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1 Peter chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  First Peter chapter 3, let us pray our Father who is in
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  heaven, Lord, we acknowledge that you are high and lifted up
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  over everything, everybody, over the entire universe, over the
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  globe, God, over every authority.
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  You are higher and more lofty. You are El Elian, El Shaddai
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  Adonai. You are Jehovah Rafa and Jehovah
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  Nisi, Jehovah Jireh. You are.
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  I am. You are the God who sees.
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  You're the healer. You're the banner God.
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  You're almighty, your Lord, you are the Creator, You're the only
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  uncreated, and God, we worship you in spirit and truth today.
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  We enter in to the most holy place today with clean hands and
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  a pure heart. We have not bowed down to idols
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  or swore by a false God, for this is the generation that
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  seeks thy face, O Jacob. May we keep your name holy.
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  May we keep your name set apart. Father, help us not to
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  blasphemy. Help us not to take it lightly.
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  God, we pray for your Kingdom to come upon this earth just as it
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  is there. We pray, God for your will, not
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  our own selfish will and vanity. God, we pray that we'll get out
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  of our own way and that we'll step into your way.
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  We'll step into the reality, God, that you are far greater
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  and better than anything that we could ever come up with.
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  God, I pray for your daily bread.
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  I pray that we'll get a fresh loaf of bread out of the oven
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  today. Lord, help us not to eat upon
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  the successes of yesterday. Help us not to live in light of
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  what you have done, but help us to press towards what you want
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  to do. Lord, for this generation, for
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  such a time as this. God, I pray that you'll help us,
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  Lord, to eat sumptuously upon the flesh of Christ and to drink
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  upon His blood today in remembrance of what He did for
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  us. Lord, I pray that you will
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  forgive us for all of the sins that we have committed, are
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  committing, or will ever commit. God, help us to be graceful and
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  generous to all those around us. Father, never holding on to a
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  root of bitterness. Help us not to be critical, God
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  and negative, but help us to be loving and graceful and merciful
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  and forgiving our brother. 70 * 7 or keep us from the enemy.
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  Keep us from the schemes of the enemy.
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  Help us not to fall into the pitfalls, God.
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  Help us not to fall into the traps and the deception and the
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  trickery, God and the gimmickry of all of this false allegiance
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  and all of the false teachings. God, help us to stand upon the
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  inerrant, infallible Word. Help us to know that it is the
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  Logos and the Rhema. Lord, help us to know that it is
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  You and you became it and it is flesh.
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  God, Your Word is all that we need for here and for now and
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  for this time. God keep us from all of the evil
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  within this world. Form a hedge of protection
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  around us as we take the whole word to the whole world.
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  For yours, God Almighty is the Kingdom forever and ever.
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  For yours, God Almighty, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and
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  Jacob the Great, I am the Most High.
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  God is the power for you ABBA. This is a glory and we pray in
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  Jesus Christ holy and precious and powerful and awesome name
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Likewise you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands,
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  that if any obey not the word, they also may, without the word,
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  be won by the conversation of the wives.
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  This was written in a time where it was unheard of for a wife to
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  be practicing any other religion than her husband's.
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  And you can see here that Jesus Christ did more for women's
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  rights than anyone else has ever in the history of mankind.
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  And it is not that the man is better than the woman.
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  This is not what Jesus Christ ever preached.
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  He revealed His deity to a woman at a well.
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  He revealed the resurrection to a woman at the tomb.
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  Jesus Christ is pro women's rights.
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  But I want you to know this feminist movement is satanic in
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  its core and it is meant to dumb down the role of the man and it
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  is to make them seem as if they are inept and unable to lead and
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  that is satanic at its core. You need to understand that God
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  puts people in their respective roles on purpose and the family
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  in the way that the family operates is holy and pleasing
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  unto God Almighty. And it is God at the head.
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  And then it is the husband and then it is the wife and then the
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  children. And if we will operate in that
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  model, you will see peace and unity.
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  And it is the the wife's role to be in submission unto the
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  husband. And you need to understand that
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  the husband has to submit. He is not free from submission.
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  Friends, the husband must submit to God Almighty.
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  And Peter here is going to tell us that we are Co equal laborers
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  and inheritors of the Kingdom of God.
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  And it is not that man is better than woman friends, but it is
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  the way of God in the institution of marriage and
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  family. And if we will play our roles
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  you will see so much peace flood into your home.
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  And if you have become hostile to what some perceive as
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  misogynistic and machismo, and when we step out of line and we
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  put women in leadership positions over a man, whether it
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  be in the church or in the home, We have overstepped our
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  boundaries within the confines of God's Word and we will reap
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  the effects of that disunity. Verse 2 while they behold your
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  chaste conversation coupled with fear.
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  So these were women he's speaking to who are believers
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  but their husbands are not. And he's saying, stay in the
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  marriage, and perhaps by your holy conversation that he will
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  come over and become a believer unto God.
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  And this was written to women who had husbands who were
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  hostile towards God. Verse 3 whose adorning?
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  Let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair,
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  wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel.
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  So here Peter is telling the women to let their beauty shine
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  from the inside. It is incorruptible.
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  You cannot take it away. You could dress up Cinderella in
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  rags, but she is still beautiful within.
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  And that is the difference, friends, and that is what is
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  pleasing to God and that is what He's after.
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  We don't need to rely on the outward things to make us
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  beautiful. He's telling the women to let
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  their beauty come from within, for but let it be the hidden man
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  of the heart in that which is not corruptible, even the
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  ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of
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  God of great price. No one can take it away from
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  you. They could snatch the pearls off
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  of your neck, they could RIP the very dress off of your body, but
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  they cannot take the quiet and gentle spirit that is pleasing
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  unto God and is beautiful in the sight of a holy God.
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  And that is a call for women to find their beauty in Him and not
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  in their outward dress, not in their hairstyles, not in their
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  jewelry or makeup. Friends, it is from the Lord God
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  Almighty, and it comes from a gentle and quiet submissive
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  spirit which is pleasing unto God. 5 For after this manner, in
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  the old time, the holy women also, who trusted in God,
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  adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own
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  husbands. So here Peter was writing to an
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  audience that was not much different than the one that you
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  and I live in today, where the women had access to all kinds of
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  luxury and finery. And he's telling them to look
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  back at a time when all of that was not even available, and to
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  go back and look and see how the women of old behaved and to
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  mirror and model their lives after them.
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  And this is a hard lesson for us friends, in our day and our
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  hour, where men's eyes wander and women feel inadequate.
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  And that is a call for the husband to make their wife feel
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  beautiful and to know that she is honoured in their sight.
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  And that his eyes are not for any other woman, his eyes are
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  not laying upon any other, that his eyes are only for his wife
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  and his wife only. And if men would do that, then
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  women would not feel the need to go out and to spend the awful
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  amount of money and time and energy in all of the outward
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  appearances which fade away. And when they do, because they
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  will. But when they fade away, they
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  feel even lower and more degraded than ever.
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  And that is a call for husbands to uplift their wives and make
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  them feel beautiful. 6 Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling
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  him Lord, whose daughters you are, as long as you do well and
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  are not afraid with any amazement.
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  So Peter here, the Holy Spirit here, God Almighty here, He is
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  wanting the women to know that their beauty comes from within
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  and not from any outward extremities.
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  They do not need to live in fear is if they are beautiful or not
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  in the sight of God. And that is a call for the
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  husbands to make sure that they are practicing the heart of God
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  and the mind of Christ and they're actually thinking things
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  through and they're not like little animals or boys.
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  They're acting like men, and they're honoring their wives,
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  and two becoming one. 7 Likewise you husbands dwell with them
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  according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the
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  weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of
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  life, that your prayers be not hindered.
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  What a call for husbands. If we want to fast track our
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  prayers to Almighty God and we want our prayers to be heard and
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  to be answered, we honor our wives.
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  We become one with our wife. We are not autonomous.
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  We do not just keep her in her role as we go out and do
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  whatever we want to do. Your prayers will be hindered if
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  you do so. And she is the weaker vessel,
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  friends in strength, but she is not lesser than or less
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  important. 8 Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion,
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  one of another. Love as brothers, be pitiful, be
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  courteous. So he's telling us all to have
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  the mind of Christ and to be banded together as brothers and
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  sisters in Christ Jesus, the bride of Christ.
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  Friends always helping each other out and thinking of others
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  as better than ourselves. What a hard concept for many. 9
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  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing, but
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  contrary wise blessing, knowing that you are there unto called
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  that you should inherit a blessing.
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  So he's telling us, don't repay evil for evil.
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  That is what the world does. They backbite, they gossip, they
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  slander, they break each other down to climb to the next rung
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  of the corporate ladder. They don't care who they have to
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  step on to get there. And it's all about greed and
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  it's all about pride and it's all about position to the rest
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  of the world. And we are not called to behave
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  in that manner. We bless when we're struck.
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  We're blessed when we curse, knowing that God will repay us
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  back with a blessing. What a hard concept for many. 10
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  For he that will love life and see good days, Let him refrain
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  his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.
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  You could evade so much hardship if you just keep your mouth
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  shut. The world's going to do what the
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  world does. Lost people are going to do what
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  lost people do. You need to understand that.
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  You need to know that we are called to be the difference
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  makers in this world, the peacemakers in this world.
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  We are more than conquerors. And if God is for us, then who
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  can be against us? We serve God Almighty and God
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  alone is the one who takes care of us.
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  He feeds us and He clothes us and he sends the angelic host to
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  encamp around us and to make sure that we make it home
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  safely. 11 Let him eschew evil, do good.
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  Let him seek peace and ensue it. That's what we're called. 2
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  friends. We're the peacemakers.
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  Don't find yourself on the wrong side of history.
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  Far be it for a Christian to ever persecute another person or
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  to be hateful towards someone else made in the image of God.
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  We do not need to be racist friends.
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  We do not need to be this elitist mindset thinking that
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  we're better than others. We do not need to be those who
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  are hateful for the sake of being hateful, or to be
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  prejudice friends. That is not pleasing unto a holy
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  God. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his
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  ears are open unto the prayers, but the face of the Lord is
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  against them that do evil. Write it down, highlight it,
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  underline it, mark it. Friends, write it in the margins
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  of your Bible, in your journal. Put it as your screensaver.
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  Friends, if you do write, God will listen and answer to your
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  prayers. But when you are evil and you
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  care nothing for God, His face is against you.
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  That is a promise contained in the Word of God, and it does not
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  work any other way. 13 And who is he that will harm you?
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  If you be followers of that which is good, There is no harm
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  that could befall someone who does good.
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  Even if you are persecuted, martyred and killed for the
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  faith, Jesus Christ will become sweet to you and He will be
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  there to lead you through the waters. 14 But if, but, and if
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  you suffer for righteousness sakes, happy are you.
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  Be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.
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  Don't let them intimidate you. Satan just has a roar.
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  He's been defanged and declawed. There's no power that He has
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  over you. Jesus Christ holds the keys to
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  death and to hell, and there is no power that is greater than
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  God Almighty. And all Satan can do is
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  intimidate you. And you might have to die the
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  first death, but you will not have to die the second if you
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  are in Christ Jesus. 15 Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and
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  be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks
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  you for a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness
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  and fear. This is apologetics 101.
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  Everywhere that we go and every person that we meet, every arena
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  we find ourselves in, we always need to be ready to give the
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  reason of why we smile, of why we have joy in the midst of pain
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  and trials and tribulations. Why we can be so positive when
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  the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket, friends.
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  And it is because of the love of Jesus Christ that lives inside
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  of us that we do not place our hope and finances.
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  We do not place our hope in governments.
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  We do not place our hope in our nationality.
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  We do not place our hope in our bank account or in the stock
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  market. We do not place our hope in good
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  looks. We do not place our hope in any
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  other place than in Jesus Christ and Jesus alone, but we need to
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  be able to articulate that in a clear manner where people
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  understand it at the most basic principles.
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  Always be ready. Sanctify the Lord God in your
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  hearts. Do not let your hearts be
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  troubled. Do not let your hearts be filled
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  with all kinds of evil and malice.
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  Give no place for those things. Take every thought captive, and
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  make it obedient unto Christ Jesus. 16 Having a good
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  conscience, that where as they speak evil of you, as of evil
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  doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good
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  conversation in Christ. That is the way of God.
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  The world's going to do what the world does.
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  Lost people are going to do what lost people do.
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  They're going to talk smack and trash of the things that they're
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  ignorant of. But if you will be patient in
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  the affliction, it will put them to shame, and perhaps they will
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  see the error of their way and give their life over to the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. 17 For it is better if the will of God be so
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  that you suffer for well doing than for doing evil.
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  What a simple principle. Don't suffer for doing wrong,
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  but if you suffer for doing right, count it all as joy.
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  Friends. They persecuted the prophets of
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  old, and they killed our Lord Jesus Christ on a criminal's
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  cross, and he was perfect and innocent.
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  And if they did that to him, don't be surprised if they do it
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  to you. 18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just
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  for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to
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  death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, the
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  Holy Spirit, Jesus himself and God Almighty resurrected Jesus
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  from the dead. And we're going to get into a
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  little section here that's very interesting and we can surmise
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  all kinds of points about what is about to be said, but suffice
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  to say that this Silent Saturday was Friday.
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  Jesus Christ hung on a criminal's cross and he breathed
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  his last. He said it is finished to
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  Telesty, paid in full, and no one took his life from him, but
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  he laid it down willingly. And then here on Silent
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  Saturday, he goes down into Sheol.
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  And the Bible is clear, and it teaches us that there was this
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  place for all of the spirits of the dead, and for the
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  unrighteous it was torment. But for the righteous it was
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  Abraham's bosom. And this is not purgatory,
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  friends. Jesus went down and snatched the
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  keys. He made a triumphant lap and a
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  victory over all of the evil spirits of Noah's day, and he
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  showed them that he was victorious as he snatches the
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  keys and he shuts down that place.
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  And you need to know that all of the dead before the cross of
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  Christ, every single person still had to come in the same
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  way that you and I have through Christ Jesus.
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  And you might ask yourself, well, how could they if they had
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  never heard and Jesus was never born?
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  But you need to understand that God gave them this ability to
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  obey what was revealed to them from Adam all the way up to John
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  the Baptist. They all had their limited
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  revelation from God of what to obey and to practice their
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  faith, which God would accept them.
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  But it was always in light of Christ.
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  It was always in light of what Christ was going to do, and God
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  had a plan to bring Christ as the atonement for our sins.
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  Before He even breathed His breath into Adam, before He
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  formed him from the dust, God already had a plan.
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  It is not that God is pacing back and forth trying to figure
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  out what to do. Every single human being on
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  planet earth must come to God Almighty through His Son Jesus
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  Christ. And Abraham was the father of
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  faith, and you can see that it was faith through Jesus Christ
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  in Jesus Christ. And what the promises of old
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  pointing towards Jesus Christ was painting this beautiful
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  masterpiece that culminated. And now we all look back.
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  We have the finished artwork, we have the finished revelation.
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  Nothing added to it. And we don't need to wonder as
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  the prophets of old did. And they longed to see what was
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  given to them only in pieces, in part, in fragmentations.
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  But as they placed their faith in what was revealed to them,
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  God accredited to them as righteousness.
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  And they were saved friends. And this is a lot to munch on,
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  but we will read what the word of God says, and form our
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  opinions off of God's word, not off of man's ideas or thoughts.
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  Let every man be a liar, and the only thing that we can truly
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  bank on is what does the word of God say?
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  19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in
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  prison. 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the
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  long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark
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  was a preparing, wherein few, that is, 8 souls were saved by
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  water. So Jesus goes and preaches to
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  the spirits in hell. He snatches the keys, and he
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  leads a procession up and out of that place.
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  Imagine that friends, what an amazing thought.
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  And you can see here that they were sometimes disobedient.
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  And the long-suffering of God. It says in Genesis that it
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  grieved God that he had even made mankind, that every thought
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  continuously was evil, and now he only saved 8 out of the
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  entire world. And it is likened unto our
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  baptism, where we are laid down in the death of Christ, but were
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  raised up in the resurrection of life. 21 The like figure where
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  unto even baptism does also now save us, not the putting away of
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  the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
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  towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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  That's what we want more than anything, is this clear
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  conscience, knowing that we can stand before God Almighty one
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  day, and He's not going to look upon any of our sins.
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  And you need to know that it is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
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  that saves us and the Holy Spirit comes and dwells within
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  us. And baptism is only the outward
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  expression of an inward change. That is what you need to
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  understand. Baptism in itself does not save
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  anyone. Verse 22 who is gone into heaven
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  and is on the right hand of God, angels and authorities and
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  powers being made subject to him.
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  What an amazing thought here. Jesus Christ descended into the
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  lower parts of the earth. He proclaimed His victory to
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  all. The evil dead shut down that
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  place. Now they all are awaiting the
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  great white throne, where every knee will bow and every tongue
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  will confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord.
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  And if you were to take your last breath today, there are
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  only two places that you will go.
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  You will either be in paradise with Him.
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  To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord for
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  those that are in Christ. But if you refuse His love, you
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  will be eternally separated from Him forever.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  We've been munching on a lot of deep theological thoughts here,
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  friends. You can spend an entire lifetime
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  studying this passage and what it all means, but we have very
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  limited knowledge and one day, what we only see in part now, we
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  will see fully when we take our last breath in the culmination
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  of it all. Whenever he makes heaven, a new
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  heaven and a new earth, and he makes everything new.
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  What an amazing thought. I love you, I'm praying for you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.