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766. The Bible (Summary of Major Points) · Faith by annm2705

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This morning I woke up with a thought of doing a quick as
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possible summary of the Bible, what it means to each one of us,
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why we should read it. So first I will start with
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prayer. Dear God, please give me the
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right words. Please help me to explain this
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concisely and to point out the relevant things that you want
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everyone to know. I asked for this in Jesus name.
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Please give us the Holy Spirit to open our eyes and to make us,
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I guess, aware of your presence and to seek you.
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We ask for this in Jesus name, Amen.
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So the Bible, it's very important to read it because it
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tells us the truth about the beginning of the world, the
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earth, and it also tells us about the end and it tells us
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everything in between. So if you want to know what
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happened, what's going to happen, then the Bible will tell
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you that. It will also tell us
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consequences of how we live our lives.
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It will tell us the things that God deems holy and the things
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that are unholy and an easy thing for me as I read through
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the Bible and studied it over the last since 2019, I came
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across this thought that pretty much everything that if you want
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to classify something as sin, which sin literally means to
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miss the mark, miss the mark of perfection.
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So that it's an archery term and you know, not hitting the
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bullseye, not being perfect and being off target.
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That's all of us, all of us and all of us are off target of what
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God intended us to be. He made us in his image.
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Every single person, even the people that you see who choose
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to do evil in their lives were made in God's image.
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The problem is, I guess, the challenge.
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I don't know what you want to call it, the problem.
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Whatever God gave, it seems like all of his creation, everything
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he created, he gave free will. We have the free will.
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It is our choice whether we do good or evil with what God has
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given us. And that's what God is watching
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as we live on this earth in the choices that we make.
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And ultimately the choice of where we end up in eternity with
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God or eternally separated from God is given to us.
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The the criteria for it is given to us in Scripture.
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Do we want to, do we choose to obey God knowing that we won't
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be perfect in it? But do we choose to obey God or
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do we choose to rebel against Him?
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Now, because none of us could choose to obey with 100%
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accuracy all the time. None of us could do that.
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So God had a way planned for us how that would happen, how we
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could get into his presence, and that is through Jesus, like
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Jesus said, Jesus said, this is a quote from Jesus.
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I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the
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Father except through me. Meaning the sacrifice that Jesus
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made on the cross. It was something willing people
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didn't capture him and nail him to a cross and the way they were
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mocking him on the cross saying if you are God, you know, get
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your get off the cross or let God save you or something.
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I don't remember exactly what the mockers were saying to him.
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He wasn't going to do that because if he did that, if he
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evaded getting hung on the cross or nailed to the cross, then he
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wouldn't have been he wouldn't have died and then he wouldn't
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have like raised again. So he wouldn't have received the
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punishment the the punishment that had to happen to someone.
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But He took that punishment in our place on the cross, and by
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doing that, by willfully being obedient to the Father, he
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removed sin from us. So it says in Hebrews.
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Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin.
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That's why God allowed the sacrifices in the Old Testament,
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because that was a temporary solution.
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It was a substitute instead of death occurring to the person
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who committed the sin who was not perfect, they were able to
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use an animal to do that and God allowed that.
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But I want to go back even further because that's that's
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kind of the summation of it. If you believe Jesus died on the
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cross for your sins and I, I can't say like if you believe it
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now, but if you've never heard the Bible or read the Bible, you
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wouldn't necessarily believe it. But the Bible will explain all
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of this and, and that's the, the summary of the, of the whole
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Bible is really about how God saved mankind.
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So we'll jump back to the very beginning of the Bible when God
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created the heavens and the earth and he created everything
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in it and it was all good. So think about this.
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God created all mankind in his image.
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So we are a reflection of God and he was happy with what he
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created. Everything was good, but here's
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where things went. Not so good as he gave free will
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and it apparently he gave, gives, gave and gives free will
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to everything, every being he creates because he gave that
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free will to beings that are in the heavenly realms.
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There are beings that have access to the earth and to
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heaven, spiritual. We don't really know all of what
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they entail. The Bible talks about some of
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them, but it talks about some creatures that we've never seen
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here on earth that are in the heavenly realms that other like
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prophets have seen. And also in the Book of
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Revelation where it talks about describes what John saw in the
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heavenly throne area. So there are some created beings
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that we probably have never seen before and they are described in
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the Bible. Paul tells us that these we are
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in Ephesians chapter 6, that we wrestle not against flesh and
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blood, meaning people. We're we're not struggling with
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people our we think we are. But what we're really struggling
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against is the spiritual forces in the heavenly realms that are
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influencing the people. Now, this really helped us with
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forgiving others, because forgiving others is in the
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Lord's Prayer, the one prayer that Jesus taught his followers,
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the Lord's Prayer. And I'll just say it, Our
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Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy
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Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day Our Daily Bread, and forgive us our
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trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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And that's for thine is the Kingdom, and the poor glory
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forever and ever, Amen. So it says, forgive us our
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trespasses. Are our sins the things we do
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wrong as we forgive those to others?
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So if we are holding on to unforgiveness, this is the way
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God's going to work with us. We have to realize that all of
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us are essentially in the same position, if you want to call it
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that. We are all equally mankind and
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we all are imperfect. So if we want to be forgiven,
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then we need to forgive others also.
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And that's really critical because if you've done anything
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wrong, you want God to forgive you.
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So do the same for others. It's really important because if
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we don't forgive, then that leads to anger.
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At times when someone has wronged us and we don't forgive
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them, it stirs within us and it creates anger and anger in the
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Bible is called the foothold of the devil.
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So the foothold of the devil can then start to activate in our
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lives. We have like an open door to him
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to where he has access to our life and can influence us
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because of our free will. So it all goes back.
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We can't really blame anyone but ourselves for our actions
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because we have free will. And God says, or it says in the
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in scripture, it says that God never gives us any temptation
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that is greater than what mankind has already received and
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never let's any temptation come across us.
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He doesn't tempt us, He will test us.
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The temptation comes from the evil one, but the testing is
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something God observes. What do we do when we are
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tempted and the enemy of God, which I just, I mean, the,
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there's, there's more that are aligned with the enemy of God,
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which is ultimately Satan. If you read throughout the
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Bible, he's in the very beginning of the Bible and he's
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at the very end of the Bible and he interacts throughout the
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Bible. In the book of Job, you can find
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that Satan roams around the earth looking for his next
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victim. That's why it tells us to be
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sober, to be of sober mind, because the the devil roams the
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earth looking for his next victim.
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So when we alter our mind with anything that is, is not making
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us think clearly, we are easily accessible by the enemy of God
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to do what the enemy wants us to do as opposed to what God wants
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us to do. Now it this really explains
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everything that's going on in the world.
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But a lot of people, because they haven't heard this, want to
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deny it. But it's all throughout the
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Bible. It's very clearly explained.
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In fact, at the very beginning, when God gave everyone free
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will, he was actually on earth walking in the garden with Adam
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and Eve, the humans he created. He was, he had a friendship with
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them and he gave them some rules.
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And here's where that free will comes in.
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He's like, you can eat from any of the trees here, but you
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cannot eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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That was what it was. So that's where God's enemy or
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Satan or the devil, and it is explained that way in the Bible
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that these are all the same. So whatever you want to call it,
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I'll just say the enemy because Satan also took a third of the
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angels from heaven and who aligned with him and they I
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think it's will in the future. I don't know that it's happened
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yet. I know they do.
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Apparently angels have access to earth and the heavens, but at
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one point they are thrown down to the earth and I don't believe
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that they can go back into the heavenly realms.
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But there are angels who have sided with Satan.
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So without saying if it's an Angel, and then you get into
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like what, who, what demons are. And demons are apparently
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different than angels. And there's there's spirits that
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actually can inhabit a person. So when a person continually
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makes rebellious choices against God over and over and over
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again, apparently it gives legal right because God does
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everything out of order. And again, this goes back to
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free will. It gives the enemy of God access
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to people. And if you clean and get rid of
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something evil that's literally possessed and, and Satan even
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asked to possess some of the disciples.
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Actually, it says clearly in the Gospel that Satan left into
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Judas. Judas was one of the disciples
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that betrayed Jesus and turned him into the soldiers.
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So it literally says that Satan left into him and caused him to
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do the things that he did because he wasn't fully on board
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with Jesus. He wasn't sincere in his
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relationship with Jesus. That can happen to any of us.
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In fact, Jesus even said that Satan had asked to sift all of
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his disciples, but he was protecting them so that they
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weren't. Again, this is where the
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protection of Jesus happens. And the protection of Jesus is
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so important in our lives because what happened back then
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still happens today. And so when we read the Bible,
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our eyes are open to these things that we don't really
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know. So again, let's go back to the
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beginning of the story where God gave free will.
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Let's talk a little bit about free will and just think about
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it logically in relationships, if you did not have free will
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and someone had control over you and someone said you are going
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to just love me and you don't have a choice, you were just
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going to love me. If they had that power, if they
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were a creator and could do that, they could make things.
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OK, let's let's think about like a robot now.
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OK people, all these robotics and AI, that's possible right
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now. A robot could be programmed to
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love only the creator of the robot.
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They could be programmed like that and that could make the
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programmer feel really good, like I have this, this robot
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that loves me. In fact, I think that's almost
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where we're going here in the world when you see what's
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happening. But the real truth is, does that
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robot love the programmer? Because the robot, if the
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programmer programmed it only to love the programmer and it had
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no choice, that's not proof that that robot loves that
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programmer. If the programmer gave the robot
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ability to choose whether to love or not love, then they they
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could. If they were real, then you
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could know that either something loves you or something doesn't.
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So that's like with God and us. I mean, that's a poor example,
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but something that just came to mind as I'm trying to explain
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this. So God, when he creates us, he
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gives us free will. We can choose to choose to
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reject him. It comes with consequences, but
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is still available to us. He doesn't force anybody.
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So anyone who tries to force you in an into a religion is not of
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God because that is not God's character.
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God does not force anyone into a religion.
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When people badmouth Christians and they say, oh, they're trying
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to convert people to Christians, well, OK, maybe that's somewhat
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true, but not by force. It's always a choice.
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The only reason someone wants to bring somebody into the
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Christian faith is because if a person does that, the person who
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is brought into the faith gets to live in eternity with God
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with a bunch of blessings that God has planned in the future.
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So it's only for the benefit of the person.
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But no Christian should ever force any other person because
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God does not force us. The only thing a Christian
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should do is to make people aware of the option because that
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is not known to a lot of people. There's all these things in the
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world like you only live once. Well, we do only live once, but
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it's not just on this earth. We were created to be eternal
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beings by God. The Bible is clear about that.
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We will live forever, but the question is, where are we going
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to live? Are we going to live in God's
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Kingdom or will we live apart from God?
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And that's what the Bible tells us about.
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Jesus took care of everything so that it is open to every single
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human being on the earth, that every single human being could
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live in God's Kingdom because of what Jesus did.
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That's the only way that we can get into the Kingdom because of
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what Jesus did for us on the cross.
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We have to believe that. If we don't believe that, if we
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don't believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that's not available
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to us. If we believe that Jesus is the
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Son of God, great. And we have to remember
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something about belief. Even the demons know who he is.
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The demons believe and they shudder.
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The demons are not going to be in God's Kingdom.
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There's something else that has to happen besides what Jesus did
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for us. This is where it gets to our
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free will and what Jesus said, that you must be born again to
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enter the Kingdom of God. Born of the Spirit.
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There's two things. Born of the water and born of
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the Spirit. So born of the water, I've seen
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a couple of explanations of this.
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One of these is a human birth born of the water that comes
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with with that. The other thing that I've also
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seen is that John the Baptist, who was actually Jesus's cousin,
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baptized people with repentance. That's turning your mind away
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from sin, saying I don't want to be a sinful person, I want to be
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obedient to God. OK, that's great to have that
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desire. But God also tells us the flesh
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is weak, but the Spirit is strong.
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So if we try to do it on our own, we're going to mess up more
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than not because we are weak. That's what it says.
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And we are, if you want to say, fighting against spiritual
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forces that are stronger than us, spiritual forces that will
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tempt us, that will put together opportunities for us to rebel
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against God. And that's really what they want
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to do. They want to separate because
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God loves humans. They just want humans to be
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destroyed. That's really what they have
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their that's their intention. It says that Satan seeks to
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destroy. That's what he's looking for.
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Ultimately. He knows his future.
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He knows scripture. He knows that at the end when
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God calls the time up that he is going into the burning lake of
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fire, which is eternal separation from God because it's
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written in the Bible, it's written in prophecy.
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That is his future. And he only has a period of time
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here on earth. So he's not happy about that.
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And the reason it's a judgement from God, because apparently he
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wanted to be worshipped. He wasn't satisfied being a
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created being by God. He wanted to be equal with God,
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but he wasn't. And so he's he's deceptive too.
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So he's gone out into the world. And I think all other religions
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are Satan is really behind all other religions that have
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different gods that are not the one true God because and I even
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think this is my opinion, but it's kind of based on the book
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of Enoch. But I believe that these
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entities from the heavenly realms came and actually
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appeared to people and taught people things, which the Book of
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Enoch tells us that happened. And then the people knew that
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they were something supernatural and greater than what a human
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being was, and could see what they could do that was greater.
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So then they began to worship those things.
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And they aren't gods, they're just created beings from the
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heavenly realms that came into the earth.
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And I believe, this is my opinion again, that that is how
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all these other religions that were other entities are multiple
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gods. They didn't just make things up
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in their head. I don't believe that.
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I think they actually saw things.
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They actually had, you know, beings from another realm that
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interacted with them. And so they, they started doing
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what they thought was right. And that's why it's so important
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to have the, the gospel message that to know there is a way.
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And there's a lot of deceptive ways out there that say that
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you're, you know, I guess you'll, you'll get to paradise
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or something like that, But it's not the truth.
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The only way is through what Jesus did.
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And again, what Jesus said, you must be born of the water and
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born of the spirit. So human being birth and the
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baptism of repentance, because Jesus also said repent and be
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baptized. So baptized is being baptized is
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the outward expression of what has happened internally in us.
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When we realize that we are sinful, that we miss the mark of
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perfection, and that we are we, we will keep doing it over and
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over again, but we don't want to be that way.
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We want to be close to God. So then we decide this is our
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free will. If we want to.
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We decide that I want to be what you created me to be, God, and
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we let that be known to God. That's our surrender to God.
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God, let me do your will, not mine.
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God, please change me into the person.
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Like I want my will to be aligned with yours.
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I have free will, but I want my will to be aligned with your
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will. I want it to be good.
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I don't want it to be evil when we sincerely want that with God.
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We can ask God, we can ask Jesus for the Holy Spirit, and it says
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that. It says in the Bible that Jesus
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receives the Holy Spirit from the Father and gives it to him
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whomever he wants. So we have to believe in Jesus.
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If we don't believe in Jesus, then we can't ask Jesus for
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this. But Jesus said we must be born
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again to enter the Kingdom of God.
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That's why everything goes through Jesus.
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He is like our mediator between the Father and he is the way
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that we are able to be in the Kingdom of God.
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So being born again means to have to receive the Holy Spirit.
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What happens when we receive the Holy Spirit?
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There are gifts of the Holy Spirit that are in the Bible and
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I forgot what chapter it was, but you can probably search
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gifts of the Holy Spirit in an electronic Bible and find that.
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But those are evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit.
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When you see what those gifts are, I think there might be 9 of
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them. And there's also fruit of the
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Spirit, which I know where that is.
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Fruit is what, you know, a tree or a plant produces fruit that's
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edible that you can see that, you know, it's evidence that if
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there's an apple, it's an apple tree.
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So the fruit that comes off of from us, we can see what the
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fruit of the Spirit is. That's in Galatians chapter 5.
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I know that. So that's evidence that somebody
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has the Holy Spirit. Now what happens with the Holy
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Spirit is that our lives start to change.
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We we don't, unfortunately, we can't just say God just take
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over my life. I tried that and I still had to
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make the decisions myself. God doesn't automatically do
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things because he doesn't take away our free will.
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He lets us still have the free will, but in each opportunity
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that we have, we get a choice. We can either choose to follow
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God, choose to be obedient to God, or we can choose to rebel
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against God and the our free will stays.
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So all we have to do to be in the Kingdom of God is believe in
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Jesus and be born again. That's it.
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And anyway, so getting back to the Bible, the Bible tells us
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about creation and Adam and Eve and God are present.
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And then the enemy of God starts putting questions into Adam and
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Eve's my Eve's first, I guess, and say, well, did he really say
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this? Did he really say you couldn't
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have that, that fruit from that tree, the knowledge of good and
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evil? And then she saw it and it
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looked good, you know, didn't look like anything evil.
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That's exactly why the enemy will do something very
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deceptive. It's not going to look evil.
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It's going to seem kind of good. He's going to put it in front of
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you. But it's a what?
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It's something that God doesn't want you to do that he told you
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not to do. What is what are the things that
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God was not to do? They are in the Bible.
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We can find all of that in the Bible and I will read.
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Actually, it's probably a good time to read in.
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Oh gosh, I always tell people to read Revelation the last
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chapters. I think it's like Revelation 21.
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Maybe it's about the new heaven and the new earth.
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OK, Revelation 21 verse 8, because this one really hit me
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hard. And and there's there's other,
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there's another place in the Bible too that Paul talks about
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this. But Revelation 21, seven, it
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says those who are victorious will inherit all this, meaning
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God's Kingdom and I will be their God and they will be my
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children. But here's where this might
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affect some of us. But the out, the cowardly, the
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unbelieving. So if you don't believe in
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Jesus, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who
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practice magic arts like astrology, tarot cards, those
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kinds of things, the idolaters, anybody who has something that's
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more important than God is idolatry and all liars, they
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will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
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This is the second death. So when Paul talks about this,
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he describes that this is what some of you were.
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He explains and he explains our sin nature and what that is.
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I think that's also in Galatians chapter 5 too, because it talks
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about the fruit of the Spirit and it talks about the worldly
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when someone is worldly and about who?
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Let's see, OK, it says, yeah, the OK, here's what it says in
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Galatians 517. For the flesh desires what is
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contrary to the Spirit. So in our human, before we have
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the Holy Spirit, we desire what Paul is going to describe, and
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the Spirit is what is contrary to the flesh.
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So we've got this like internal, you know, this, this change that
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has to happen. We have to become a new
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creation. That's why it's talked about
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being born again, born of the spirit.
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They are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do
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whatever you want but it. But if you are led by the
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spirit, you are not under the law.
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The acts of the flesh are obvious.
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So here's where it explains OK, these are the things that show
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that we don't have the Holy Spirit.
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Sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery.
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Believe that's getting drunk? Idolatry.
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You know, we have to also think about idolatry.
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Maybe we don't worship like symbols or little gods or
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something, but do we worship football players?
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Do we worship actress, actors, actresses, musicians?
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We have American Idol. Isn't that terrible that we have
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that? But are we putting somebody up
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on a pedestal where God should be?
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You know, we have to think about our lives.
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What are we? What are we doing in, in this
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world? I mean, we can even like have an
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idol as of a Christian musician. I mean, there's so many
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different things that we can create idols of something we can
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look up to that we put a pedestal.
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We just always have to check ourselves and make sure that we
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are not putting something, even another person that we love in a
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more important role than God. God must be #1 OK, so let's go
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back to what it says about. I'm going to read through this.
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The acts of the flesh are obvious.
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Sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idolatry and
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witchcraft. We're in this October Halloween
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season. We have to really think about
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this because witchcraft I don't even once the Holy Spirit starts
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convicting you, many people who have the Holy Spirit all of a
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sudden turn away from all the Halloween activities because
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it's just associated with death and evil.
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And when you read Galatians 520 witchcraft, it's you know, to
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glorify any of that stuff is to glorify rebellion to God.
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So why do people do it? It's ingrained into our culture
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so that people don't think anything of it.
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But ultimately, we really have to be careful because the enemy
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of God is very deceptive and will do whatever it can to pull
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us away from God. So it continues on.
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Hatred. If we're hating anybody, that's
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why forgiveness is so important. Discord, jealousy, fits of rage,
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selfish ambition. You know, ambition is good, but
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when it's all about ourselves, it's not dissension.
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So like arguing with people, factions and envy.
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So when we're envious of somebody, drunkenness, orgies
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and the like, I warn you, as I did before, that those who live
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like this will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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That's so important. One time I was actually at a
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church, which really disturbed me that the church was actually
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reading this and they were reading through all of these
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things of, you know, the, the acts of the flesh, but they
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stopped and did not read that last sentence that said, I warn
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you as I did before, that those who live like this will not
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inherit the Kingdom of God. That really got me.
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Thankfully I had read the Bible and I knew what came next.
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And then I even double checked. I was like, did they just really
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skip over that line? So we have to really be careful
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in churches. If churches are not telling us,
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not telling us or warning us about these things, you know, we
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can just say, I mean, all that was said at that church was that
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we don't want to do that. Well, maybe somebody does want
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to do that because it says that until you have the Spirit, you
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do want that. So, you know, it's not like
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you're not going to choose. I don't know.
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There's a lot of people that don't choose to be good.
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They don't, they don't have that desire until they desire God.
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They're not going to have that desire to live like God says.
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Until we have the Holy Spirit, we don't have that.
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But the warning is just like Paul said, I warn you as I did
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before, that those who live like this will not inherit the
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Kingdom of God. Now, a church above all places
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should be telling the people, if you, if this is you, it says
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here very clearly, you're not going to be in the Kingdom of
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God. I think a lot of people who go
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to church want to be in the Kingdom of God, and they need to
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be aware that if they keep living that life like that, they
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won't. But the Holy Spirit can take
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away those things, those things that we are naturally drawn to.
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The Holy Spirit can change us with our will.
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He doesn't take over, but He will change us.
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And then here's what the fruit of the Spirit sounds like.
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The fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, forbearance, kindness,
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goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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Against such things there is no law.
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Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with
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its passions and desires. So since we live by the Spirit,
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let us keep in step with the Spirit.
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So when we have the Holy Spirit, if we belong to Jesus Christ, we
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have the Holy Spirit and that will crucify.
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I mean that'll I mean that's Paul has a sometimes he's really
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hard to understand, but that will eliminate or kill off or
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suppress. Suppress is probably the right
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word for the flip the flesh and its passions.
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If we are in that place of temptation.
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It says that well, it says if you had the spirit, you don't
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keep on sinning. And if you do keep on sinning,
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all you have is judgment to face.
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But if you, God always gives us a way out so we can overcome
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with the Spirit, it probably will involve a prayer.
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It'll probably say, God help me, Jesus help me.
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But there's always a way out. It's not always an easy decision
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for us, but there's always a way out.
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Maybe it's just that we have to remove ourselves from the people
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that were around. That's a way out.
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We have to figure out what that is.
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And again, this is our choice. It is not forced upon us.
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So anyway, that's that's just really what we need to do to be
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in the Kingdom of God. What Jesus said.
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So getting back to why do we read the Bible?
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The Bible is it's it's the way that we stay close to God.
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We read the words of God. We learn from it and it there
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are certain parts of the Bible at the very beginning, it gives
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us the creation story and then it tells us about how God uses
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people that are imperfect. The people that are used in the
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Bible all have issues, just like each one of us.
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Even the great people of the Bible, they are, they're, they
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have problems and God works with those and God can use people
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that have problems. He creates newness.
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He we become a new creation when we when we are free will ask God
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for His Holy Spirit in us. He can do things that were never
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possible on our on our own. So the first five books are what
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God gave revealed to Moses. And so those books were written.
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Then there's a a grouping of books that will go through the
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history. So God did choose a people of
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all the people on the earth. God chose a people and those
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people that he chose happened to be what we call Israel.
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And he chose those people to be an example to the earth.
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Unfortunately, they were just like all of us.
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They were not perfect. And they did things.
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They did all the idolatry things.
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They sinned against God. They missed the mark of
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perfection and over and over and over again.
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But God made a promise to them that they would, that he would
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be with them, that he would be their God and they would be an
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example to all people. And he doesn't.
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God doesn't break his promises. So Israel will always be there
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will always be at least a remnant of Israel.
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Israel will never be extinguished.
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The nations that don't like Israel and say from the river to
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the sea, that's actually a promise to God of what the land
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was that God is going to give to Israel.
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But Israel's enemies use it as saying they want Israel out of
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there, all that area. So they are again, you have to
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so that there is a spiritual war behind this.
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Even though people are saying these things, there is a
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spiritual enemy of God who is inciting these people to use the
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words of God in the opposite meaning of what it has in the
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Bible. And This is why it's really
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important today to get a hard copy Bible and to to know what's
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in it, to know the truth. Because there is a narrative
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that's going out to all the world that twist.
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It tells us that good is evil and evil is good in the world
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because people do not know God, because people don't want to
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know God, because people are selfish and they reject God.
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That's why we are the way that we are today.
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And then there's the deception of the enemy that's leading
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people to thinking that evil things are good.
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So there's a lot. We need God so badly in our
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world all over. And that's one of the reasons
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why I do podcasts like this. I hope if just one person can
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learn about God or can share this with someone else, that it
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can create a snowball effect and more people can know God.
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And when we know God, God gives us blessings.
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He wants to bless our lives. He wants, He's looking for his
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children. He has great plans in the future
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for anyone who will freely choose him.
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And that's the message of the gospel is basically we have a
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way to get into God's Kingdom as his children and the Bible tells
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us how. And it's a submission to him.
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It's an obedience to God. It's receiving the Holy Spirit
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and it's what Jesus did on the cross for us.
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The the Bible does talk about the history.
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If you don't believe about Israel being God's chosen, then
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read the Old Testament because it gives you the entire history
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and how it happened. And then Israel wanted a king,
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but God said I'm your God, I'm your king.
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You don't need one. But Israel wanted one.
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So then they had a king. Then after the second King
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Solomon died, then there was his children who were competing to
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be the next king. And so then they split up.
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There were 10 tribes that went to the north and two tribes that
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were in the South. And then they had parallel
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kingdoms going on where they had different kings that were named,
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but all of them in the northern tribe were evil.
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But God did use one. That was Jehu, who actually
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pronounced judgment on another one of the kings.
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And then half of them in the southern 2 tribes of Judah and
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Benjamin, half of them were not good either.
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So there were very, very few. And Jesus was a descendant of
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the tribe of Judah. So God used all of these
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decisions that Israel made, even though they were bad ones, to
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ultimately bring about the Son of God, Jesus, to ultimately
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save all of mankind so that we can be in the Kingdom of God
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because God became flesh. That's why Jesus was sinless,
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because he was God, because he was obedient to the Father.
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He was born of the Holy Spirit. He had the indwelling of the
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Holy Spirit at his birth. That's how he was conceived, so
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that's why he was the only one who could ever save mankind,
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because he was. He was God and is God and is 1
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in spirit with the Father and that's what he wants for us.
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He prayed that before he died to to the father.
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He said make them one as we are one.
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So in the future we will we will be unified with God in that
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spiritual way. So anyway, there's there's books
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in the Bible that give all the history of Israel.
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So if you don't believe it, you know, read it.
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And then there's books of even the ones that are like poetry,
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actually have prophecy with it within them.
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I didn't even realize that at first.
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But the songs, they actually have prophecy in them.
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And that's what's interesting when you get into the Bible is
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the more you read it, the more things start popping out as,
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wow, I didn't make that connection before and now I see
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it because there's hidden things, there's hidden treasures
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within the Bible that you find out.
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Then there are prophets from the book of Isaiah all the way to
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Malachi, and they tell us what is going to happen.
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Some things that already have been fulfilled.
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A lot of them there is like throughout Isaiah, it's
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constantly talking about Jesus and Isaiah was like in 700 BC.
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So Jesus was talked about way back when.
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And then like the Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Amos, they all
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Zechariah, they all talk about what's going to happen in our
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future and they align with the Book of Revelation.
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And so that's another one about the future and what will happen
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to us. Like we all may be the
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generation that experiences this stuff.
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It really looks like you will start seeing when you look at
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world events, you will start seeing that things that are
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talked about by the prophets are happening right now.
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And so we need to have our eyes open to that.
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And then when you are in the New Testament, there are four people
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who wrote about Jesus. Matthew was one of the
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disciples. Mark was a friend of one of the
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disciples, Peter. Luke was a Doctor Who
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interviewed a bunch of people and then wrote about their
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eyewitness accounts. And then John was also one of
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the disciples. And John referred to himself as
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the one that Jesus loved, which I always thought was
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interesting, but he felt closest to Jesus.
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So I really like reading the book of John because when you
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want to learn about somebody, you want to get to the closest
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friend of theirs. Tell us the you know, the the
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inside details about Jesus and you know what he was all about.
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Well, that's the book of John. That's the Gospel of John.
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So then you get into the book of Acts, which is about all the
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miracles that occurred once Jesus gave the Holy Spirit to
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his followers and they were his followers were actually
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performing miracles and and doing the things that Jesus did.
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He said, you will do even greater things than I've done,
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like, you know, bringing people back to life, healing people,
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all sorts of things that the Holy Spirit enabled.
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And now these are not for show. And there are, you know, there's
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a condemnation about that or, you know, a correction, a
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judgement about that. Like you don't do it for show.
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This is the only reason God would allow some miracle to
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happen is for his ultimate glory so that people can know God
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through that miracle that happens.
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So there's a purpose behind the miracles.
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It's kind of like the ultimate purpose is so that God may be
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known. The secondary purpose is
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whatever was asked for in, you know, are done in the name of
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the Lord. Then there's the books of that
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Paul wrote Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians,
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Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and all those
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books tell us how to live. So in the New Testament we can
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find all of the the guidance on living in the first Timothy,
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second Timothy, A lot of those books tell us how to live.
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And the book of Hebrews is really good because it takes, it
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kind of summarizes the Old Testament and gives us some of
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the, the, the good facts that we need to know about what the Old
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Testament is all about. Then James, Peter, first,
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second, third, John and Jude. Those are all I guess James and
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Jude are brothers of Jesus, so like a stepbrother of Jesus and
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and so they have books in the Bible too.
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Peter was one of the apostles of Jesus.
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So he has a couple of books and then Johnny has even more books
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1-2 and three and then the Book of Revelation at the very end of
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the Bible. That is a vision that John had,
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you know, some time before he died in 90.
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Adi think that's when it was written or the last book of the
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Bible was written. And so he talks about our
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future. So that is hopefully hitting the
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major points of the Bible and why we should read the Bible
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every day getting in the word more and more things will
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solidify in our minds. We will understand it the more
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that we get into the Bible. The Bible is changing so many
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people including myself like I am one who the Bible changed my
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life. Reading the Bible open my eyes
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and I chose to change my life and invited got into my life in
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a serious way after reading the Bible.
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So I hope that happens to you. If this was good for you, please
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share this with other people too.
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Thank you.