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  Galatians, chapter one, let us pray our Father who is in
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  heaven, Lord, we are exalting your holy name above all the
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  other names and the principalities in this world.
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  God, I pray that you'll RIP down any strongholds of opposition in
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  our lives and in our minds and in our emotions.
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  God, we exalt you, Lord, above all of our circumstances, above
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  all the things that try to drag us away.
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  God, we fix our eyes upon you, the author of our faith and the
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  perfecter of our faith. And Lord, we are asking God for
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  your will and your Kingdom to come to this earth just as it is
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  there. Lord, we know that you have gone
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  to prepare a place for us. We know that where you are, we
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  will be. We know that we are seated with
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  you in heavenly places. We yearn and long God, for the
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  return of the groom. We keep our lamps full.
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  Today we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  Father, pour the oil out in greater measure, let it run down
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  the cup and overflow into the highways and the hedges and the
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  byways, into the homeless shelters.
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  God into the homeless communities, God into the
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  hospitals, Lords, schools, Lord into the courtrooms.
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  Father, I pray Holy Spirit, you will fill us overflowing.
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  God Almighty, we pray for your Kingdom to come and your will to
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  be done here on this earth just as it is there in heaven.
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  Let us be the ministers of reconciliation.
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  Let us be those that go out and snatch the firebrands out, God,
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  and clothe them with your righteousness.
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  Lord, we pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us,
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  Lord, to snatch those out of the frigid waters and get them into
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  the lifeboats. Help us to get into Christ as
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  Noah got into the boat. Father, I pray that we'll be in
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  Christ and Christ in us, and we'll abide and produce much
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  fruit. Help us, Lord, to love you more,
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  to see you on every single page, every syllable, in every moment
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  of every single day. God sold out completely.
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  Bond servants lay down lovers of you, Yeshua, God, we love you.
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  King Jesus, yes I used this. We love you Father, we love you
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  with all of our heart, with all of our mind, with all of our
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  strength. Help us to love our neighbor as
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  our self. Lord, we're praying for fresh
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  bread today. God, give us the manna and the
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  quail and let the water flow out of the rock.
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  God, the living water, I pray that we can drink and dine and
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  Sup and feast sumptuously upon the flesh of Christ and upon the
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  blood of Christ today. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will help us, Lord, to see Jesus high and lifted up
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  above all entities. Lord, we look up at the bronze
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  snake upon the pole, Father, and we receive salvation today.
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  We thank you for the blood of Christ, Calvary Gog.
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  Lord, we thank you that we can receive him and that we can know
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  him and that we can see him. Yes, Father, we love you.
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  Lord, we pray that as we open the Word that is alive and
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  active, that it will discern us and correct us and rebuke us,
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  that it will correct us and discipline.
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  Lord, let it be the very life flow through our bodies.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll forgive us for all
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  the times that we came up short, all of our sinfulness and
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  trespasses and transgressions. God, I pray that we'll extend
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  that forgiveness out to those all around us, God, not lording
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  it over them, not trying to use leverage over people, God, But
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  we will act as if it has never happened, Lord, because we know
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  that that is how you treat us. God will turn the other cheek.
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  We will not hold things against others, Lord, but as they ask
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  for forgiveness, and even if they don't, we already forgive
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  them, Lord, because they know not what they do or not.
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  Pray God that You'll keep us from the evil one, keep us from
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  the accuser of the brethren, Keep us God, from the tempter.
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  Lord, help us not to give in to sin and lustful desires and help
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  us not to covet. God, help us not to be greedy.
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  Help us not to be self seeking and vain.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll rescue us from
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  ourselves, Lord, and from all the depravity of humanity.
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  God, help us not to sink down into the muck and the mire.
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  Help us not to give in to the flesh Father, but help us to
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  live. Vic for Jesus Christ on fire for
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  all of eternity. God, we worship you in spirit
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  and truth. Yes, Father God, we love you.
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  God, I'm praying in the name of Jesus Christ that it'll be your
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  Kingdom and your power and your glory forever and ever exalted
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  for all of eternity, for now and for all time's sake and for
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  ever. We just want to be with you.
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  We thank you for the down payment of the Holy Spirit.
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  We thank You for the sealing that you have set upon us, the
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  seal. God, we thank You that we can
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  see in part, But Lord, we desire to see fully.
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  Open our eyes up to this wonderful words.
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  Open our minds up and our hearts up, God, as we open Your Word
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  up, teach us your eternal paths. Holy Spirit, let us put on the
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  full armor today and withstand all the fiery darts of the
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  enemy. Help us to produce all the
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  fruits of the Spirit today. Help us not to go back into our
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  natural way of thinking, the moralistic way of living.
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  God help us to come up to where you are and to see this world
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  the way that you do. We love you, King Jesus, it's
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  all about you. I decrease as you increase and
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  to send your holy precious name that I pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. Paul, an apostle not of men,
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  neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who
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  raised him from the dead. So here Paul is going to start
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  talking about how he did not receive all of the things that
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  he taught from man. He received them from God
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  Almighty and from Jesus Christ himself on the road to Damascus
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  and in Arabia for 12 years. And Paul's going to give you the
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  credentials that marked his ministry, and he's going to tell
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  us how they are trustworthy because they came straight from
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  our Lord too, and all the brothers which are with me unto
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  the churches of Galatia. So these Galatians, they were a
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  barbaric group of Gauls who came down into Greece.
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  And here Paul, on his missionary journey, founded this church.
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  And this was a bunch of different churches in that
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  region that he's actually writing to, which is the region
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  of Galatia. And that is what you need to
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  understand. And there is so much historical
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  proof, and there is so much archaeological proof that Paul
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  came and Christianized this little region here in Galatia. 3
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  grace be to you, and peace from God the Father and from our Lord
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  Jesus Christ. So he's giving them a
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  salutation. He's saying grace and peace.
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  And Paul talked more about grace and peace than any other writer
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  in the New Testament. He is the author of this gospel
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  of grace and peace. And just so you know, we cannot
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  have peace apart from a relationship with God through
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  His Son Jesus Christ. And the gift of peace is from
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  God. And that is the only way you
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  will ever know peace is if God gives it to you.
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  And it is through knowing that you will not have to answer for
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  any of the sins that you have ever committed, past, present or
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  future because of the work of the cross.
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  But we must operate in this spirit of grace, friends, this
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  free gifting. And if you show me somebody who
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  is abusing grace and somebody who just thinks that they're
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  licensed to sin, they can just sin it all the more so that
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  grace will abound. I'll show you somebody who does
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  not know our Lord Jesus Christ and they do not have the peace
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  of God. They are being eaten up with
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  their conscience and it is something that they are having
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  to wrestle with and they've seared their consciences and
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  they have no conviction because the Holy Spirit has grown silent
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  in their life. They've grieved the Holy Spirit
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  because they will not listen to the still small voice verse
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  four, who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us
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  from this present evil world according to the will of God and
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  our Father. So we can see that Jesus Christ
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  willingly went to the cross and no one took his life from him
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  but he, he gave up the ghost and he delivered us from all the
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  evil that is in this world. He could instantaneously take us
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  up and out as soon as we give our life to him, and he could
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  keep us from all the evil. But what he does is he actually
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  strengthen, strengthens us for the battle.
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  He actually helps us to understand wisdom of places that
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  we need to stay away from. And we can have wisdom to know
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  that a divisive person is the swine that we must not throw our
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  pearls to and cast our pearls to.
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  And so that is what you need to know, is that when you come unto
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  the Lord Jesus Christ and you acknowledge Him in all your
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  ways, He will direct your steps and He will keep you from so
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  much heartache. He will keep you from so many
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  instances of these evil acts that are happening all around
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  you. And we must stay in the fold and
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  we must stay connected to the vine if we want to have the mind
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  of Christ and know exactly what to do and when to do it and how
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  to do it. And you will keep, you will be
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  kept from so many instances of evil in this world. 52 Whom be
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  glory forever and ever, Amen. Jesus Christ is the only one who
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  deserves all the glory and the power, and the Kingdom forever
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  and ever, Amen. 6 I marvel that you are so soon removed from him
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  that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.
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  So here there were some false teachers and heretics who had
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  snuck into the camp of the churches in Galatia and they
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  started to preach another gospel.
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  And it was not the gospel of grace.
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  It was not the gospel of peace. It was the gospel of works and
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  legalism. And Paul's going to hit the nail
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  on the head. And he's not interested in
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  mincing his words. He goes straight for the
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  jugular. And he here is going to let them
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  know at the outset of this letter what it's all about and
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  not to trust these Judaizers who have crept in unaware and
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  they're preaching a different gospel.
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  And he tells them that they need to be anathem of to be cursed
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  and to be cut off from the lineage and the heritage of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ. They're perverting the gospel. 7
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  which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and
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  would pervert the gospel of Christ.
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  So that is what Paul is desire is to write to the churches in
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  Galatia to tell them to be on guard of anyone who creeps in
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  and tries to push legalism on them.
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  All of the power that we possess was won for us by Jesus Christ
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  on the cross, not by trying to keep the law, not by trying to
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  behave our way into heaven. And when you understand that,
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  you will want to do the right thing.
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  If someone sees that by coming to Jesus Christ, it means that
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  their sins will never be counted against them.
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  So they sin all the more that they do not know Jesus Christ.
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  But for those of us who have truly placed our faith in the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, and we see that there is nothing that we
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  could ever do to make Him love us any less.
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  There's nothing that we could ever do that would make Him
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  accept us anymore. When we finally get to the
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  realization that Jesus Christ said it is finished, that
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  everything was paid for in full, then we will operate in a spirit
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  of wanting to do the right thing, wanting to please Him
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  because of how much He loves us and what He did for us.
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  But you show me somebody who continuously operates in this
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  spirit of abusing grace, and they do not know our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. They have not yet caught a
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  glimpse of His face and glory and power and majesty.
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  Friends 8 But though we or an Angel from heaven, preach any
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  other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you,
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  let him be a curse. Paul is going to give a double
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  curse upon any of these false teachers, these heretics, any of
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  these that have crept into the church and are teaching all
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  kinds of garbage about what the Bible says.
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  And they're trying to twist God's words in the same way that
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  Satan did in the garden. Friends, be aware, be on guard
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  of those who look the part. But they are preaching another
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  gospel. The gospel of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ is simple. It's a simple gospel, friends,
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  but we complicate it because we are not willing to accept the
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  simplicity of it. We want to work our way into
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  heaven. We want to be those that measure
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  where we stand with God so that we can show others how super
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  spiritual we are in comparison to them and that is not the way
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  of our Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is so simple that all
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  who call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved.
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  And if you believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, and confess
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  with your mouth God raised him from the dead, you will be saved
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  friends. And that is what you need to
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  know. And all who call on him friends,
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  all who look on him friends shall be saved.
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  It is a simple gospel. It is not to be worked base.
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  It cannot be measured in the sense of looking in a lateral
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  way. We must look vertical.
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  We must look to him, look on him today and be saved.
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  It is only by placing our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and
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  receiving this peace and receiving this grace and
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  receiving his righteousness and receiving the justification of
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  all the things that Jesus Christ did for us that we are saved.
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  It is not of anything that we do, friends.
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  And there are so many people who have slipped off into legalism,
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  they've slipped off into fundamentalism, they have
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  slipped off into these Jewish roots movements where they think
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  that they can somehow win more favor with God by working it out
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  and by doing and keeping the law.
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  And it has never amounted to anything but more condemnation,
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  friends. And that is what you need to
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  understand. And Paul here is warring against
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  all of these legalists who have crept into the churches of
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  Galatia, and they're trying to push all of the Jewish law upon
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  the new converts there. And Paul will have no part of
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  it, and neither should we. 9 As we said before.
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  So I say now again, if any man preaches another gospel unto
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  you, then that you have received, let him be cursed.
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  Anathema, anathema friends completely cut off.
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  There will be more judgment for those who offend these little
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  ones, and it would be better for them to tie a millstone around
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  their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea than to
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  offend one of these little ones. Friends 10-4 Do I now persuade
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  men or God? Do I seek to please men?
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  If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
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  Whom do we listen to, man or God?
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  Who do we have to give an account to, man or God?
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  Who should we try to please, man or God?
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  Whose doctrine should we try to propagate, gods or man's?
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  And that is what you need to understand.
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  Paul here is saying he has an audience of 1.
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  It is God and God alone that we are accountable to, and you need
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  to understand that. We do not need to be stumbling
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  blocks to our brothers and sisters, but we do not need to
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  be so incredibly obsessive over what other people think about
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  us. We need to allow God to give us
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  our dignity, our identity. We need to allow God to give us
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  our worth. And let fear of man break off of
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  you today, friends. 11 But I certify you, brothers, that the
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  gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
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  And Paul's going to tell them in Galatia how he received all of
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  the doctrine in the ministry and all of his theology here. 12 For
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  I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by
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  the revelation of Jesus Christ. So Paul received it on the road
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  to Damascus whenever he was blinded, and Jesus showed him
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  the things that he must suffer for his name's sake, friends.
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  And Paul didn't go and try to receive any of his doctrine from
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  the apostles, and he was not part of the 12 when they walked
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  during Jesus's earthly ministry. And so he's saying I received it
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  from the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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  Jesus taught him all of the doctrine.
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  Friends, what an amazing fact. 13 for you.
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  I've heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews religion.
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  How that beyond measure. I persecuted the Church of God
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  and wasted it. So Paul was zealous for God, he
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  was zealous for the law, he was more zealous than any of his
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  constituents, so much so that he caused the early Christians to
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  blasphemy God. He caused them to be thrown into
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  prison and he killed them. And you can see here that Paul
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  is saying, You heard of all the things that I used to do?
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  14 and profited in the Jews religion above many my equals
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  and my own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the
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  traditions of my father's. So Paul had a zeal for God's law
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  and he thought that this new sect of the Nazarenes that had
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  popped up needed to be pushed down, needed to be pushed out,
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  it needed to be quenched. And so he set out on the road to
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  completely do away with this new movement that had sprang up
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  overnight by the murder of a son of a Jewish Carpenter who
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  claimed to be some kind of rogue St. preacher who claimed to be
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  the son of God. And Paul thought it great
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  blasphemy that this carpenter's son would try to claim to be
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  equal with God. And so he set out to completely
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  do away with all of the followers.
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  And it was hard for him to kick against the goats, Friends. 15
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  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's
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  womb and called me by his grace. Think about that, friends.
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  God gives us free will, but he already knows what we're going
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  to do. And that is where predestination
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  and election comes from. And even though Paul, who was a
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  hater of the Gentiles, became the minister to the Gentiles and
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  God sits in heaven and he laughs, Friends, God is a God of
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  irony. And you better be careful when
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  you say I would never do this or that because that'll be the very
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  thing that happens in your life, friends.
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  And here Paul was chosen before he was ever born to be the one
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  to write over 1/3 of the New Testament and to take the
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  gospel, the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ all over the
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  known world, and that he would be the minister to the Gentiles,
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  friends and Peter minister to all the Jews.
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  And this is the way of God. And that is what you need to
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  understand. 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach among
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  him, among the heathen immediately I conferred not with
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  flesh and blood. You can see that immediately
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  after Paul receives his eyesight, whenever Ananias comes
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  in and prays for him and the scales fall off his eyes, he
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  goes straight to the synagogue and starts preaching Jesus as
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  Lord Jesus as the Son of God. Jesus as the only way to
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  salvation, Friends, Jesus as the only atonement and the only
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  justification and the only way that we're ever going to make it
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  into heaven is through the blood of Jesus Christ covering us from
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  the top of our head to the bottom of our feet.
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  Friends And Paul immediately, immediately goes into the
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  synagogue and starts telling every single person about Jesus.
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  And this was the very man just three days ago who was coming to
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  arrest and to persecute all of the early church and the
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  Christians. Friends, you can see it.
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  He did not go and try to get his doctrine from someone else. 17
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  Neither went I up to Jerusalem, to them which were apostles
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  before me, But I went into Arabia and returned again unto
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  Damascus. So Paul went and spent 12 years
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  hanging out, receiving his doctrine from God and from
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  Jesus. He did not try to be subservient
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  to the apostles. He didn't try to go and sit
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  underneath them and to learn all of his ways.
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  He was receiving directly from my Lord Jesus Christ and he knew
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  that he needed to get all of his bearings before he launched out
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  on these missionary journeys. So he used the 12 years to truly
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  get to know our Lord and to search his heart and to search
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  all the scriptures and to get all of his bearings before he
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  launched out in his missionary journeys all over the gnome
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  world. 18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see
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  Peter and abode with him. 15 days.
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  So here Paul is going to see to sight see old Peter.
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  He wanted to get to know him and but he was not there to receive
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  any kind of doctrinal instruction from him. 19 But
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  other of the apostles, I saw none except for James the Lord's
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  brother. So we know that James, the
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  Lord's brother who wrote the epistle James that we'll read
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  together, We know that he was not a believer in his own
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  brother while he walked the earth in his earthly ministry.
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  But something happened, something clicked later where
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  James became the prominent leader in the synagogue in
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  Jerusalem, friends. And we see that in the book of
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  Acts, he was the leader there. And so Paul goes up to sightsee
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  old James as well, when he Now the things which I write unto
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  you, behold, before God I lie not so Paul saying, I am not
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  lying, do not try to charge me with any of that.
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  That is not of God, that is of the devil.
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  He is the father of lies. And we do not lie.
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  We tell the truth, we stand on truth.
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  That is the belt that holds the entire armor together is truth.
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  We do not lie. We are not deceitful.
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  We do not try to cover things up.
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  We boldly hit the nail on the head.
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  We say it like it is. We don't try to sugarcoat and
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  cover things up. It is what it is.
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  Take your lashings and move on and make sure you're not being
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  persecuted for doing wrong. If you get persecuted for doing
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  right, there is much reward in that.
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  Friends, we do not live a lie. We are not marked by lies.
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  And Paul here is saying, Do not try to attach that connotation
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  unto me. Before God is my witness, I
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  speak the truth, 21. Afterwards I came into the
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  regions of Syria and Silesia, 22 and was unknown by face unto the
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  churches of Judea, which were in Christ. 23 But they had heard
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  only that he which persecuted us in times past now preaches the
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  faith which once he destroyed. 24 And they glorified God in me.
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  So Paul went to these churches and he wasn't even recognized
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  because they only knew him by his reputation, where they had
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  said this man who was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, zealous for
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  the law, got radically wrecked with some Jesus jiu jitsu on the
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  road to Damascus was undone, unravelled.
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  And when he came back to his senses after fasting for three
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  days, Paul goes straight into working for the Lord.
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  And the people were astonished and amazed at these stories, and
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  they glorified God for Paul's conversion.
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  This murderous, blasphemous Jew became the writer of 1/3 of our
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  New Testament. What an amazing God that we
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  serve. And we honor and glorify God for
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  reaching out and rescuing the most deplorable people on planet
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  earth, which we once were. We do not need to be like the
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  Pharisees who look over and say Thank you God, that I am not
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  like him. We need to remember just how far
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  we have come, that we were once dead in our trespasses, alone in
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  our sin. We had nowhere to go, we had
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  nowhere to turn. We had hit rock bottom and our
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  way was not working. And finally we had to surrender.
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  And God chose us, and he washed us clean, and he put his robe on
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  us, He put his ring on us, and he is preparing A banquet for
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  us. Friends, in the presence of our
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  enemies. He's leading us beside still
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  waters. And his rod and his staff, they
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  comfort us. And though we go through the
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  valley of death, we will not fear evil.
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  Friends, we confront evil for what it is.
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  We call it what it is, and here Paul is, a great model of what
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  it looks like to be sold out, bondservant unto our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. He counted the cost.
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  He found that Jesus was worthy, and he set his sail knowing that
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  imminent death was coming. He knew the things that he must
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  suffer for the Lord Jesus Christ and He counted it all as joy.
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  And I hope that you can as well hope that we can give up our
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  lives. We can give up our comforts.
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  We can give up all of our preferences, all of our desires
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  and passions, all of our self seeking vanity, all of our self
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  preservation that we can lay down, all of the cowardice and
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  the fear of man, and we can do the work of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ with a little bit of time that we have left.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. Praying for every single one of
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  you. I love you so.
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  Does God Have a wonderful, amazing and blessed day in the
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  Lord. This is the day that the Lord
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  has made, and let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.