other thing that's kind of a warning is within this day
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  of deception and, and the way AI is becoming and how we can
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  easily be deceived, it's, it's important to remember the simple
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  believe anything but the prudent give thought to their steps.
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  So we have to really be examining and praying about
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  things that we see these days. Isaiah 4310 says you are my
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  witnesses, declares the Lord and my servant whom I'm chosen, so
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  that may you may know and believe me and understand that I
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  am he before me know God was formed, nor will there be 1
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  after me. So this is God.
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  He is, he is 1. There's no one before him, no
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  one after him, God alone in Matthew 21 verse 22, if you
• 1:45:54
  believe you will receive whatever you ask in prayer.
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  So, and this is also according to God's will because we know
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  somewhere else. We can't just take a verse out
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  of out of context or out of what it says in the whole Bible.
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  It it all has to be in agreement.
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  So if you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in
• 1:46:19
  prayer. And it's, I would add according
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  to God's will. And those were Jesus's words
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  that he was talking about to his disciples.
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  Matthew 21, verse 32 For John came to show you the way of
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  righteousness, John the Baptist, and you did not believe him, but
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  the tax collectors and the prostitutes did.
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  And even after this, after you saw this, you did not repent and
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  believe him. So this is something Jesus, he
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  never leaves out repentance, repentance and belief.
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  Repentance is turning away from sins does not keep on sinning.
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  It's turning away from sin and believing.
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  That's, that's, that's key. Then a lot of people, you know,
• 1:47:05
  ignore the repent part, but that's what Jesus says.
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  Now we're going to talk at Mark one, verse 15.
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  This is Jesus. These are Jesus's words.
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  The time has come. He said the Kingdom of God has
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  come near repent and believe the good news.
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  So there's something we have to do.
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  We have to repent of our sins and, and believe, you know, that
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  Jesus is who he is. And that's one thing the demons
• 1:47:36
  don't do. They don't repent.
• 1:47:38
  I don't even know if they can. They're just doing evil.
• 1:47:42
  So when the demons believe and shudder, they're not repenting.
• 1:47:46
  So repentance is important. Mark 1124.
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  Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that
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  you have received it and it will be yours.
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  So there's a lot of positive things about believing.
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  Mark 16 verse 14. Later Jesus appeared to the 11
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  as they were eating. He rebuked them for their lack
• 1:48:13
  of faith and their stubborn, stubborn refusal to believe
• 1:48:19
  those who had seen him after he had risen.
• 1:48:24
  So even those closest to Jesus struggled with believing.
• 1:48:31
  Mark 1616. Whoever believes and is baptized
• 1:48:37
  will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
• 1:48:44
  So that's pretty clear. Believe get baptized, be saved.
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  Baptism isn't. We know that from the man on the
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  cross next to Jesus. He didn't get baptized but got,
• 1:48:57
  but Jesus told him, surely this day you will be with me in
• 1:49:01
  paradise. So he was saved.
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  But Jesus did command us to go and be baptized in the name of
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  the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.
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  So that was something Jesus said to do.
• 1:49:15
  And I think that we should take that to heart.
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  And in a, you know, God said, be obedient.
• 1:49:22
  If you love me, obey my commands.
• 1:49:24
  That's what Jesus said, to go and be baptized in the name of
• 1:49:28
  the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Now in Mark 16, this was
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  interesting. And these signs will accompany
• 1:49:37
  those who believe in my name. They will drive out demons.
• 1:49:41
  They will speak in new tongues. So here are some signs that
• 1:49:49
  accompany those who believe in my name.
• 1:49:54
  They will drive out demons. They will speak in new tongues,
• 1:50:00
  in new languages, and it says they will pick up snakes with
• 1:50:07
  their hands. And when they drink deadly
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  poison, it will not hurt them at all.
• 1:50:15
  They will place their hands on sick people and they will get
• 1:50:20
  well. And we saw that from his
• 1:50:23
  disciples in the book of Acts. We saw that that happened.
• 1:50:28
  But this is what what Jesus said.
• 1:50:32
  He said whoever believes and is isn't and is baptized will be
• 1:50:37
  saved. But whoever does not believe
• 1:50:39
  will be condemned. And these signs will accompany
• 1:50:42
  those who believe in my name. They will drive out demons, They
• 1:50:47
  will speak in new tongues. They will pick up snakes with
• 1:50:51
  their hands. And when they drink deadly
• 1:50:54
  poison, it will not hurt them at all.
• 1:50:57
  They will place their hands on sick people, and they will get
• 1:51:01
  well. Look at the power that Jesus
• 1:51:04
  gives to believers. I just thought that was
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  something to really emphasize. Now when it talks about
• 1:51:14
  believing, what are the hindrances to believing in Luke
• 1:51:18
  chapter 8 verse 12, it says those along the this is talking
• 1:51:23
  about when sowing seeds and people who hear them and it
• 1:51:26
  talks about, I'll just read this first.
• 1:51:30
  Those along the path are the ones who hear and then the devil
• 1:51:34
  comes and takes away the word from their hearts so that they
• 1:51:38
  may not believe and be saved. So the devil is active when
• 1:51:46
  people are trying to come to faith, they hear the good news.
• 1:51:50
  The devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts so
• 1:51:54
  they don't believe. So that's a threat to people.
• 1:51:58
  So be careful. If you're a new believer, you
• 1:52:01
  know, someone who's a new believer, the devil's going to
• 1:52:05
  be after them to take it away from their heart so that they
• 1:52:09
  may not believe and be saved. So the adversary comes along,
• 1:52:14
  he's seeking to steal, steal from God, kill and destroy.
• 1:52:21
  Then there's another example of those.
• 1:52:24
  It's talking about seeds. You know, the gospel, the good
• 1:52:26
  news, Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the
• 1:52:30
  word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root.
• 1:52:35
  They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall
• 1:52:40
  away. And that's another thing that
• 1:52:42
  happens to people. I know I experienced it when I
• 1:52:45
  finally believed, when it really became real to me.
• 1:52:49
  And then I had testing and I was thinking in my I was praying
• 1:52:55
  too. And I was like, God, I'm trying
• 1:52:57
  to be, you know, a better person and, and bad things are
• 1:53:03
  happening to me. I'm trying to be obedient.
• 1:53:05
  It's basically what I was trying to do.
• 1:53:08
  And then I found out that I was being tested because I was I was
• 1:53:14
  changing my life and unfortunately I wasn't doing it
• 1:53:19
  yet with the Holy Spirit. I don't think I had the Holy
• 1:53:22
  Spirit at that point. I think I was just doing it
• 1:53:25
  myself. I don't think I received the
• 1:53:26
  Holy Spirit until the day I was baptized because that day, and I
• 1:53:32
  think it had to do with my complete surrender because that
• 1:53:35
  was something I struggled with deciding to get baptized for
• 1:53:38
  about two years. And then finally when I decided
• 1:53:41
  to get baptized, I would. The reason why is I had it in my
• 1:53:47
  mind, I'm not going to get baptized and be a hypocrite.
• 1:53:51
  If I get baptized, I'm going to mean it.
• 1:53:55
  And so I delayed like was I ready?
• 1:53:58
  And then then actually something got cancelled.
• 1:54:00
  It was 2020 when I was going to do it.
• 1:54:02
  And then it got cancelled because of the stuff that was
• 1:54:05
  going on in the world. So I didn't get to do it in
• 1:54:08
  2020. And then I got, I was baptized
• 1:54:10
  in 2021. So the first opportunity that I
• 1:54:13
  had to do it, I did take that opportunity and did it.
• 1:54:19
  But that's when I believe I received the Holy Spirit because
• 1:54:22
  things really changed after that.
• 1:54:25
  So let's see. And then Luke 24 verse 25, he
• 1:54:31
  said to them, how foolish you are, and how slow to believe all
• 1:54:35
  the prophets have spoken. So this is again Jesus words and
• 1:54:42
  how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken the
• 1:54:46
  prophets of the Old Testament. It's important to read those and
• 1:54:51
  it's really a lot of people just read the New Testament.
• 1:54:53
  But the Old Testament is so important.
• 1:54:55
  You don't really understand the New Testament as fully as you
• 1:54:59
  will if you read the Old Testament because you need that
• 1:55:02
  foundation 1st and and then what the prophets have spoken it, you
• 1:55:08
  know, it's so important because some of those prophecies have
• 1:55:12
  come to true, have come to pass and other prophecies will come
• 1:55:18
  true, but they haven't yet been fulfilled yet.
• 1:55:22
  But it's all through the Bible. There's lots of Old Testament
• 1:55:26
  prophecies that talk about Jesus and and I think he was just
• 1:55:30
  rebuking them saying, you know, there's a lot of information in
• 1:55:33
  there, but you don't even believe them.
• 1:55:36
  Then another few more verses, John 3 verse 12.
• 1:55:41
  I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe.
• 1:55:45
  How then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
• 1:55:48
  This was Jesus talking to Nicodemus.
• 1:55:50
  And and it's just like our capacity or his capacity.
• 1:55:55
  Well, I think even ours, because we don't, we don't know
• 1:55:59
  everything about the heavenly things.
• 1:56:00
  There are things that Ezekiel saw and that John saw that we
• 1:56:04
  just don't really know what these like wheels intersecting
• 1:56:08
  wheels with eyes all around and, and seraphim that have 66 wings
• 1:56:13
  and eyes all over and four faces and creatures that are seated at
• 1:56:17
  the throne of God. Like all those things.
• 1:56:20
  We don't know those things. We, you know, we read about them
• 1:56:23
  in the Bible, but those are heavenly things.
• 1:56:27
  And some, you know, the prophet Ezekiel saw it and I think John
• 1:56:32
  saw some of the same things Ezekiel saw.
• 1:56:36
  But that's not when Jesus was talking to Nicodemus.
• 1:56:41
  He was saying, you know, I'm trying to explain earthly
• 1:56:43
  things. He was trying to explain being
• 1:56:45
  born again to Nicodemus, but he didn't understand it.
• 1:56:48
  And he's like, how can I tell you about heavenly things?
• 1:56:51
  So that's John chapter 3. Such a great chapter to read
• 1:56:55
  about being born again in John 318.
• 1:56:58
  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not
• 1:57:02
  believe stands stands condemned already because they have not
• 1:57:06
  believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
• 1:57:12
  So again, this is John testifying that Jesus is God's
• 1:57:15
  one and only son. So Jesus answered in John
• 1:57:23
  chapter 6 verse 29. The work of God is this, to
• 1:57:29
  believe in the one He has sent. He was referring to Himself.
• 1:57:35
  John chapter 8 verse 24. I told you this is Jesus again.
• 1:57:40
  I told you that you would die in your sins.
• 1:57:44
  If you do not believe that I am He, you will indeed die in your
• 1:57:51
  sins. So Jesus is trying to save
• 1:57:54
  people and they're just saying you're not who you're not the
• 1:57:57
  Son of God. He's saying, yes, I am.
• 1:57:59
  And if you don't believe me, then you're not going to be,
• 1:58:02
  you're going to die in your sins if you don't accept me except
• 1:58:06
  the death on the cross that was coming up.
• 1:58:09
  So people are foolish not to recognize Jesus as the Son of
• 1:58:14
  God. They don't know that they're,
• 1:58:15
  they're sending themselves to eternal damnation, essentially.
• 1:58:20
  John chapter 10 verse 25, 26 and then 37 and 38.
• 1:58:26
  I'll read it. There's a lot of them in there.
• 1:58:28
  In John chapter 10, Jesus answered, I did tell you, but
• 1:58:31
  you did not believe. The works I do in my Father's
• 1:58:35
  name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are
• 1:58:39
  not my sheep. So sometimes people might be.
• 1:58:44
  There's this verse in Genesis that's really interesting where
• 1:58:48
  God after the the sin that occurred, God said to the
• 1:58:54
  serpent and to the woman, I will place enmity between your seed
• 1:59:00
  or your offspring and her offspring.
• 1:59:03
  So he's talking to the serpent. The serpent has offspring, so
• 1:59:10
  there are some and they are the wicked and the righteous grow up
• 1:59:16
  together. And we're not going to
• 1:59:18
  necessarily know who each one is until Jesus comes where I guess
• 1:59:22
  with his angels and they harvest the people and bring them to
• 1:59:27
  him. And that's when it will finally
• 1:59:30
  it'll all be revealed. But there we don't really know
• 1:59:35
  who are it's, there's another, I guess in the, I don't know if
• 1:59:39
  it's King James Version where it talks about the wheat and the
• 1:59:42
  tares. It's the weeds and the wheat,
• 1:59:47
  the weeds are the evil ones that the Satan has sown.
• 1:59:51
  So there's some seeds that he has out in this world.
• 1:59:54
  But I'm I'm wondering if John chapter 26, John chapter 10
• 2:00:00
  verse 26 says you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
• 2:00:06
  And then he says, do not believe me unless I do the works of my
• 2:00:10
  Father. But if I do them, even though
• 2:00:13
  you don't do not believe me, believe the works that you may
• 2:00:17
  know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the
• 2:00:23
  Father. This is where that connection
• 2:00:25
  that I guess spiritual connection, that's the only way
• 2:00:27
  I understand it, that they are in unison.
• 2:00:33
  John 1126 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.
• 2:00:38
  Do you believe this? Yes, Lord, she replied.
• 2:00:42
  I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God who is
• 2:00:45
  to come into the world. I believe this is the woman at
• 2:00:48
  the well. John 1140 Then Jesus said, Did I
• 2:00:53
  not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory
• 2:00:56
  of God? John 1142 I knew that you always
• 2:01:01
  hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing
• 2:01:04
  here, that they may believe that you have sent me.
• 2:01:07
  This is when Jesus is praying to the Father and then it says if
• 2:01:11
  we let him go like oh, John 1148, this is interesting.
• 2:01:17
  If we let him go on like this talking about Jesus, everyone
• 2:01:21
  will believe in him and then the Romans will come and take away
• 2:01:26
  both our temple and our nation. So this is a worldly hanging on
• 2:01:33
  to the like I these people, the Jewish people who said this or
• 2:01:38
  the Pharisees were saying we don't want the Romans to come
• 2:01:42
  and take away our temple and our nation if everybody believes
• 2:01:44
  him. So they're they're looking for
• 2:01:48
  some earthly things, their nation and the temple, which is
• 2:01:52
  really interesting. John 12 verse 2036 Believe in
• 2:01:57
  the light while you have the light so that you may become
• 2:02:00
  children of the light. When he had finished speaking,
• 2:02:04
  Jesus left and hid himself from them.
• 2:02:06
  So Jesus is the light, and so he's like believe in the light
• 2:02:11
  so many times it's like he tells them to believe.
• 2:02:15
  John 1237. Even after Jesus had performed
• 2:02:18
  so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe
• 2:02:21
  Him. In him there's going to be
• 2:02:23
  people who just won't believe. You can't force somebody to
• 2:02:26
  believe. John 1244 Then Jesus cried out,
• 2:02:30
  Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the
• 2:02:35
  one who sent me, that's Father God.
• 2:02:39
  John 1319 I am telling you now before it happens, so that when
• 2:02:43
  it does happen, you will believe that I am who am.
• 2:02:49
  So that's another reason why Jesus gave gives these prophetic
• 2:02:53
  things to his followers is that when I tell you ahead of time
• 2:02:59
  and these things happen, then you're going to know that's
• 2:03:01
  that's who I am. John 1410 Don't you believe that
• 2:03:05
  I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
• 2:03:07
  The words I say to you, I did not speak on my own authority.
• 2:03:10
  Rather it is the Father living in me who is doing his work.
• 2:03:15
  Then in believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the
• 2:03:20
  Father is in me, or at least believe on the evidence of the
• 2:03:24
  works themselves. And then in verse 29, in chapter
• 2:03:28
  14, John, he says, I have told you now before it happens, so
• 2:03:32
  that when it does happen, you will believe.
• 2:03:35
  And then John 16-9 says this is Jesus about sin because people
• 2:03:41
  do not believe in me. And then here's that John 17.
• 2:03:50
  This is the verses that stand out to me.
• 2:03:54
  This is Jesus praying to the Father.
• 2:03:56
  My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will
• 2:04:03
  believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be
• 2:04:08
  one Father. Just as you are in me and I am
• 2:04:14
  in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe
• 2:04:21
  that you have sent me. It's like the Holy Spirit.
• 2:04:25
  That's a spiritual connection. That's the only way that I can
• 2:04:27
  understand that verse. So then it says in John 20 verse
• 2:04:35
  31, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is
• 2:04:40
  the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have
• 2:04:45
  life in His name. And then it says in Acts 15
• 2:04:50
  verse 11, no, we believe it is through the grace of our Lord
• 2:04:54
  Jesus that we are saved just as they are.
• 2:04:58
  Acts or 1631 they replied believe in the Lord Jesus and
• 2:05:04
  you will be saved, you and your household.
• 2:05:07
  Acts 19 four Paul said John John's baptism was a baptism of
• 2:05:13
  repentance. He told the people to believe in
• 2:05:16
  the one coming after him, that is in Jesus.
• 2:05:21
  Then Romans 322 the righteousness is given through
• 2:05:25
  faith in Christ Jesus to all who believe.
• 2:05:30
  There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.
• 2:05:35
  And then Romans 411 And he received circumcision as a sign,
• 2:05:40
  a seal of righteousness that he had by faith while he was still
• 2:05:46
  uncircumcised. This is talking about Abraham
• 2:05:48
  from the Old Testament. So then he is the Father of all
• 2:05:52
  who believe, but have not been circumcised, in order that
• 2:05:57
  righteousness might be credited to them in Romans 424, but also
• 2:06:03
  for us to whom God will credit righteousness for us who believe
• 2:06:09
  in him who raised Jesus our Lord for from the dead.
• 2:06:15
  So God will credit righteousness for us who believe in him, who
• 2:06:22
  believe in God who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
• 2:06:27
  Romans 6 verse 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we
• 2:06:36
  will also live with Him. So this is conditional.
• 2:06:40
  If we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live
• 2:06:44
  with Him. So that's putting death to sin.
• 2:06:49
  Romans 10-9 If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and
• 2:06:53
  believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you
• 2:06:58
  will be saved. Romans 10/10 For it is with your
• 2:07:03
  heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your
• 2:07:08
  mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
• 2:07:13
  Romans 1422 So whatever you believe about these things, keep
• 2:07:18
  between yourself, and God bless. It is the one who does not
• 2:07:22
  condemn himself by what he approves.
• 2:07:27
  Again, I think that's our close relationship with God.
• 2:07:29
  It says blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what
• 2:07:34
  he approves. So we need to make sure that we
• 2:07:38
  are in communication with God and that if we're convicted of
• 2:07:43
  something, we don't keep doing it.
• 2:07:46
  If we're, if we have a free conscience about it, we
• 2:07:49
  shouldn't worry about it. But if we're submitted to
• 2:07:54
  Christ, if we have the Holy Spirit, we will feel convicted
• 2:07:58
  by it. Ephesians 119 and his
• 2:08:02
  incomparably great power for us who believe that power is the
• 2:08:08
  same as the mighty strength. So believers have power.
• 2:08:14
  That's what I really want to stress for Christians.
• 2:08:16
  If you are a believer and you have the Holy Spirit, you have
• 2:08:19
  power. You're not your flesh is weak,
• 2:08:23
  but you have the the Holy Spirit in you and that is strong.
• 2:08:27
  So that's how you overcome, not by your own power, but by the
• 2:08:30
  power of God, but you have to yield to God.
• 2:08:34
  So in those cases you would say like simply, Lord help me right
• 2:08:39
  now. Philippians one verse 29 for it
• 2:08:46
  has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to
• 2:08:50
  believe in him, but also to suffer for him.
• 2:08:56
  So there is often suffering in some sense with associated with
• 2:09:03
  believing and then one Thessalonians 2 verse 13.
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  And we also thank God continually because when you
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  received the word of God, what you heard from us, you accepted
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  it not as a human word, but as it actually is the word of God,
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  which is indeed at work in you who believe.
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  So the when we hear the word of God and it's working in our
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  lives, that's what happens to people who believe the the the
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  word of God is working in their life, is changing their life. 1
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  Thessalonians 414 For we believe that God died and rose again.
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  Oh, I'm sorry. For we believe that Jesus died
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  and rose again. And so we believe that God will
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  bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
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  So this is talking about the the dead in Christ, those who
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  believed in Christ, that they will be raised with the Holy
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  Spirit again. That's why Jesus was saying we
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  need the Holy Spirit because that's how God raised him from
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  the dead. That's how God will raise us
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  from the dead. One Timothy one verse 16 but for
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  that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me the worst of
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  sinners. This is Paul writing it.
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  Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example
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  for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.
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  So Paul was actually killing Christians before he became
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  well, when he was named Saul, and then he became Paul.
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  And so, but Christ was patient with him and he said Saul, Saul,
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  why he appeared to him in a vision on the road to Damascus
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  and said Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?
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  And, and he was blinded by the vision that he had of Christ
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  and, and it significantly impacted Paul, who had been
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  killing Christians. He stopped doing that and then
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  wrote a good chunk of the New Testament and a lot of what
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  we're reading today. So he had, like he said, he was
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  the worst of sinners. He was killing Jesus believers
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  and then he started writing about it and encouraging
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  believers. So a radical change.
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  That's a new creation, like an extreme new creation.
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  Then we have Hebrews 11/6 and without faith it is impossible
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  to please God because anyone who comes to Him must believe that
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  He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
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  So there's a lot here that we talked about already.
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  Faith, believing that He exists and that He rewards those who
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  seek Him. There's benefits to seeking God.
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  James one verse 6. But when you ask, you must
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  believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a
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  wave of the sea blown and tossed by the wind.
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  James 2 verse 19. You believe there is one God
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  good. Even the demons believe that and
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  shudder. So we have to make sure that we
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  have a belief that's a little different than what the demons
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  believe, belief that comes through action and how we live
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  our lives and that we have the Holy Spirit.
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  The demons are not holy. They won't have they don't have
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  the capacity to have the Holy Spirit.
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  So they are something other than that.
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  And and so they there's a little bit more to it and hopefully
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  that's coming through with this podcast.
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  First Peter 121 Through him you believe in God who raised him
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  from the dead and glorified him. And so your faith and hope are
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  in God. So through Jesus, you believe in
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  God who raised Jesus from the dead and glorified Jesus.
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  And so your faith and hope are in God.
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  First Peter 27 Now to you who believe the stone is precious,
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  but to those who do not believe, the stone the builders rejected
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  has become the cornerstone. This is about Jesus.
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  So now to I'll read it with that.
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  Now to you who believe Jesus is precious, but to those who do
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  not believe Jesus, well, he's the stone the builders rejected
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  has become the cornerstone. 1 John 3, verse 23.
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  And this is his command, to believe in the name of his Son
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  Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded.
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  So believe Jesus, love one another.
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  That's in one John 323, 1 John 513.
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  I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son
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  of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
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  So that's pretty important. Like how do you know that you
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  have eternal life? So I'm going to read 1 John 5:00
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  and then I'm going to stop this podcast because this is how you
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  know that you have eternal life. Everyone who believes that Jesus
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  is the Christ is born of God. It's like born again.
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  And everyone who loves the Father loves his child as well.
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  This is how we know that we love the children of God by loving
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  God and carrying out His commands.
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  So this is how we know that we love the children of God by
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  loving God and carrying out his commands.
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  So again, this is love is obedience to God's commands.
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  Verse 3. In fact, this is love for God to
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  keep his commands and his commands are not burdensome for
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  everyone born of God overcomes the world.
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  This is the victory that that has overcome the world, even our
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  faith. Who is it that overcomes the
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  world? Only the one who believes that
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  Jesus is the Son of God. This is the one who came by
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  water and blood, Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only,
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  but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who
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  testifies, because the Spirit is truth.
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  For there are three that testify, the Spirit, the water,
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  and the blood, and the three are in agreement.
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  We accept human testimony, but God's testimony is greater
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  because it is the testimony of God which He has given about His
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  Son. Whoever believes in the Son of
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  God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has
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  made him out to be a liar because they have not believed
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  the testimony God has given about His Son.
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  And this is the testimony God has given us eternal life, and
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  this life is in His Son. Whoever has the Son has life.
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  Whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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  I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son
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  of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
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  This is the confidence we have in approaching God, that if we
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  ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
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  And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we
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  have what we asked of Him. Now here's something really
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  important about Christians. If you see any brother or sister
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  commit a sin that does not lead to death, I guess blasphemy of
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  the Holy Spirit would be one that leads to death.
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  You should pray and God will give them life.
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  I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death.
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  There is a sin that leads to death.
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  I am not saying that you should pray about that.
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  All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to
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  death. We know that anyone born of God
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  does not continue to sin. The one who was born of God
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  keeps them safe, and the evil 1 cannot harm them.
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  We know that we are children of God and that the whole world is
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  under the control of the evil one.
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  Remember that slavery I was talking about earlier?
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  This is where it says it. We know that we are children of
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  God and that the whole world is under the control of the evil
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  one. We know also that the Son of God
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  has come and has given us understanding so that we may
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  know Him who is true and we are in Him who is true by being in
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  His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal
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  life. Dear children, keep yourselves
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  from idols. This is the end of the podcast,
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  my longest one ever, but it had way too much to cover.
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  And if this was beneficial, I mean, it probably should be
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  broken up into smaller segments because I know this is a lot.
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  But if this was valuable to you, please share it with somebody
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  else because this is like the foundation of salvation.
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  It's information that everyone needs to know.
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  It's about getting sin out of our life and, and just about the
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  rewards and the inheritance that got his plan for us and his
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  patience and mercy and love that he has for us.
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  So if you found this beneficial, please share it.
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  we will cover Psalm 15. Thank you.