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Episode 77: The John Epistles IV · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Oh the love that drew Salvation's plan, Oh the grace that brought it down
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to man, Oh the mighty gulf that God did span. At Calvarie mercy,
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there was great grace, was free, pardon there was multiplied to me.
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It was there that my burden soul found liberty at cal Re. Thank
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you Jesus for your shed blood. Thank you for the great hope of salvation.
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Thank you for forgiving us, washing us, casting our sins in the
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sea of forgetfulness. As far as the east is from the west, so
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far have you removed our transgressions from Thank you for life, life more abundantly.
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Thank you for Amen, this great hope that we have, and the
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future, Oh God, that you have already Amen, ordained for each and
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every one of them that put their trust in you. God, be with
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us today. Open our eyes and ears and hearts, O God, and
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help us, Oh God, to be that people, Amen, examples salt
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light that city set up on a hill, so that we may be ready
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when you return, be thout glory fighting your people today. Amen and Amen.
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All right, God, bless you again. We welcome you once more
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once more to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA broadcast and podcast,
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and of course I am your host, Pastor al Zachary. And today,
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of course we amen, are as always thankful to the Lord for this
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opportunity a man to disseminate the word of the Living God. Amen. We
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have been called to speak the truth in love. Amen, to preach the
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word, to be instant in season out of season, reprove, rebuke,
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exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time shall come the Bible
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a man prophesied, and we know that it is already here. The time
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will come when they will not want to hear sound doctrine, but they will
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teach a heap brother to themselves, teachers having itching ears and turn away from
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the truth. Amen. But we are to be steadfast, unmovable, and
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always abounding in the love of God. Amen. And that is why,
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Amen, we do what we do because He loved us first, Amen,
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and we love him. We love the people of God. We love to
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see people come out of the darkness into the light. The Bible says there's
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more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repents than ninety nine that needs no
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repentance. Amen. So we rejoice a man in the Great Salvation, a
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man again, that Jesus brought down, a man to this earth for us
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to save us, to keep us, to deliver us, a man to
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set us free from the power of darkness, from the power of sin,
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from the power of Satan, from the power of the Grave. Amen.
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And we are delivered. We are more than conquerors. We are a man
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victorious all because of what Jesus the Christ has done on our behalf. And
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so we are again eternally grateful to Him for a man, this great salvation
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and this calling Amen, in which we stand. Amen. If you've been
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following along with us, we are in a study of the John Epistles,
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and if you have your bibles, we certainly invite you to go with us
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to First John chapter number three on today. This is session number four in
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this series on the John Epistles, Session number four, First John, chapter
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number three. Amen. If you have your bibles with us, I mean
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with you, of course, we certainly invite you to a man follow along
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with us, Amen, and see for yourself what is written in the Word
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of the Living God. Amen. And again, of course, those of
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you who listen to this Amen radio broadcast it can be heard each and every
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are broadcasting each and every Sunday at seven am and again at eight pm,
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each and every Sunday, Love eight sixty Am. Amen, seven Am and
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eight pm a Man Atlanta, Georgia. Amen. And again, of course,
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those of you who listen by way of podcasts, this podcast is available
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of course through multiple outlets, and all you have to do is do a
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search Amen in your search engine, type in End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast
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and you should certainly find it again available through multiple outlets. And we are
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of course again grateful to the Lord for this opportunity to be a vessel Amen.
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Decreasing as He increases, Amen. As John the Baptist said, I
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must decrease he increases, Amen. And we thank God again for adding to
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his church daily. I believe that it's still happening. God is adding to
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his church daily such as should be saved. Amen. So we thank God
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again for Amen. The word of the Living God that keeps us, leads
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us, guides us, protects us, and directs us. Amen. So
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to the word of the Lord. If again, if you have your Bibles,
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please go with us to the epistle, the letter, the first letter
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of the Apostle John, Amen, chapter number three. And of course,
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as we've already said in our first session by way of introduction, this great
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Apostle was one of those who were in the inner circle, as it were,
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of the apostles, along with Peter and James. His brother a man,
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and he had a man intimate, a man fellowship, a man with
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Jesus, a man while he was here for his earthly ministry. He was
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one of the first of the apostles, the disciples Amen, to be called
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to follow Jesus. And of course he was there from the beginning all the
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way to the end, a man when Jesus was there on the cross,
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and of course even after he rose from the dead. It was Peter and
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John who ran to the tomb when they got the message from the women that
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Jesus was not there a man. They ran to the tomb saw for themselves,
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and then, of course, after his resurrection they ate with him,
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fellowship with him a man, and saw him as he ascended back up to
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heaven from whence he came. And so we are not getting second hand,
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third hand a man information, a man from some other source, but from
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a first hand eyewitness, a man who saw the majesty and splendor of the
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Lord Jesus Christ and was a day to day a man observant of his earthly
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ministry. Amen's First John, chapter number three, beginning at verse number one,
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Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should
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be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us because it
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did not know him. And let me just go on and read a few
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verses, and I'm gonna come back. Amen, I'm gonna come back to
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this, Amen, beloved. Verse number two. Now listen to the Bible
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says, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been
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revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is revealed,
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we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
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Verse number three. Listen what the Bible says, and everyone who has this
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hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. Whoever commits sin also
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commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that he was manifested
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to take away our sins, and in him there is no sin. Whoever
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abides in him does not sin. Whoever sins has not seen him nor known
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him. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness
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is righteous, just as he is righteous. He who sins is of the
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devil. For the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose,
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the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.
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Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for his seed remains
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in him, and he cannot sin because he has been born of God.
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In this verse number ten, the children of God and the children of the
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devil are manifest. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God. Nor
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is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that
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you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not
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as Cain, who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And
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why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.
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So do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you,
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we know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren.
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He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his
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brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding
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in him. Amen. First John, chapter number three. I've just read
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in your hearing verses one through fifteen. Behold, what manner? What kind
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of love is this that the Father has bestowed, granted, given amen to
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us, that we should be called children of God. God's love for his
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children is unfathomable, unfathomable. It is beyond our ability. It is beyond
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scope, It is beyond breath. It is, it is. It is
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a giving love. It is an undying love. It is a surpassing love.
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It is a long suffering love. Oh yes it is. And it
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is also a comforting love. It is an abiding love. Hey, Oh,
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he'll never leave, he'll never forsake. Amen. It is a love
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that is unmatchable, unprecedented, a man incomprehensible, far beyond our ability,
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to a man grasp in our finite understanding, This love that God has a
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man was demonstrated Amen. For us on display in the what Jesus described as
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no greater love, sacrifice of himself, a man yielding up his body,
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giving of himself. Amen. He who knew no sin became sin. He
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died the death that we deserve to die. Amen. He did not,
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as he said, Amen, no one takes my life of me. He
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said, I lay it down willingly. Amen. He did not a man,
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make himself the Bible says, of no reputation. Amen. But he
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took on the form of a servant, a man. He humbled himself and
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became obedient, obedient to the death of the cross, as you remember.
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Amen. In the garden of Gathsemine, he said, not my will,
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but thine be done. This is the great love of God. For God
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so loved the world John, that he gave his only begotten son, that
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whoever believes in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life. And
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I love again what the Psalmist says in some number eight. I believe it
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is what is man? What is man? That you are mindful of him,
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and that you would come down to visit him. It was this again,
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amazing love of God. This outstanding again incomprehensible love of God, in
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this atonement that we have received the adoption. This is how we were adopted,
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ladies and gentlemen, without the shedding the blood. There is no remission
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of sins. Amen. And now, oh, this is what Johnny is
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so Amen, amazed in his you know, in his writing and relaying of
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this, so that we could get the fullness of this. Under what kind
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of love is this? That God would make his enemies his children? And
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may, oh, don't forget that the Bible says we were enemies of God.
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Amen. Oh, yeah, all we like sheep gone astray. God
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looks down from heaven to see among the children of men, if there are
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any that does righteousness, any that does what is right? No, not
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one, but love, the love of God, the goodness of God,
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the mercy of God, the grace of God. Amen. Jesus said,
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I came to save sinners. I came to seek and to save that which
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was lost. Amen. And all of us were lost in our sins,
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without a hope, without a future. But God, the apostle Paul writes
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in Ephesians. But God, who is rich in mercy. So the bestowing
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of this love speaks of his gracious gift of mercy and forgiveness in not giving
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us what we had all earned, not giving us what we deserve. Amen.
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And I take you right now very quickly to Psalm one O three.
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I want to read a few verses there. Because God did not give us
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what we really deserve. Amen. Amen. The Bible says the wages of
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sin is death. All have sinned, so therefore all deserved to what die.
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But Jesus came. He said that you would have life and having more
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abundantly. Amen. God Amen, in his graciousness, in his loving kindness,
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forgave us Amen. Not not not imputing to us what we deserve.
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Amen. Amen. But but but he also listened by the way. He
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also did not leave us in the hopeless condition of sin and death. Amen.
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Having the victory over us, Amen, Grave, old grave, Where
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is your victory? Death? Where is your sting? Amen? Jesus took
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all of that away. Amen. And again all of us deserved death,
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but he granted to us like he bestowed it upon us. He gave it
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to us some one O three looked down at verse number ten through verse fourteen.
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He, that is, God, hath not dealt with us according to
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our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Amen. For as
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the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them
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that fear him. Amen. As far as the east is from the west,
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so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. As a father pitieth
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his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth
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our frame. God knows our condition, He knows our fallen nature. Amen.
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He knows, he knows, He knows that man from his youth is
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evil, his heart is evil, desperately wicked. God knows our frame,
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the Bible says, and he remembers that we are dust a man. Behold,
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what manner of love? What kind of love is this that the Holy
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God? Amen, the Righteous God. A man will come down, a
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man from glory, a man take on human flesh, Amen, and then
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give himself Amen, shed his blood. That's what the apostle Paul reminded the
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Amen the elders in chapter number twenty. I believe feed the Church of God,
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which he has purchased with his own blood. What kind of love is
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this? Amen? That the Father has bestowed upon us? That now we
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amen, should be called the children of God. And the Bible tells us
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therefore, the world does not know us because it did not know him.
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Amen, so beloved verse number two. Now, oh I like that.
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Now now, oh now now no no, no, no, no,
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no no, see no it's not this is not future, This is not
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when we get to heaven. Amen. No, no, no, no
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no. Now. We are children of God right here in this present world.
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And it listened to what the Bible says, and it has not yet
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been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is revealed,
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when Jesus returns, we shall be like him, for we shall see
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him as he is. Oh, I love that. I love that,
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right now, right now, in this present world, in this very moment
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of time, in eternity, we are children of God. And again,
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as the apostle reminds us or teaches us, certainly there is so much more
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that is yet to be revealed in us and to us in glory. And
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again the apostle John has this confidence. He has this assurance, a man
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of knowing that the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ is
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going to be one of the most radically transformative moments a man in our glorious
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future. And I'm gonna get you to the Apostle Paul, excuse me,
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because he described excuse me, he understood and described this as well. It's
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going to be one of the most radically transformative moments in our glorious future.
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When these mortal bodies amen, these temporal tabernacles in which we now live,
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amen, they will be changed, the Bible says, from mortal to immortal,
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as we will be like Jesus, and we're going to see him excuse
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me, as he is now again. As I mentioned already, the apostle
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John was one of the three apostles excuse me, who had a man of
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the privilege of being one of those in the Inner Circle, and he got
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a glimpse of the glorified transformation of Jesus, the transfiguration, before Jesus laid
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down his life, and before Jesus got up out of the grave, before
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he a man witnessed Jesus alive and saw him a man, a man go
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back up to Heaven on the cloud. I mean the apostle John who wrote
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this. He along with Peter and James, they saw Jesus transfigured right before
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their eyes in the mountain. Amen, and and and and and and and
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they saw him there talking with Moses and Elijah. Amen, and and and
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and and and and and what a glorious Amen, insight, what a glorious
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understanding that this apostle has, and and oh, my God, what a
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blessed assurance that he a man relates to us. We know that when he
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shall appear, we are going to be We're going to be changed. Amen,
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We're going to be transformed. Amen, this old body must put on
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a Paul said, listen, for we know that if this earthly house is
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dissolved, we have a temple, a tabernacle not made with hands, that
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is eternal in the heavens. And again he wrote to the Philippian Church in
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Philippians, chapter three, verses twenty and twenty one. Listen what Paul says.
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Listen, listen, listen, because the John says, now are we
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the children of God? Not right, not later, but now we have
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dual ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God, people of God.
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You have dual citizenship. Amen. The Bible tells us, now we sit
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together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, and Paul writes to the Philippian Church,
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for our verse twenty of chapter three, for our citizenship is in heaven.
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Where's your citizenship? It is in heaven, Amen, from which we
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also eagerly wait for the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen at this,
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Listen to this verse twenty one Philippians, Chapter three. Who will transform?
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That means he's going to change. There's going to be a radical change
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this old human nature, the death sentence that is upon us, the decay,
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the aging, the sickness, the afflictions, the pain, the sicknesses,
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all of these diseases, everything that attacks our mortal bodies. Amen,
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There's going to be a transformation. This is what he says. He is
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going to transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to his glorious body.
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This is exactly what John writes about a man, saying that when he
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shall appear, we're gonna be like him. We're gonna this mortal. Paul
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writes to the Corinthian Church. This mortal must put on immortality, This corruption
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must put on in corruption. He said, behold, I show you a
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mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
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When is it gonna happen in that glorious moment at the sound of the trumpet.
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The Bible says, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
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first and foremost the dead in Christ are going to rise incorruptible, Amen,
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and we're gonna be caught up together. The Bible, this is all
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gonna happen in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. We're gonna
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be those who are alive in the remaining at the coming of the Lord,
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We're gonna be caught up together with them, those who have already preceded us
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in death, who are in Christ Jesus. We are all going to be
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reunited together in the clouds. The Bible says, to meet the Lord in
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the air, and then listen what he says, and so shall we forever
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be with the Lord. That's the hope that we have. That's the assurance
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that we have. And this is exactly what the apostle John was writing about.
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Amen as well. Amen, we know that when he shall appear,
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Amen, we are going to be like him. We are going to see
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him as he is. Amen. And again our hope, our future.
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Amen. Listen, it's not in this world. Yeah, we have to
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live here, we have to occupy here. Amen. And God wants us
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to live and occupy here. Amen. And he wants us to amen again,
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be those living epistles, a man vessels of honor. Amen, the
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people of God, that peculiar people, that a man, that holy nation,
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that city set on the hill, sought in the light of the earth.
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Amen, That's who we are to be. Amen, letting. The
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Bible says Jesus, commanding our light to shine before men, that they may
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see our good works and give glory to the God of Heaven. Amen.
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So our citizenship, ladies and gentlemen, even though we again occupying here,
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our citizenship is in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for Jesus.
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The Bible says, they that look for him. To them that look for
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him, shall he appear the second time, without saying unto salvation. We
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are eagerly waiting for the Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Bible says,
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who will transform our lowly body, that it may be conformed to His glorious
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body, according to the working by which He is able, even to subdue
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all things to himself. He has all power all authority, Amen, all
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power, all authority. He is the one who transforms, He is the
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one who changes, He is the one who saves. Amen. Oh my
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God, thank you Lord, thank you. We listening. Hey, we
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have a hope that again transcends this Amen, a little earthly body in which
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we live. Amen. It goes so far beyond Amen. So so so,
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if you have listened what the Bible says in chapter verse number three,
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going back to First John, chapter three, verse three, if you have
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this hope in you, this is what the Bible says, you purify yourself
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just as Jesus is pure. Everyone, the Bible says, verse three,
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Everyone who has this hope. What hope, the hope of glory, Amen,
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The hope that you're gonna be transformed, the hope that you're gonna be
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like you think you're gonna be like Jesus, transformed, changed, glorified with
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him, Amen, in heaven, in glory forever. And you, oh
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my God, have no desire to be like him while you're here on this
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earth. Do you think that's gonna happen? Ladies and gentlemen, you're gonna
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you think that you're going to be transformed. You think that you're gonna be
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changed. You think you're gonna be like Jesus and be with Jesus when he
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comes back, But you don't want to be like him and with him prior
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to his return. Oh help us, Jesus, Help us, Jesus,
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Oh help us, help us, help us, help us. I know
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some of y'all. All there, he goes again. Listen, I'm just
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a messenger here. The Bible says, everyone who has this hope in him
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purifies himself, just as Jesus. If you are hoping, if your hope
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is in Jesus, Amen, If the hope of glory is in you,
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if the Holy Spirit is in you, amen, if you have been changed,
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amen. The Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he
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is a what new creature creation. The old is passed away, and behold
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all things things become new. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies him.
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In other words, Amen, listen, and we're gonna get to this,
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Amen, Because this is what the apostle is speaking of. He's gonna
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make it crystal crystal, crystal crystal clear. Amen, that we are to
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listen what the Bible says, come out from among them, and be ye
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separate. Saith the Lord touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive
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you, and you will be my sons and daughters. Saith the Lord Amen.
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We are to be a holy people. We are to live godly Amen.
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Right here, the Bible says, in this present world, looking for
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that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,
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God Amen has designed for all of his children, not some of them,
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all of them to live holy right here in this present world. Everyone who
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has this hope in him, John says, purifies himself, just as Jesus
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is pure. Whoever all right here it is, ladies and gentlemen, I'm
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the reporter reporting what the apostle John a Man wrote to the church verse number
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four. Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. Sin
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is lawlessness. If you are practicing sin, you are practicing lawlessness. You
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are a law breaker. You are a lawless individual. If you practice sin.
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John gonna listen. This is not me. John is making this crystal
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crystal clear in the priests in the in the following verses, he makes it
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crystal crystal clear because there is a distinction ladies and gentlemen, Amen, there's
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a distinct. Do not be deceived. Do not deceive yourself. Amen.
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Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know,
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John says verse five that he that is, Jesus, was manifested.
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That's why he came down here, Amen, to take away our sins.
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And in him there is no sin. Now again, Jesus did not just
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die for our sins, just to forgive us our sins. But ladies and
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gentlemen, Jesus died so that you and I would no longer practice sinning.
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What shall we, then, say, Paul writes Romans, chapter number six,
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Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? The resounding answer to
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that rhetorical question is God forbids. How can we? How shall we?
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How should we? How could we that are dead to sin? Paul says,
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live any longer? Therein? How is it that you and I,
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being people of God sins, forgiven sins, taking away sins, casting the
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sea of forgiveness, and yet we continue to practice sin? No, No,
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the Bible makes it clear. Whoever commits, and John is gonna again,
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I'm just gonna let the Bible speak for himself, because he he what
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he's what he's simply relating here is practicing sin, practicing. He's already told
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us, Amen, the very first chapter. I believe it is a man,
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if any man sin. We have an advacant with the Father, Jesus
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Christ, the Righteous, and he is and he's talking about us. He's
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talking about people of God, and he is faithful and just to forgive us
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of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. There is no contradiction
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between what John wrote earlier, Amen, in what he's saying now in this
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third chapter. What he's talking about here is the practicing, living in lying
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down in wallowing in sin. That's what. And I listen, please please,
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I don't. I don't, I don't. I don't even understand.
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Anybody who reads the word of God. Amen. Anybody who reads the Word
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of God, who has the Holy Spirit in them, surely understands this.
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Amen. This is so crystal clear. Amen, It is crystal clear.
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If you really have the hope of glory in you, if you really have
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Jesus in you, your desire to sin is taken away again. You still
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have that human nature. Paul wrote about it old, wretched man that I
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am. When I would do good, evil is there. I know what
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I ought to do, But then I find myself not doing what I ought
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to be doing, but what I ought not to be doing. That's what
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I find myself doing. Who is going to deliver me? There's only one
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who can deliver any of us from these vile bodies, from this human nature,
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from this flesh, from this corruption, Amen, from the power and
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persuasion of sin, satan, wickedness, evil. Only he can do that.
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And that's why you have to have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost,
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the power of God on the inside of you. If any man and
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had not Romans eight or nine the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, you
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don't belong to him. And this is the reason why people who profess to
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be Christians, Amen, are still wallowing in sin, is because they have
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never received the Holy ghosts? Have you received the Holy ghosts? Since you
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believe, a lot of people call themselves believers, the Bible says, the
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devils believe and tremble. The difference, ladies and gentlemen, is whether or
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not you are a practitioner of sin or a practitioner of righteousness. And again
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the apostle John, who sat and ate and commune and fellowship and walked and
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talked and listened to Jesus. He's relating to us firsthand what he learned from
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the Master himself. Whoever commits sin is a lawless person. And John says,
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you know that Jesus came. Jesus was manifested. Jesus took on human
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flesh in order to take away our sins, and in him there is no
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sin. Look at verse six. I'm just reading to you what the Bible
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says. Whoever abides in him? Are you in Jesus? John, chapter
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fifteen, abide in me and my word in you? Amen, you cannot
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do anything of your own. He said, I am divine. You are
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the branches. Abide in me. So John says, who ever abides in
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him in Jesus does not sin. Whoever sins neither has neither seen him nor
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known him. And again I go back to this again, what Jesus said,
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There's gonna be a lot of folk coming in the last day, saying,
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as it were, Lord Lord, have we not done this and done
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that, and done this and done that, and we did it in your
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name? What was Jesus' response, or what is his response to them,
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Depart from me, you workers of what iniquity, iniquity, you are sinners,
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you are lawless. And he says, I never knew you. That's
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what Johnny's saying here. Whoever abides in him does not sin. Whoever sins
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has neither seeing him nor known him. So little children, ah, listen,
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let no one deceive you. I don't care how many titles they have.
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I don't care what kind of reputation they have. There are a lot
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of lying little charlatan devils, a man satanic, a man ministers, a
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man masquerading amen in sheep's clothing. They are wolves, and they are deceivers.
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They are liars. They are the blind leading the blind. And John
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says, don't let anyone deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous,
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just as he is righteous verse number eight. But he who sins, that
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is practices sinning, is of the devil, For the devil has sinned from
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the beginning. And this is the purpose, this is the reason, This
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is why Jesus came, y'all for this purpose. The Son of God was
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manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. Now Jesus is destroying
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the works of the devil, has destroyed the works of the devil. Amen,
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and and and it's and it should be destroyed in our lives. How
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is it that we can still be practicing what the devil wants us to do,
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what the devil designs and desires for us to do. That that's I'm
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sorry. I'm sorry, folks, I'm sorry. That's just not it's not
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it's not biblical, it's not compatible, it's not scriptural. You are in
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error if you think that you can practice sin and still be a child of
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God. You are this seved and John says, little children, let no
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one deceive you. He who practice practices righteousness, he is righteous, just
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as Jesus is righteous. But he who sins is of the devil. For
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the devil sin from the beginning. And this is the reason why Jesus,
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the Son of God, was manifested in order to destroy the works of the
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devil. Whoever verse number nine has been born of God again. The apostle
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Paul and Timothy writing about the sheer of the foundation of God, Let everyone
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who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity period. Whoever verse number nine
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has been born of God, does not sin. Now again, he's talking
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about practicing sin. Listen what the Bible says. For his seed remains in
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him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God. Now I'm
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persuaded beyond. And this is nothing to do with me on a personal level.
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Amen. And it has nothing to do with anybody that I look at
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and observe of. I'm just going from the Bible, the word of God.
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Truly saved saints do not prat this sinning. Why because the Holy Spirit
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is in them and they cannot sin. That is practicing, is what Johnny
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saying. Because there's a change again the old man, the old things pass
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away, and behold, all things become new. There's a change. If
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any man be in Christ again, he is a what new creation, new
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creature, the new man put off the old man put on the new man.
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Paul writes to the church. Also, because the old man is crucified
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with Christ, a man buried by baptism in baptism with him. That's what
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the Bible speaks of. We are buried in baptism, by baptism with Christ,
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and we rise to walk in a newness of life. Where Sin no
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longer has dominion over us. That's what the Bible teaches, Sin shall not
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have dominion over you. Oh my God, this is so crystal clear.
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Listen to what the Bible says. I'm let me, let me, let
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me get the verse number ten in this in what in what John is just
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talking about. And he's gonna again clarified even more if you haven't gotten it
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yet, He's gonna make it crystal clear in this how you live, how
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you walk? Amen, In this, the children of God and the children
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of the devil are manifest. You're either one or the other. You're either.
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Jesus said it again, no one can serve two masters. You're either
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a child of God God or you are a child of the devil. You
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cannot be both. You cannot be both. Listen what the Bible says,
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verse ten. Highlight this in your bible. Whoever does not practice righteousness is
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not of God. You gotta live it. We gotta we gotta live it,
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y'all. Not not talk it, not talk it, not talk it.
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It's not in word, but in deed. It's what we do,
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not what we say. Jesus made that clear. These people honor me with
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their lips, but their heart is far from me. In this the difference
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comes crystal clear. Whoever does not practice righteousness, it's not of God.
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Nor is he who does not love his brother. This is what the Bible
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says. For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning,
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that we should love one another, not as Cain, who was of the
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wicked one. See, Cain was a child of the devil. He was
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of the devil. He was a murderer, the first recorded murderer in the
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Bible. And who was the first murderer, Jesus said, the devil.
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Who's the first liar? The devil. The devil was the first sinner.
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Amen, And he's the father of lies, and he is a murderer.
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And Cain was one of his children. And that's why he killed his brother
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Abel. And John says, we are not to be as Cain, who
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was of the wicked one, murdered his brother. And listen what he says.
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Why did he kill him? Why did he murder him? Because his
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works were evil? Cain, his works were evil and able his brothers was
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righteous, jealousy, envy, hatred, jealousy, envy, hatred. He
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had the opportunity to repent, but he wouldn't. God spoke to him face
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to face, one on one. If you do what is right, that's
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what righteousness is. Doing what is right. Amen, do if you obey,
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if you be willing and obedient, the Bible says you eat the good
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of the land. If you do what is right, you will be accepted.
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Cain, excuse me. Verse thirteen. Do not marvel my brethren.
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Excuse me. I'm sorry, do not marvel my brother in John writes,
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if the world hates you, we know that we have passed from death to
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life because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides
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in death. Whoever hates his brother. Oh watch this, y'all is a
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murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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All right, let me finish this up verse number sixteen one John, So
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by this we know love. Amen, we listen. Love is not just
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an emotion. Love is not just some feeling, some goose bump, you
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know, a warm rush that go no no, no, uh uh.
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Love is to be demonstrated in action. It is deep. It is even
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when you have enemies who hate you and despitefully use you, who speak all
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manner of evil against you, falsely, Jesus said, for my namesake,
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love can rejoice love. Look at Roman. I'm sorry. First Corinthians,
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Chapter thirteen. Paul gives us a crystal clear understanding of how love operates and
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what love, true love agapae love is. Amen. By this we know
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love because and Jesus said again I said it earlier. Excuse me, this
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is the greater love that he laid down his life for us. By this
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we know love, John says, because he, Jesus laid down his life
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for us, and we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
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Amen. That's the greater love. That's true love. Oh, that's
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real love. That's that's oh you you I mean, willing to sacrifice,
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willing to amen, Uh, put others before yourself. Amen. That's that's
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not what we teach in our culture. That's certainly not the attitude prevailing in
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our world today, not in this culture. Oh no, Amen. But
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but that's that's that's what true love is. It's a selfless, giving,
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amen, kind of sacrificial uh. Love that is deep and abiding within us.
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And listen, we don't all get it all at one time. Amen.
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It is something we learn. And the more we first and foremost are
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appreciate what Jesus has done for us, and the more we a man are
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thankful, I believe, and the more that we focus on the great love
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that He has for us, then we can learn to love one another with
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the same kind of love. But see when when we don't have an appreciation,
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when we don't have a deep and a bodying affection and appreciation and understanding
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of what the debts the breath, Amen, the vastness of the love of
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Jesus that he demonstrates. When we don't love and appreciate and man, when
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we don't understand and grasp amen, what this love is and how it has
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a man radically transformed us and everyone a man who who comes to him,
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Amen, then we we cannot appreciate and unders what love is that we are
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to demonstrate toward our fellow man. Amen. He laid down his life for
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us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. This
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one of the Bible says verse seventeen. Whoever has this world's goods, Oh,
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that's the money, the treasures, the material things. Amen. And
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you see your brother in need the Bible says, and you shut up your
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heart from him. How does the love of God abide in you? Whoever
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has this world's good seize his brother in need shuts up his heart from him?
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How does the love of God abody him? John Ask, Love is
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again not lip service? Oh I love you, I love you, I
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love you. No, no, no, let's stop the lip service.
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It is in action, indeed, faith, James Wright, with our work
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just what dead love without demonstration is lip service? My little children. Let
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us not love in word all there it is verse eighteen. Let us not
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love in word or in tongue, just talking about it, but in deed,
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in action, in what we do, amen, and in truth.
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And by this we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our
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hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, the Bible says,
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God is greater than our heart, and he knows all things, and beloved.
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If our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.
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And whatever we ask, we receive from him because we keep his commandments and
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do those things that are pleasing in his sight. And this is his commandment,
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that we should be lead on the name of his son Jesus Christ and
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love one another, as He gave us commandment, believe on Jesus love one
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another verse twenty four. Now, who keeps his commandments abides in him,
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and he in him. And by this we know that He abides in us
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by the spirit whom he has given us, the Holy Spirit. Oh Lord,
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we thank you. We thank you for your word. We thank you
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for your servant, the apostle John, who wrote these words to the church.
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Lord, to help us to instruct us, to remind us of the
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great love that you've shown toward us. Help us to walk worthy of this
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vocation, to speak the truth in our hearts. Lord, we are looking
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forward to your soon return. Be thout glorified in your people. Everywhere.
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We pray and give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen.