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Ephesians chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Ephesians chapter 5. Let us pray.
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  Oh Lord, here we are again another day.
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  Lord, we come in to the throne room of grace, and Lord, we are
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  asking for a touch. Today we are asking for healing
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  today from on high. God, we are asking for purpose
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  and dignity. God, we are asking for
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  direction. Lord, I pray you will help us to
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  understand these words. Help us to understand what it is
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  that you would have us to learn today.
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  Let us hide it in our heart today.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for you to reveal yourself
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  mightily. Show up and show off in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. Lord, we come to you today.
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  Lord, we are expectant that you're going to reveal to us
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  your eternal paths from everlasting to everlasting and
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  lead us from glory to glory. God, we desire a touch from you.
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  We desire to hear your still small voice roar mightily.
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  The Lion of Judah, God silenced the accusations of the enemy,
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  the accuser of the brethren. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we will come up, Lording, be there with you and
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  seat us there with you in Christ Jesus and heavenly places.
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  Father, we thank you for all of the words, the syllables, every
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  jot and every title, every comma, every period.
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  Father, we hang on to them. Lord, we devour them.
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  They are sweet as honey in our mouth.
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  Father, I pray that you will make us the messengers and the
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  ambassadors to this world all around us.
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  Lord, I pray that we will be found in the harvest.
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  God scattering the seeds. Lord, in picking the ripe fruit,
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  Lord, before it falls to the ground.
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  Lord, we pray against the bird that come and snatches the seed.
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  God, we pray against the tares that come up amongst the wheat.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us to
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  rise above all of the depravity. God of humanity.
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  God, I pray that we're not stuck in sin.
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  God, I pray that we're not identified and marked by sin
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  today. God, I pray that our identity is
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  in you. Lord, let us fill our lamps and
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  trim our Wicks. Father, as we look, look up and
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  see our redemption drawing near. God, we see the leaves appearing
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  on the fig tree and we know that summer is near.
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  God, we wait expectantly and cry out.
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  Come Lord, come the Spirit and the bride says, come, we worship
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  you today, Father, in spirit and truth, God, we stand upon truth
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  today. We love you, Father.
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  Open our eyes and our ears up to your wonderful words, line upon
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  line and precept upon precept, for you are eternal and you are
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  glorious. Father, the God of Abraham,
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  Isaac and Jacob, Adonai, Yahweh from everlasting Yeshua to
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  Hamasea, you are our everything. We love you, Father, we love
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  everything about you. God Almighty.
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  Thank you Father for your eternal words.
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  Thank you God for the complete authority of the Bible.
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  Thank you God, for Genesis to Revelation, nothing added and
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  nothing subtracted. Father, it's all about you.
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  King Jesus, we worship you today.
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  King Jesus, we love you, the King of kings and the Lord of
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  Lords, Faithful and true, holy and righteous, we worship you.
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  And it's in your holy and precious name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Be you therefore followers of God as dear children.
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  That is what you need to understand is that God is
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  calling us to follow Him to the ends of the earth.
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  And like a good Father, He knows how to give good gifts.
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  And we do not ever need to think that God's holding out on us.
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  We never need to buy into the lie that the enemy tries to tell
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  us that God is holding out and He doesn't have our best in
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  mind. That is the original deception
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  that Satan used on Eve all the way back in the Garden.
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  And you need to understand that God is a good Father and He
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  gives us the gifts in appropriate time so that we can
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  steward them. If He was to give us all of the
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  gifts at once, it would crush us.
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  So we like little children, we obey our Father and we know that
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  His ways are much higher than our ways and His thoughts are
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  much higher than our thoughts. And all we need to do is be
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  content with food and clothing and in due time and in due
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  season we will reap a harvest. Friends, verse two, walk in love
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  as Christ also has loved us and has given himself for us an
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  offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.
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  We know that the prayers of the Saints are the incense to God's
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  nostrils, and we know that there is no greater love than for a
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  man to lay down his life for his brothers and for his friends.
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  And you also need to understand that we are called to mirror and
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  model the life of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world all
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  around. And we do not need to fear the
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  one that can kill the body, but we need to fear the one that can
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  not only kill the body, but cast our soul into Hellfire and
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  damnation. And you need to understand that
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  there is no greater love than what Jesus displayed for us on a
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  criminal's cross. And we cannot even know love
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  unless we know God. Because God is love.
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  And He loved us when we were still stuck in our sin patterns,
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  when we were lost without hope. Friends, He died for us.
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  And now we can know Him. And we love because we were
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  first loved. Three.
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  But fornication and all uncleanliness and covetousness,
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  let it not be once named among you as becoming Saints.
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  It's not good for people who are called Christian.
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  It is not good for the believers in Yeshua.
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  To be found with filthy words and language and jokings and
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  carousing friends is not becoming of a St. to be those
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  that look no different than the rest of the world.
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  Your witness is stripped from you whenever you go on a rant,
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  whenever you are unhinged in your vocabulary or actions
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  friends. And that is a tactic of the
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  enemy as he desires for us to squander our inheritance.
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  And He cannot snatch you out of God's hand, but He sure can get
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  you to make a mess out of your life so that your testimony is
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  invalid among the heathen, and they do not want to listen to
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  you, because your life looks no different than theirs.
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  And it is not becoming. And it is not a salvific issue.
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  It does not mean that you're any less saved, but it just means
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  that you will not be used to the degree that God desires for your
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  life. For neither filthiness nor
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  foolish talking nor jesting, which are not convenient, but
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  rather giving of thanks. That's the key.
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  Friends, we enter in with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  Friends, we need to have an attitude of gratitude, for this
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  is the day that the Lord has made.
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  Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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  Friends, we need to have this thankfulness for life and for
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  another day to come and to serve Him.
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  For another day to come and worship Him did.
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  Another day to come and learn a new facet of God's love for us.
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  And whenever we are talking about filthy jokes, whenever we
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  have the locker room talk, friends, it might win you a
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  couple laughs, but it does not edify your soul.
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  It does not refine you, friends, in the way that God desires.
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  And so many of us are still childish and we're still stuck
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  at square one. We're still babes in Christ
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  because we refuse to grow up. It's high time, friends, to grow
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  up. It's high time to put away with
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  childish things. And it's high time for us to act
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  like men, friends. 54 this you know, that no whore monger, no
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  unclean person, no covetous man who is an idolater has any
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  inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.
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  And I want you to know, friends, that these are the things that
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  identify a person. They're not identified with
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  Christ. They're identified with vanity,
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  they're identified with greed, they're identified with self and
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  sin. They're identified friends with
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  all of their filthiness and they have yet to put on the
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  righteousness of Jesus Christ, because once we become His and
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  we are marked by the Holy Spirit, friends, we have an
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  inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
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  But these people, they find their identity in all of this
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  disgusting worldliness. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words,
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  for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the
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  children of disobedience. That is what you need to
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  understand is those who refuse to come in the Spirit is
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  desirous for people to come into the fold and day after day after
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  day after day after day after day, God is long-suffering,
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  impatient with people, but it is not unlimited.
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  There is a finite amount of time that a human has to put their
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  faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and if they take their last
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  breath and they refuse Him, there is no more salvation apart
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  from Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only way to the
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  Father, and whenever someone refuses to come to Jesus Christ
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  in His loving free offer of eternity, they will have to go
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  to the place of destruction, this wrath of God for the
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  children of disobedience because they refuse to obey the Father.
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  7 Be not you therefore partakers with them.
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  He says warn A divisive person once and then warn them again
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  after that. Have nothing to do with them,
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  for you can be sure that they are warped and self condemned.
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  He says do not throw your pearls amongst swine.
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  We need to understand that God gives us an out.
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  We do not just subject ourselves to insanity friends.
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  He has called us to a life of peace, and that peace, friends,
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  is a peace that surpasses all understanding.
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  And if people will not receive you, then shake the dust from
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  your feet as you go from town to town.
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  Be not partakers with them. For you were sometimes darkness,
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  but now you are light in the Lord.
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  Walk as children of light, He's saying, as some of you once
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  were. You were once dead in your sins.
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  You were lost in your trespasses, friends, and now you
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  are a child of the light. And now you are called to be a
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  city on a hill. And now you are called to be a
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  beacon of hope to all of the dying and lost souls in this
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  world. And you have the keys, friends,
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  to unlock the chains. And His name is Yeshua.
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  And you need to understand, friends, that we do not need to
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  just hold back on sharing the love of Jesus Christ with every
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  single man, woman, and child that we meet.
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  The regardless of their background, regardless of the
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  sin that they're trapped in, Friends, the gospel is for
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  everyone, but only a few will find it. 9 For the fruit of the
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  Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.
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  That is God and that is Jesus, and that is the clothing that we
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  put on, Friends, is the goodness of God, the truth which is
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  Christ, and the righteousness with which clothes us.
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  And we will one day when the Father looks upon us, He will
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  not see any of the sins that we have ever committed, are
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  committing, or will commit. We will have the righteousness
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  and the purity of Jesus Christ. We will have the innocence of
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  Christ clothing us in His blood, and proving what is acceptable
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  unto the Lord. When you truly know the Lord,
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  you will go out, and your works will prove that you are
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  connected to Him. And our works do not save us,
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  but they sure do prove that we belong to Him. 11 and have no
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  fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
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  reprove them. So he's saying speak up and
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  speak truth in love. Do not find yourself
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  intermingled with darkness and light.
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  What does Christ and Belial have in fellowship?
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  Nothing. Friends, you need to understand
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  that we do not need to be unequally yoked, whether that is
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  in marriage or whether that is in business.
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  We do not need to be unequally yoked.
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  Friends, he's saying come out of that and you need to be the
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  light and how can you be the light if you're still engaged in
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  all of the dark activities of this world.
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  He's saying to reprove them, bring them to the light.
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  Friends, do not let them stay hidden.
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  Call them for what they are. Speak truth in love. 12 four
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  years is a shame even to speak of the things which are done of
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  them in secret. And that is what Paul was
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  referencing back in First Corinthians in chapter 5.
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  He says the things that you do. They're even shameful amongst
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  the heathen. They don't even talk about them.
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  And look at how we have regressed.
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  Look at how we have fallen even further down the spiral,
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  friends. Look at how humanity invents new
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  ways of sinning and it is shameful for them.
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  We don't even talk about those things because they are so
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  shameful. Do not hyper fixate on all the
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  sins of the lost. Lost people are going to do what
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  lost people do. Friends 13 But all things that
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  are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatsoever
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  does make manifest is light. So he's saying that whenever we
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  speak the truth and love, we bring out all the darkness and
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  we put it in the light, and the light is a lot like the sun
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  refracting through the magnifying glass, and it's
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  burning out the dross and the impurities.
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  Friends, bring out all of it into the light, and let's talk
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  about it in light of what does the word of God say?
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  14 Wherefore he says, awake you that sleep arise from the dead,
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  and Christ shall give you light. Wake up O sleeper, rise up
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  Christian, quit being silent on the matters that are destroying
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  all the people all around you. We need to tell them that they
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  if they will not turn from all of their wicked ways, they need
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  to know that they're they will be eternally separated from God
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  Almighty. And it is the very things even
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  in the here and the now that are dismantling society.
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  Whenever we turn our backs on the Judeo-christian values in
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  the Judeo-christian ways, friends, when we do that, we are
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  dismantling what is good and wholesome and pure, and it is a
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  tactic of the enemy to try and destroy the family.
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  The family unit is the strongest unit for the good of society.
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  Never forget that. Wake up, Oh, Sleeper.
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  Speak out against the atrocities of our day and our hour.
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  Speak out against the abortions that are happening at an
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  alarming rate. Friends, speak out against all
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  of the same sex marriage that the government is propagating at
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  the highest levels. Speak out against those things,
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  friends, because we will be held accountable.
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  Even the believers will have to stand the judgment of the Bema
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  seat, and we will lose a massive amount of rewards for staying
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  silent when the Lord has called us to reprove these things.
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  He will give you the light. And do not be afraid of what
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  you're going to say, friends. It will be the Holy Spirit
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  speaking through you on that day. 15 See then that you walk
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  circumspectly, not as fools, but is wise.
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  That is the five foolish virgins and the five wise virgins.
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  And think about it, friends, we must keep our lamps full, which
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  is the Holy Ghost. He is the oil, and those that
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  are foolish, they let the oil run out.
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  Friends. And whenever he comes with a
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  voice like an Archangel, friends of the sound of a trumpet, and
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  we are called up to meet him in the air, there will be many that
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  are left behind. Friends.
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  There are many who are not full of the Holy Ghost, and they have
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  to stay behind. He's saying do not be foolish,
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  but be wise. 16 Redeeming the time because the days are evil.
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  Jesus Christ said when the Son of man returns, will he even
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  find faith on this earth? He also said because of the
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  increase of evil, the love of most will grow cold.
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  He says the the time, the days are evil.
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  Make sure that you're redeeming the time friends.
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  The time is short, and if it was short back here all the way back
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  2000 years ago, how much shorter is it today?
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  And when we're talking about eschatology and we're talking
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  about the return of our blessed Lord friends, you need to
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  understand there's not a scholar alive that can debate and say
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  that we're closer today than we were yesterday.
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  And that is facts and that is truth. 17 Wherefore be you?
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  Not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
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  If you want to know what the will of the Lord is, bury your
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  nose in the good book. Never come out of it.
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  Think about it when you're waking up in the morning.
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  Sharpen the saw. Tune your instrument early in
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  the morning before you go out onto the stage.
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  Think about and meditate upon His words throughout your entire
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  day. Pray in the Spirit throughout
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  the entire day. Friends, walk in the Spirit
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  throughout your entire day and you will not satisfy the lusts
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  of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life.
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  And then before you go to bed, get your nose buried back in the
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  good book. Friends, put down all of the
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  garbage that is stealing the time that you have and learn
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  what is His perfect and pleasing will for your life, which the
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  Bible reveals to us on every page and that it is a scarlet
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  thread and every bit of it points to Yeshua. 18 And be not
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  drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the
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  spirit you need to understand is whenever we turn to these
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  addictions. It is a replacement for being
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  filled with the Holy Ghost. If you are filled with the Holy
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  Ghost, you will have no need for being high and drunk. 19
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  speaking to yourselves and psalms and hymns, spiritual
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  songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
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  He calls us to live in a perpetual state of worship, for
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  this is the day that the Lord has made.
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  Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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  That is what the Lord desires. Do not hyper fixate upon the
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  evil and all the atrocities in the world.
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  Do not hyper fixate upon all of the conspiracy theories that are
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  circling, and most of them are actual, but we do not need to
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  hyper fixate upon those things. We do not need to be obsessive
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  over those things, friends. It is a waste of the time that
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  we have left on this earth. You need to be found meditating
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  upon what is good and wholesome and holy and pure, friends, and
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  that is how we will be encouraged and be the light and
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  be the difference in a dark and wicked and perverse world. 20
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  Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father,
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  in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  That is what we're called to do, is enter his gates with praise
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  and Thanksgiving. 21 Submit yourselves one to another in the
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  fear of God. If we will fear God, everything
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  else bows. But you need to understand that
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  God places people in authority over your life and He is the
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  head. He is the highest one.
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  But all of us need to be disciplined and God uses people
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  in our lives. But make sure that you are not
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  under a wicked and tyrannical ruler.
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  We do not need to obey those that are not following after the
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  Lord Jesus Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourself unto your
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  husband as unto the Lord. So this is a discourse.
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  It is the highest discourse in all of scripture about marriage.
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  Let's see what God has to say and He starts here with wives
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  submitting yourselves to your husband's as to the Lord.
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  What you need to understand is that the man submits to God
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  Almighty and to the degree that the man will submit to God is
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  the exact degree that the woman feels comfortable with
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  submission unto her husband. If he is not in full submission
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  and full accord with Yahweh, then she will not feel that she
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  should or can trust Him. And that is what you need to
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  understand all the way back in the book of Genesis, whenever it
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  says to the woman that you will desire your husband, but he will
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  rule over you. Ever since then there has been
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  this friction amongst husbands and wives.
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  And if he chooses to be a drunk and a womanizer, if he chooses
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  to be abusive and a heathen, then she will rise up and she
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  will lead that family. And you see it time and time and
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  time again when men will not be men.
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  Then the women are the ones who have to take that role.
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  And you see it so many times. But in the perfect union of how
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  God set up the family unit, it is.
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  God is the head and it is the husband who is following God and
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  he refuses to get knocked off of that position of authority and
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  the woman has no problem with following after him because when
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  God swings the mighty hammer He will hit the husband and not the
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  wife friends. And that is what you need to
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  understand. This is not some kind of he man
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  woman haters club friends. This is the way of God and this
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  is the way that God orchestrated the family unit.
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  And it is beautiful when it works all together and whenever
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  every piece of the puzzle is working as it should.
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  And it all starts with the husband being completely 1000%
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  sold out to God Almighty. 23 For the husband is the head of the
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  wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the
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  Savior of the body. The the word husband means to
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  ban the house, friends, and that is what he is called to do.
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  He is the protector, friends. And you need to understand that
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  if everything is working in the full accordance of how God has
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  planned it, there will be so much peace within the home
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  because the wife sees that her husband is actually in tune and
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  listening to God's voice. 25 Husbands, love your wives, even
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  as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.
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  It's easy, friends, when you see the model of Jesus Christ and
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  what he did for us and what He did for the church, it's easy.
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  For a man to lay down his life, to rush into the firefight, to
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  rush into the burning building, Friends, it's easy because we
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  have the model of Jesus Christ. That is where the courage comes
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  from, and that is how we are able to protect and defend our
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  families. 26 that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
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  washing of water by the Word. That is where being renewed
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  friends, being transformed by the renewing of your mind, by
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  letting the Word of God wash over all of the impurities in
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  the dross, all of the pollutants that keep coming in at alarming
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  rate, we let the Word of God wash over it and make us clean
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  and white as snow. 27 that he might present it to himself.
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  A glorious church, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such
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  thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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  That is a life that has been covered by the blood of Jesus
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  Christ and clothed by Jesus's righteousness.
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  And we will stand before God Almighty, perfect and clean,
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  without a spot or without a wrinkle.
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  We will be holy with no blemish. 28 So men ought to love their
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  wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves
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  himself man. We are called into being one
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  with our wife, not to be autonomous and live a life
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  separated, not to live 2 lives of what you like and what she
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  likes. And it is separate.
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  No, we are called to be 1 and we are called to die to self, and
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  we are called as scripture tells us.
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  This explains why a man leaves his mother and father, cleaves
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  to his wife, and the two become 129.
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  For no man ever yet has hated his own flesh, but he nourishes
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  it and he cherishes it even as the Lord, the church.
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  So you need to understand, just as natural as it is when we're
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  hungry to grab a bite to eat, just as natural as it is for us
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  to clothe ourselves when it's cold.
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  Just as natural as it is to get a drink of water when you're
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  thirsty, is how we will love. It will be natural, friends,
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  when we're fueled by the Holy Ghost.
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  We will not seek our own selfish will and vanity, friends. 30 For
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  we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31
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  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall
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  be joined to his wife, and the two shall be 1 flesh. 32 This is
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  a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the
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  Church. So not only is the Scripture in
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  Genesis about a husband and a wife, but it is about Christ and
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  the church, friends. And that is what is referenced
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  here. And you need to understand that
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  the 2 become one is the bride and the groom, and Jesus is the
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  groom and we are the bride. We'll end on 33.
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  Nevertheless, let everyone of you in particular so love his
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  wife, even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her
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  husband. That is what it looks like to
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  have a healthy, wonderful, holy, acceptable marriage in the sight
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  of God. And it all starts with Christ,
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  and it all starts with to the degree of how much the husband
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  sells out and worships and listens to him.
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  Then you will see a healthy marriage and a healthy family.
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  And the children, which we'll talk about tomorrow, the
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  children will obey when they see a husband obeying God and a wife
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  who's submit, submitting to her husband.
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  What an amazing verse. What an amazing chapter about
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  marriage. I hope you've been blessed by
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  it. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.