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Living Waters of Grace March 9, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  Consumerism, right? That's the idolatry of our age.
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  We're not worshipping a statue anymore like they did back here.
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  Artemis was there, God of, you know, birth and some kind of
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  like a God of nature that they worship in this city of Sardis.
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  But we are worshippers of consumerism.
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  And what happens is whenever your mind gets latched onto
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  something you really want, whether it's a car or some
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  gadget in the house or whatever, isn't it funny how that's all
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  you think about? There's always something better,
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  flashier, more useful, more exciting to purchase.
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  Whether it's tools, home decor, cars, computers, or any other
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  number of things, our current culture is consumed by the idea
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  of owning the latest and greatest.
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  I know I'm tempted many times to look at buying a new tool to
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  make my work or my leisure more convenient, but God has more for
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  us. Pastor Clark reminds us that our
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  joy is not found in consumerism, in owning new cool stuff, but is
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  found solely in him. Now here's Pastor Clark in First
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  Peter Chapter 2 with today's edition of Living Waters of
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  Grace. Many of us, for whatever reason,
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  we get sidetracked so often and we see these other work.
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  So I'm going to go do these. And God said, well, I didn't
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  create you for that. I created you for this.
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  But I really want to do this. And the Lord said, no, no, come
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  over. This is, this is what I'll
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  empower you with. This is how I'll bless you.
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  This is how I'll use you. No, no, I want this.
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  I want to do this. And so we go do this.
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  And it's not perfect, it's weak, it's dead, it's stride, it wears
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  on us, it makes us breakdown. And eventually we say, I can't
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  do this anymore. And the Lord says, well, I never
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  asked you to do it. You're doing your works instead
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  of my works. He says my yoke is easy and my
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  burden is light. So if we're wearing a yoke and a
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  burden and we're trying to serve God and it's burning us out and
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  wearing us down, God's saying this is not the yoke I have for
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  you. Come back over here and humble
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  yourself and do these things. Well, Lord, that's doesn't seem
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  real important. Well, to me it's critically
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  important because if you do what I made you to do, people will
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  see me in your life. But if you do what you want to
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  do, they're going to see you in your life.
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  Big difference, isn't there. Go to Matthew chapter 5 for a
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  minute. Matthew 5 verse 14 Jesus is
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  speaking here says you are the light of the world.
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  A city that is set on the hill cannot be hidden, nor do they
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  light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand and
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  it gives light to all who are in the house.
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  This is to you and me. Let your light so shine before
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  men. Why?
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  So that they could think you're great.
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  You're you're an awesome Christian.
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  That you're this and you're that boy.
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  I wish I could be like her. I wish I could be like him.
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  No, that they may see your good works and glorify who?
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  Your Father in heaven. When people are glorifying the
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  church and glorifying the pastures.
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  The work is the flesh. The purpose of the works is that
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  people would see that would point them to the greatness of
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  our God. Turn to First Peter chapter 2.
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  First Peter chapter 2, verse 11 and 12.
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  Beloved, I beg you, as sojourners and pilgrims, God
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  sees you and me. If we're really his.
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  Hey, we're passing through this place.
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  This world isn't our home, is it?
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  As much as you like your house, it's temporal.
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  Someday someone else is going to be living in there.
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  I guarantee for most of us, 50 years from now to for the little
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  ones here, someone else going to be in that house.
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  We're just passing through. Don't get too attached to this
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  world. Cindy and I went to the home
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  show. If you guys ever get on the home
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  show in Pittsburgh, no one gave us free tickets.
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  That place is amazing down there and you get down there and you
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  want like everything. If I had this in my house, this
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  would be great. If I had this in my house, boy,
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  that refrigerator I have really isn't that good.
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  And this stove, Cindy's looking at this 36 inch stove.
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  There's no like no way. The one we have is plenty good
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  enough. She knows that.
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  But she was just like sort of lusting after it a little bit.
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  You know, I was lusting out of one of these ladders.
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  Like, I'm not mechanically inclined.
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  You ever seen those ladders that can shift into different
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  positions? You can make them all kind of
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  things, right? And I thought, I need something
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  like that. And I'm thinking, well, why?
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  I like, I don't go up in the ladder, but I've been wanting
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  one of these ladders for years. And I yeah, here's my credit
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  card, man, at $459. Get the ladder and all that, all
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  these extra parts to it. So I'm walking around and I'm
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  getting convicted, I'm getting buyer's remorse.
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  Well, I emailed the company, said cancel that order and I'm
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  calling the American Express company later today and
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  canceling that order takes 6 to 8 weeks to get it.
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  So I'm still in the clear. But you know, as I was walking
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  around, you know, after while I'm not getting overwhelmed,
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  people want you to buy this, buy that.
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  You get these certain mops that do these, they, they really make
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  them look good. They really work good when
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  you're there and then you take them home and it doesn't do the
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  same thing. It must be like a trick mop or
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  something. And then we laid in this bed.
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  It was so comfortable, man. And this guy from Southern
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  California, they just had that way about him.
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  They're just so like laid back and just like know how to get
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  into your head. And they're just like, man, just
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  like, you know, and Cindy's like, wow, this thing's so
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  comfortable. And, you know, we're talking.
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  And he says, well, the price of the mattress the, the bed is
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  normally 8500, but we have it for 5600.
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  And I'm like, I'm trying to act cool that that price doesn't
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  bother me, right? So he can tell looking at my
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  eyes, I'm still not buying. Then he says, we're going to
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  sell it to you guys at a special promotion today for 46.
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  Then it was 4500. Then he called me over in the
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  corner and he said, look, I need some leads here.
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  Now you got to promise me this one thing.
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  If I give you this really good price, you're going to tell
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  everybody else and I'm going to get a lot of customers, right?
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  I mean, it's like a con. I'm a salesman.
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  So I, I, I, I should pick up on that.
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  But they say salespeople the easiest people to sell, you
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  know, So then he says $4000. And I just looked at him and I
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  said, well, we're going to talk about it.
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  I got, I got away from that place.
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  But you know, as I was leaving and Cindy and I were just
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  talking, we got out of there for under 100 bucks, which is pretty
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  good, you know, you know, and it was cash, it was no charge.
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  I don't believe in going into debt for consumables anymore.
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  But I was driving home and I thought, how we're impacted by
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  consumerism, right? That's the idolatry of our age.
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  We're not worshipping a statue anymore like they did back here.
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  Artemis was there, God of, you know, birth and some kind of
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  like a God of nature that they worshipped in this city of
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  Sardis. But we are worshippers of
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  consumerism. And what happens is whenever
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  your mind gets latched onto something you really want,
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  whether it's a car or some gadget in the house or whatever,
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  isn't it funny how that's all you think about?
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  You're doing investigation. You're on the Internet.
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  You're checking the pros and the cons.
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  You're like spending hours and hours and hours, you know, and
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  God and God's like, hey, what about me?
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  I'm over here. Well, yeah, Lord, but this is
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  fun right now because I can forget about everything and I
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  can get lost in, in, in this harmless consumer product here.
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  And, and God's speaking out with this.
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  This is an idol and it can get you in debt and it's taking your
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  focus off of me. You're just, you're, you're out
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  of balance. You know, you're like way, way
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  over here. And this is all you're thinking
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  about. The new car, the new this or the
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  new that or the, you know, and of course you might need
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  something and then you can be way over here to where you're
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  trying to be so spiritual. You're not being practical and
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  you're not thinking about the basic thing that if I don't get
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  new tires for my wife's car, the tires are going to blow and it's
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  going to be unsafe. And then she's going to be
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  calling me up to. But a balance here being
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  directed by the spirit that when is it appropriate to buy?
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  When is it appropriate to not buy all those kind of things?
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  But we're sojourners though, we're just passing through, so
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  we shouldn't get hooked into anything too deeply.
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  It says abstain from fleshly lust which war against the soul.
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  A fleshly lust is an over abundance of my thought life
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  being interested in my consumer product, right?
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  It's a fleshly lust. We all struggle with it, don't
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  we? It isn't many times the adultery
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  and the fornication I'm talking to you people about, but it's
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  the other stuff that seems somewhat harmless, but it's also
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  warring against your soul. It says have your conduct
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  honorable among the Gentiles that when they speak against you
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  as evil doers, and this is the point I want to get to, that
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  they may, may by your good works, which they observe,
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  glorify God in the day of visitation.
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  In other words, again, the purpose of the good works is
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  that they would what? Glorify God?
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  The purpose of the church is not to magnify the organization, the
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  programs, the facilities, the ministries, the teachers, the
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  pastors, but the purpose of the church is to magnify and exalt
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  Jesus Christ. Amen.
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  Jesus says if I be lifted up, I will draw all men to myself.
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  You know why the church in America is so weak and why so
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  many people seem disinterested in the message of the gospel is
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  that men have been lifting themselves up.
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  Jesus says if I be lifted up, I will draw all men to myself.
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  May this church be a church that only lifts up Jesus Christ.
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  Guys, when you tell people about the church, don't tell them
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  about how great the worship band is.
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  Don't tell them how the pastor does this or does that.
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  Tell them that when you come to the church, you recognize that
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  Christ is present in the church, that Jesus Christ has lifted up,
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  that all eyes are on him, and that all flesh is but thus
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  right. Jesus is in the days leading up
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  to his crucifixion in John 12 says there were certain Greeks
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  among those who came up to worship at the feast.
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  It's Passover and they're all being drawn to Jerusalem to
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  celebrate Passover. Little did they know that the
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  true Passover lamb that was planned before the foundation of
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  the earth was going to make atonement for sin once and for
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  all. It says they came to Philip.
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  Philip's one of the apostles who weighed by from Bethesda,
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  Galilee. They asked him saying, Sir, we
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  wish to see Jesus. They're coming up to the temple.
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  They're coming up to celebrate Passover, and it's all
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  traditional and cultural. They do that every year.
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  But their real intention for coming up there was that we
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  would see Jesus. And that's what we pray when we
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  come to the church here. If I don't see Jesus here, I
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  don't know about you guys. I had a bad day if I didn't
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  sense the presence of Christ here in your life.
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  And then all we're doing, I'm not filled, I'm not fed.
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  May the people that come to this church have only one desire, and
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  that's the desire to see Jesus. If our works aren't perfect.
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  In other words, if, if I'm preaching in the flesh in my own
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  ability, if the worship team is doing their worship in their own
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  strength. If the Sunday school teachers
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  are teaching the lessons in their own ability, if the
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  women's study or the men's study downstairs before we start is
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  being led by human instrumentality and not the
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  spirit of the living God, they're not going to see Jesus
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  here, are they? The guests, the visitors, the
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  people that come to check us out, the people who are
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  starving. I believe in these days so many
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  don't go to church anymore and so many are in church, just
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  going to church because it's something you do.
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  It's a formality. People have lost the heart and
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  the vision for wanting to come to church to see Jesus.
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  And if we come here together and we see Jesus, we're blessed.
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  Why should we want the people to see Jesus here?
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  Because he's the head of the church.
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  It's not me. It's not anybody else here.
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  Christ is the head of the church.
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  Only Jesus can save his people from their sins.
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  We can't. Jesus is the Messiah.
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  There's no other deliverer. There's no other savior.
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  Jesus is the living bread. Jesus alone is from above God in
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  the flesh, the incarnation Jesus is eternal Jesus is the light of
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  the world, Jesus is the son of God, Jesus is a resurrection and
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  the life Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.
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  Why in the world would anybody want to come to church for any
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  other reason but Jesus? Acts 413 says Now when they saw
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  the boldness of Peter and John, Peter and John filled with the
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  Holy Spirit, they perceive that they were uneducated and
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  untrained men. They marveled and they realized
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  that they had been with Jesus. All of us here, from the
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  youngest child to the oldest person, I don't care how much
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  you think you know or you don't know.
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  That's not the point. The point is when people meet
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  you and when they come in contact with you and when they
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  have a conversation with you, are they realizing you've been
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  hanging out with Jesus by the way you act, by the way you
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  talk, by the way you live, man. May that be the case for all of
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  us. And we gather here and we're
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  hanging out with each other. That I know, man, just being
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  around whoever that they're hanging out with Jesus, there's
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  a fragrance that's coming off of them.
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  There's a love, there's a, a power, there's a, a sensitivity
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  that doesn't come off a normal human being.
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  This church, Sardis, Jesus said, is ready to die.
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  I'll tell you guys, I have been here for 14 years and so many
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  times I have felt like this church is ready to die.
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  His word to this church, to the remnant.
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  Strengthen what is still whole. Don't focus on what isn't going
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  right in the church. Focus on what is going right.
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  I don't want to bother anybody here that is not interested in
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  following the Lord. I can't make you follow them
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  anyway. But I want to hang out with you
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  guys and pour my life into you guys that are hungry and thirsty
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  for God. I'll do whatever I can, spend as
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  much time as I can with you to help you fulfill the calling
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  that God has for you. But if you're not interested, I
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  I've learned a long time ago not to call people up that I haven't
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  seen for a month or two months. It doesn't do it never does
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  anything. And if they come back because I
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  called them and God didn't call them, what's the point, right?
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  It's not that I don't care. I pray for the people that how
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  long ago gone from this church. I can still pray, but we have to
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  focus on what's strong here and they had to focus on what was
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  strong there. Go back to the beginning of when
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  you first met Christ. I think of how the Holy Spirit
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  has brought new people to this church over the last six months.
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  And I, and this is not a put down for some of you guys who
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  have been here a long time, but I find that the hungriest people
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  are the people that just arrived here.
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  They're the ones that are there on Wednesday night.
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  They're the ones that are stepping up to serve.
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  They got they got energy. Are they any better than you
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  know? But for some reason, God sent
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  him here because the church was on the verge of dying.
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  And it doesn't matter how many people in the church, You can
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  have 500 people in the church and it's on the verge of dying
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  and the 500 people keep showing up year in and year out, day in
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  and day out, week in and week out.
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  But the church is dead, right? But the church, it's alive is
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  exciting to be in and exciting to be around.
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  There's a really cool picture. We're going to get it.
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  Cindy's getting ready. We had a dog guy come yesterday
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  to teach. We're getting ready to get rid
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  of this dog. I've had it and Cindy's like so
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  connected to it. This is like her baby.
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  It sits on her lap when she's watching TV at night and he's
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  just like real calm and just like he's like a demon dog
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  whenever I'm around him. My son-in-law daughter, get rid
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  of him. So she said, hey honey, I got
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  good news. I said, what's the good news?
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  I thought she found someone that wants a dog.
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  She says I got this dog trainer. This guy's done it his whole
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  life. He's going to come over, blah,
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  blah, blah. I'm like, Oh no, I love her.
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  What am I going to say? OK, honey, we'll have them come
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  over. So we're at the home show and
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  one of the last styles are walking down.
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  I see this guy, Mr. O, He trains dogs, $600 a day.
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  He promises your dog will be changed.
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  I'm desperate. I'm tempted, but I'm not going
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  to So I see him and there's like 8 dogs there and they're all
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  calm that that Cindy thought they were drugged.
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  They're just Bulldogs sitting there a golden all these
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  different types of dogs and they were just like sitting there
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  like like chilling out, not jumping on you, not biting, not
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  barking. It was amazing.
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  This guy's a Christian. He's been doing this for years
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  and he he was telling me how he does it.
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  And so I said, well, you know, OK, well, this guy, this not
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  that guy, but this other guy comes over who's 30 bucks an
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  hour's better than $600.00 per day.
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  He comes over and he makes it clear to us that he needs to
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  train us, not the dog. The dog's not the problem.
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  We're the idiots. It was humbling.
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  He said, no, don't, don't be offended when I tell you this.
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  But, you know, and I felt like I was first grade, you know, just
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  learning basic, you know, dog relation skills.
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  Well, what happened was we ended up learning some things that the
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  dog isn't in charge anymore and he doesn't know what to do.
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  He's like he knows we're in charge.
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  I mean, our lives have changed in one day with this dog.
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  Where am I going with that? I know there was an there was an
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  illustration there, maybe. What's that?
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  Oh, yeah, the picture. Thank you.
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  Getting back to prayer. So I'm in there praying today
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  and God bless this little dog. The dog is changing.
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  Even the last couple days before the guy came over, I said,
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  honey, are you praying for this dog?
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  And she says, yeah. And I said to Jeff and
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  everything by prayer and supplication.
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  There's no small things for God, is there?
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  We think the person who's lost, it's closest to hell.
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  Lord, Yeah, don't bother God with the trivial prayer for a
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  dog. But God is so loving and so
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  connected with everything. There's nothing insignificant
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  with God. So I'm on my knees praying, you
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  know, and all of a sudden I feel the dog and it's laying on the
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  back of my calves while I'm praying.
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  I'll tell you, I said soon, you got to get that picture and send
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  it around the world. You know, this church is ready
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  to die. I don't believe this church is
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  ready to die right now because I believe.
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  You are repenting, you are turning to God.
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  You are overcomers, you're interested in overcoming.
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  You want to do his will and you're not afraid of confessing
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  his name publicly. Many of you came forward last
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  week to pray. You weren't concerned what
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  people were thinking about why you up there praying?
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  Is that person messed up or no, No, Hey guys, I, I pray for this
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  church that as easy as it is for you to greet someone and give
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  them a hug and and say hi, it will be, this is easy for you to
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  come up here and pray collectively when the Lord leads
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  you. My heart as a pastor, I want
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  everybody up here to pray because then I think everybody
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  repented. But that's sort of foolish
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  because you could have everybody up here and maybe only 10 people
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  are repenting, right? You can't go by what's happening
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  on the outside, but there's something about praying in the
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  church. God says his church is to be a
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  House of prayer. And so when we close the service
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  and I ask you if you're so inclined to come on down and
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  just get on your face before the Lord at the altar up here, don't
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  be intimidated about it. This seat is something normal,
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  natural. Don't think, oh, it's weird.
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  If I go up there, you know, I want it to be free flowing.
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  And I, you know, I don't want to be trying to be a cheerleader up
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  here, you know, trying to get you to do something you don't
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  want to do. But at the same time, I want to
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  compel you to pray because what will happen at the end of the
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  service many times is that you're convicted, you're
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  challenged. God spoke to you, you know it,
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  But you got to seal the deal, so to speak, because if you just
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  leave and don't interact with the Lord from what he spoke to
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  you about in the message, you won't really probably change
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  that week. You sit at the enemy take takes
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  a seed out as long as soon as it's planted many times right,
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  and it doesn't produce a fruit. But if you come up and you just
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  say, Lord, you drilled me today. You brought something to my
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  attention and my heart. I want my life to change.
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  You're confessing God in a way before people and he won't be
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  ashamed to confess you before the Father.
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  He says he has an ear to hear. Let him repent.
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  The last thing I want to touch on is it talks about this idea
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  of he says he who overcomes I should be clothed in white
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  garments. I will not blot out his name
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  from the book of life. I want to tell you that this is
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  not a comment that's being made like there's a potential for
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  this to happen. I believe in the perseverance of
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  the Saints, the idea of once saved, always saved, can you
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  lose your salvation? People argue about this stuff
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  all the time. It drives me crazy.
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  The key is that if you really know Christ, Jesus says my sheep
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  know me, they hear my voice and what?
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  They follow me. Now, if you think you're his
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  sheep and you aren't hearing his voice and you're not following
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  him, it's obvious that you aren't a sheep yet.
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  You're still a goat, You're still lost.
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  But the true believer is one that will have problems in life,
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  as we all do, stumble, make mistakes, but they don't stay
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  down. They get back up.
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  They repent, they're pressing in, they're persevering, They're
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  going to endure to the end. A true believer endures to the
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  end, right? So the comment isn't being made
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  that there's a potential to wipe some people out of the names,
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  out of the book of life. What's interesting is our names
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  are written in that book before we were even created.
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  The elect, and that's the mystery.
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  Who's the elect? Who isn't?
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  Why is there elect? Why is there some?
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  You know, it's God is God. His ways are not our ways.
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  His thoughts are not our thoughts.
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  The beauty is, though, that he's not willing that any should
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  perish, that there all should come the repentance.
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  This has been Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Clark.
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  We're going through the challenging and also intriguing
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  Book of Revelation. Whether you're a fan of reading
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  ahead in books of fiction, there's such a benefit to
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  reading ahead in the Bible to read about how it all ends.
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  But in an interesting turn of events, the Book of Revelation
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  is not really the end, but rather the beginning.
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  It's the end of life as we know it here on earth.
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  But there's so much to look forward to for what comes after
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  all the judgement of the earth and those who reject God.
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  There's a lot to work through, and it can be heartbreaking to
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  read through the intense judgements and wrath that will
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  come on those who hate God with all their might.
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  The thing is, God has given chance upon chance to these
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  people and they don't want it. So the outcome is that there are
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  judgments and consequences for those who've rejected the good
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  news and the gift of salvation that's offered through Jesus's
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  death and resurrection. Are you one who has heard about
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  these things but doesn't really want it because you want to live
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  life on your terms? Trust me, living for Jesus is so
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  much better. That doesn't mean it will be
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  easy. As you listen and read through
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  Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark realization that you
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  don't want to be on Earth when the apocalypse happens.
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  So check out Calvary Chapel online.com to learn how to come
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  to a saving grace through faith that will allow you to be with
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  Jesus for eternity. We'd also love to meet you in
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  person at Calvary Chapel Westmoreland.
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  Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh St.
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  Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601. This has been living waters of
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  Grace.