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1 Timothy chapter 6 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Timothy chapter 6. Let us pray, oh God of revival.
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  Lord, I pray the Holy Spirit will break out on a global
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  scale. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  for the 10 commandments to come back into the courtroom.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that will bring prayers back
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  into the schoolhouse. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  for the judeo-christian values to be restored back to this
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  land. God, I pray for churches to be
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  full again. God, I pray that the Bibles will
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  get the dust knocked off of them.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray that you'll raise up a
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  generation of warriors unto yourself.
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  God, I pray that there'll be thousands upon thousands who
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  have not bowed the knee unto ball.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus against all the wicked,
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  tyrannical, satanic, demonic spirits.
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  God, in the name of Jesus, I pray and rebuke those in the
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  name of Jesus and send them into the judgment that you have a
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  waiting for them, the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
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  God, the chains of utter gloom and darkness.
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  God, send them their Lord in the name of Jesus, I pray for your
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  people who are called by your name will rise up.
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  God, and to have sound minds. Father, I pray against
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  confusion. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  pray, Lord God, that you will reign supreme from on high.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll get all the glory.
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  Father, I pray God that we will be laid down lovers of Yeshua.
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  Lord, it's all about King Jesus. It's always been about King
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  Jesus and it'll always be about King Jesus, the King of kings
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  and the Lord of Lords. Faithful and true God, we await
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  God, Help us to wait patiently. The Spirit and the Bride says we
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  worship you today in spirit and truth.
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  Today is the day of salvation. God Almighty, help us to work
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  out our salvation with fear and trembling.
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  God bring contentment to this house.
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  Lord, help us not to be those who are so completely debased
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  and depraved. God, help us to know our worth.
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  Help us to know our dignity. Help us to know that we are
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  created in your image. God Imago day, I pray in the
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  name of Jesus that we will understand our inheritance, that
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  we are your masterpiece. God, I pray that there will be
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  many that get saved today. I pray that many will put their
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  faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and quit playing games with you
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  God, quit waiting on a perfect time, but that they will
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  surrender today. They will lay down all of their
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  own wants, all of their own desires, all of their own
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  passions, God, And they'll take up their cross and they'll count
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  the cost, and they'll follow you and they won't look back.
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  They'll lock eyes with you, God, and go out into the harvest.
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  God, I pray for the missionaries.
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  God, I pray for pastors. God, I pray that you'll raise up
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  strong leaders unto yourself. God, I pray that you'll raise up
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  shepherd kings unto yourself. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that the church will not fade away.
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  God, that it will prevail through the darkest times.
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  Lord, that the gates of hell, we'll never be able to shudder.
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  The church, God, capital C God, boots on ground out in the
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  harvest. God, I pray Shekinah, glory
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  come. Lord, come and get your glory.
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  We love you, Father, and it's in your mighty name that I pray.
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  King Jesus, lovely and worthy and holy, forever to be praised.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Let his many servants, as they're under the yoke, count
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  their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and
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  his doctrine be not blasphemy. So obviously Paul was writing to
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  a time where there were indentured servants, and it was
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  very prevalent within the Roman Empire and would have you to
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  know that Christianity actually was the catalyst to rid the
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  civilized world of slavery. And it's a hot topic, and we
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  don't actually have the context of what Paul was trying to say
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  here, but the premise remains the same, friends.
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  And it can be applied to employers and employees, the
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  haves and the have nots. And we need to understand that
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  God and his perfect doctrine and His perfect theology from
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  Genesis to Revelation shows us how we ought to treat those.
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  And it does not matter if you have more liberty or if you have
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  more money, you are not better than someone who is made in
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  God's image, and that is his masterpiece.
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  And there is a great equalizer in this life, and it's called
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  Mr. Death, and no one gets to escape it.
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  And you might be like the rich man who eats sumptuously and is
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  dressed in fine linen, and someone else might be like
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  Lazarus who begs for the crumbs that fall off the table.
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  But you can see that in the end it was the poor man who had
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  nothing in this life that was honored and given much blessing
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  in the life to come. And it was the rich man who had
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  plenty here in this life that was in want.
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  So you need to know that while you have breath in your lungs,
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  you need to always keep in mind that to God we must treat others
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  the way that we would want to be treated.
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  With God, we must take care of those that desperately need
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  help. No man is an island.
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  It's not about materialism. It's not about just get all that
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  you can while you can, friends. That is greed at the highest
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  level. If you are spiritually blessed
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  to be someone like Joseph of Arimathea who has plenty, it is
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  so that you can be a conduit and not a reservoir.
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  And here Paul is saying that if we if we are in an employment
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  situation and your boss man is a believer, don't take advantage
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  of the fact that he's a believer and that don't take his kindness
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  for weakness too. And they that have believing
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  masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers,
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  but rather do them service because they are faithful and
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  beloved partakers of the benefit.
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  Don't take advantage of your boss man because he is a
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  Christian. Just because he is nice, it does
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  not give you the right to take advantage of him.
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  And that is what Paul wants us to know.
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  Three, if any man teach otherwise, and consent not to
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  wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to
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  the doctrine which is according to godliness, what's he going to
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  say about that person? Verse 4, He's proud, he knows
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  nothing. He dotes about questions and
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  stripes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil,
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  surmising, 5 perverse disputings of men, of corrupt minds,
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  destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is
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  godliness, and from such withdrawal yourself.
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  So Paul holds no punches, and he tells us if any man is teaching
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  other than the words of Christ in the Beatitudes, friends, if
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  any man teaches differently, let him be accursed.
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  And he's telling us what the people who slide away from sound
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  doctrine look like. And these are the indicators.
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  These are little red flags. And we all need to have our
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  radar on and our antenna up because people will give
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  themselves away. You spend a little bit of time
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  with somebody and be quick to listen and slow to speak.
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  And you're going to find out a lot about somebody in just the
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  first few minutes of meeting them.
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  They're going to give you so many little calling cards and
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  Paul tells you what they look like.
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  They don't consent to wholesome words, which means they probably
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  are vulgar and use profanity. They are doting about questions.
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  So these are the people that question everything of did God
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  really say stripes of words? So they pick apart all your
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  little words as you are trying to explain yourself.
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  They attach themselves to 1 little word and then they want
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  to sit and pick you apart. Here it goes, he says, and to
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  the doctrine which is according to godliness, he says they're
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  proud. So you can see it manifested in
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  pride friends, which is the original sin is what got Lucifer
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  kicked out of heaven. Pride is not becoming of a St.
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  If someone is proud, it is a intelligence indicator that they
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  do not belong to God Almighty. He's saying that those people
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  actually know nothing about the wholesome goodness of God's
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  Word. And he tells you here envy.
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  So they will be very envious. So they'll want what you have or
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  they'll want what others have. Friends this jealousy.
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  They'll have strife so you'll see them in very contentious
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  manners. They will be hot headed friends,
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  railings and evil surmisings so they won't believe the good in
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  people. They'll always pick out and
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  they'll always hyper fixate upon the negativity, their perverse
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  disputings of men of corrupt minds.
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  So Titus is going to tell us that they are warped and self
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  condemned and to warn them twice and then to not have anything to
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  do with them. They are perverse, they have
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  corrupt minds, but they sure look the part.
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  They're destitute of the truth. They're so worldly.
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  Everything that they see, even though they call themselves a
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  believer, everything they see is through the lens of how the
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  world sees. And these same people don't care
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  anything about the truth. They're steeped in a lie.
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  And then the biggest lie that they believe is that gain is
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  godliness. And this goes back to when Jesus
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  told his disciples that it it was easier for a camel to go
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  through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make it into
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  heaven. And then the disciples were
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  aghast. They could not believe what
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  Jesus just said because they thought those that had a lot
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  meant that God was blessing them.
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  They could not understand it which is why they asked well
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  then who can be saved and which Jesus responded.
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  With man it is impossible but with God anything is possible.
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  So you need to understand that there are pockets of people that
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  can have gain and they know that it is from God.
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  But by and large, the vast majority of people get swallowed
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  up with envy. They get swallowed up with
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  greed, friends. And that is what he wants us to
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  know. And he says that gain does not
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  equal godliness. Somebody who has a lot, it does
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  not mean that they are more godly.
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  And he's saying from such people that are perverse and have
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  corrupt minds, withdraw yourself from them.
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  Six, this little nugget. But godliness with contentment
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  is great gain. We do not need more money, we
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  need more contentment, friends. It is contentment that we lack.
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  It is not money. And this goes out to all those
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  who are steeped in a culture who thinks we can measure how much
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  God is pleased with us, by how much we have material blessings,
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  and it should not be so. God calls us to take care of the
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  little that we have, and then he can entrust us with more and
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  more and more. But we keep throwing things away
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  when they break and we just rush out to get more.
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  And you don't need a new pair of shoes, you just need to take
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  care of the one that you have. You don't need a new car, you
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  just need to fix the one that you have.
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  You don't need a new house. You just need to do the
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  maintenance upon the house that God has given you, friends, and
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  then you will see God expand the dominion in your life.
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  We need to work on our contentment friends, more than
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  we need to go out and spend our lives spinning our wheels,
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  working three and four jobs, taking time away from our kids
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  and our wife just to try to put food on our table.
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  We need to trust God with the little that we have in our hands
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  and watch God multiply it. 74 We brought nothing into this world,
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  and it is certain we can carry nothing out, but we sure can
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  send it ahead. Do not store up for yourselves
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  treasures where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and
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  steal, But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
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  where moth and rust cannot destroy, and the thieves do not
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  break in and steal. Friends.
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  And that is what you need to understand is that naked we came
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  into this world and naked we will leave.
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  And life is so much more than materialism and consumerism.
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  It's about enjoying the family that God has given you.
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  It's about receiving the peace of God in the perceived lack.
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  And sometimes God sits us down and tells us to take inventory
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  and to put our house in order, friends, and to quit lusting and
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  whoring after more and more and more.
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  And it's insatiable and it's never satisfied.
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  And when you get what you thought was going to bring you
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  happiness, it is only a curse. And it wraps its tentacles
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  around you and asphyxiates the joy.
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  When we spend our lives comparing ourselves with others,
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  far be it from us that are called Christians who love God.
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  There is no lack in the Father's house He has or inside the earth
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  that we place the value of our currency on.
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  Friends, there is no lack in His house.
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  He can rain down $100 bills. Friends, He can lead you to a
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  property that has a oil reserve on it, a gold mine on it.
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  Friends, God can do anything. God can put manna and quail and
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  water from a rock there, and He has the cattle on 1000 hills.
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  Do not think that the perceived lack in your house is a
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  punishment from God. It is not.
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  He is just asking us to trust Him with our little fish and our
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  little loaves, friends, our little lunch, and we could feed
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  thousands and thousands upon thousands, Friends 8 and have
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  and having food and clothing. Let us be there with content,
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  Paul said. I've learned how to be content
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  with little or much, with a full belly or with an empty stomach.
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  You need to understand, friends, we've got to work on our
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  contentment. We've got to quit comparing our
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  lives with others, what they're driving, what they're wearing,
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  where they're living, where they're going on vacation, where
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  they work, what they look like. We've got to stop it.
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  We've got to get off the crazy train.
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  And we have to rest in God's promises that he's going to take
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  care of us. He can send Ravens to feed us
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  Friends, but we must go out and work with our hands and the
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  little bit that we have and trust to God and watch him
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  multiply it miraculously. And he wants us to live by faith
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  and not by sight. 9:00 But they that will be rich fall into
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  temptation and a snare, and into many foolish, hurtful lusts
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  which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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  You need to understand, friends, that is never enough.
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  You need to understand when you set out and you think that
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  you're going to make an honest living and you think if you just
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  made a little bit more, it was going to bring you the
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  satisfaction. The latest and greatest toys is
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  going to bring you the satisfaction.
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  That next vacation is going to bring you the satisfaction.
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  And all it does is it actually exacerbates the problem.
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  It magnifies the problem, which is greed, friends.
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  And that is why we are called to be content with just food and
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  clothing and not to worry about tomorrow, because today has
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  enough worry in itself. 10 For the love of money is the root of
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  all evil, which while some coveted after they have erred
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  from the faith and pierced themselves through with many
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  sorrows, That is what happens when we set out to be wealthy.
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  It's never enough and you're estranged from your family
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  because they only see you as a paycheck.
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  They don't see you as a person anymore.
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  When you have money, people only want to try to use you for your
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  money and they manipulate you for your money.
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  And you can see here that it is this love of money that is the
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  root of all the evil that we see in the world.
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  And you can see this breaks God's heart when people set out
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  and Jesus Christ told us that you cannot serve 2 masters, you
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  will love 1 and you will hate the other.
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  So if you love money, you will hate God.
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  And that is the promise that is contained in this. 11 But you, O
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  man of God, flee these things, follow after righteousness and
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  godliness, faith and love, and patience and meekness. 12 Fight
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  the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, where unto
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  you are also called and have professed a good profession
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  before many witnesses. Here is the pedigree of a man of
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  God, friends, and what it looks like.
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  We're not called to be lovers of self and lovers of money and
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  lovers of pleasure. We are not called to be lusting
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  after other people's wives. We are not called to be those
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  that are double tongued. We are not called to be those
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  who steal and lie, friends. We are called to practice the
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  meekness and patience and godliness love and the faith and
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  righteousness. Friends that will exude from a
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  man of God who's someone who truly loves Jesus Christ and is
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  sold out to Him and cares nothing for this life and only
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  wants to do what the Father has him to do for his little
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  lifetime that He's given them on this earth. 13 I give you charge
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  in the sight of God who quickens all things.
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  And before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed
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  a good confession. So you can see here that Jesus
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  Christ is worthy to be praised. We can see here that Jesus
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  Christ is God. And Paul here writing to Timothy
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  by way for all the churches who will ever read this book.
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  He's telling us to fight the good fight, to not grow weary,
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  to not be dismayed, but to know that God is fighting our battles
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  for us. 14 that you keep this commandment without spot,
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  unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, live a
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  life that is worthy of others to look into, and it only mirrors
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  and models Jesus Christ's life. 15 which in His times He shall
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  show, who is the blessed and only potent, the King of kings
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  and the Lord of Lords. So here we can see that Jesus
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  Christ is the only one that is high and exalted and worthy of
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  all of our praise, and He is the one that we press towards.
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  He is the reward, He is the goal, He is our everything, He
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  is heaven, Friends. 16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the
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  light which no man can approach, unto whom no man has seen nor
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  can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting, Amen.
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  So we can see that God dwells in unapproachable light, and the
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  only way that we can see God is to look at Jesus Christ, Amen.
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  17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not
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  high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the
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  living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.
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  Think about the fool who had so much hay that he could not store
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  it in his barn. So he says, I'll build another
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  barn. And God says, You fool, for this
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  very night your life will be demanded of you.
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  You need to understand God's ways.
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  You need to understand how God thinks of wealth and we are to
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  distribute it. We are to know that you cannot
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  outgive God. You are to know that God is the
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  greatest giver and He gave first.
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  He gave his one and only Son for us and He wants us to enjoy this
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  life. He doesn't want us to be sticks
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  in the mud. He doesn't want us to just be
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  ornery and to just be bland. He wants us to exude light and
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  salt to this world. 18 that they do good, that they be rich in
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  good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate, 19
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  laying up in store for themselves a good foundation
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  against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal
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  life. So just because you're wealthy
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  doesn't mean that you're evil. There are some very few who can
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  have it and they see it in the right manner and it actually is
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  a spiritual gift. Giving is a spiritual gift, and
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  if they can see themselves in the right light, it will produce
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  rewards and blessings upon blessings upon blessings upon
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  blessings upon blessings to be able to cut that check for that
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  ministry and for that missionary praise God Hallelujah for those
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  who are called into giving. 20 Oh Timothy, keep that which is
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  committed to your trust. Avoid avoiding profane vain
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  babblings and oppositions of science falsely so-called.
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  I want you to know this science is nothing more than thinking
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  God's thoughts after God and all this profane babbling.
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  These people are actually condemned by their words, these
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  so-called science fanatics who love science and they care
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  nothing for God and they call God a fairy tale and they want
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  to get rid of religion. They err grievously, and by
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  their words they will be condemned.
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  Friends, God is the one that put the tapestry in the fabric of
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  everything physics in this world, everything seen and
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  unseen, discovered and undiscoverable.
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  Friends, it's all God's breath. And we would do well to
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  understand that God is omnipotent and He sees it all
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  and it's all culminating and everything is going exactly
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  according to plan. That is revealed in the will of
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  God, in the Word of God. And Satan and all the demonic
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  hosts know it. They've been here much longer
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  than us, and they are tying the blindfolds around the masses and
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  leading them off in droves into eternal damnation.
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  And it saddens me, and it should sadden you as well.
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  It breaks my heart, friends, to see so many people choosing to
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  send themselves into eternal torment forever and ever.
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  We'll end on 21, which some professing have erred concerning
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  the faith. Grace be with you.
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  Amen. So many people are choosing to
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  go into eternal separation from a loving God, and it is only by
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  grace through faith that will ever make it there.
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  It's grace through faith that we can even have enough wherewithal
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  in fortitude to latch on to these high spiritual platitudes
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  of what Jesus Christ wrought for us on the cross of Calvary
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  friends. That we can be clothed in his
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  righteousness and we can be pure and holy and blameless in the
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  sight of God. And none of our sins, none of
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  our transgressions will ever be counted against us.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah, we love you, Father King Jesus, forever
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  to be praised. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. If you've made it this far in
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  the message, I'm thankful for you.
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  I'm thankful that you're on this journey with me, learning
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  together. You can search this book a
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  billion times over and find out that it's inexhaustible.
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  It's the Mariana Trench, it's the black hole.
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  It's unsearchable. You cannot exhaust it.
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  Friends can outlive it, and you can't live without it.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  We love the word of God. Thank you for being here.
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  Thank you for riding this journey out.
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  We'll finish the entirety of God's word together.
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  I love you and I'm praying for you.
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  Stay blessed up. Stay prayed up.
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  Keep your nose in the good book. You will not be duped.
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  God will tell you exactly what to do and how to do it and when
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  to do it, where to be and where to go.
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  Don't fear losing your life, friends.
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  God is a good God and it is in His nature to rescue those who
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  love Him and who are called according to His purpose.
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  God bless you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.