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#686: The Old Man · Zion Word Ministries International Podcast

• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's a difficult portion of scripture, and it's almost double talked, King James style, and but I can understand it once we think about it.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit teaches us through the Word that's worked almost 500 years.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: But I still can't quote these verses after 40 years.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: For that which I do, I allow not.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_01: For what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: How many can quote that?
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_01: Anybody?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: I've tried to memorize that, and I get mixed up every time.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Then drop down to verse 19.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: For the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that I do.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if I do that, I would not.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: Just as clear as mud, isn't it?
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, sin is the reason, but we are accountable for our actions.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: So you can't you can't just blame the sin problem because it works through us.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: And we are responsible and accountable to God for what we do and do not do.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, what causes people to do wrong is the sin that's in them.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I know there are those that say they're sinless, but the Bible doesn't teach sinless perfection, this side of the rapture.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_01: Then we'll be, we'll know as we're known, and that which in part will be done away with.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Until then, if you're a Christian, you're in grace.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: But Paul was a Christian here.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: He was a believer here.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said Romans chapter 7, he's describing a person that's struggling with two natures: the old nature and the new nature.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: That which I do, I allow not, that which I not do, that do I.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: See, I can't even quote it yet.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: So look at it again for verse 15.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: For that which I allow not, that what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that do I.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: So he was doing something that he hated to do, but he didn't know how to stop it.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Not an environment, not the way he was raised.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: Can't blame the devil, even though the sin nature came from Satan through the loins of Adam and it infected the entire human race.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: That is the sin that Paul's talking about.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: And we all have it.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: And if you think you don't, that's a sin nature talking to you.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: However, that old nature is deemed crucified if you're in the will of God and have surrendered his lordship.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: So he really can't do anything through you unless it's done through ignorance.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: Nevertheless, Paul was struggling as a Christian here.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: He wasn't describing his life before he was converted.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we struggle from time to time with things that we don't like about what we're doing or not doing.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: See, sin, acts of sinning is doing something that's wrong or not doing something that's right.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: Either way you go, we're all nailed to the wall.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: Even the most sanctified believer is still not perfect quite yet.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: Only Jesus alone is the perfect one.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: And so we need him to make intercession for us.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: Paul did not want to do what he was doing.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't like the way he was, and the war was on.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: How many knows what we're talking about here?
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: We've asked forgiveness a hundred times and do it again.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, keep on asking and believing, and the cross and the power of the Holy Ghost is the way to victory.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: I used to tell people I have no other answer except the power of God.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: You've got to get in the power of God and stay there until deliverance comes.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not the whole truth.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: Our faith must be focused on Calvary's cross, and that gives the Holy Spirit the latitude to work for us.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: If we're focused on the Holy Spirit, we're off.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: I said we're off.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ alone.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: He will not receive worship.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: We have these Holy Spirit seminars.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: But he points people to Jesus every single time.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if our faith is in Christ and the cross, now the power of God will be activated, and that's the only way any of us can be delivered.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: That's a good message.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's time to go home now.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: But it's true.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: We try to work it, do it ourselves, fail every time.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: So he was trying to overcome through law keeping anything else that he knew, and he couldn't do it.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: So what Paul's describing here, as you go to Galatians chapter 5, is he's fighting the old adamic nature that every human being has.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's called the old man.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: I preach on this a lot because it's true.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_01: The old man is the one that gives us our trouble.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: The new nature does not lead us into sinning.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's the old nature that does.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: And if we're saved and know the word and we've grown in grace a little bit, like I was telling young Daniel this morning, he was describing being led of the Spirit, a stop and go thing.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: He was given revelation about stop and go, only been saved a week.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Well, God tells me that's wrong.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: I know he tells you, but then you still got to choose are you gonna do it or not?
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're weak in the faith, you might do it.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: Well, repent and be forgiven and go on.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: Pick yourself up and go on.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_01: Don't stay there and let the devil molest you to death.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: But we don't have to sin.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: Now we probably will, but we don't have to sin.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: However, as long as the old nature is inside of us, we're apt to do something wrong.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: But we're accountable for what we do that's wrong.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, thank God for the grace of God.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Galatians chapter 5 and verse 17 to 21.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: Let's take a look at this now.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: Because Paul, again, is right into the church, not the world.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Galatians 5, 17.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_01: The flesh lusts against the spirit, that's capital, Holy Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: These are contrary one to another, and you cannot do the things that you would.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: There is that struggle.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: But thank God for the conjunction, but I'm gonna have to preach a message on that.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: But see, goat's butt.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now say I'm thinking something I shouldn't think, and I'm sorry about that.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's the old nature.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you might as well have said if you thought it.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, don't do that because you can't take the words back.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: So beloved the spirit is filtering your thought system.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: Now Satan could put words in your mind and make you think you thought it, but you didn't really do it.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: He inserted those thoughts and made you think that was you thinking.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: He's very crafty.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: So you've got to know the word.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Everything would be judged by the word.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're led by the Spirit, you're not under the law.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: So Paul was trying to overcome by law keeping or whatever, and he just couldn't do it.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: And then he goes, verse 19.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_01: People don't like to see this, but it's in the scripture.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: The works of the flesh are manifest.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: Now, as I've said for years, the church has majored on the works of the flesh, the sins of the flesh, and preached against that, and that wasn't the real problem.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: The real problem was the old nature inside of us that was more or less forcing us to work the works of the flesh.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: That was the problem.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: And they didn't have an answer for it.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: There's only one answer for the problem.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Only one.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: He starts off with adultery.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know what that is?
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Adultery.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_01: Fornication.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: We know what that is.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: Uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't have time to go on the word study, but witchcraft is a form of trying to control you.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Manipulate you.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: Narcissist thinking.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Control.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: We are to be controlled by the Holy Spirit, not a wrong spirit.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: So just resist.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: Submit yourself to God.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: Resist the devil, he will flee from you.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Resist demons, they will flee from you.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: They can't make you do it if you know the word.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're walking in the flesh, you're going to commit sins.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot walk in the spirit and sin.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's when we get into the flesh, child of God, it's when we can commit sins.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: And now we're going to go down if we don't repent and get help from Christ.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: Hatred.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: I told Dr.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Gunn, I said, you know, I don't hate anybody.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have any real enemies.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't hate anybody.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: I forgive everybody.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_01: I hate the devil.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_01: What he does to people, what demons do to people.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: But as far as people, I don't hate anybody.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Do you?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Variance, emulation, wrath, strife, sedition, heresies, envies, murders, drunkenness, drunkenness, revelings, and such like.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Of which I tell you before, as I've also told you in times past.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now he's warning them again.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: That they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_01: Now, what are we going to do with that scripture?
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't sound like one saved always saved to me.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you're a Christian and you're entrapped in these sins, the reason is the old nature that you can't control.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: You cannot control sin.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: Sin has a way of controlling us.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: But whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: Only the truth will set us free and keep us free.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we've got to hear the truth, cling to the truth, and walk in the truth, and the Son will make you free every single one.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: There's no other way.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: But thank God there is a way.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: So he pretty well ends it up here.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: And this is talking to the church here now.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_01: Then in Romans chapter 8 and verse 27.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know where all the amens are now.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: He that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's another deep one.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if I could paraphrase this, Christ is in heaven, making intercession for the saints according to the will of the Father.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: But then we also know that the Holy Spirit's on the earth making intercession for the saints to the Father and the Lord Jesus.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't see how we can lose.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see how.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: But if you work the works of the flesh as a lifestyle, you will lose.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: So it's a good thing to be repented.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's a good thing to have, you know, our sins brought to attention of ourselves.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: We might be doing something wrong.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: We're not even aware that it's it's sinful because we haven't grown in the word enough to really know what's right and wrong.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's people here in McDonald County that don't really know what's right and wrong.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you would think they would, but then they haven't been taught anything.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: They don't know anything.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so let's cut them some slack.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: But those of you who've been around 10, 20, 30, 40 years, God's will more strict on us.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: A lot more strict.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: Whom much is given, much is required, everybody.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: And we need to be good examples to those that are weak in the faith and strengthen them.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: It'd be wrong to go up to a weak Christian and offer them a beer.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: Wrong.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying a beer will send a person to hell.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm saying if you offend a little one, you're in danger of hellfire.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: So let's be careful.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: You shouldn't even mess with them anyway.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like one guy said, Well, what's drunk?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: And so this preacher said, Well, how many beer does it take you to get drunk?
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: Six?
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: A case?
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: How much is a case?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: Twenty-four?
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Twenty-four.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad you know that, Chrissy.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: I really am glad.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's all right, I understand.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was there.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: I know it.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're looking at a bunch of ex-cons in here, you know.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: Thank God for mercy.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: Well, if it if it took a case to get us drunk and we drank two six-packs, we're half drunk.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-oh.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Ow.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Where does God draw the line?
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: Are we gonna tempt the Lord?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: Look, look, just stay away from it.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I remember when I was working, it was hot, man.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: I was sweaty, and my wife's brother-in-law worked at the sawmill.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: Man, he had sawdust all over him, and it was hot.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: He comes over there, remember this, and he says, Randy, you want a cold one?
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes back in the back of his pickup and opens up that ice chest.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I mean, I was thirsty and I I wanted that beer bad.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: But I didn't take it.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: If I would have drank that beer with him, I'm not saying that it'd send me to hell, no, but I would have destroyed my witness.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: See, we're witnesses.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: So what I do, well, I went home and got me a case of beer and drank it.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: No, not really.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: You all are so holy.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: Bless your hearts, you know.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: You never even smelled booze.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, never, never, never.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: And you're so holy.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sure you are.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: I know your background, some of you.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like one young man said, Well, I didn't have a problem with drinking, but I got a problem with the flesh.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: I said it's still sin.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: See, sins, all sins are bad.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: But he knew he had a problem with the works of the flesh.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: He confessed that to me this morning.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's good.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's the first step to victory.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're in denial, you're going nowhere.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, uh, look at verse 34 then.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: Who is he that condemns?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: So we don't condemn people.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's by the grace of God that we're not like the drunk in the ditch.
• 17:28
  unknown: Yeah.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: Or the one hooked on prescription drugs.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God who makes intercession for us.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's what it says a while ago.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord Jesus loves us, we're in a covenant, and he's making intercession for us to the Father God.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: Can't lose.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: I don't see how.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's look at 1 John 1, 7 to 9.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: Some more scripture that's difficult tonight.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't mean to be confusing anyone, but I have to go over this sometimes because people still don't understand these verses of scripture.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: And especially those that that watch on the internet, there's a lot of Africans that do, believe it or not.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: If we walk in the spirit, everybody say walk in the spirit.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Ding ding, that's key right there.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: So we're not going to be doing the works of the flesh if we're walking in the spirit.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: But before we understand how to walk in the spirit, we've got to understand what it means to be in the spirit.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if the Holy Spirit's in you, you're in the spirit.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Your understanding's unfruitful.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: If we walk in the Spirit, that's the way we're living.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we're in fellowship one with another.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: So we're at fellowship with God and fellowship with each other.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: If we're all walking in the light.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now I can't have fellowship if somebody's walking in darkness.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: They're lost.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: But you can get around people and you can tell them in five minutes what spirit they have, can't you?
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because we're spirit.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: And if your spirit doesn't match up with somebody, that is the Holy Spirit talking to you.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: Not with words, but perceptions.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: So we need to listen to that.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Be considerate and stay in love if we can, but we need to listen to those impulses in our inner man, which is the new man, which is the divine nature.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's intertwined with our human spirit to walk in newness of life, resurrected right now, and always will be.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: So when we're walking in the light and we have blood, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son cleanses us from all sin.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody say all sin.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: Now the condition, listen now, is walking in the light of the gospel, walk in the light of the word that you have right now.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Now there's no excuse to be ignorant about it because we've got a Bible.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so once you hear the truth, now we're all accountable to walk in that truth, which is the light of God's Word.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: And if we will simply obey that and do that, and it's a good thing.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: It leads us out of darkness into this marvelous light.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: And on that basis alone, we are automatically forgiven.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to say it again.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_01: Because the blood of Jesus, God's Son, cleanses us, cleanses us from all sin.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: The condition is to walk in the light.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to go around and say, oh God, please forgive me for this.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: Please forgive me for that.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: I did this wrong, please forgive me.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: No, if you walk in the light of God's word, the blood of Christ is cleansing us, and it's an automatic deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're cleansing sin 24-7.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a child of God.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: There's no condemnation.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Because we're innocent free.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Did you understand what I've done?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be right back to the message.
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  SPEAKER_00: But first, we want to take a moment to think of fine words of international heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fine word for heart is the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Powerful message with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Randy Davis.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, in verse 8, people get confused.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we say we had no sin, we deceive ourselves, the truth's not in us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're all just sinners.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I beg your pardon.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a good Baptist boy.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: This guy gets up to sing, hadn't been saved in a few months.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: He's getting ready to sing a good old gospel ship song.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said, Well, I'm just an unworthy sinner, saved by grace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can I have a scripture?
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  SPEAKER_01: One.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not in there.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: We were sinners, but now the Bible calls us saints.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christians.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: They were called Christians first in Antioch.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a big difference.
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  SPEAKER_01: The blood of Jesus is the difference.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because a Christian has his sins forgiven, all of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we will make heaven our home if we walk in the light.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christ's blood continually cleanses us from all sins, known and unknown.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: But we still have to repent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that so much to ask?
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: How many are going to walk in the light of God's Word?
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  SPEAKER_01: So what's this verse mean?
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  SPEAKER_01: If we have no sin nature, that's what it means.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: If we say we have no old nature to deal with, we're deceiving ourselves, and the truth about that subject is not in us.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't mean we're not Christians.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Just we don't understand what's going on here.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_01: And if we get a hold of this, folks, it will set you free.
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  SPEAKER_01: You won't be like you used to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: You won't have to fight against sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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  SPEAKER_01: I said Jesus did.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: He took it all on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of it, past, present, and future.
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  SPEAKER_01: All put on his shoulders for us.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: But now verse 9 is different.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: Now we're back to the works of the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which what that's what the sin nature causes us to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: The works of the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand that?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not taught in America, very little that I know about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because people walk out the door.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, where are they going?
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: Now, verse 9, if we confess our sins, now we understand this.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you don't confess your sins to a man, you confess your sins to God.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: Besides that, when I got saved, I couldn't name off all the sinning I'd done.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: It just piles up and it gets worse and worse.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you just have to admit I've sinned.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And God knows all about them.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_01: But when you admit you've sinned, there's no one here that hadn't sinned.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: But when a person admits he or she has sinned, and they turn from that lifestyle of sinning, understanding the old nature is what's causing the problem.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: We come to the cross and the blood of Christ is put on our life, and we become born of the Spirit of God, changed to be a son and a daughter of God Almighty.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the way that it works.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: The only way that it works.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: But you got to turn loose of all wrongdoing.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't mean it.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: The thing of it is, if we break one commandment, we're guilty of all.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: So we just have to fess up.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we confess, this is the apostle talking.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I could preach that, but I don't want to be abrasive.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we confess our sins, we John said we.
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  SPEAKER_01: If we confess our sins, not if you haven't sinned, what's to confess?
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  SPEAKER_01: But to be on the safe side, Lord, if I have sinned somewhere, see, we go there.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I have sinned somewhere, please forgive me.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Better to be safe than sorry.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to do that.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, if we do wrong, we know what sin is, and then now we've got to confess it to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: You go to prayer, you go to your dad, say, I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's faithful and just to forgive us.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of have an amen for somebody in the church.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: He's faithful and just to forgive us.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: He said he would.
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  SPEAKER_01: How much?
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: Seven times seven, we're supposed to forgive people.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: God will do more than that.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even sin 490 times in a day.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody said, Well, I just can't live one day without sinning.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: This guy goes, Well, couldn't you go five minutes without sinning?
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, just live your life five minutes at a time.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: Other people, I'm not getting out of bed today.
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  SPEAKER_01: I might sin.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's crazy.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: Folks, but there are people that think that way.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: Get out of that bed.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like somebody said, Don't you get in that bed?
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: That Arkansas slang.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Don't you go to bed.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think Stacy was told that because she turned 50.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't you get on that bed and get depressed.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: See, that's the old nature.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: We want to feel sorry for ourselves, right?
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: Just confess your sins.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: He's faithful to us to forgive us our sins.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody say, our.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: Folks, every one of us here, man, we got it made.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: And cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: Cleanse.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: We're not just washed by the blood.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: We're not just covered, we're washed by the blood.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Old Testament saints were covered, their sins were covered until Christ came.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: But now, because he shed his precious blood on the cross, now we're cleaned by his blood.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said two weeks ago, when Satan sees you, he sees the blood of Christ, not you.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: He sees the new nature, the holy one, the overcoming one, the greater ones in you.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: That's who he sees.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: But if you don't know that, Satan can beat up on you.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: Satan can only beat up on us when we're sinning.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-oh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now let's look at 1 John chapter.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: Wait a minute.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: Let's let's go down to Revelation 9.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want to close tonight by some symptoms of the Antichrist spirit in our society.
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  SPEAKER_01: What I've been talking about is how Satan works to believers and non-believers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the war that's going on in the believers' hearts, trying to overcome on our own, and they can't do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It cannot be done.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: Christ is the overcomer.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so we depend upon Him to help us, and He gives the Holy Spirit to help us overcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: When the Holy Spirit draws on you, which is his pure love, then you need to respond because he's calling you.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: See?
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: But we have a problem in our society today with the Antichrist spirit.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: He's been around a long time, even in John's day.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: The first thing I see about an Antichrist spirit in the church.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Repentance message is rejected.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to hear about getting repenting.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_01: We just want to be forgiven and go on and keep living where we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: It won't work.
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  SPEAKER_01: God won't accept it.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Repentance is required.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: Except we repent, we'll all likewise perish.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus' first message was repent, yeah, the kingdom of God is at hand.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: John Baptist, same thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Repent.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: That was the message.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: Nothing's changed.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: The only way a person can be saved is to repent of their sins.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, that requires some action.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: But we have this message.
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  SPEAKER_01: If anybody preaches repentance, it's usually rejected because people think, well, I don't need to repent.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not so bad.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you are.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: Pride's terrible.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the crowd gets small when the preacher begins to hold the garden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Number two.
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  SPEAKER_01: Terrible trouble can hit, and yet people do not change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe for a few days or a few weeks, then they fall right back into it.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: So severe problems and trouble can serve to get our attention, but it doesn't change a person.
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  SPEAKER_01: For example, in Revelation 9 21.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Neither repented they of their murderers, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: So these people in the future absolutely refuse to repent.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: They'd rather die than repent.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's antichrist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Folks, we need to be quick to repent now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because if you think you can fool God, we're deceived.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: And then let's go to chapter 16 and verse 9.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_01: Same book.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's see if I can find it here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And men were scorched with great heat and blaspheme the name of God, which had power over these plagues, and they repented not to give him glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, how bad has it got to get before people will get their head out of the dark place and repent?
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, how bad does it gotta get?
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, people, eh, one of these days, I just don't have time to live for God.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: But when you're in the hospital bed for six months flat on your back, you'll have time to think about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And don't say it won't happen.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yet these people were so filled with demons and uh loving their works of the flesh and wanting to be their own God and everything else, they refused to repent.
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  SPEAKER_01: That time is fast coming upon this world.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: Do you hear what the preacher's saying now?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: People refuse to repent.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: We want to go to a church where we don't have to change.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: That isn't a church.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_01: If there's no change, there's no gospel being preached.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: And yet we get the big crowd and a lot of money, but they're all going to hell.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Sin cannot get into heaven.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so what happens?
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: People blame God.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, look what all God let happen to me.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: I've heard that so much.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: The devil is the one that blames God for things that happen to us as bad.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: Look at Job.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_01: Something happens bad to us, God forbid, but you know, we're on this earth and we're going to have some trouble from time to time.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: Don't blame God.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: None of us can point a finger in God's face and blame him for any one thing.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: God is good, his mercy endures forever.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: If anything bad happens to us, the devil did it, or we did it to ourselves, or it's just an accident.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_01: You can't blame God for everything that's bad.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: But people do, they blame God.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: Noah preached the same message for over a hundred years, and not one repented.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: Not one conversion, not one believed him.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's like listening to preacher like that.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: Same message for a hundred years.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: Repent, God's gonna destroy the world, get in the boat.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: That was it.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_01: No way you're crazy.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: Well, when it began to rain and God shut the door, it was too late.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Don't send away your day of grace.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_01: The last verse tonight is Matthew 24 and verse 37.
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  SPEAKER_01: But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even some of you, you don't believe what I'm saying.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_01: You remember?
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  SPEAKER_01: The rich man died and went to hell.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: Lazarus went to paradise.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: The rich man in hell lifted up his eyes being torment and then flames, and he said, He just wanted a drop of water and torment in the flames.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Father Abraham, send somebody somebody back to my family.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: Father Abraham, he was a Jew.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: Hello.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_01: Send somebody back to my family.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want them to come here.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: Abraham said, If they won't believe the prophets, they won't believe somebody back from the dead.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: So it is today.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: Let's stand it.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for listening today.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to work the works of the flesh.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want to do wrong.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we might as Christians.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_01: But we're in covenant with God, and we can ask for forgiveness.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: He'll cleanse us automatically.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: But we've got to walk in the light.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_01: You understand that?
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_01: But there may be some here tonight, you've never started this walk.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not saying it's easy.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_01: If it was easy, everybody would be safe.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: But God will be with you.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: You can live your life on your own.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_01: Or you can live your life with the Lord walking with you.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_01: And helping you.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: And empowering you and teaching you and being with you 24-7.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: And being a friend that sits closer than a brother to you.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, he promises he'll never leave you nor forsake you.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_01: But you got to come to him by faith.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_01: Father, I've delivered this message tonight.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: We all have the ill nature to overcome, but it can be killed out and crucified by surrendering to the Lordship of Jesus.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: I pray for those tonight that might need to do that, one, two, or whatever, that they'll give their life to you.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_01: And the process will begin, but they will overcome it as they walk in faith in Jesus' name.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to it.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: I would must be a half of the podcast.