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All Things - 10/11/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  >> Amen. Boy, it's good to be in church.
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  Romans chapter 8, read a verse we all
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  know well and read just three verses in
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  this text. Then we'll jump over to
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  Romans chap 11 and read one verse and
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  we'll look at two of the verses this
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  morning and then Lord willing the other
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  two verses um on this evening. Let's
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  look verse number 28. Romans chapter 8.
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  Romans chapter 8 verse number 28.
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  The Bible says, "And we know that all
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  things work together for good to them
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  that love God to them who are the called
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  according to his purpose."
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  Notice with me verse number 32.
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  Romans chapter 8 verse 32, he says, "He
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  that spared not his own son, but
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  delivered him up for us all, how shall
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  he not with him also freely give us all
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  things?"
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  Notice with me verse number 37 of Romans
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  chapter 8.
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  He says in verse 37, "Nay, in all these
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  things we are more than conquerors
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  through him that loved us."
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  >> I say hallelujah.
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  >> Turn with me to Romans chapter 11
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  verse number 36.
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  Romans chap 11:36
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  the Bible says for of him and through
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  him and to him what's that next phrase
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  >> are all things to whom be glory forever
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  amen
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  now you've probably noticed the
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  redundant theme through these verses
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  this morning with the help of the Lord I
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  want to try to preach on that thought
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  this morning and again tonight if the
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  Lord allows us to on that subject all
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  things, all things. Let's go to the Lord
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  in prayer and ask the Lord to help us.
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  Father, thank you so much for allowing
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  us to be in the house of God. And uh
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  Lord, I realize, Father, that this place
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  is preparation for that place that
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  Brother Galen just sung about. God, we
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  are here in what one preacher called
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  heaven practice. And Lord, I'm asking
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  you, God, today that you would help us,
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  Father, as we examine the scriptures,
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  Lord, not just to hear the word of God,
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  but to heed it, Father, and also, Lord,
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  after that we've heed it, God, I pray
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  that we would honor you and praise you
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  and worship you, God, for how you've
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  spoken to our heart. Lord, I thank you
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  for this precious book, God. You told us
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  in your word, Lord, you said, Father,
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  that you'd honored this book. You'd
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  honored your word above your own name.
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  And God, we have it in our hands, Lord.
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  Many copies of it here today. And I
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  thank you for the inspired, inherit,
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  infallible word that we have in this
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  King James Bible. And God, I ask you
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  would help us today. I pray for the
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  sinner that's here and lost. I pray
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  they'd be saved. I pray for the saint
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  that's discouraged today. I pray they'd
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  receive encouragement. And God, I ask
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  humbly that you would help us this
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  morning to give you all the glory for
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  everything that's said and done. Help us
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  not to take honor under oursel. God,
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  we're worthless without you. Help us God
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  today I pray. Well, we sure love you.
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  Thank you for loving us. And we ask all
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  this in Jesus name. God's church said,
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  "Amen."
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  >> Thank you for standing. You may be
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  seated.
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  Our text this morning, of course, these
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  few verses. I generally never do this. I
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  do not like to cherrypick verses out of
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  the word of God and preach uh the text,
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  but I want to do that this morning
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  because it's what the Lord told me to
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  do, and he trumps my opinion. Somebody
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  say, "Amen."
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  And uh I've asked God that he would help
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  us today in these verses. And uh my
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  introduction this morning, I want to say
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  this. We when I think about God and who
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  he is. When you think about the
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  personality of God, there's many
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  attributes that would describe him.
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  There's many words that we could use to
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  describe him. I think when we think
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  about his personality, we would say
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  number one that his essence is holiness.
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  Amen. Because the Bible tells us that
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  those angels are not flying about the
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  throne crying love, love, love or grace,
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  grace, grace or mercy, mercy, mercy. But
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  they cease not to cry holy, holy, holy.
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  And we would say this morning that the
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  essence of God is his holiness. But I
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  think if we were to describe the
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  personality of God or that which makes
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  up his character, it would be described
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  not by a word but rather the suffix of a
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  word. You say, "What do you mean?" Well,
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  I'm talking about the suffix omni.
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  Omni. You say, "What do you mean?" It
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  means that word omni suffix means all or
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  in all. And when I think about the
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  personality of God, we often attribute
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  to him three different things that we
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  quote most often. Most of you probably
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  know the three attributes that we quote
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  of God. We say number one that he is
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  omnisient. That is that he is all
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  knowing. We say not only that he is
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  omnisient but that he is omnipotent.
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  He's all knowing and all powerful. And
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  then we say that he's also omnipresent.
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  That he is all knowing, all powerful,
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  and in all places at the same moment.
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  But at the at the beginning of all of
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  those words, you realize that the the
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  suffix that word all describes who he
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  is. And we could say this morning if he
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  was not all knowing, omnipotent, and
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  omnipresent, it would hinder his power
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  greatly. wouldn't it? But I want to say
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  this this morning. He's so much more
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  than those three things.
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  >> You see that omni represents who he is
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  because he is all.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> In him consists everything.
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  >> There was nothing before he was
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  >> and there'll be nothing. Amen. Hey, I'm
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  telling you that's a helping me this
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  morning.
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  >> Long after we were all gone, he'll still
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  be.
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  >> Amen. And I bless his name for that this
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  morning. You see, there are other words
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  that we could use to describe him, but
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  these describe the Lord's person. Well,
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  I I would say it could be said that
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  omniscience is the manifest attribute of
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  the father that he is all knowing. Jesus
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  said many times he said, "My father
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  knoweth all things in reference to
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  different things." And when we think
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  about the scriptures, what Solomon
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  taught in the book of Proverbs was
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  wisdom. That wisdom is the knowledge of
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  God. The fear of the Lord is the
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  beginning of wisdom. And it is that
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  omniscience that describes it is the
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  manifest attribute of the father. We
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  could say that omnipotence is the
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  manifest attribute of the son. For the
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  Bible says in John chapter 1 and verse
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  number one, in the beginning was the
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  word and the word was with God and the
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  word was God. The same was in the
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  beginning with God. All things were made
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  by him and without him was not anything
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  made that was made. And so Jesus Christ
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  is the all powerful being in the
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  Godhead. You say, "Preacher, but God is
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  God the Father is also all powerful."
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  Just hang on a minute. I'll get there in
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  a minute. You see, omniscience would be
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  the manifest attribute on the pages of
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  scripture of the father. Omnipotence
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  would be the manifest attribute of the
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  son. For the scripture literally says
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  that by his own vition or by his own
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  power he raised himself up out of death.
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  And so he is the all powerful son, the
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  savior of the world. Then we would say
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  also we could it could be said that
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  omniresence is the manifest attribute of
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  the spirit because the spirit is
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  everywhere. Amen. There's no place where
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  he is not found. The psalmist said it
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  this way. He said, "If I ascend up to
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  the wings of the morning or if I make my
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  bed in hell, behold, thou art there."
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  And that is a representation of the
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  spirit of God and his omnipresence. And
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  I would say this, I don't want to limit
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  those attributes to each one of the
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  persons because the truth is all three
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  of the trinity are co-equal, co-eternal,
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  and coexistent. Amen. They all have
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  equal power. They all have equal
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  authority. Amen. And the Bible tells us
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  that. But it is manifest that those
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  attributes are described in that order.
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  And you say, why are you saying all of
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  that, preacher? Well, I understand that
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  it is these truths, the omniscience, the
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  omnipotence, and the omnipresence of the
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  godhead that reveal the allsufficient
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  nature of the Trinity. You say, "What do
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  you mean?" Well, you see, the Trinity
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  has expressed its allsufficient nature
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  to mankind as the answer for our sin
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  problem.
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  >> Amen. You say, "What do you mean?" Well,
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  you see, it's the omniscience of God,
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  that all- knowing part of God that knew
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  man would need a savior. Amen. God the
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  father in eternity past he already knew
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  that man was going to sin. He knew that
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  Adam was going to fall in the garden.
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  And God in his fornowledge, the Bible
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  says that Jesus was crucified in the
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  mind of God even before the foundations
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  of the world. And so God in his
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  omniscience knew that man would need a
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  savior. I want to say that Christ in his
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  omnipotence, it allowed him to be that
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  sinless, spotless savior of all the
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  world. You see, there's never been a man
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  that was able to lay his own life down
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  and take it back up again. There was ne
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  There's never been a man that lived a
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  sinless life. There's never been a man
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  that ascended by his own power into the
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  heaven. What I'm saying is that he is
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  the omnipotent one. He has all power
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  invested in him. And you remember what
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  he told his disciples when he left? He
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  said, "All power is given unto me in
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  heaven and earth." And he said, "I'm
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  going to send you forth as to be a
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  witness to me of this in this present
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  world." And so it is the omnipotence of
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  Christ that allowed him to be the
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  sinless savior of the world. But I want
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  to say this, if it had stopped there, we
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  would still be hopelessly lost. Because
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  it is the omnipresent spirit that
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  indwells every believer once they place
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  their faith and trust in the cleansing
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  blood of the Lord Jesus. And it is the
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  spirit of God that imparts that blood
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  upon our soul. Amen. And saves us by his
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  grace. I'm saying it took the knowledge
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  of God. It took the power of the
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  sacrifice of the son. And it takes the
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  presence of the spirit of God in our
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  life to bring salvation to where we are.
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  Aren't you glad you're saved this
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  morning? I'm saying, friend, if it had
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  not been for the Godhead, desiring to
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  save you and I, we'd still be lost in
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  our sin. But I'm thankful this morning.
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  It is this salvation, the salvation that
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  comes from God, the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ in the presence of the Holy Ghost
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  of God that changes the course of our
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  life and changes everything about who we
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  were before Christ to who we are being
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  made to be now that we are in Christ.
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  >> Amen. You
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  >> say, "What do you mean, preacher?" Well,
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  I'm saying before we were saved, the
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  motions of sins, Paul said, were in our
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  members. But now 2 Corinthians 5 and
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  verse number 21. You remember what Paul
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  said? If any man be in Christ, he's a
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  new creature.
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  >> Old things are passed away and behold,
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  all things are become new.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, what does that have
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  to do with our text this morning?" You
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  see, this salvation that's been imparted
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  to you and I has is making us into the
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  image of Jesus himself. John said it
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  this way in his epistle in 1 John
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  chapter number three. He said, '
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  Beloved, it does not appear what we
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  shall be, but we know that when we shall
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  appear, when he shall appear, we shall
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  be like him,
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  >> for we shall see him as he is. And you
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  say, "Preacher, what does that have to
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  do with this text?" Well, you see, this
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  text reveals to us four principles. I
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  want to give you two of these this
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  morning concerning this matter of
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  salvation in our life and all things
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  what it has to do with. You see, Paul
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  said it best. He said, "If any man be in
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  Christ, he's a new creature. Old things
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  are passed away. Behold, what?
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  >> All things are become new." And I've
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  chosen that verse to connect this
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  thought because the truth is when you
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  get saved, it ain't just your heart that
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  got changed.
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  >> But I'm talking about everything
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  supposed to be changed.
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  >> You're supposed to be different from the
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  inside out. Now, I realize that some of
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  that that's permanent and it's and it's
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  present in the moment of salvation. And
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  I also realize that most of it is
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  progressive. It's going to be fulfilled
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  throughout your life here on the earth.
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  And I want to say this, some of it is
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  yet to come. It's going to be when Jesus
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  comes back, that glorification. But I
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  want to give you these two things this
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  morning if I could. Verse number 28 of
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  Romans 8. The Bible says, Paul said, "We
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  know that all things work together for
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  good to them that love God, to them who
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  are the called according to his
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  purpose." I want to talk to you first of
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  all this matter of all things. I want to
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  talk about the conformity that it
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  produces. Say what do you mean? Well, we
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  notice this all things that's mentioned
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  here in verse number 28. And Paul begins
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  the verse by saying this. He says, "And
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  we know." You say, "What does that
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  mean?" Well, there's an assurance that's
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  involved in this. You see, there is a
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  reality that comes into the heart of
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  somebody who is saved. There's an
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  awareness that you have of certain
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  things. And because you are saved, that
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  awareness is there and there's nothing
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  you can do to get rid of it. I told my
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  wife on yesterday, I said, uh, I was
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  talking about, we was talking about
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  something throughout the day and I said,
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  man, you know, discernment is a is a
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  blessing, but it's a curse. Man, I'm
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  telling you, there's just some things
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  I'm aware of because I'm saved and I
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  really don't want to be.
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  >> But I'm going tell you this, there's
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  there's a lot of things I've been made
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  aware of, and I thank God I've been made
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  aware of.
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  >> You say, "What do you mean?" Well, Paul
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  says, verse 28, "What's he say, church?"
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  And we know that all things work
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  together for good. So first of all, I
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  would say this awareness here in verse
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  number 28 produces a reality that we
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  know about all things. So what do you
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  mean? Well, you see, there's one in us
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  who's what? He's omnisient.
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  >> He lives on the inside. And so he knows
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  all things. And so therefore, him living
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  on the inside, we have an awareness of
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  all things. And what's mentioned in this
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  verse is you see God has ordained it
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  that once we are saved by grace
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  permanently we are sanctified through
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  growth progressively. And it is the
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  blessing of the Christian life to know
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  that we are destined for Christ
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  likeness. And that's what this verse is
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  talking about. He says we know that all
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  things work together for good. Notice
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  that they work together for good. You
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  know what that you know what that means?
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  That literally means that it's fruitful
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  in your life.
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  >> Now I want to say this. This verse does
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  not mean that everything in our life has
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  to everything that goes on in our world
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  is good.
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  >> There's been a lot of people that will
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  say that you know u you know sin will
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  come about and in their family or
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  something like well we know all things
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  work. That's that's misapplied.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> You see for all things to work together
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  for good those all things have to be
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  good.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> And let me ask you something. What is
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  our works? Bible says our righteousness
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  is as what? filthy rags,
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  >> filthy rags. And so we are to exchange
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  them for his righteousness. And so what
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  is his righteousness? Well, that's a
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  providence. That's a that's provided by
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  the Lord. And so if all things are good,
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  notice that we know that all things work
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  together for good. This awareness is of
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  those who believe, those who are saved.
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  We also know that all these things must
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  work together for our advancement.
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  >> What do you mean? You say, "Well, they
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  work for good." You say, "How do you
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  know that?" Well, notice the last phrase
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  of verse 27.
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  He says he's talking about the
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  intercession of Jesus in verse 27. He
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  that searchth the hearts, that's Jesus,
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  knoweth what is the mind of the spirit.
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  Because he, Jesus, maketh intercession
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  for the saints according to what?
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  >> According to the will of God. You see,
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  there can't there's nothing in your life
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  that can advance you if it's outside the
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  will of God.
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  >> That's right. And so this is what I want
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  to give you this morning. Instead of
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  saying that all things work together for
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  good, you this is what you should say.
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  Everything that comes from God works for
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  your good. Say, what do you mean? Well,
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  let me just give you some instances
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  here. Matthew Henry said this. He says,
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  it says that all things work together
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  for good. He said that is all the
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  providences of God that concern them.
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  Notice that all things can't work
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  together for good for somebody who's
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  lost. That's right. Amen.
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  >> You see, if you're not saved this
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  morning, there's no goodness that you
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  even know about.
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  >> You might have a head knowledge of
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  salvation, and you might be aware of
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  some facts about Christianity, but the
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  truth is goodness comes from him. James
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  said it this way. He said, "Every good
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  gift and every perfect gift cometh down
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  from the father of lights." He said, "In
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  whom is no variableness, neither shadow
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  of turning." And he has ordained it to
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  be such that if you're going to possess
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  his goodness, he has to put it into you.
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  >> You can't attain it. And so this
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  advancement must come from God. He said
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  all that God performs, he performs for
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  them. I want to say this. It's true that
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  not all the things we do for ourselves
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  or all things done to us by others are
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  always good. Wouldn't you agree with
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  that? This verse is only true because of
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  God's providence.
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  Let me ask you something.
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  That sin that people say, "Well, all
• 17:50
  things work together for good after it's
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  over." Let me ask you something. Did God
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  provide that?
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  >> No.
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  >> It can't be good then, can it?
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  >> It can't advance you. You say,
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  "Preacher, what about the learning from
• 18:03
  that?" Well, you see, God is the one
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  that teaches you the lesson.
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  >> If a sinner turns from the error of
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  their way, it's because God's going to
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  have to show them to.
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  >> That's right. It ain't the sin that was
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  good,
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  >> but it was God using what they chose to
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  show them they're wrong. So, it's not
• 18:21
  the sin. Well, let me say this. You see,
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  sin is never provided by God. I want to
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  say this. Suffering is provided by God
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  at times. Say, what do you mean? Well,
• 18:31
  suffering is not always from God. Peter
• 18:34
  said it this way. 1 Peter 3:1 17, I
• 18:36
  encourage you put it in your margin. For
• 18:37
  it is better if the will of God be so
• 18:39
  that you suffer for welloing than for
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  evildoing. Listen to what he says. If
• 18:44
  the will of God be so. If God doesn't
• 18:47
  want you to suffer and you're suffering,
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  well, that's not benefiting you.
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  >> That's not advancing you. But the Bible
• 18:53
  also says, Peter said, "Let them that
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  suffer according to the will of God
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  commit themselves their keeping as unto
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  a faithful creator." That God knows
• 19:02
  about your suffering.
• 19:05
  He said this. He said this in one place.
• 19:07
  He said, "What good is it if you be
• 19:08
  buffeted for your faults?" That's not
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  helping you any. You're getting the
• 19:13
  punishment of your sin. Suffering is
• 19:16
  suffering for righteousness. If you are
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  suffering because of sin, that's
• 19:19
  punishment.
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  >> You say, "PREACHER, BUT IT SAYS ALL
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  THINGS work together for good." It's all
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  things from God. Notice it again, verse
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  27. According to the will of God.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Those things that are from him. You say,
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  "Preacher, would cancer be from him?"
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  Let me ask you something. Does sin come
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  from God?
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  Does God permit sin in the world?
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  Does God teach men lessons by their
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  ailments?
• 19:51
  You see, it's not the element that's
• 19:52
  from God, but it might be the lesson
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  he's wanting you to learn because of
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  that.
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  Now, I want to say this this morning. We
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  understand. He says this in verse 28.
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  You say, "Preacher, I don't understand
• 20:04
  what you're getting at." You see, well,
• 20:06
  the truth is sin is never provided by
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  God. Suffering is at times. So, here's
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  what you need to do. You need to mark
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  suffering off the list.
• 20:14
  Say, "What do you mean?" Well, you going
• 20:15
  to have to choose to look to God beyond
• 20:17
  that because there are some things that
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  you can be sure about that's from God.
• 20:22
  Say, "What do you mean?" Well,
• 20:23
  suffering's not always from the Lord.
• 20:25
  Sin never is. Let me be real with you.
• 20:28
  The spirit of God, Amen. The salvation
• 20:31
  that's in your heart and the scriptures
• 20:34
  are directly provided by who?
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  >> So, you know what? They're always good.
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  >> You know what? It's good for the
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  advancement of your Christianity.
• 20:46
  >> Notice it again. We know that all things
• 20:48
  work together for good. They are
• 20:50
  fruitful, profitable for you. Notice who
• 20:53
  he says. It's probably two. There's an
• 20:55
  awareness. There's an advancement. But
• 20:56
  notice the affection that's mentioned in
• 20:57
  verse 28. for good to them that what?
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  That love God. That's right.
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  >> You know what Jesus told his disciples?
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  He said, "If you love me, what'd he say?
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  Keep my commandments."
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  >> You want to know if you love him or not?
• 21:12
  Do you keep his commandments? You see,
• 21:15
  we always want to go off of word. We
• 21:18
  always want to go off of what people
• 21:20
  say. Well, I love the Lord, preacher.
• 21:22
  Well, I'm I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing
• 21:24
  it.
• 21:25
  >> Come on.
• 21:27
  The truth is Jesus defines your love not
• 21:30
  by WHAT YOU SAY BUT HOW YOU LIVE.
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  >> And he reveals to us in this text, he
• 21:36
  says, "All things work together for good
• 21:38
  to them that love God." That's the
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  number one stipulation.
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  >> So if you love him, you keep his
• 21:44
  commandments, then and only then,
• 21:46
  >> amen,
• 21:47
  >> does all things work for your good.
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  That's
• 21:48
  >> right. Amen.
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  >> You know the reason why there's
• 21:51
  missionaries in third world countries
• 21:52
  today that aren't starving to death in
• 21:54
  spite of all the odds being stacked
• 21:55
  against them? because they're in the
• 21:57
  center of the God's will and they love
• 21:59
  him.
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  >> And you know what? God puts food on
• 22:02
  their table.
• 22:04
  >> God provides their needs.
• 22:06
  >> And the reason we struggle is because
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  we're not where God told us to be.
• 22:10
  >> Look what he said. To them that love
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  God. You see, it is the inward affection
• 22:15
  of the believer that gives him the
• 22:17
  opportunity to have all things work for
• 22:20
  good. You say, "What do you mean?" It
• 22:22
  makes it possible. If you don't love
• 22:24
  him, you can't have everything work for
• 22:26
  good in your life.
• 22:27
  >> Because if you don't love him, you're
• 22:29
  not going to be able to look beyond your
• 22:30
  trial and see the truth.
• 22:32
  >> You're not going to be able to look
• 22:33
  beyond the the gore and and the and the
• 22:36
  agony that you're facing and see God.
• 22:39
  >> You have to love him to do that.
• 22:41
  >> But it's not only the opportunity,
• 22:43
  that's the inward affection that gives
• 22:45
  us the opportunity to have all things
• 22:47
  work for good. But it's also this inward
• 22:49
  affection that gives us the ability to
• 22:51
  look beyond and see God at work. It
• 22:55
  makes it possible, but it also makes it
• 22:57
  perceivable. If you don't love God,
• 23:00
  God's not going to do it for you. But if
• 23:01
  you don't love God, you won't be able to
• 23:03
  see God do it for you.
• 23:06
  Say, "What do you mean?" Well, notice
• 23:08
  the verse again. Verse 28. To them who
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  are the what? The called. To them that
• 23:14
  love God. To them who are the called
• 23:16
  according to his purpose. Man, we love
• 23:20
  Romans 8:28. and I have just destroyed
• 23:22
  it for you.
• 23:25
  But I'm going to tell you the truth this
• 23:26
  morning.
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  Those things that work good in your life
• 23:29
  are described by that last phrase,
• 23:32
  according to his
• 23:34
  >> purpose. We We love Psalm 37:4. Delight
• 23:37
  thyself also in the Lord. He'll give the
• 23:38
  desires of thine heart. That don't mean
• 23:41
  what you think it does.
• 23:43
  It means that God and his purposes
• 23:47
  >> can make all things work for good in
• 23:49
  your life if you allow him to put it in
• 23:51
  there.
• 23:53
  >> You see, our life is meant to be lived
• 23:55
  with an open hand.
• 23:57
  Some of you are holding on to things
• 23:59
  this morning. And God cannot get a hold
• 24:01
  of that. You say, "Preacher, God can get
• 24:03
  a hold of it." He can, but he's not
• 24:04
  going to because he ain't going to work
• 24:05
  against your will. You have to have an
• 24:08
  open hand so God can put in what he
• 24:09
  wants and take out what he wants. And
• 24:11
  you know what? You don't need to say
• 24:12
  nothing when he puts in takes out what
• 24:14
  he does.
• 24:16
  >> That's his purpose.
• 24:18
  >> That's his plan. YOU SAY, "PREACHER, I
• 24:19
  WANT ALL THINGS TO WORK FOR GOOD."
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  >> Open your hands.
• 24:27
  >> That's your mind.
• 24:29
  If he gets your mind, you know what
• 24:31
  he'll have? He'll have your money.
• 24:35
  >> Truth is, you don't that don't any of
• 24:37
  that belong to you.
• 24:38
  >> That's right.
• 24:39
  >> You're not your own. Remember when Paul
• 24:41
  said, "You're not your own. You are
• 24:42
  bought with a price."
• 24:44
  >> You are to surrender yourself. You say,
• 24:46
  "Preacher, I want everything to work for
• 24:48
  good, all things
• 24:52
  to him.
• 24:55
  If you want all things to work together
• 24:57
  for good, you've got to allow him to
• 24:58
  have hold of all things."
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  There is in this verse here, we mention
• 25:04
  the conformity that's produced. This is
• 25:06
  a sanctifying growth. If you keeping
• 25:08
  notes, it's a sanctifying growth.
• 25:12
  And and I I quoted this already, but
• 25:13
  I'll give you this verse again. He said
• 25:15
  1 John 3:2 and three, beloved, now are
• 25:18
  we the sons of God. And it does not yet
• 25:20
  appear what we shall be, but we know
• 25:22
  that when he shall appear, we shall be
• 25:23
  like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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  In verse three, I didn't quote this a
• 25:27
  while ago. John said this, "And every
• 25:29
  man that hath this hope in him purifith
• 25:31
  himself."
• 25:32
  If you believe that when he comes and
• 25:35
  you see him, you going to be changed.
• 25:37
  You're going to want to get as close to
• 25:38
  that changed image as you can.
• 25:40
  >> When Jesus comes back, I don't want him
• 25:42
  to have to change a whole lot
• 25:45
  >> other than this body.
• 25:47
  >> You get what I'm saying? I don't want
• 25:49
  him to have to teach me how to worship.
• 25:51
  I don't want him to have to teach me how
• 25:52
  to shout. I don't want him to have to
• 25:54
  teach me that book. He's given me that
• 25:55
  book and the Holy Ghost to learn that
• 25:57
  book.
• 25:58
  >> I should know it to the best of my
• 26:00
  ability. Now, I know he's going to have
• 26:01
  to change a whole lot, but there's going
• 26:03
  to be a lot of people that go into
• 26:04
  heaven, they going to have no idea about
• 26:06
  nothing's going on there cuz they did
• 26:08
  not allow God to work all things for
• 26:11
  their good.
• 26:12
  We want God to work things for our good,
• 26:14
  but we don't want him to get glory out
• 26:16
  of it. You see, for him to get glory,
• 26:19
  it's got to be his will.
• 26:22
  >> Notice this. We see the conformity
• 26:25
  produced. Verse number 28.
• 26:27
  You see, I don't see that conformity.
• 26:29
  Well, notice verse 29. For whom he did
• 26:32
  forno, he also did predestinate to be
• 26:34
  what? Conformed to the image of his son.
• 26:37
  It's there.
• 26:39
  He determined in his in his mind, in his
• 26:42
  heart before the foundation of the
• 26:44
  world. When Jesus died, he he
• 26:46
  predetermined those that would be saved
• 26:49
  to be conformed to Jesus. For you to
• 26:53
  look like him, for you to act like him,
• 26:54
  for you to talk like him. He predestined
• 26:56
  that. You say, "Preacher, he predestined
• 26:59
  my salvation." No, that's not what I
• 27:00
  said. He predestined all those that were
• 27:03
  that get saved, that choose to be saved.
• 27:05
  He predestined them to be made into the
• 27:07
  image of Jesus. And you know what?
• 27:09
  That's going to happen.
• 27:11
  >> Whether on this side or over there,
• 27:13
  there's going to be people that, man,
• 27:14
  they lived an awful life on this side.
• 27:16
  They were saved. You know what? When
• 27:17
  they get over there, they're going to be
• 27:18
  made into his image because they were
• 27:20
  saved.
• 27:21
  >> That's hard for me to preach, but the
• 27:23
  truth is, they're going to be ashamed.
• 27:28
  I hate to run rabbits, but I need to
• 27:30
  listen to 1 John 2.
• 27:35
  1 John 2, one of my favorite verses.
• 27:37
  Love this verse. 1 John 2, verse number
• 27:40
  28.
• 27:42
  And now, little children, abide in him,
• 27:44
  that when he shall appear, we may have
• 27:47
  what? Confidence and not be ashamed
• 27:51
  before him at his coming.
• 27:55
  You want all things to work together for
• 27:57
  good. You don't have to give him all
• 27:59
  things.
• 28:01
  Say, "Preacher, I don't have much." He's
• 28:03
  just asking for all you got.
• 28:05
  He'll give you more than you ever had.
• 28:07
  >> Somebody say amen right there.
• 28:09
  >> That's where we're going next. Notice
• 28:10
  this. Number two, I'm I'll be done here
• 28:12
  this morning. We've considered the
• 28:14
  conformity that's produced this
• 28:15
  sanctifying growth. In verse number 28,
• 28:17
  we are being made into his image. They
• 28:19
  work together for our advancement, not
• 28:22
  to make us feel better, but to make us
• 28:24
  better for him.
• 28:27
  I want to be better for him.
• 28:29
  >> Not for me.
• 28:31
  >> Notice this verse 32.
• 28:34
  You may not have shouted on that one,
• 28:35
  but you ought to on this one. You see,
• 28:38
  number one, the conformity produced.
• 28:40
  Number two, notice the commitment that's
• 28:42
  promised. Verse 32. He that spared not
• 28:45
  his own son, but delivered him up for us
• 28:48
  all. How shall he not with him also
• 28:50
  freely give us all things? You say,
• 28:54
  preacher, what does all that mean? Well,
• 28:56
  you see here he's talking about the
• 28:59
  Christian life, the miracle of
• 29:00
  redemption. You remember I was talking
• 29:02
  about the omniscience, omnipresence,
• 29:04
  omnipotence of God expressed to us the
• 29:07
  trinity's
• 29:08
  works and how that they are able to
• 29:10
  save. Look what the Bible said in verse
• 29:12
  32. He that spared not his own son. So
• 29:15
  there's two mentioned there, isn't
• 29:17
  there? It's God the Father. He that
• 29:19
  spared not his own son, Jesus Christ.
• 29:22
  Notice what it said in the verse. But
• 29:24
  delivered him up for us all. How did he
• 29:26
  deliver him?
• 29:28
  The spirit of God. The Bible says what
• 29:31
  Gabriel tell Mary. He said, "The Holy
• 29:33
  Ghost, the power of the highest shall
• 29:35
  come over. Holy Ghost shall overshadow.
• 29:37
  The power of the highest shall come over
• 29:38
  thee." You know the verse I'm talking
• 29:39
  about. That holy thing shall be born of
• 29:41
  thee. shall be called the son of God.
• 29:44
  So God the father through the holy ghost
• 29:47
  sent God the son into the world. Notice
• 29:49
  the verse. But delivered him up for us.
• 29:52
  Who? All.
• 29:55
  You say, "What is that?" Number one,
• 29:56
  there's the sacrifice of the son in this
• 29:58
  commitment. You see, the miracle of the
• 30:00
  Christian life is that all things are
• 30:02
  meant to sanctify us in our life.
• 30:05
  Everything that comes through God's will
• 30:06
  is meant to draw us closer to him.
• 30:07
  Wouldn't you agree with that? But number
• 30:09
  two, there's a supply described as all
• 30:12
  things that is offered to us in Christ.
• 30:14
  You see, the sacrifice of the son is
• 30:16
  expressed to us because the value of the
• 30:19
  son is higher than anything else that
• 30:21
  exists.
• 30:23
  Do you realize that Jesus is more
• 30:25
  valuable than anything that's real?
• 30:29
  >> Amen.
• 30:29
  >> You take the worth of everything else
• 30:31
  that is and you put it up beside Jesus
• 30:34
  and it's worthless.
• 30:35
  >> Right?
• 30:36
  >> But what does the Bible say? But he sp
• 30:39
  he that spared not his own son. The most
• 30:42
  valuable thing that he had, he didn't
• 30:45
  spare it. Why did he do that? Why why
• 30:48
  did he not spare his son? He did that
• 30:50
  because God deemed your soul worth
• 30:52
  saving. So he gave his son and his son
• 30:56
  gave his life. And you know what? The
• 30:58
  spirit is imparting that life into you.
• 31:02
  >> Listen to this now. Colossians chapter
• 31:04
  one.
• 31:05
  Colossians chapter 1:13, who had
• 31:08
  delivered us from the power of darkness,
• 31:10
  had translated us into the kingdom of
• 31:12
  his dear son. Verse 14, in whom we have
• 31:15
  redemption through his blood, even the
• 31:17
  forgiveness of sins, who is the image of
• 31:19
  the invisible God, the firstborn of
• 31:21
  every creature. For by him were all
• 31:23
  things created that are in heaven, that
• 31:25
  are in earth, visible and invisible,
• 31:27
  whether they be thrones or dominions or
• 31:28
  principalities or powers. All things
• 31:30
  were created by him and for him. And he
• 31:33
  is before all things. And by him all
• 31:35
  things consist. And he is the head of
• 31:38
  the body, the church, who is the
• 31:39
  beginning, the firstborn from the dead.
• 31:41
  Notice this. That in all things he might
• 31:44
  have the preeminence. God allowed Jesus
• 31:46
  to die for your SINS BECAUSE HE VALUED
• 31:49
  YOUR SOUL greater than he valued his
• 31:52
  son.
• 31:54
  >> Some of you going to choke on that just
• 31:56
  now.
• 31:57
  >> But the truth is, he sent his son to
• 31:59
  die.
• 32:00
  >> That's right.
• 32:01
  >> For you.
• 32:02
  >> Amen.
• 32:04
  for you. But God commanded this love
• 32:06
  toward us in that while we were yet
• 32:08
  sinners, Christ died for us. Notice
• 32:11
  this. You see, the son gave his life for
• 32:15
  us all. That sacrifice leads us to see
• 32:17
  the supply in verse 32. But delivered
• 32:20
  him up for us all, how how shall he not
• 32:24
  with him also freely give us all things?
• 32:27
  Let me ask you this question. If while
• 32:29
  you were lost in your sin, helpless,
• 32:32
  hopeless, and bound for hell without
• 32:34
  God, if while you were lost in your sin,
• 32:37
  worthless to the world, worthless to
• 32:39
  God, worthless to anything, we we don't
• 32:41
  have nothing to offer. If while you were
• 32:44
  in that state, God sent Jesus to die,
• 32:47
  >> let me ask you something. Now that
• 32:48
  you're saved, now that you belong to
• 32:51
  him, he's given you the thing that's
• 32:53
  worth more than anything else.
• 32:55
  >> Say, what do you mean? That's Jesus. And
• 32:57
  he gave you that while you were lost.
• 33:00
  >> He gave you the highest cost thing in
• 33:04
  existence
• 33:05
  >> while you were lost. And this is what he
• 33:08
  says. How shall he not with him give us
• 33:10
  all things? If God will give us the
• 33:13
  greatest thing while we're in our sin,
• 33:14
  why would he keep the lesser things from
• 33:16
  us after that we're saved?
• 33:19
  >> You say, "What does that mean?" That's
• 33:20
  the promise of God's faithfulness.
• 33:24
  You see, when God saved you, he was
• 33:26
  committed.
• 33:29
  >> Oh, bless his name. He was committed,
• 33:32
  friend, BECAUSE HE GAVE THE MOST
• 33:33
  EXPENSIVE THING HE HAD. AND OH, BLESS
• 33:35
  HIS NAME. HE KNEW HE WASN'T GETTING
• 33:37
  NOTHING IN RETURN. OH, BUT THANK GOD,
• 33:39
  HE'S COMMITTED TO YOU AND I, AND HE'S
• 33:41
  PROMISED US EVERYTHING. PETER SAID IT
• 33:44
  THIS WAY. HE HAS GIVEN US ALL THINGS
• 33:46
  THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE AND GODLINESS.
• 33:48
  WE'RE NOT LACKING ANYTHING THIS MORNING.
• 33:51
  BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE JESUS, SOMEBODY HELP
• 33:53
  ME PREACH. YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING. AMEN.
• 33:56
  BECAUSE LOOK WHAT HE SAID IN THE VERSE.
• 33:58
  HE SAID IN VERSE 32, "HOW SHALL HE NOT?"
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  WHAT'S THEM NEXT TWO WORDS? With him.
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  With him also freely give us all things.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, what does that
• 34:09
  mean?" Well, if you got Jesus, you know
• 34:10
  what? You got everything.
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  >> You've got all you need.
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  >> Some of you are struggling. Some of US
• 34:18
  ARE STRUGGLING THIS MORNING. BUT THE
• 34:19
  TRUTH IS, IF YOU'RE SAVED, YOU GOT ALL
• 34:21
  you need.
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  >> He'll take care of you.
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  >> Listen to this now. Listen to this. All
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  right. The supply is seen in the phrase
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  with him. Jesus is everything. So if we
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  get him, everything comes with him. It's
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  expressed by the value of the son. If
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  God would freely give his son, let me
• 34:39
  tell you something. He would give the
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  greatest gift for our salvation. Surely
• 34:43
  he would give the lesser gifts needed
• 34:45
  for our sustaining. Paul said it this
• 34:47
  way in Ephesians 1 and verse 22 and
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  that's put all things under his feet and
• 34:51
  gave him to be the head over all things
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  to the church which is his body the
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  fullness of him that filleth all and
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  all. John the Baptist said in John 1 and
• 35:02
  verse 16 and of his fullness have all we
• 35:05
  received and grace for grace. You see
• 35:08
  he's given us everything. Say what do
• 35:11
  you mean? I'm saying if he saved you you
• 35:13
  got it all.
• 35:18
  If that don't excite you, I got nothing
• 35:19
  for you this morning.
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  >> Of his fullness have all we received,
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  and grace for grace, grace heaped upon
• 35:27
  grace. Philippians 4:19, but my God
• 35:30
  shall supply all your need according to
• 35:32
  what? His riches and glory by Christ
• 35:36
  Jesus,
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  the omnipotent one. He has given us his
• 35:40
  grace, his supply, his store. IT'S IN
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  OUR LIFE BECAUSE HE'S PUT IT THERE.
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  >> AMEN.
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  >> The promise.
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  Say, "What is that?" It's sustaining
• 35:52
  grace.
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  He saved you.
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  He's wanting to sanctify you in your
• 35:59
  growth. First Peter 5:18, believe it is,
• 36:02
  but grow in grace in the knowledge of
• 36:03
  our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He's
• 36:06
  wanting you to grow, but he's WANTING TO
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  PROVIDE for you.
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  >> Man, so many of you are living below
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  your means. I'm not talking about money.
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  I'm talking about spiritually. You're
• 36:15
  starving to death.
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  >> You come in here and you're shriveled
• 36:18
  up. Why?
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  God has has given you more. AND MAN,
• 36:25
  IT'S LIKE SITTING at a feast and you're
• 36:27
  starving.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You have the supply of all of heaven.
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  >> It's been said God bankrupted glory to
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  send his son for us.
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  >> Amen.
• 36:39
  >> And he did.
• 36:40
  >> He sent Jesus in yourstead. But you know
• 36:42
  what? He saved you and now he's wanting
• 36:44
  to impart that goodness, that fullness
• 36:46
  that's in him into your life.
• 36:49
  You say, "What do I have, preacher?" I
• 36:51
  want to say this. The supply we're given
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  substantial.
• 36:55
  >> It's more than substantial. It's
• 36:57
  sufficient.
• 36:59
  >> For our needs. You say, "What do you
• 37:01
  mean?" Well, I'll just give you this and
• 37:03
  I'm done. We have his provision.
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  Everything that God has, we have.
• 37:10
  Second Peter 1:3, according as his
• 37:11
  divine power hath given unto us all
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  things that pertain unto life and
• 37:14
  godliness through the knowledge of him
• 37:17
  that hath called us to glory and virtue.
• 37:20
  We have his provision. We don't only
• 37:22
  have his provision, we have his power.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" I'm talking
• 37:26
  about the power of that omnipotent one.
• 37:29
  >> Acts chapter 1 verse number eight, he
• 37:31
  said, "Ye shall receive power." Matthew
• 37:34
  27, he said, "All power is given unto me
• 37:36
  in heaven and earth." Acts chapter one,
• 37:38
  ye shall receive power. After that, the
• 37:40
  Holy Ghost has come upon you.
• 37:43
  >> You have his power.
• 37:45
  Let me say this. You have his people.
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  You're without excuse, man.
• 37:52
  You You have his provision. He's given
• 37:55
  you everything that you need to live a
• 37:56
  Christian life. You have his power
• 37:58
  inside of you because you can't live it
• 38:00
  yourself. He's given you the power to
• 38:02
  live it. He's given you the instruction
• 38:03
  to live it by and the inspiration to
• 38:05
  live it with. But he's also given you
• 38:07
  his people. He's given you some
• 38:08
  individuals TO STAY BY YOUR SIDE.
• 38:12
  >> SAY, "How how can you prove that?" Well,
• 38:14
  Paul said this. 1 Corinthians 3:21,
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  "Therefore, let no man glory in men."
• 38:19
  What does he say after that? For all
• 38:21
  things are yours.
• 38:24
  They're divided over who they're
• 38:25
  following. But let me say this. Paul
• 38:27
  said in verse 22, "Whether Paul or
• 38:29
  Apollos or Cphus or the world or life or
• 38:32
  death or things present or things to
• 38:33
  come, all are yours."
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  >> We're here for your benefit.
• 38:40
  Some of you are starving to death for
• 38:41
  fellowship. And there's people with it
• 38:43
  literally dripping off of them wanting
• 38:44
  to talk to you and be a friend to you
• 38:45
  and love on you.
• 38:49
  People that love God. I'm saying you're
• 38:50
  starving to death and it's right in
• 38:52
  front of you.
• 38:53
  >> Amen.
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  You've got everything.
• 38:58
  Paul told that church, he said, "It's
• 39:00
  all yours." He said, "All of us are
• 39:01
  yours,
• 39:03
  church. I'm not pumping myself up. I'm
• 39:05
  telling you, we've had some of the best
• 39:06
  preaching come through this place in the
• 39:08
  last two years. Them preachers that's
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  brought in here. I don't I don't just
• 39:12
  get anybody.
• 39:14
  Those men are the greatest men in the
• 39:15
  world. You've had the best. Why aren't
• 39:18
  we starving?"
• 39:21
  >> We've got everything.
• 39:23
  Why is YOUR MARRIAGE FALLING APART?
• 39:25
  YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING.
• 39:27
  WHY IS YOUR FAMILY? WHY IS THERE SIN IN
• 39:29
  YOUR LIFE? YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING. YOU
• 39:31
  HAVE NO EXCUSE.
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  >> If that's not enough,
• 39:39
  we have his provision. We have his
• 39:40
  power. We have his people. We have his
• 39:43
  precepts.
• 39:45
  Second Peter 1 19. We have also a more
• 39:48
  sure word of prophecy. where until you
• 39:50
  do well that you take heed as until a
• 39:52
  light that shineth in a dark place until
• 39:54
  the day dawn the day star rise in your
• 39:56
  hearts. I'm going to tell you if there's
• 39:58
  ever been a generation of people that
• 39:59
  has no excuse to be godly and to live a
• 40:01
  Christian life it's us.
• 40:04
  >> We have everything.
• 40:08
  You say, "What do you mean?" I said, "My
• 40:09
  message is all things."
• 40:14
  You see, the thing is,
• 40:16
  one person said it this way, and you've
• 40:18
  heard it said on a more less less
• 40:21
  serious note, more funny note, man. You
• 40:22
  go places anymore and and everybody
• 40:25
  tells me the same thing, Brother Shane,
• 40:27
  Brother Doug, Brother Todd, they all
• 40:28
  tell me the same thing. You go in a
• 40:30
  place of business and they say something
• 40:31
  like this. Well, it's not a supply
• 40:32
  problem.
• 40:34
  You know what the problem is? Ain't
• 40:36
  nobody working.
• 40:37
  That's right.
• 40:38
  >> The supply is there.
• 40:40
  >> Yeah, that's right.
• 40:41
  >> The tools are there. The equipment's
• 40:43
  there. The job is there open for
• 40:46
  somebody to take it. It's not a supply
• 40:48
  problem. You know what the problem is?
• 40:50
  It's a soul problem.
• 40:53
  >> It's a saint problem. Where they at?
• 40:59
  It's not a supply problem. You say, "Why
• 41:02
  is that?" You see, there's not a supply
• 41:06
  problem. And really, this is what this
• 41:07
  is what it is. It's a sanctity problem
• 41:09
  is what it is. Nobody's holy. You see,
• 41:12
  if we'll get holy, then you can find
• 41:14
  help.
• 41:16
  If you'll decide this morning to get
• 41:18
  holy, you'll find help and you can find
• 41:19
  hope. But it's only going to come on
• 41:22
  terms of getting holy
• 41:25
  because the truth is we got everything.
• 41:32
  Wrote this in the end of my outline. The
• 41:35
  last phrase I wrote it and I wrote it in
• 41:37
  tears when I topped it out.
• 41:41
  We truly have all things.
• 41:44
  >> Yes, we do.
• 41:45
  >> Amen.
• 41:47
  >> I wrote topped it out in tears.
• 41:50
  Our churches look anorexic
• 41:53
  and we got everything.
• 41:56
  >> We have the best tools. We have the best
• 41:58
  truth. Man, there's preaching going on
• 42:00
  this day and time that our forefathers
• 42:02
  dreamed about preaching. There's things
• 42:04
  that we understand now. There's things
• 42:06
  that I understand as a young man because
• 42:08
  of the writers that have left their
• 42:10
  works behind that spent their life
• 42:11
  studying the word of God. There's things
• 42:13
  that I understand because they spent
• 42:15
  their life studying it and they've given
• 42:16
  it to me and I understand it because
• 42:18
  they spent their life doing it and we
• 42:20
  preach it. And man, it's just like,
• 42:22
  well,
• 42:24
  they spent their life infatuated with
• 42:25
  it.
• 42:28
  And we can't figure out where the
• 42:30
  problem is. I'll tell you where the
• 42:32
  problem is. says is he's got all things.
• 42:36
  This is where it comes down to. We've
• 42:38
  not placed all of our things
• 42:41
  before him.
• 42:44
  >> You see, many of us will say the
• 42:48
  statement, I say it all the time. I love
• 42:49
  the statement. Beautiful statement. In
• 42:51
  my hand, no price I bring. Simply to the
• 42:52
  cross I cling. And we'll say that while
• 42:54
  our hands sitting full of stuff.
• 42:58
  Say, "Preacher, I'm not counting on that
• 43:00
  to get me to heaven." Well, why you
• 43:01
  carrying it?
• 43:06
  What else matters?
• 43:07
  >> Preacher, I have a job. Well, is it what
• 43:10
  you need for your job
• 43:12
  or is it just something extra?
• 43:15
  It's just something take your time away.
• 43:18
  We're given to this thing called
• 43:19
  pastimes. We're given to this thing of
• 43:22
  recreation. We're given to And look,
• 43:23
  look, look. I'm not against it, okay?
• 43:26
  I'm not. But I'm against it when it
• 43:29
  becomes your God. Amen.
• 43:31
  >> When nothing else matters, when you can
• 43:34
  throw any other plan in the trash
• 43:36
  because of that, that's what's
• 43:38
  controlling you.
• 43:43
  >> You've got all things. We truly have all
• 43:45
  things. Let me ask you, how much of it
• 43:48
  do you know about?
• 43:50
  It was said, I seen a thing this week.
• 43:52
  Every head's bowed and every eyes
• 43:53
  closed. I seen a thing this week. Matter
• 43:56
  of fact, just come up yesterday.
• 44:01
  gentleman. I believe he hiked like 18
• 44:04
  hours, I think it was, into a mine
• 44:06
  somewhere out west and said there was $2
• 44:09
  billion worth of gold in that mine that
• 44:12
  nobody was ever going to get. Nobody was
• 44:15
  ever going to go in there and tap into
• 44:18
  it.
• 44:19
  And he walked in there and looked around
• 44:21
  and even said you could see traces of
• 44:24
  it.
• 44:26
  But this is what captivated my mind. He
• 44:28
  said about that mine, he said that mine
• 44:31
  started most of the gold exploits in the
• 44:33
  west.
• 44:35
  He said it started people to searching
• 44:37
  and mining for gold. He said but it shut
• 44:40
  down and nobody will ever go back there.
• 44:43
  You know what the tragedy is of the
• 44:44
  church in this day and time. Our
• 44:46
  forefathers started a mine
• 44:49
  and we know where the gold's at.
• 44:53
  Matter of fact, we know how much is
• 44:54
  there.
• 44:56
  But somewhere along the way, somebody
• 44:58
  said, "Well, we just not going to do
• 44:59
  that."
• 45:01
  And you know what? Really, that's the
• 45:02
  only thing keeping you from getting it.
• 45:04
  Listening to somebody that said, "Well,
• 45:06
  we're just not going to do that." Say,
• 45:08
  "Preacher, well, I've never done that."
• 45:09
  Well, here's the thing about it. There
• 45:11
  come a day in history when some somebody
• 45:13
  before you said something like this,
• 45:14
  "Well, we're not going to do that
• 45:15
  anymore."
• 45:18
  And you know what? Because there was a
• 45:19
  generation that said, "We're not going
• 45:21
  to do that anymore." Now there's a
• 45:22
  generation that says, "We've never done
• 45:23
  that.
• 45:26
  And now there's going to be a generation
• 45:28
  after that that says something like
• 45:29
  this. We don't even know what that is.
• 45:33
  >> And before you know it, the church is
• 45:35
  gone.
• 45:39
  >> Miss Amber's going to begin to play. I
• 45:42
  wonder, do you need to come?
• 45:45
  All things are yours.
• 45:50
  It's for your sanctifying growth.
• 45:54
  I want to say this.
• 45:57
  He wants to sustain you today.
• 46:02
  He wants to set you apart and be
• 46:04
  different.
• 46:06
  I want to ask you, are you tired of the
• 46:08
  sin you're living in? You tired of it?
• 46:12
  You see, you'll never know what any of
• 46:14
  this is about until you get saved.
• 46:17
  You never know that.
• 46:27
  You'll never know what it's like to
• 46:30
  watch God provide for your needs when
• 46:32
  you're not able to do it for yourself.
• 46:35
  You'll never know what it's like to be
• 46:37
  satisfied when there's literally no
• 46:40
  reason in the flesh to be satisfied. I
• 46:42
  tell you what I've found. I' I've been
• 46:44
  saved since I was seven. And I've been
• 46:45
  preaching since I was 15, which really
• 46:47
  ain't been a long time. But I tell you
• 46:49
  what I found. They don't nothing in this
• 46:51
  world satisfy me. Nothing. Say,
• 46:54
  "Preacher, you're just spoiled." And I
• 46:56
  agree with you. I am. God's been better
• 46:58
  than good to me.
• 47:01
  If you'd be honest, you're spoiled, too,
• 47:03
  if you're saved.
• 47:05
  Cuz you know what he said?
• 47:08
  How shall he not with him freely?
• 47:11
  You know what spoiled children get? They
• 47:13
  get things for free.
• 47:17
  Oh, we're spoiled.
• 47:20
  God, help us.
• 47:23
  He's given us everything.
• 47:27
  Everything.
• 47:31
  Maybe you want to come thank him this
• 47:33
  morning. You should.
• 47:36
  Some have come, others need to come.
• 47:41
  If you're here today and you're not
• 47:42
  saved, just come. I'm going to tell you,
• 47:45
  it's so much better on this side. It's
• 47:48
  so much better.
• 47:51
  It is so much better.
• 47:57
  There's people in this church testify
• 47:59
  you today, sinner. He's given us
• 48:01
  everything.
• 48:04
  So much.
• 48:05
  Say, preacher, you got everything you
• 48:07
  want, man. In my flesh, I'll never have
• 48:09
  everything I want. But you know what?
• 48:11
  That's depraved.
• 48:13
  That flesh don't want nothing but to
• 48:14
  benefit itself. I want tell you in the
• 48:17
  spirit of God in my heart this morning,
• 48:20
  I'm satisfied.
• 48:22
  I am satisfied.
• 48:25
  He has been so good to me. I bless his
• 48:29
  name.
• 48:30
  Said, "Preacher, how can you say that?
• 48:32
  I'm not in hell, friend.
• 48:34
  >> I ought to be there, friend. I ought to
• 48:36
  be there.
• 48:39
  And if you're here this morning, you can
• 48:41
  hear my voice. Or maybe you're listening
• 48:44
  over the internet somewhere in days to
• 48:46
  come. If you're still here, God has been
• 48:49
  good to you.
• 48:52
  >> God has been good to you. Say,
• 48:54
  "Preacher, he ain't never done a thing
• 48:55
  for me. He ain't put you in hell yet.
• 49:00
  >> He has been better than good to you."
• 49:03
  >> Father, I pray in Jesus name.
• 49:06
  Lord, I thank you for all things this
• 49:08
  morning.
• 49:11
  God, I realize that
• 49:16
  everything that comes from your hand,
• 49:20
  it's meant for my good.
• 49:25
  But Lord, I also realize that there's
• 49:26
  many times, God, the things that you
• 49:28
  have sent my way, even from your hand,
• 49:31
  Lord, that me in my sinful state, I
• 49:33
  don't receive them the right way. and
• 49:36
  something that was meant for my good
• 49:38
  begins to hinder me.
• 49:40
  Lord, would you help me,
• 49:43
  God, to see, Father, the things that you
• 49:44
  send my way and to make sure that I'm
• 49:46
  handling them right?
• 49:49
  God, I pray for that person here today
• 49:51
  that's struggling, Father, they're just
• 49:52
  asking why.
• 49:56
  And Lord, I don't believe it's a sin to
• 49:58
  ask why.
• 50:01
  Jesus on the cross asked why.
• 50:04
  Lord, he knew the answer.
• 50:07
  The truth is, Lord,
• 50:09
  many times we know the answer.
• 50:13
  God, you tell us, Lord, just to come to
• 50:15
  you.
• 50:18
  And Lord, our life on this side may be
• 50:21
  miserable in the flesh, but God, I'm so
• 50:23
  thankful that
• 50:25
  Lord, we can have joy in our heart that
• 50:28
  goes beyond the circumstances of our
• 50:30
  flesh
• 50:32
  that last.
• 50:34
  Long after the new experiences are gone,
• 50:36
  long after all of that niceness wears
• 50:39
  off,
• 50:41
  God, we can just stick in there and stay
• 50:43
  by the stuff and be blessed.
• 50:47
  God, would you help us to do that? Lord,
• 50:49
  you want to supply our needs. But God,
• 50:51
  it's only if we'll be sanctified.
• 50:54
  Draw us near to you, I pray.
• 50:58
  And I ask God, you bless the service
• 50:59
  tonight. We'll thank you and praise you
• 51:01
  for what you do. Cuz we ask it in Jesus
• 51:03
  name. God's children said,
• 51:05
  >> "Amen."
• 51:06
  >> Amen.
• 51:07
  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
• 51:09
  We'd love it if you'd join us in person
• 51:11
  the next time you are able at Meadows
• 51:14
  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
• 51:17
  2988
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  Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
• 51:21
  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
• 51:24
  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
• 51:26
  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
• 51:28
  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
• 51:31
  evening Bible study at 700 p.m. For more
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  information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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