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Becoming Strong in the Lord Pt. 9 · Time with God with John North

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm John North. I'm here to help you
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  Speaker 1: start your day right as we go to God's word
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  Speaker 1: together and spend a little time with God. Time with God,
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of your spiritual life, the key to spiritual growth,
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  Speaker 1: the way to learn to walk through your day with
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  Speaker 1: an awareness of God's presence with you.
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  Speaker 1: The way to change your thinking so that you take
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  Speaker 1: every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, as Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: the key to victory in the spiritual battle.
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  Speaker 1: Have you learned to begin every day with the Lord?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what we're doing right now. We're talking this
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  Speaker 1: week about becoming strong in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And today we come to a passage in 2 Peter
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  Speaker 1: chapter 3.
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  Speaker 1: What Peter says in verse 10, but the day of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, that is the day when the Lord returns,
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  Speaker 1: will come like a thief. No one will be expecting it.
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  Speaker 1: In which the heavens will pass away with a roar
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  Speaker 1: and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat.
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  Speaker 1: And the earth and its works will be burned up.
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  Speaker 1: Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way,
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  Speaker 1: what sort of people ought you to be in holy
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  Speaker 1: conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of
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  Speaker 1: the day of God, on account of which the heavens
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  Speaker 1: will be destroyed by burning and the elements will melt
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  Speaker 1: with intense heat, but
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  Speaker 1: According to His promise, we are looking for new heavens
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  Speaker 1: and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent
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  Speaker 1: to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless.
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  Speaker 1: And regard the patience of our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: His waiting, not returning straight away to be salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all
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  Speaker 1: his letters speaking in them of these things in which
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  Speaker 1: are some things hard to understand which the untaught and
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  Speaker 1: unstable distort as they do also the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures to their own destruction.
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  Speaker 1: And then here's the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard,
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  Speaker 1: lest being carried away by the error of unprincipled men,
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  Speaker 1: you fall from your own steadfastness.
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  Speaker 1: But rather grow in the grace and knowledge of our
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  Speaker 1: Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: To him be the glory both now and to the
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  Speaker 1: day of eternity. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
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  Speaker 1: saviour Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Get your life focused on knowing Jesus Christ more.
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  Speaker 1: Come to understand His grace in your life. Learn to
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  Speaker 1: let that grace flow through you into the lives of
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  Speaker 1: other people. If you want to mature, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to keep from falling from your own steadfastness, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to be strong in the Lord, you have to
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  Speaker 1: pursue Jesus Christ. Make Him and knowing Him the number
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  Speaker 1: one goal of your life.
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  Speaker 1: That is the way to strength.
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  Speaker 1: I'm John North.