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Colossians chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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Colossians chapter 3 let us pray.
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Our Lord and our God and our King are everything.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.
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God I enter in to the most holy place.
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Lord God, you ripped the veil from top to bottom.
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Lord God Almighty, we come in. We come running in to the throne
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room of grace. God, we grab a hold of the hem
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of your Lord, we receive our healing today.
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Father, I pray that the Holy Spirit will well up within us,
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overflowing into our neighborhoods, into our
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workplaces, into all of society. God, I pray for the family unit.
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God, I pray that fathers will rise up in this hour and father
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their families, the Father their children.
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God, be great amazing husbands that lead their families to you.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus for mothers to be motherly in
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this hour. I pray for them to be tender
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hearted and affectionate towards their children.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus for the children to be obedient
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unto the parents. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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for the family unit to be strengthened in this hour.
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God, I pray that you, Lord, will bring about all of your purposes
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and plans for this time, for such a time as this.
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Lord, I pray that prophecy will unfold right before our very
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eyes. God, I pray that we'll see you
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high and lifted up above all governments, above all people
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groups. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you will fuel us God and cause us, Lord, to fall more
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madly and deeply in love with you.
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God, give us a zealous heart for your word and for your church.
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God, I pray for the ecclesia, the called out ones.
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I pray that you'll strengthen us in this hour.
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God, give us our marching orders.
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Help us to know what to do and when to do it and how to do it.
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God, I pray that you'll remove the spirit of timidity and fear.
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God, I pray that you'll cause us to be emboldened in the faith.
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God, I pray that we will not shrink back in the face of
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persecution. God, give us perseverance, give
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us endurance. God, produce character in our
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lives. It is becoming of a St.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will reign supreme on
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high throughout all generations for such a time as this.
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God, I pray that we'll get out of our own way.
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And Lord, I pray we'll get rid of of the sin in our lives that
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is holding us back from experiencing the fullness that
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you have for us. God, I pray that you'll help us
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to guard our eyes, guard our minds, guard our lips, Lord.
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And I pray that we will be marked with your goodness and
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grace and mercy and love and joy.
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And God, I pray that we will see all of your plans and everything
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that you have said come to fruition in this day, in this
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hour. God, help us to be patient.
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Help us to wait well, help us to listen for that still small
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voice. Help us to get out of our own
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way. Father, for you are so gracious
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and so kind and so loving. And God, we thank you for all
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the times that you've answered our prayers.
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Thank you for all the times that you've shown up and shown off
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and blown the pictures off the wall with your Shekinah glory
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where we are undone and we cannot minister any longer
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because of the presence that is in the room.
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So thank you Father, for revealing to us that You are and
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revealing to us that you move and revealing to us that You are
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mighty to save. And so God save those that are
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trapped in their own sin. God, I pray that you will rescue
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them. Break the chains of addiction,
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break the chains of violence. God, break the chains of
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generational curses. God, I pray that you'll bind the
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enemy God and cast him into the judgement that you have a
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waiting for him. Father, send the legion into the
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swine Father and have them to run down the hill.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for a sound mind.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will make us whole and
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make us holy in your sight. Father, you are so good and so
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gracious and we love everything about you.
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And it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious and powerful,
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majestic and glorious name that I pray.
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Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which
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are above where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
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He could not make it any more plain here, friends, that this
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is how we overcome all of the things that are coming our way.
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The fear, all of the tactics of the enemy, the lust, friends of
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the eyes and the lust of the flesh and the pride of life that
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creeps in unaware and it grabs a hold of us.
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It starts wrapping its tentacles around us.
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But if we will set our minds and set our eyes upon Jesus Christ
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the Author and the perfecter of our faith, then you will see all
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of the dross and the impurities, all of the disgusting pollution
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start falling off of you. Friends, we need to meditate and
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fixate ourselves upon Christ Jesus, the embodiment of God
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Almighty and that is how we will overcome and it is by the blood
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of the Lamb and the words of our testimony.
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Verse 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on
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the earth. It could not be more plain
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friends. And you know there are, there
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are a lot of sayings that go out and some of them sound good.
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You don't want to be so heavenly minded that you're no earthly
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good. But don't forget what God said.
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He said do not love the world or anything in the world.
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And he's telling us here to set our minds on heavenly things.
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And what you're going to find is if you will set your minds on
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Jesus Christ, set your mind on things above things that are
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good and wholesome and pure and lovely and holy, things that are
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edifying and build us up. And we will not set our minds on
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the earthly things that are so easily polluted and they're so
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easily disgusting because they come in and they tarnish our
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witness. They tarnish all the things.
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And they get us to get off of the scent of Jesus Christ and
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they get us on the scent of selfish vanity and selfish
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pride. And that is why it is so
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pertinent and so important that we will set our minds on glory,
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set our minds on the holiness, set our minds on Christ Jesus
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and all of His words and all of the Beatitudes and all of the
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things that He told us. Then we will be able to overcome
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all of the tricks and the deception, all of the snares,
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all of the traps and the pitfalls of this life.
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We will not Pierce ourselves with many sorrows if we'll keep
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our mind fixated and steady upon Jesus Christ.
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And He tells us how He says do not be conform to this world but
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be transformed by the renewing of your minds.
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Friends, that is the most important thing that you need to
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know is that as you are going through life, don't be kicked
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down in the drudgery of life of bills and mortgages and four O 1
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KS in retirement. Don't get kicked down into
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degrees and plaques on the wall and accolades friends Don't get
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kicked down into multiple houses in multiple vehicles, in
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multiple educations and multiple things that this world tries to
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tell us is the most important thing.
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Our financial security is not the most important thing.
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It is our eternal destination, friends and being prepared to
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die. 10 out of 10 people die, friends, and that is not being
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morbid friends. That is the reality.
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But we are lied to and we don't think that we're ever going to
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die because God has placed eternity into our hearts and
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minds and we want to live forever, but we need to prepare
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ourselves for death. We need to prepare ourselves to
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crossover from this life to the next.
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We do not need to just be looking down and around.
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We need to spend our days looking up and waiting patiently
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and waiting expectantly upon the blessed return of our King and
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our Lord and our Savior, Yeshua the Hamasiyah, verse 3.
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For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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Do you understand this principle, friends?
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Can you get it through your mind?
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So many people are kicking the can down the road.
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So many people are making it all about the things that it should
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not be. They're making it about their
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security down here. They're making it about what
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this world is selling them. And here Paul wants the
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Colossians to know, and he emphatically tells them that
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they all, they are already dead and they are hidden with Christ
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in God. Friends, I pray that that is
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your story. I pray that you are already dead
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and that you are already there and that you are seated with Him
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in heavenly places. And that is what Paul was
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talking about when he said to live is Christ and to die is
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gain. And we need to stay fluid and
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relevant. Friends, it is not that we are
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called into being a monk or being a recluse.
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We are to go out and we are to help people and we are to tell
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people all about what Jesus Christ did for us.
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But we need to already count the cost.
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And this is what it means to take up your cross and to follow
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Him. You've already counted the cost
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and found that to die is gain, and anyone who tries to save
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their life will lose it. But if you lose your life for
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his sake, you will gain eternal life.
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And what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and to lose
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his soul? Make sure that you're already
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counted as Ted friends and then when someone demands your very
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life from you, it is easy because you've already
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surrendered it. First four, when Christ, who is
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our life shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him
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in glory. So that is what you need to
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understand after the rapture of the church in the seven years
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and having to sustain at the Bema seat, when we receive our
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rewards, when the whole world has gone to hell in a
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handbasket, friends, we will come back with Him in glory.
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We will have already received our immortal bodies, and we're
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coming back to rule and reign with Him for 1000 years,
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friends. And there will be deity there,
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as Christ sits on his throne. And there will be immortality
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there, because we are there ruling and reigning with them.
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And there will also be mortals there, friends, those that are
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still on this earth, that if they live to be 900 years old,
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friends, it will be considered a full life.
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And so that is what you need to understand these principles that
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the Bible teaches us, that we hold as near and dear and true.
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And that is what Paul is referencing here is if we'll go
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ahead and die to him now, quit holding on to our life now.
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And if we'll go ahead and surrender everything to Him now,
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not just surrender some, but surrender all, then whenever we
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are raptured to be with Him in the clouds, we'll come back with
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Him in glory. Praise God. 5 Mortify, therefore
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your members which are upon the earth, fornication and
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uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil, concupucence
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and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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So this is what Christian living looks like.
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Friends, you need to make sure to go ahead and get rid of all
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and to kill all of the desires that are rising up inside of
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you. Go ahead and get rid of them.
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They have no place in a Christian.
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They have no place in a St. He's telling us that they are
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dead to us and we are dead to them, that fornication has no
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place in our life. We can't get drug away by all
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the lusting friends. We do not have uncleanness
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friends. We cannot behave like animals.
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We cannot behave like little children.
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We need to behave like the Christians that we are called to
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because of who we are attached to.
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This inordinate affection. Friends, this is whenever
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affection is out of line and it's towards the wrong gender,
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it is towards the wrong things in our life.
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We need to know that God has called the family unit to be
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strong and we are not to be drug off with all of these perverse
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lustings and we are not to be drug off into the perversity
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that this world is trying to sell us.
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This over sexualized culture friends that is this is not
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becoming of the Saint. We need to know that evil and
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covetousness and idolatry is not part of our inheritance.
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Anyone who finds their identity in these sinful, the notions
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have no place in eternity with a loving and holy God. 6 For which
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thing's sake? The wrath of God comes on the
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children of disobedience. We need to make sure that we are
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not counted as the children of disobedience.
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And it's very, very simple to do.
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You hear God Almighty calling you to Himself.
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You respond through faith, friends.
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You respond in grace, friends, that God gives you, and you
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clothe yourself in the righteousness of Jesus Christ by
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accepting the atoning work that the cross and the cavalry, the
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shed blood of Jesus worked out for us.
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And you are made whole and you are holy in God's sight.
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And you're not counted as evil, you're not counted as covetous,
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you're not counted as an idolater.
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You're not not counted as a fornicator.
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You're not unclean in the sight of God.
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You are holy and blameless and pure because of what Jesus
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Christ did. And that is what you need to
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understand that you do not need to be counted as one of the
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children of disobedience because the wrath of God is coming upon
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the earth. 7 in the which you also walked sometime when you
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lived in them. So he's saying, come out of that
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sinful lifestyle, you were once once dead, you were once lost
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and now you are found and now you are whole.
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And he tells us to remain in that and to walk in that and not
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to be deceived and tricked and not to be drug away with every
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evil desire and every wave that comes and tosses us to and fro
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and gets our eyes off of Christ and gets our eyes off of
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eternity. Gets our eyes off of a loving
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and holy God and an awesome God that he is. 8 But now you also
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put off all these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
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communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie, not one to another,
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seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds.
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That is what you need to understand.
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Anyone who finds their identity in lying, anybody who finds
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their identity in this anger and wrath and malice, anyone who
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finds their identity and blaspheming and filthy talk.
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We need to know that when we came to the Lord Jesus Christ,
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we are a new creation and the old things have passed away and
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behold, the new has come. It is not becoming of a St. to
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have these calling cards. These are the calling cards of
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those who are lost. These are the calling cards of
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those who are not forgiven. These are the calling cards of
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those who find their identity in this world and all of their
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lusting and all of the disgustingness and the pollution
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that is in this world. We need to understand that
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whenever we came to Jesus Christ, He put on His Holiness
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and His righteousness and His purity and His innocence, and
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now we can walk according to that fact that none of the sins
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that we have ever committed are going to be counted against us.
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And if you have that knowledge and if you understand that
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truth, then you will not want to lie in blasphemy and to steal
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and to curse. You will not be those that are
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found doing all of the justing things that are outlined here.
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And you need to understand the old man is gone.
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And that is what Christ was telling Nicodemus in John 3
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whenever he told him that you must be born again if you want
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to enter into the Kingdom of God.
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And that is what happens when the old man is gone and the new
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man has come. And you need to understand that
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the flesh is still being warred with, but the old man is
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completely dead. 10 and half put on the new man, which is renewed
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in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
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We are to look like Christ more and more every single day.
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We are not to go backwards. We are not to go back into our
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sin. And you show me somebody who is
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sinning all the more so that grace will abound, and I will
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show you somebody who does not truly know the Lord Jesus
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Christ, if you truly know. Jesus Christ, you will
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understand that none of the sins that you have committed or are
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committing or will commit will ever be counted against you.
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And that will actually make you want to behave and make you want
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to work and make you want to do the things that he's asking you
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to do. And that is what grace looks
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like is that we're not going to have to answer for all the sins
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that we have done post putting our faith in the the Lord Jesus
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Christ. And when you have that
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knowledge, friends, then you can start your journey of
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sanctification and knowing that Jesus Christ is going to cover
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every single one of them. But it does not give us a
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license to sin. 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew,
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circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, citian, bond nor
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free. But Christ is all and in all.
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He breaks down all the barriers. And we all have to come to the
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Lord the same way. We all have to have a personal
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relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ.
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That is the great line in the sand, the great divider.
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We're not going to get there by our acts.
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We're not going to get there by our works.
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We're not going to get there by our behavior.
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We're not going to get there by our the faith of our family.
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We're not going to get there by any of the outward measures.
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It is only by the working of what Jesus Christ did on the
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cross for us 2000 years ago. A perfect life that completely
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disarms all the principalities and the powers and death has no
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hold on us, friends. Sin has no claim on us, friends,
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because of what Jesus Christ did for us, and we are made into the
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image of Him, and he breaks down all the barriers. 12 Put on,
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therefore, as the elect of God, holy beloved, bowels of mercy,
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kindness and humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, 13 for
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bearing one another, forgiving one another.
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If any man has a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you,
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so also do you. So what does He telling us is
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Put off all of the malice and deceit and the lying.
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Put off the old man and be clothed with the new man,
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Friends, be regenerated, and you'll know that you are the
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elect whenever you have His Holiness and you are beloved,
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and you can have His mercy and God's kindness exuding from you.
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God's humbleness of mind towards us and in us and working through
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us. His meekness, friends.
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And meekness is not weakness. Meekness is power constrained,
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power controlled. He has all the power in all the
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universe. He created everything seen and
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scene and He comes as a little baby.
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Friends, this meekness, He is the shepherd king, He is the
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servant leader and that is what you need to understand.
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We are called into. Even though we have all the
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answers to every question that could ever be asked, we still
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operate in this meekness and humility.
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It is not just enough to go around and proving everyone
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wrong. We need to make a difference in
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this world and we need to try our best to rescue those that
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are dying and those that are lost and those who have no
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shepherd. And we are thankful for the Good
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Shepherd. We are forbearing with one
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another and we forgive each other.
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How can you receive God's forgiveness if you refuse to
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forgive others? You can't be forgiven if you
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will not forgive others. And if we have a quarrel with
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anyone, just remember that Christ is the mediator and that
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what Christ did for us covers all of the multitude of sins.
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Friends 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is
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the bond of perfectness. He's telling us to love.
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Love covers that multitude of sins.
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And it was Jesus's love for his creation that kept him on that
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cross. No one took his life from him,
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but he laid it down willingly. Friends, he breathed his last.
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He willingly, obediently went to the cross for you and for me.
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That is how we are made perfect, by being clothed in Jesus
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righteousness. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts
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to the which also you are called in one body, and be you
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thankful. This is the praise and the
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Thanksgiving that we are to enter in to His gates with
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friends. You need to understand that it
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is the peace of God and only God can give you this peace.
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You cannot have peace with God without the Lord Jesus Christ.
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You cannot experience the peace of God without being made one
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with God through Jesus Christ perfect sacrifice on the cross.
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That is the peace of God and it will rule in your heart when you
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know that you are going to stand before Him one day and he is
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going to say, well done, good and faithful servants, whenever
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He says, come into the rest that I have prepared for you.
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Whenever he tells you that you gave him the cup of water and
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that you came and visited him in prison and you clothed him,
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friends, that is what you need to understand.
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This peace of God comes from knowing that we know that we
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know that we know that we know that we know that we are in
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right standing with God because of what Jesus Christ did for us.
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And it's nothing that we have done, and it is everything that
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He did, and none of our workings and none of our behavior is
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going to make us any more acceptable to God Almighty.
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And it's not going to cause Him to love you anymore and it's not
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going to cause Him to reject you anymore.
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Because Jesus Christ paid it all.
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It's paid in full, It's finished, and it is wonderful,
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and it brings about the peace that we desperately need. 16 Let
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the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching
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and admonishing one another, in psalms and hymns, spiritual
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songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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That is what happens whenever we finally see that our position in
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Christ Jesus gets us there. That is what happens when we
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finally see that it is nothing that we have done or do.
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That is what happens when we finally see that Jesus Christ
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sacrifice is enough. It will cause us to leap with
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joy. It will cause us to sing and
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dance. It will cause us to be very
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jubilant. It will cause us to be extremely
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happy and glad and joyful when we know that we know that we
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know that we know that we know that we know where we're going
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to spend eternity. And we don't have to guess and
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we don't have to wonder. We can have the full assurance
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that what Jesus did is enough, and that will cause us to want
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to sing and to want to serve and to want to do and to want to
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volunteer and to want to work out our salvation with the fear
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and the trembling. Friends, it is the peace of God.
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It is the words of Christ washing over us.
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It is the Psalms and the hymns. Friends, grace in our hearts. 17
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And whatsoever you do in Word or deed, do all in the name of the
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Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
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That is how we get to God Almighty is through Jesus Christ
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and let His words point you towards the Father.
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If you have seen the Son, then you have seen the Father.
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Friends because they are synonymous, they are monogamous,
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they are one friends and the Holy Spirit that lives inside of
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us bears witness. Friends and we are all
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connected, three and one, God the Father, God the Son, and God
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the Holy Ghost. This Trinity, friends and the
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part of that triune nature came to live inside of you, and deep
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calls to deep. And you can know the mind of
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Christ because the Holy Spirit living inside of you.
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And you will know how to please the Father, and how to walk in
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the Spirit, friends, if you will yield yourself unto Him, and
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have that relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ.
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He told us that no one will come unto the Father except through
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Him. 18 wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is
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fit in the Lord. This is not just blank
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submission, friends. There is great wisdom in this
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little section. And whenever we see the family
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unit operating as God has designed it, it is powerful and
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effective and it is beautiful, and it is a ministry unto a lost
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and dying and perverse world. And what Paul wants these
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Colossian wives to understand is that their submission is part of
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their Christian calling. And to the degree that the
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husband is following after the Lord Jesus Christ, to the degree
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and to the measure that the husband will yield himself and
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completely surrender himself and submit himself unto God, is the
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exact degree and measure that the wife will submit to him.
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And that is what you need to understand.
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This is not just a blanket submission carte blanche that
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God expects for wives to do. This is very important for the
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husband, that the husband will submit to God, listen to God,
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he'll wait on the Lord, he'll not overstep and outpace God's
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plans. And if he will sit and wait on
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the Lord, then the woman will have no problem submitting unto
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him because she will know that he is in tune with God.
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And if she goes against her own husband, she'll be going up
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against God Almighty. And that is the way that God has
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modeled the family unit, and it is beautiful when it is working
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and operating in its full capacity. 19 Husbands, love your
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wives and be not bitter against them.
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Perhaps the wives not submitting to their husbands has caused the
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husband to be bitter. And you can see how the devil
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tries to jam communication between the husband and the wife
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by getting in there, weaseling his way in there and causing
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this bitterness. And this is a catch 22.
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This is where one offense leads to another offense.
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And all of a sudden you're in the washing machine of going
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round and round with bouts of anger and bouts of resentment
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and bouts of sharp tongued responses that drive a wedge
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between a husband and a wife. And you can see it here,
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friends. And he, he is telling the
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husbands listen, do not let bitterness start to grow root
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between you and your wife. That is not from God, that is
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from the enemy. And if the husband will get his
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eyes off of, of his wife and her feelings and emotions and quit
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going to her and processing the things that he's supposed to be
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processing with God and waiting on God and listening to God
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about and getting his worth and getting his direction and
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getting all of the plans from God, then the wife will submit
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and she will listen. It is whenever she can't trust
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her husband. It is whenever he decides to be
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a fornicator. It's whenever he decides to be a
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womanizer. It is whenever he decides to be
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violent, whenever he decides to make it all about this world and
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greed and money. Whenever he decides to be a liar
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and a thief is whenever she will not submit to him.
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And the Bible tells us in Genesis that she will desire her
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husband, but he will rule over her.
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And you can see how this contention and this bitterness
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gets stirred up from the enemy. And it is so prevalent in our
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society and it causes so many marriages to fail.
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And that was the intent of the enemy from the beginning, is to
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get in there and to cause bitterness and to cause the man
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to take his eyes off of God and to cause the woman to not submit
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because she can't trust her husband.
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And it's all prevalent and you see it working every day.
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But we are called to be different, and we are called to
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be chain Breakers, and we are called to forgive, and we are
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called to be in one frame of mind, 1 Spirit and one God, and
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it is Christ Jesus. 20 Children, obey your parents in all things,
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for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
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This is a call for parents to teach their children obedience.
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We cannot just let technology raise our children.
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We cannot farm out our responsibilities to others who
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care nothing for our children. No one is going to love your
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children as much as you do. No one is going to pray for your
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children as much as you do. And it is high time for husbands
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and wives to get their attention off of the world and off of self
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and off of money and pleasure, and to actually engage and rear
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and raise and to see their children as the greatest
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ministry that God has ever given them.
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That is the call for this day and for this hour.
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We need to raise up warriors for Christ.
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Friends, teach them obedience when they are young. 21 Fathers,
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do not provoke your children to anger unless they become
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discouraged. You see it every single day all
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around us. You see that these children are
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emotionally unstable, and it is because they have not been
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taught, they have not been encouraged, they have not had
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all of the most important times of their life affirmed and
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reaffirmed by their father and by their parents.
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And what has happened is you are seeing so many parents and so
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many fathers check out and so many parents and so many fathers
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try to provoke their children to anger because they have the
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power over them now. But when the kids get older and
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when they get much bigger, there's such resentment there
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and you see the breakdown of the pillars of society, friends, and
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it's all happening within the four walls.
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And it's because we have taken our eyes off of God Almighty.
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We have taken our eyes off of the most important entity in all
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the universe. And we need to know that God is
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the one who fathers us. And if we are good husbands and
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good fathers and good employees and good citizens, it is because
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we have chosen to be that way because of what God has done for
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us and what he has taught us. 22 Servants, obey in all things
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your masters according to the flesh, not with eye service as
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men, pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
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This is for all the employees who just do their job whenever
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their superior is around. And he is telling us for the day
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and for the for now and for the application for our hour.
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He's saying, listen, don't just work whenever your boss is in
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the room, Make sure you're working unto God.
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Do everything unto the Lord. 23 And whatsoever you do, do it
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heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men.
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It could not be more plain, friends, we do not work for a
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man, we work for God. Everything that we do, we do for
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Him. 24 knowing that of the Lord, you shall receive the
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reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ.
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It could not be more plain, friends, we work for God, we
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serve God, we obey God. And everything that we do,
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whenever we submit ourselves to the authority of a boss, it is
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because we have the right understanding of who our true
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boss is. And what did Jesus tell Pilate
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when he says, do you not know who I am?
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Jesus says you have no power over me but that which has been
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given to you by God Almighty. And that is what you need to
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understand, is that we obey God over obeying man.
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We'll end on 25. But he that does wrong shall
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receive for the wrong which he has done, and there is no
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respective persons do not suffer for doing the wrong thing.
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There's no reward in that. Friends, do not think that
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you're being persecuted whenever you have done wrong and you get
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caught and it's all coming to light.
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Don't call that persecution if you.
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Have to suffer for doing the right thing.
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That's a whole nother matter. It's a whole nother kettle of
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fish, friends. So do not do wrong and then turn
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around and try to act like you have done some pious thing.
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Does not work that way. I hope that you've been blessed
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by this chapter. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. Love you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.