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Episode 230 - Do NOT Be Like Them! · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is the lord and he is greatly to be
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  Speaker 1: praised from this time forth and even forever more from
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  Speaker 1: the rising of the sun to the going down of
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  Speaker 1: the same the name of the lord is to be
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  Speaker 1: praised god is our refuge and strength very present help
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  Speaker 1: in the time of trouble therefore we will not fear
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  Speaker 1: we will not be afraid what can man do unto
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  Speaker 1: us the lord is our light and salvation and He
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  Speaker 1: is our strength. He is our song. He is our shield.
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  Speaker 1: He is our buckler. In him we put our trust.
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  Speaker 1: We shall not be afraid of the arrow by night,
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  Speaker 1: nor the pestilence at noonday. For the Lord is our shade,
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  Speaker 1: our keeper. The sun will not smite us by day,
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  Speaker 1: the moon by night. The Lord will preserve us from
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  Speaker 1: all evil. He will preserve our souls, our going out
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  Speaker 1: and our coming in from this time forth and even forevermore.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this, another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Al Zachary. And again, we are, as always, so grateful,
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  Speaker 1: so thankful to the Lord for appointing us for such
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  Speaker 1: a time as this. In such an hour as this.
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  Speaker 1: In these last of the last days. To proclaim the liberty.
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  Speaker 1: That is in Christ Jesus. And we. Pray and we.
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  Speaker 1: Intercede and we. Believe. Fervently. That God is yet saving.
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  Speaker 1: And will deliver. Many who are in the darkness. Who
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  Speaker 1: are yet. Under the. or in the captivity, in the
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  Speaker 1: throes of that wicked one, Satan. And so we preach
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  Speaker 1: the word, we speak the truth in love, and we
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  Speaker 1: trust the Holy Spirit to work within the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: men and women everywhere, to open their eyes, their ears,
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  Speaker 1: to change their hearts as only he can do by
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  Speaker 1: his mighty grace. no one comes to the father jesus
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  Speaker 1: says but by me and so we pray that god
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  Speaker 1: will amen lead them guide them direct them and also
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  Speaker 1: that he will keep us as he promised to do
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  Speaker 1: he will keep us who are already in this ark
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  Speaker 1: of safety jesus christ our lord all right we continue
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  Speaker 1: of course with the words of Jesus, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be examining in the Matthew's gospel, in the gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew, if you will, chapter number six on today,
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  Speaker 1: words that Jesus continues in what we refer to as
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  Speaker 1: the Sermon on the Mount. So if you have your Bibles,
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  Speaker 1: you can follow along with us, the gospel of Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number six. And before we begin, as always, we
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful to the Lord for each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and or support this ministry.
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  Speaker 1: We again endeavor to preach the word to be instant
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  Speaker 1: in season, out of season. Amen. As we have been admonished,
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  Speaker 1: as we have been commanded, as we have been commissioned
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  Speaker 1: to do, preach the word, speak the truth in love
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  Speaker 1: and trust the Holy Spirit to do what only God
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  Speaker 1: by his spirit can do. Amen. So again, that men
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  Speaker 1: will see and come to know that Jesus is the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So again, we are thankful to each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you for your prayers, for your support. Those of
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  Speaker 1: you who have become subscribers, we thank you. Those of
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  Speaker 1: you who are sharing this podcast with others, we thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And we again are looking forward to freely disseminating the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. Amen. far and wide, and as far
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  Speaker 1: and to whom the Lord will have to hear these
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  Speaker 1: words and, amen, have them, amen, embedded within their hearts,
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  Speaker 1: encourage the saints, those who are believers. We just believe
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  Speaker 1: God will do what he has promised to do. Amen. So, Again,
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  Speaker 1: thank God for each and every one of you. And
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  Speaker 1: before we begin, as always, we take just a moment
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  Speaker 1: as we invoke the presence of the Lord. Father, again,
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  Speaker 1: we just want to say thank you, thank you, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for all of your many blessings that you bestowed
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  Speaker 1: upon us. More than we can ever number. With ten
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  Speaker 1: thousands of tongues, we could not begin to thank you enough.
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  Speaker 1: So with the fruit of our lips, we give praise
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  Speaker 1: to you, honor to you. And we magnify your great
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  Speaker 1: name that is above every name. At the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: every knee bows, every tongue confesses that you are Lord. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that someone will hear your voice and come
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  Speaker 1: to know that you are the Christ, the Son of
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  Speaker 1: the living God, the Savior of all them that believe.
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  Speaker 1: Bless and we shall be blessed. Keep and we shall
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  Speaker 1: be kept by your mighty power. In Jesus' name, we
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  Speaker 1: give thanks for all things. Amen and amen. Do not
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  Speaker 1: be like them. Do not be like them. Matthew's Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number 6. We will discover that Jesus has given
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  Speaker 1: us a warning in his teaching that we are not
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  Speaker 1: to be like them. Who is them? We will discover
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  Speaker 1: from the text plainly who them is. Amen. Verse number one,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter six, take heed that ye do not your
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  Speaker 1: arms before men to be seen of them. Otherwise you
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  Speaker 1: have no reward for of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet
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  Speaker 1: before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and
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  Speaker 1: in the streets, that they may be or have, brother,
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  Speaker 1: glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have
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  Speaker 1: their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy
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  Speaker 1: left hand know what thy right hand doeth, that thine
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  Speaker 1: alms may be in secret, and thy Father, which seeth
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  Speaker 1: in secret himself, shall reward thee openly. And when thou prayest,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are. For they
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  Speaker 1: love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the
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  Speaker 1: corners of the streets that they may be seen of men.
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  Speaker 1: Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou,
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  Speaker 1: when thou prayest, enter into thy closet And when thou
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  Speaker 1: hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is
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  Speaker 1: in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall
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  Speaker 1: reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain
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  Speaker 1: repetitions as the heathen do, for they think that they
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  Speaker 1: shall be heard for their much speaking. Be Not ye
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  Speaker 1: therefore like unto them. For your Father knoweth what things
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  Speaker 1: you have need of before you ask him. Do not
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  Speaker 1: be like them. That is a warning from Jesus himself.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be. Be like them. So we take these
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  Speaker 1: words from the Gospel account of Matthew as spoken by
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Who is them
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  Speaker 1: again that we are not to be like? Of course,
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  Speaker 1: if we take good heed to this warning from Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: then we should certainly understand who Jesus is referring to,
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  Speaker 1: who Jesus is talking about. Them would be the hypocrites.
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  Speaker 1: Them would be the hypocrites. And by the way, please
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  Speaker 1: understand this very well, that hypocrisy is not a characteristic trait.
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  Speaker 1: Of the true. Church. Of the true saints. Of the
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  Speaker 1: true people of God. Amen. Hypocrisy is incompatible. With the
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  Speaker 1: genuine faith. and belief in Jesus Christ as Lord, as Savior,
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  Speaker 1: as King, as God manifested in the flesh. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: be a hypocrite serving the one Lord in the one
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  Speaker 1: faith through the one baptism. You cannot be a hypocrite.
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  Speaker 1: The hypocrite cannot walk the walk of real faith. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: made it plain when he also taught that no man
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  Speaker 1: can serve two masters. And that truth is irrefutably proven
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  Speaker 1: over and over for those who would be hypocritical in
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  Speaker 1: the church of Jesus Christ. You see, they cannot help
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  Speaker 1: themselves enough from being seen. They cannot help themselves from
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  Speaker 1: being heard. They cannot help themselves from being exalted, from
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  Speaker 1: getting the praises of men, from seeking to steal the
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  Speaker 1: glory that belongs only to the Lord. You see, the
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  Speaker 1: exclusive worship of Jesus as Lord, as our Lord, decreases
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  Speaker 1: any It diminishes any and all other gods, all other idols,
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  Speaker 1: including ourselves. Again, the hypocrite seeks to be seen. He
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  Speaker 1: seeks to be heard. He seeks to be praised by others.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the very first commandment that the Lord gave
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  Speaker 1: to his people is, Thou shalt have no other gods
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  Speaker 1: before me. None. There are no others. There are to
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  Speaker 1: be no others, including ourselves. You remember the words of
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptist who understood very well his calling. And Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, said that there was no greater prophet
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  Speaker 1: risen among men than John the Baptist himself. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptist understood his role, his responsibility, his standing.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he, that is Jesus, must increase, but I
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  Speaker 1: must decrease. Take good heed to the words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We are not to permit the spirit of pride to
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  Speaker 1: rise up within our hearts. The people of God are
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  Speaker 1: to be people of humility. We humble ourselves. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: admonishes us to do that. Humble yourselves under the mighty
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  Speaker 1: hand of God. James wrote in his epistle that he
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  Speaker 1: may exalt you in due time. I believe it may
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  Speaker 1: be Peter, perhaps, casting all of your cares upon him.
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  Speaker 1: They both wrote these words, humble ourselves, humble ourselves. But
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  Speaker 1: Peter said, casting all of your cares upon him, for
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  Speaker 1: he cares you. for you. We are fully aware of
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  Speaker 1: where our help comes from. David, I believe it was,
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  Speaker 1: the psalmist wrote these words, I will lift up mine
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  Speaker 1: eyes to the hills from which comes my help. My
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  Speaker 1: help comes from the Lord who made the heavens and
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  Speaker 1: the earth. Promotion doesn't come from the east. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: come from the west. It comes from God alone. He
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  Speaker 1: raises up one and takes down So we humble ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and are fully, always, always cognizant and aware that God
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  Speaker 1: is our help, that God is our hope. We know
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  Speaker 1: that in Jesus, we live, we move, and we have
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  Speaker 1: our being. It is no longer I. It is no
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  Speaker 1: longer I, no longer about me, but the Christ who
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  Speaker 1: lives in me. It is the Christ who gave himself
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  Speaker 1: for me. It is about the Christ who raised me
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  Speaker 1: from the dead by his Holy Ghost power, breathing new
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  Speaker 1: life within me. I am crucified with Christ. The old
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  Speaker 1: man is dead. The old man is no longer to
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  Speaker 1: seek recognition, fame, fortune. honor, praise, worship. The old man
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  Speaker 1: is crucified. The new man is indebted to Jesus. The
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  Speaker 1: new man is to be a servant slave. All glory
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  Speaker 1: and honor and praise and reverence and thanksgiving is to
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  Speaker 1: redound to Jesus Christ, our Lord, exclusively. There was no one,
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  Speaker 1: if you read in the book of Revelation chapter 5,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is, for example, there is no one
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  Speaker 1: in heaven found worthy to open the book, to loose
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  Speaker 1: the seals, but Jesus Christ alone, the Lamb of God,
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  Speaker 1: who was slain to receive riches and glory and honor
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  Speaker 1: and power, who died for us so that we no
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  Speaker 1: longer live to ourselves, but to him who gave himself
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  Speaker 1: for us. So, as Jesus teaches here in the text,
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  Speaker 1: when we give gifts, when we do charitable deeds, we
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  Speaker 1: are not to give, we are not to do, to
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  Speaker 1: be recognized and seen and praised by men. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the hypocrites do. They sound a trumpet, Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: before them, before they perform so that they will be
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  Speaker 1: honored and praised by men. They wave their offerings high
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  Speaker 1: in the air. They announce in advance how much they
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  Speaker 1: are giving. They want men to see all of the monies,
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  Speaker 1: the gold, the silver, the dollars, the so that they
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  Speaker 1: can get the praises of men. And Jesus said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: They have received their reward. Do not be like them.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord sees, the Lord knows our giving. He knows
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  Speaker 1: our heart and we are to give from the heart.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be like Ananias and Sapphira, for example. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: new church, Amen. People were giving. Amen. And people were
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  Speaker 1: not given to be seen. They were giving out of
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  Speaker 1: their hearts, but they wanted to be seen. And they
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  Speaker 1: were very deceptive. And you know the story of what
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  Speaker 1: happened to them. It was a spirit of pride and
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  Speaker 1: arrogance and deception. Hypocrites. Hypocrites. Hypocrites. It's incompatible. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: hypocrisy is incompatible with the church of Jesus Christ. It's incompatible.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, do not be like them. Do not be
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  Speaker 1: like them when you give. Do not be like them
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  Speaker 1: when you do your charitable deeds. Do not be like
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  Speaker 1: them when we pray. Jesus says. We are not to
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  Speaker 1: pray to be seen and heard publicly. Do not be
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  Speaker 1: like them using vain repetitions, Jesus said, as the heathen does. Erroneously,
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  Speaker 1: of course, thinking that they will be heard for their
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  Speaker 1: volume of words. Do not be like them. Jesus told
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  Speaker 1: us clearly here in the text, that the Lord knows
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  Speaker 1: what we have need of before we even ask. So
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  Speaker 1: why go through all of the shenanigans? Why? There's only
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  Speaker 1: one reason why. If God already knows what I need,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't need to come with volumes and volumes
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  Speaker 1: of words. I love the prayer of Peter. When he
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  Speaker 1: was about to sink. He didn't have time for that. Help.
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  Speaker 1: Save me. Amen. The Lord knows what we need before
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  Speaker 1: we ask. So the only reason to use vain repetitions,
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  Speaker 1: the only reason to use volumes of words is to
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  Speaker 1: be seen and heard and praised and By man. Do
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  Speaker 1: not be like them. And by the way, Jesus goes
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  Speaker 1: on to give us an example of how we are
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  Speaker 1: to pray. This is a model prayer. We call it
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's Prayer, but it is actually our prayer. A
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  Speaker 1: model of how we are to pray. After this manner,
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  Speaker 1: verse number nine, Matthew six. Therefore, pray ye, our Father,
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  Speaker 1: which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy. See,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about him. It's all about him. Thy kingdom come.
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  Speaker 1: Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Give us this day our daily bread. That is acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: where your source, who your source, where it comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us
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  Speaker 1: our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us
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  Speaker 1: not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine
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  Speaker 1: is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That is how we ought to pray in that manner.
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  Speaker 1: Honoring God, acknowledging God, acknowledging him as the source and
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  Speaker 1: the supply, acknowledging that it is his kingdom, that it
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  Speaker 1: is his will that is to be done, that he
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  Speaker 1: is the source of our daily provision, and we are
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  Speaker 1: to be forgiven by him as we forgive others. He
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  Speaker 1: is the one who will keep us from the evil one.
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  Speaker 1: The kingdom is his. The power is his. The glory
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  Speaker 1: is his. Not just now, but forever. Jesus goes on
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  Speaker 1: to say, if we forgive men their trespasses, our Heavenly
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  Speaker 1: Father will forgive us also. But if we forgive not
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  Speaker 1: men their trespasses, neither will our Heavenly Father forgive us
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  Speaker 1: our trespasses. And when we fast, uh-oh, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: about our giving. It's not just about our doing of
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  Speaker 1: alms deeds. It's not just about our praying, but also
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  Speaker 1: when we fast. You see, the hypocrites, Jesus goes on
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  Speaker 1: to tell us here, would put on a sad face.
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  Speaker 1: Their countenance would change when they were fasting. So Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: don't be like them. Don't be like the hypocrites of
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  Speaker 1: a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they
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  Speaker 1: may appear unto men too fast. Verily, I say unto you,
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  Speaker 1: they have their reward. Boy, see how incompatible this is
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  Speaker 1: with the church. With the saints. With the true believer. No.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be like them. Jesus says. They have their reward.
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  Speaker 1: But you. When you fast. Anoint your head. Wash your face.
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  Speaker 1: That you will not appear. Unto men. To fast. But
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  Speaker 1: unto your father. Which is in secret. And your father.
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  Speaker 1: who sees in secret, he will reward you openly. Do
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  Speaker 1: not be like them, church of the living God. You see,
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  Speaker 1: God resists the proud and he gives grace to the humble.
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  Speaker 1: God resists the haughtiness, the spirit of pride. The proud
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  Speaker 1: man will be brought low The hypocrite will not tarry
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  Speaker 1: in God's sight. You see, man looks, man sees on
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  Speaker 1: the outward appearance, but God sees the heart. God knows
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  Speaker 1: our motives. So Jesus warns us plainly, do not be
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  Speaker 1: like God. them. Father, as we humble ourselves before thee,
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  Speaker 1: we cast our crowns before your feet. You who alone
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  Speaker 1: are worthy to receive glory, honor, power, majesty, dominion, it
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  Speaker 1: all belongs to you. Thine is the kingdom. Thine is
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  Speaker 1: the power. Thine is the glory, both now and forever. So, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: be glorified, be magnified in us, through us, And Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray again and intercede for those who are lost,
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  Speaker 1: who need to come to know that you are the Savior.
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  Speaker 1: May they bow their knees now in your presence and
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  Speaker 1: submit to your lordship, your kingship. For you alone are
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  Speaker 1: the Savior and the Redeemer of all them that believe.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be your name from this time forth and even forevermore.
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  Speaker 1: We pray and give thanks. Amen and amen.