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“Grace or Law? The Jerusalem Council Decides!” Acts :15 · His Hop Radio Podcast

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Speaker 2: God's Word and explain exactly what it means. Right, We're
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Speaker 2: so going through chapter by chapter, verse by verse, I
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Speaker 2: of the counsel of the Word of God. This is
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Speaker 2: you know, paths and highlighters as we start acts chapter
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Speaker 2: fifteen today. And this is the Jerusalem Council. Amen. Now
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Speaker 2: this chapter, you can say, is a part of my testimony.
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Speaker 2: And you I'll unfolded as we go through the verses,
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Speaker 2: and hopefully you'll get a better understanding of what I
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Speaker 2: mean by that. Right. So verse one it says, well,
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Speaker 2: little background, real quick. Remember Paul and Barnabas just came
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Speaker 2: back from their ministry journey. They suffered persecution, they suffered praise,
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Speaker 2: they almost got became deedy people wanted to worship and
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Speaker 2: sacrifice to them, and they had to stop that, and
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Speaker 2: they had to persevere, and they came back to the
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Speaker 2: sending Church in Antioch, and now they're resting and getting
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Speaker 2: strengthened by the community. Now Antioch is descending church, but
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Speaker 2: Jerusalem is the mother Church. The faith was birth out
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Speaker 2: of Jerusalem. That was the first church that was established. Amen.
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Speaker 2: And so we're gonna go back to the mother Church.
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Speaker 2: In this chapter, So a certain man came down from
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Speaker 2: Judah Judea and taught the brother unless you are circumcised,
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Speaker 2: according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved. Now,
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Speaker 2: I think it's very interesting that they call this man
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Speaker 2: a brethren me and that he's teaching a false doctrine here.
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Speaker 2: And you'll see what I mean as we unfold everything. Now,
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Speaker 2: false teachers were adding works to salvation. That's what I
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Speaker 2: mean by false doctrine. He is a false teaching. He's adding.
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Speaker 2: Whenever you add something to the work of Christ, you
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Speaker 2: are adding to the Word. Right now, the thing that
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Speaker 2: is deceptive about this thing is that they were not
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Speaker 2: denying Christ. They didn't deny him. They were just adding
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Speaker 2: to them. They were adding to the work of Jesus.
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Speaker 2: And when you do that, that is very, very dangerous.
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Speaker 2: You see, salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone.
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Speaker 2: This is what the Bible tells us right now. Adding
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Speaker 2: works to salvation nullifies grace. And Paul explains this very clearly.
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Speaker 2: If righteousness comes by the law, then Christ died in vain.
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Speaker 2: Now that's in Galatians chapter two, verse twenty one. If
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Speaker 2: we could be justified at all by the law of Moses,
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Speaker 2: then why would Jesus come and die on the cross
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Speaker 2: the way that he did. See, sometimes you just got
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Speaker 2: to put two and two together right now, excuse me,
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Speaker 2: legalism treats in suddenly. Now, this is something that we
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Speaker 2: must understand. People feel safer with rules than working to
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Speaker 2: have a relationship with God. Let me say that again.
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Speaker 2: People tend to feel safer just trying to obey a rule.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of more easier right to the flesh. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of like the lazy way instead of working. It
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Speaker 2: takes effort to actually build a relationship with God. Now,
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Speaker 2: this is the spirit of religion trying to strangle freedom.
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Speaker 2: And as I said, this is a part of my testimony.
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Speaker 2: The Greek word for saved is Soulso s o zo
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Speaker 2: means rescued and or delivered in the Greek, so soo
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Speaker 2: rescued or delivered? Are we rescued by surgery or by
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Speaker 2: the Savior? Now, if we add law to grace, we're
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Speaker 2: saying the Cross was not enough, and that is highly
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Speaker 2: offensive to God. If we add law to the grace
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Speaker 2: of God, then we are offending God in saying that
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Speaker 2: Jesus was not enough, the price that he paid was
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Speaker 2: not sufficient. That is a lie straight from the pit
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Speaker 2: of hell. Now, if you can tell I'm passionate about
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Speaker 2: this topic, because I was attacked by this in my
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Speaker 2: early days of my walk with the Lord. Amen. Verse two,
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Speaker 2: Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute. Now
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Speaker 2: this was not a polite disagreement. When it says no small,
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Speaker 2: that means this thing was huge.
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Speaker 1: It was big.
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Speaker 2: The Gospel was at stake with this false teaching being
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Speaker 2: introduced to the church. Now, sometimes you must contend for
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Speaker 2: the truth. It is a fight, a battle of faith,
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Speaker 2: fight for our hearts and our minds to stay right
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Speaker 2: with God. Right J three says that we must earnestly
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Speaker 2: contend for the faith. Now when you can tend, that
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Speaker 2: means you get into the boxing ring. Right they call
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Speaker 2: them contenders. That's a good picture. We gotta get in
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Speaker 2: the ring. We gotta do some uppercuts and some jabs,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. We gotta do some knockout
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Speaker 2: punches for the faith. Heymen, viz are at steak here.
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Speaker 2: Now let's go through six in eleven, verse six and eleven.
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Speaker 2: Now Peter stands up right. We believe that through the
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Speaker 2: grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we shall be
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Speaker 2: saved in the same manner as they right now. Then
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Speaker 2: you slow down here for a second and let me
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Speaker 2: go ahead get to my computer. Lunts. Looked up these
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Speaker 2: verses because I think it's going to be important for
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Speaker 2: where we're going with this. Amen and amen. See in
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Speaker 2: verse six it says, now the apostles and elders came
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Speaker 2: together to consider this matter, And when there had been
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Speaker 2: much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them, men
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Speaker 2: and brethren, you know that a good while ago God
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Speaker 2: chose among us that by my mouth the gentiles should
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Speaker 2: hear the word of a gospel and believe. So, God,
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Speaker 2: who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, just as He did us to us, and
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Speaker 2: made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts
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Speaker 2: by faith. Now, therefore, why do we test God by
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Speaker 2: putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which
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Speaker 2: neither our fathers nor we were able to bear. But
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Speaker 2: we believe that, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 2: we should be saved in the same manner as they. Amen. Hallelujah.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give a praise right there. I love it,
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Speaker 2: I love it, I love it as I said this
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Speaker 2: as a testimony in my own life. Amen. And I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna get to it here in a second. Now, Peter's argument,
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Speaker 2: God gave the Gentiles the Holy Spirit. That's an ax
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Speaker 2: tend with Cornelius. Right. If God filled them without circumcision,
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Speaker 2: who are we to add requirements to their lives? The
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Speaker 2: Holy Spirit was the evidence of acceptance, not our word ritual.
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Speaker 2: It was not that the ritual, not that our word
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Speaker 2: keeping of the law. But God made no distinction. Legalism
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Speaker 2: always tries to rebuild walls Jesus tored down. Now, Peter
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Speaker 2: says the law was a yoke, which equals a burden. Right, Remember,
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Speaker 2: Jesus says that my yoke is easy and my burden
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Speaker 2: is light. Hallelujah. The Greek word for yoke is zoyag
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Speaker 2: yo z hy gs if that's how you pronounce it,
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Speaker 2: and it means a heavy binding frame, a heavy binding frame.
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Speaker 2: Why put a weight on people? Jesus died to free Galatians.
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Speaker 2: Chapter five, Verse one says, stand fast in the liberty. See,
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Speaker 2: we have to contend. We have to stand fast. There's
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Speaker 2: a lot of things that we have to do when
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Speaker 2: it comes to legalism entering into the church. It's a
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Speaker 2: religious spirit. The Bible says, don't play with this thing.
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Speaker 2: Get in the ring and start boxing right now. Verse
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Speaker 2: thirteen through twenty one. Right here is where you see James,
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Speaker 2: the apostle, the brother of Jesus Christ, where he is
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Speaker 2: going to speak. Amen, let me get this up real
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Speaker 2: quick now. And after they have become silent, James answered saying,
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Speaker 2: men and brethren, listen to me. Simon has declared how
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Speaker 2: God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out
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Speaker 2: of them a people for his name. And with this
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Speaker 2: the word of the prophets agreed, just as it is written,
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Speaker 2: after this, I will return and will rebuild the Tabernacle
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Speaker 2: of David, which has fallen and down. I will rebuild
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Speaker 2: the ruins, and I will set it up so that
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Speaker 2: the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all
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Speaker 2: the gentiles who are called by my name, says the
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Speaker 2: Lord who does all things, who does all these things
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Speaker 2: known to God from eternity are all his works. Therefore,
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Speaker 2: I judge that we should not trouble those from among
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Speaker 2: the gentiles who are turning to God, but that we
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Speaker 2: write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols,
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Speaker 2: from sexual morality, from these things, from things strangled, and
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Speaker 2: from blood. For Moses had throughout many generations those who
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Speaker 2: preach him in the city, in every city. Excuse me
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Speaker 2: for stumbling, being read in the synagogue every Sabbath. Amen.
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Speaker 2: So all right, let's break this down real quick. I
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Speaker 2: just wanted to read that through. Now he quotes Amos.
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Speaker 2: The key point is God always intended to include the gentiles.
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Speaker 2: That's good news for us. Blove. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: you realize it or not, but if you're not Jewish,
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Speaker 2: you're a gentile. That's me, and that's possibly you. Amen.
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Speaker 2: We were included in salvation and the plan of salvation,
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Speaker 2: and it was not planing b It was always plan.
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Speaker 2: A grace was always the plan, and that's good news.
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Speaker 2: James doesn't say that gentiles must keep the law. He
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Speaker 2: gives practical instructions to avoid offending Jewish believers. That's why
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Speaker 2: he says abstained from idols, from sexual immorality, from things strangled,
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Speaker 2: and from blood. Right, these are fellowship issues, not salvation requirements.
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Speaker 2: There is a big difference. Sometimes we divide over fellowship
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Speaker 2: issues and not salvation issues. Hey, man, have discussions all
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Speaker 2: the time with my brother's own after these podcasts, and
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Speaker 2: we come up to certain topics where we say, well,
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Speaker 2: you know what, that's not a salvation issue. You know,
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Speaker 2: people can believe what they want. There's no reason to
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Speaker 2: argue or be dogmatic or eight over it. A man
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Speaker 2: in twenty eight and twenty nine. For it seems good
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Speaker 2: to the Holy Spirit and to us. Right. This is
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Speaker 2: where here, let me read it right. The whole purpose
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Speaker 2: is to go verse by verse right, For it seemed good.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me once again, it seemed good to the Holy
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Speaker 2: Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater
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Speaker 2: burden than these necessary things that you have stained from
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Speaker 2: things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled,
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Speaker 2: and from sexual morality. If you keep yourselves from me,
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Speaker 2: you will do well. Hallelujah. Now that is a short list,
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Speaker 2: it's not a huge list, right, that we see in
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Speaker 2: a lot of churches today. Now, notice the order not
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Speaker 2: it seems good to us, but to the Holy Spirit first.
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Speaker 2: That's relationship, that is submission, and that is unity. That's
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Speaker 2: something that we need to do more in ministry. We
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Speaker 2: need to ask what does the Holy Spirit think or
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Speaker 2: what does the Holy Spirit say? We need to invite
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit into all aspects of our lives, right
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Speaker 2: and that will eradicate legalism. Right. We need to invite
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Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit into our marriages, into our our families,
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Speaker 2: into our churches right now. Salvation is not law, but
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Speaker 2: it is grace. It is not ritual. It is Jesus.
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Speaker 2: It is not our culture. It is Christ. It is
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Speaker 2: Christ alone. Where we find salvation, where we find a
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Speaker 2: place where we can serve and learn and get to
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Speaker 2: know who God is. Amen Ephesians two eight a nine.
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Speaker 2: For by grace you have been saved through faith. The
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Speaker 2: Greek word for grace here is c h A r
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Speaker 2: I S. Career is sirz or Hover. You pronounce it
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Speaker 2: is unearned favor. You do not earn favor. You just
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Speaker 2: receive it. Amen. We need to get into a place
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Speaker 2: where we receive the We just receive God's love. We
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Speaker 2: receive God's favor everything that God desires to do for us.
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Speaker 2: We just need to be in a place where we
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Speaker 2: can receive it. Amen. Now here's how we apply it today.
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Speaker 2: Some believers still try to add dress codes, food laws,
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Speaker 2: religious performances, and cultural traditions to our faith. Holiness flows
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Speaker 2: from the Holy Spirit alone. Let me say that again,
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Speaker 2: holiness flows only from the Spirit. The law reveals sin,
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Speaker 2: and that's all the law was really there to do,
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Speaker 2: was to show us that we are sinners, that we
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Speaker 2: are guilty, but the grace of God to removese it.
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Speaker 2: And man, there's the grace of God that removes sin.
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Speaker 2: Now share testimony, going verse by verse, chapter by chapter.
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Speaker 2: Through the Word of God saved me from in a cult.
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Speaker 2: And I call it in a cult. It was a
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Speaker 2: Christian occult. But they were heavy in legalism, and I
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Speaker 2: was miserable in that ministry. I belove it. I was
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Speaker 2: under a ministry. They would teach a thing, they will
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Speaker 2: call it the shepherding doctrine. And what they would say
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Speaker 2: is I'm your pastor, so I am your shepherd. So
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Speaker 2: basically they made themselves the mediator between you and God.
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Speaker 2: So let's say if you wanted to buy a house
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Speaker 2: or work a job, change you know, move change careers,
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Speaker 2: or buy a car or something, you would go to
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Speaker 2: your pastor and tell them your intention. That they would
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Speaker 2: go and pray specifically for God's will for that issue,
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Speaker 2: and then come back and tell you what God said.
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Speaker 2: That is dangerous. That is dangerous, beloved, to put yourself
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Speaker 2: in that position, And that is what I was under.
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Speaker 2: And so, needless to say, I had a horrible experience
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Speaker 2: because my first marriage was based and founded on that
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Speaker 2: where I didn't even go and ask my pastor about
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Speaker 2: the young lady. My pastor came and presented a young
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Speaker 2: lady to me, and a lady that I had no
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Speaker 2: clue was on this planet. I didn't know who this
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Speaker 2: woman was, nothing to say about her, bad about her, anything,
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Speaker 2: but he kind of introduced her. Then other families in
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Speaker 2: our church would tell me to get her number, and
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Speaker 2: she was actually in a different church across town, and
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Speaker 2: members from her church started hitting me up saying, hey,
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Speaker 2: come get this girl's number, da da da. I guess
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Speaker 2: she kind of stated that she was interested or attracted
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Speaker 2: or whatever. And so that's how I was introduced to
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Speaker 2: my first wife was through other people, and it was
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Speaker 2: basically through this law. And so keep in mind, they're
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Speaker 2: supposed to be the mediator, right, so I'm thinking everything
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Speaker 2: they say comes straight from the throne of God. Like
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Speaker 2: that's the type of influence they had on their people
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Speaker 2: over me. At least, I was only like six months saved,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and to this church, and
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Speaker 2: you know, they kind of threw this on me. And
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Speaker 2: so when I finally meet the girl, wasn't really interested.
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Speaker 2: But within three months, two or three months, we were married.
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Speaker 2: And you could just imagine how I struggled in that marriage,
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Speaker 2: you know, for years. And uh so, finally fast forward
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Speaker 2: it when I finally started years later, I connected with
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Speaker 2: my brother Mike Bumgart, and he introduced me to Carrie
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Speaker 2: Chapel and Pastor Chuck s meant their teaching and this,
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Speaker 2: if you notice, this is the style that I used,
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Speaker 2: first by verse, chapter by chapter expository type of teaching.
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Speaker 2: And going through this, I went through the book of
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Speaker 2: Revelation is what opened my eyes. Then I went to
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Speaker 2: this very verse right here, this very situation. I brought
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Speaker 2: this scripture to my pastor at the time. My eyes
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Speaker 2: were open because they had a lot of rules on us.
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Speaker 2: They did not want us to We couldnot own a
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Speaker 2: TV in our homes. We could not go to the movies,
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Speaker 2: we could not have a beard, you know, we could
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Speaker 2: only wear certain clothes. I mean, that's the type of
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Speaker 2: control that this church has, and I believe I don't
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Speaker 2: know if it's the same as strict, but these churches
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Speaker 2: are still around, and so hopefully we can bless somebody.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully my testimony will reach somebody. And so I looked
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Speaker 2: at the scripture this council here in Jerusalem, and I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: they're trying to put the Law of Moses the trust me.
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Speaker 2: The Law Moses had way more rules than a lot
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Speaker 2: of these churches. They had over six hundred rules in
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Speaker 2: the Law of Moses that they were supposed to observe.
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Speaker 2: And so it was a debate remembr they were contending
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Speaker 2: over this. They got into the boxing ring. This caused
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Speaker 2: a huge fight in the early Church, and Peter shared
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Speaker 2: his testimony then the apostle James, the brother of Jesus,
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Speaker 2: if anybody else has any clout in a church, it
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Speaker 2: should be him. Right, the very brother of Jesus said,
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Speaker 2: don't even bother putting the law on these people. So
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Speaker 2: if they didn't put the law on people in the
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Speaker 2: Mother Church in Jerusalem, why are all these churches putting
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Speaker 2: these laws and rules on the people today? And how
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Speaker 2: come nobody is contending against it? Right? So I came
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Speaker 2: and I wanted to break it down and show this
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Speaker 2: to my pastor. This is this is the scripture that
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Speaker 2: caused me to leave the church. And I remember I
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Speaker 2: had left the church. But I'm like, you know what,
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Speaker 2: because at that time I had witness to some people
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Speaker 2: and I brought some families into church. You know, I'm
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Speaker 2: an evangelist, right, I evangelize. I have a heart to
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Speaker 2: win the loss. And so there were families in people
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Speaker 2: that the Lord has allowed me to bring to the church.
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Speaker 2: And I felt bad, like why, like what did I do?
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Speaker 2: You know, I didn't realize it at the time. Now
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Speaker 2: I will say this, I know that God led me
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Speaker 2: to that church and with what I was dealing with,
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Speaker 2: I was dealing with gross sexual immorality. I was a foreigner,
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Speaker 2: cater was, you know, I was. I needed a pastor
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Speaker 2: that would stay on my head to get me, you know,
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Speaker 2: to kind of get me out of that lifestyle. So
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Speaker 2: maybe in my situation, I needed a strict church like that.
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Speaker 2: But I consider that like the kindergarten, like you need
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Speaker 2: to graduate out of that quick if you know, you
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Speaker 2: need a service like that, if you need people calling
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Speaker 2: you every day and tell you to go to church
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Speaker 2: and to live for God and read your Bible. Okay,
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Speaker 2: but that should just be for babes. You will never mature.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, we will never get into a place of
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Speaker 2: maturity if we're allowing someone else to live our Christian
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Speaker 2: life through us, right, it'll never become a conviction, your
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Speaker 2: own conviction. You believe living off of other people's convictions,
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Speaker 2: and so I believe that stunned my growth underneath that,
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Speaker 2: you know, broke in. I have a passion for the word,
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Speaker 2: as you can tell, because I know it'll keep a
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Speaker 2: lot of people out of trouble. If you just know
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Speaker 2: the word, know what it says, you could avoid a
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Speaker 2: lot of these mistakes. A man, and I'm passionate about
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Speaker 2: freedom and liberty. You're not messed with the freedom and
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Speaker 2: the liberty of God's people. God paid the price for that. Amen.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's take a quick break, y'all.
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Speaker 3: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 3: is the Hiss Hop Radio Show.
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Speaker 4: Eight two thousand and eight. That's tea oh ceo e
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Speaker 4: e yeah, Hey, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, hey Hey. I need peace. I need love.
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Speaker 4: I need everything that's coming from a ball. I need peace,
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Speaker 4: I need love. I need everything that's coming from above.
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Speaker 4: I want my dog experience up a feather. We're gonna
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Speaker 4: fly together. Hey, We're gonna ride forever like it's heavy metal.
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Speaker 4: I ain't Christmas for Columbus. I will never settle. I
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Speaker 4: ain't lost, I ain't Clark. I will never settle.
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Speaker 1: God tell me I'm Olympic for real.
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Speaker 4: Hey see the kingan while you're sipping for real, while
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Speaker 4: you're talking, you sad, listen for real.
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Speaker 1: All this jaywalking got me limping for real?
34:52
Speaker 4: Hey jaywalking, Hey Jesus walking, Hey Jesus talking, Yo, being faith,
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Speaker 4: y'all need a whole lot of on that way where
35:01
Speaker 4: I'm about to go like a migo. Can't see the
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Speaker 4: vision that you can't beat me on, migos, I call
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Speaker 4: up my girl in there with fuller to the rego.
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Speaker 1: It's the only time.
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Speaker 4: We pay to see you acting way different, way different,
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Speaker 4: same book, but the page different, the page differen ex
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Speaker 4: a cliche.
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Speaker 1: The same.
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Speaker 4: I'm lane switching, Well, I'm laying switching. Hold on, let
35:19
Speaker 4: me pull my turn and say no so they see
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Speaker 4: me coming. They still can't see me coming. Only two
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Speaker 4: things that I need is he's I need love. I
35:28
Speaker 4: need everything that's coming from a ball.
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Speaker 1: I need peace. I need love, I need everything it's
35:35
Speaker 1: coming from up there, like he who he? What is
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Speaker 1: this in my studio? Is wherever I see? Hey, I
35:41
Speaker 1: plug in the microphone in there. You hear that clique?
35:49
Speaker 4: It's a heat hey wave hit him like whoa man?
35:53
Speaker 1: Hey? Make him do the oh man? Hey, how you
35:57
Speaker 1: just came up with whoa man? Floor?
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Speaker 4: And let your This is not a slow dance, not
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Speaker 4: a slow man.
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Speaker 1: We come together and were praying whole hand.
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Speaker 4: She give grace, soever of grace lay he paid the price, had.
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Speaker 1: No escape, playing and no plan and no play. Actually
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Speaker 1: his plan was to play. So he playing. They set
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Speaker 1: the bar high. He a cold, so I scanned it.
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Speaker 4: Hey, we're saving souls on the camping. He but this
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Speaker 4: ain't no religion. When following your auntie, Hey, thank you, LRD,
36:32
Speaker 4: I said, like a praying mantis, thanking me, just trying
36:35
Speaker 4: to see me sing Titanic.
36:37
Speaker 1: Never out, but.
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Speaker 4: I'm out laying dad, even when I'm out, as soon
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Speaker 4: as I land, back to the beach, back to the sin,
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Speaker 4: back to the only two things that I needed. He's
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Speaker 4: I need love. I need everything that's coming from a ball.
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Speaker 1: I need peace.
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Speaker 4: I need love, I need everything it's coming from a bull.
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Speaker 3: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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Speaker 3: is the hiss Hop radio show.
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Speaker 2: All right, all right, we are back. We are back.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: I had to go give me a sip of water.
37:39
Speaker 2: You know, my throat was just kind of itchy today.
37:43
Speaker 2: But that was Caleb Jordan with peace and love and
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Speaker 2: everything from above. Amen. That's all he need. We don't
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Speaker 2: need no legalism, Amen. Now I do want to mention
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Speaker 2: it on the other end of it. We don't need
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Speaker 2: no greasy grace either. And we don't need grace that
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Speaker 2: tells us it's okay to live a life of sin.
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Speaker 2: It is not okay. The grace of God teaches us
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Speaker 2: to deny ungodly miss and really lust. The grace of
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Speaker 2: God empowers us to live a life of obedience ay man.
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Speaker 2: So that's what legalism tries to fight against, you know,
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Speaker 2: they fight against you know, the greasy grace doctrine out there.
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Speaker 2: But we got to find the balance, right and we
38:28
Speaker 2: find it in the Word. Now it's time for the
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Speaker 2: accountability partner segments. And you know this actually kind of
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Speaker 2: goes with the accountability Like I said before. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of people they think they're right with God,
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Speaker 2: whether or not. There's a lot of people who are
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Speaker 2: legalistic and don't really have a relationship with God. Now
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that it's impossible. There's probably a lot
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Speaker 2: of people in legalistic churches that do have a relationship
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Speaker 2: with God. MEI, I don't know, and we're not here
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Speaker 2: to judge. But if you think you can earn your
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Speaker 2: way into salvation, and that's the issue, you just have
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Speaker 2: to receive the gift. And there's people in church that
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Speaker 2: they think they can smoke, drink fornicuke, they can do whatever,
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Speaker 2: have unforgiveness in their hearts. The Bible says that if
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Speaker 2: you don't forgive the Father will not forgive you right.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of things, you know, being lazy and
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Speaker 2: just not reading your Bible. There's a lot that we
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Speaker 2: have to deal with. We have to bring our flesh
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Speaker 2: to the cross right and get victory in the spirit.
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Speaker 2: And so that's the other end of it. So we're
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Speaker 2: meant to do this as a community, as brothers and sisters,
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Speaker 2: and so one of the best and safest ways that
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Speaker 2: we can stay on that narrow road is to have
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Speaker 2: an accountability partner as someone who can speak into our lives.
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Speaker 2: They can correct us with the word right, not their
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Speaker 2: own personal preference or you know, not to put some
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Speaker 2: crazy trip on you. But they got to be able
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Speaker 2: to say chapter and verse and not twisted. And so
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Speaker 2: if you want to go further in this, if you
40:25
Speaker 2: don't really have anyone in your life, you know, you
40:28
Speaker 2: can join us here on the accountability of partner segment.
40:31
Speaker 2: You know, the truth behind this segment is we want
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Speaker 2: to get people on the phone. We want to talk
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Speaker 2: to people and talk through their issues or whatever they're
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Speaker 2: struggling with and pray with them and connect with them
40:44
Speaker 2: and have them give us updates and stuff like that
40:48
Speaker 2: on the app on the website. You know there's a
40:51
Speaker 2: space where we can comment like this is serious. You know,
40:55
Speaker 2: this is a really a serious thing that we really
40:58
Speaker 2: need to dive into. We can go further on the app.
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Speaker 2: Go to the top left menu, click that drop down,
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Speaker 2: click podcast and click to his Hot Radio podcast. They
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Speaker 2: click the link Accountability Partner, You will see what I mean.
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Speaker 2: You go over to questions and you gotta be honest
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Speaker 2: with yourself or else it won't work. Just go through
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Speaker 2: the questions and fill them out and then request a
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Speaker 2: follow up and that can be a way to help
41:28
Speaker 2: us to get over these besetting sins. Amen. We have
41:31
Speaker 2: to have agreement in prayer and a lot of this
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Speaker 2: stuff and also today's challenge we also posted in a
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Speaker 2: life chat. Talk to your accountability partner today and ask
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Speaker 2: are you trying to earn what Jesus already paid for? Right? Right?
41:50
Speaker 2: Am I living in grace or striving in performance? You know,
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Speaker 2: ask these questions, talk about it. Where do you see
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Speaker 2: me trying to earn God's love? Call your partner and
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Speaker 2: ask them that transparency brings freedom. Hallelujah. Also, were gonna
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42:54
Speaker 2: I mean yesterday? I mean Brother Corinth, where you at, brother?
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Speaker 2: Be calling you out? My bro? All right, the first
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Speaker 2: one to answer this gets the points for today and
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Speaker 2: the apostle who presided over the Jerusalem Council and gave
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Speaker 2: us the final judgment? All right? Community shout out if
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44:04
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Speaker 2: here's the question. Are you trying to earn what Jesus
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Speaker 2: already paid for? Well? Today you can rest repeat after me,
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Speaker 2: say Lord, I receive your grace. I stop striving. I
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Speaker 2: trust in Christ and I trust in Him alone. When
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Speaker 2: you ask the Holy Spirit to empower you not to
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Speaker 2: live lawless, but to live a life that is spirit led. Amen,
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Speaker 2: that's the difference. Grace is not weakness. Grace is power,
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Speaker 2: Andy Man. Now I'm gonna close out with some closing comments.
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Speaker 2: So if you're praying, you don't have to repeat what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying right now, Amen, unless you want to. But
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Speaker 2: un that you want to keep praying saying the attitude
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Speaker 2: of prayer and worship hallelujah. But grace is that weakness.
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Speaker 2: Grace is power. The Jerusalem Council settled it once and
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Speaker 2: for all. You are saved by grace through faith. Period.
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Speaker 2: That's it. Now download the app his Hot Radio on
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