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#14821 - Helping Restore the Fallen Ones - Galatians 6:1 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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Here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Open your Bibles.
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Galatians chapter 6 is where we are.
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Galatians chapter 6. We're going to look at one verse
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today and I've entitled our Bible study Helping Restore the
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Fallen ones. That is the topic helping to
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restore the fallen ones. Having a heart.
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I mean, I could go a lot of different directions.
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Having a heart to restore and reconcile the fallen ones.
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Having a heart to see people built up in faith, having a
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heart to talk in the grace of God.
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That has been the theme of our Bible study in Galatians.
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That was the issue in the churches throughout the Galatia
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region. They had left grace and had been
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ripped off by false teachers and began to relate to God not by
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what He has done, but what they have done.
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And they began to work and all this effort and energy in some
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way trying to earn favor with God, when all the while what
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saved them was the blood of Jesus Christ Christ.
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What delivered them from their sinful ways was the blood of
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Jesus Christ. What made them whole, what made
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them strong? What started generational
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change? What delivered them from
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addiction, what delivered them from all sorts of restrictive
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behaviors was the grace of God. And guys came in and lied to
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them, and they believe the lie. And isn't that always the case?
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When you believe a lie, then you behave based on that belief.
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And Paul, he takes his quill in hand and he writes them a letter
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and he says, guys, gals, you can't live that way.
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Come back to the grace of God, standing in grace, living in
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grace, walking in grace. That is our relationship with
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Jesus, and that has been the theme.
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It's the word of God to us today in the 21st century, but it's
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also God's word to the ancient churches in the 1st century.
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It's the grace of God. It's all the grace of God.
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Which leads us to the question, what is the grace of God?
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If you're just dropping into this Bible study, maybe you're
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new to the church. You're just dropping into this
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study now. You've missed 20 other Bible
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studies. We've talked about and learn
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what different definitions of the grace of God throughout our
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Bible studies, but I want to remind you of a few of them.
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It'd be really good for you to jot down some notes and maybe a
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couple phrases stick in your mind.
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But let me give you a few definitions of what we mean what
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by when we say the grace of God. Here's the first one.
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The edifying. Transforming, life giving, life
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shaping, maturing fruit, bearing favor of God.
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You go. Wow, that's a long one.
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Let me repeat it for you a little bit slower.
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The edifying needs to be built up.
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The transforming needs to be changed, the life giving.
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That's the life of Christ, a full life, the life shaping
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where your life is changed by the favor of God, the maturing
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growing up, the fruit bearing as we learned of the fruit of the
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Spirit last time, favor of God. Let me give you another one a
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little bit simpler. This is a good one.
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I want you to, I want you to read, I want you to deposit this
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one. The grace of God can be defined
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as simply as this, the life of Christ in you, a life of Christ
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lit in you, Jesus indwelling you by the Holy Spirit, and he lives
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in you and lives through you. Let me give you another one.
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We learned this one. It's easy to remember.
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We actually used the word grace and used the letters to remember
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a definition of the grace of God.
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Remember, it's God's riches at Christ's expense.
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God's riches, all salvation, all that we talk about, it's all
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that God has given us, but we didn't earn it.
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God gave it to us because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
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Here's another one. God's unmerited, unearned,
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undeserved favor and kindness and gentleness toward us.
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Here's another one, God showering His love and blessing
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on you continually, never leaving you, never forsaking
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you, His ever presence in your life, not because you earned it,
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but because God loves you. Even though we're not perfect.
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Can I get an Amen on that? You can just say for yourself,
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even though we don't have all things together, even though we
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don't hit the mark every day, God loves us still supremely.
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You know, the love of God is so powerful for us, such a great
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motivator, moves us, ministers to us, comforts us.
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And I think about the love of God and God, he, he doesn't love
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you any less and he couldn't love you anymore.
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You have it all, the whole package for the born again
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believer. And I think about the gracious
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love of God to those of you that may not have a relationship with
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God today. He loves you.
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You know, the Bible says that God loves you so much that he
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sent his only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in him
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would not perish but have everlasting life.
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I mean, the love of God is a powerful, powerful gift to
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enjoy. And this is Paul's burden for
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the believers in Galatia. This is his burden.
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Guys, you've left grace, you've walked what what has happened
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has been the theme over and over.
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You've walked away from grace like John wrote in John 116.
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He says of his fullness, Jesus, of his fullness.
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We have all received grace for grace.
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And today I have the privilege of reminding you do not leave
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the grace of God and move into an area of a works based, you
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know, because you use the word relationship and relationship is
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beautiful. I think of just that one aspect
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of the relationship we as born again believers have with our
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Father. He has adopted us.
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What in the world do you have to do to be a part of the family?
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Nothing. You just are.
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When you are adopted, you're in. That's it.
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There's nothing out. Just be.
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Just be the son. Just be the daughter.
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You don't have to earn your adoptive parents.
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You're real now. They are your parents.
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You don't have to earn their favor.
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You don't have to earn their credibility.
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You don't have to fight. You are adopted.
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How much more now is an adopted son or daughter of the king?
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What do I have to do now? Just be, that's it.
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Just enjoy the Father. Why?
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Because the Holy Spirit lives in you and will lead you and guide
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you and enable you. Isn't that what the Bible says
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in Philippians? That it is God that works in us
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both to will and to do? And He does.
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He motivates us and gives us the strength to follow Him in
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obedience, right? If we love Jesus, we're going to
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obey Him. And how do we obey Him?
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By the work of the Spirit in US. It's beautiful.
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Don't be, you know, for the Galatians, what were they ripped
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off of? Imagine the message.
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Imagine what the Galatians heard in the 21st century.
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These guys come to town and they say, OK, you, you have a
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relationship. Yeah.
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So we love God. We love Paul said this.
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He said the grace of God. He said the sufficiency of
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Christ. And they say, OK, that's all
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good. But, you know, you're not really
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saved until. And here's what the Here's their
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message. You're not really saved until
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you're circumcised. Oh.
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Oh, oh, oh, OK. All right.
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And really, what they meant by that was that you needed to keep
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the whole law in order to be saved.
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But circumcision from the men, you gotta be circumcised.
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Do you think that would be an effective evangelism strategy
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today? Hey, welcome to Calvary.
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We're glad you're here. Everyone now that responds to
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the gospel right around the prayer room.
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You can't go to the prayer room first, but next to it we have
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the circumcision room and we've got plenty of certified doctors
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back there and P as and nurses and, and as soon as you go
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through the circumcision process, then you can go to the
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prayer room. Can you imagine that?
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You come to service and at the beginning of service we're all
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gathering, the music's playing, you hear and you're like, that
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was kind of weird. 5 minutes later and you finally ask
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somebody, what's that? That's the circumcision.
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You'll learn sooner what nobody. No, no, you wouldn't do that.
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But there are other things. Legalistically, you have to do
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this in order to be saved. You have to do that.
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It's become so commonplace that the Bible, like the the books of
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the Bible that speak directly to grace, like Galatians and
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Hebrews, so important, so important that you don't move
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off into a place of good works and your own human efforts, but
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walk in the spirit. Romans chapter 13, verse 14 but
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put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh.
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Stay away from the flesh. Don't feed the flesh, don't live
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in the flesh. The works of the flesh are
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evident, but rather walk in the spirit and you won't fulfill the
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lust of the flesh. Memorize those attributes
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Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness,
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self-control. Against such there is no law.
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These just flow in your life. There's no restriction on the
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kindness that God wants in your no restriction on the love or
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the joy or the gentleness. I want to pause here before we
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get into the meat of our time together and then have communion
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to just as a brother, I'm your brother in the Lord.
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I'm also as a pastor. I want to share with you.
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I just I considering the world in which we live right now, our
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world, this generation, we're living in the tensions, the
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difficulties, the hype, the the horrific events, etcetera.
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The division, what's happened in the church lately is the church
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has become very angry, very upset and voicing a voice and
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culture that's super angry. Now, certainly there's a space
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for righteous anger and I think where there is, we just don't
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accept evil and wickedness in the world for sure, but that it
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has carried over into this super angry fight, like almost a
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participation the church, and we're talking about the church
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here, the church participating in the fight.
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And I'm asking you today to listen to this study with
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attentive ears. Now I know we typically listen,
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we take notes, I understand, but we also get into these rhythms
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in life where we just saw a Bible study, another Bible
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study, another Bible study, another Bible study, you know,
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another Bible study, especially in a church like ours, because
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that's what we do. That's all we have for you is
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the Word of God. And we're going to teach it
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verse by verse. Like if you're new to this
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church, we start in verse one of a book and we work our way
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through and hopefully before the Lord comes back, we'll finish
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the whole Bible. There's only a few more books
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that I have left to teach that we would have finished teaching
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the whole Bible. So you go Bible study after
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Bible study. But I'm asking you right now,
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please listen. Just like Jesus said in the Book
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of Revelation 7 times he says this, He who has ears, let him
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hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
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Because this heart of reconciliation and this heart of
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restoration is a very powerful tool of God in a very Dark
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World. And it starts in the church.
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It actually starts in the church.
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We get it right among us, and then we become more effective in
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the reconciling work of God in the world.
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God is a God of restoration. In the Psalms that are already
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crying out, restore us, God, we have sinned, restore us, we need
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you. What's going on in our lives?
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We're suffering the consequences of our sin.
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Restore us. And the Bible tells us that
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we've been given in the New covenant a ministry of
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reconciliation. And yet there are times where
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it's not practiced, where it's not lived out.
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So please have ears. Just listen.
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Let the Holy Spirit draw out of the few principles that we're
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going to look at today. Galatians, chapter 6, verse one,
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brethren, or for some of you, cistern, if a man is overtaken,
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I think that's a word, by the way, it's not there.
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But this is for all of us. This is a generic, even though
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it's in the masking line. It's a generic Greek word for
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this church. Brethren, brethren, church, if a
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man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual
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restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering
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yourself, lest you also be tempted.
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A church, walk in the spirit. And as you're walking in the
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Spirit, be sure to be a tool of God.
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Be a tool to restore people that have fallen.
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Restore them. We'll get into the details of
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that in a little bit, but I do want to share another scripture
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with you. Would you turn to Proverbs
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chapter 24? We often refer to this, but I
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want you to see it in your own Bible or on your phone or your
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tablet. I want you to see this verse.
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I want you to mark it because it's so powerful, it's so
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wonderful, and we use it a lot, but it is a principle throughout
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the Scriptures. Proverbs chapter 24 verse 16 the
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Bible declares for a righteous man may fall 7 times and rise
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again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.
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Very simply gives us insight that righteous men and women
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fall. The Old Testament would be the
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old those following the old covenant.
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God followers for us as born again believers.
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We all stumble and fall, some harder than others, but
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understand a righteous man falls well, I don't know that we
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necessarily have any need to be convinced of that.
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However, you may need to be convinced that even though you
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have fallen, you can rise again. You don't need to stay down 7
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times. That's a long that's seven.
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Can you imagine in the in your lifetime 7 significant falls, 7
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heavy times where you you got knocked down and beat and you
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got back up. That's what the Bible says
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though. A man falls 7 times, he rises
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again. It's those of calamity, those
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apart from God that have a hard time getting up.
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A righteous man falls. And we love this truth.
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I love it. I love to see God pick people up
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and they get back right. I love to see prodigals come
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home. I love it.
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It's a work of God. But that there will be.
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And I know there are those among me right now among us in the
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room here watching online, listening live on the radio,
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maybe down in the overflow, the nursing moms room, wherever you
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might be that you are this verse.
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You are the righteous woman, the righteous man.
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That doesn't mean you're Privy You just you're a Christian that
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has fallen and you don't believe you're going to get up or you
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might even think, well, I've already used that chance,
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pastor. I've already used that chance.
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So if he gets up, I've already used the seven.
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But I taught a Bible study and I, I shared it, you know,
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periodically, but I did a specific study on this.
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I love the title of that study. I titled it the God of the
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second chance, Man, God gives second chances.
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Well, you know, pastor, I've already used the second chance,
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OK? He's the God of the third chance
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and the fifth chance and the seventh chance.
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There, there is an anticipation of God even that he is the God
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of the 490th chance. You go.
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Where do you get that from, Ed? Oh, you remember Jesus teaching
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about forgiveness and what did he say?
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He said to forgive 70 * 7 And that is not only God's
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relationship with us, but now even with each other, He's not
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giving a math lesson there, is he?
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He's telling us as believers that there's going to be a lot
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of hurt and pain that you experience that's going to
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require a restorative heart and a heart to reconcile that you
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and I, we're going to need to learn to forgive and to forgive.
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Why? Because of what God has forgiven
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us. And so when we come to Galatians
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and we learn, brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass,
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this happens a lot. This happens a lot, brethren.
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Anyone among you that's overtaken by any trespass, let's
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dive into that for a moment. Circle the word overtake.
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It's a very special word, overtake.
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It has the idea of being surprised.
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It has the idea of being shocked or caught.
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You can even think of you're going along and you're tripped
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up, but that that overtaken has also the idea that now you're
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stuck. You got caught in the trap and
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you're in the trap of a trespass of a sin, he says, hey, if
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anyone's overtaken and this happens in the body of Christ,
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you're overtaken. Nobody really, you know, nobody
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really wants to be caught by sin.
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Like, no, I haven't met anybody that has woken up in the morning
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and they're worshiping the Lord. Their hands are in the air.
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They got their Cheerios, they're heading out to work and, and,
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and you're, you're in your car, you're letting it warm up and
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you're like, OK, I just can't wait for the first person to cut
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me off today because I, I have, I've practiced my finger.
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I know the words I'm going to use.
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I even made a sign for them. I am ready.
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Nobody does that, but there you are.
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You know how I know I'm following you and you're just
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driving to work, loving the Lord, enjoying what God has done
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in your life. And what happens?
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You do get cut off and there's the finger and there's the Word.
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Nobody. Nobody plans that.
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But are you overtaken sometimes? Of course, of course we are.
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He says, hey, church, people get overtaken by sin.
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People get overtaken by sin and it's disastrous.
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This overtaken speaks of something that's not planned,
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not premeditated, because those type of sins too.
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But this is not pre. This is like the general thing
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that we all jump in, we all fall into.
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We all have this these these issues in our lives, big and
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small. Some of you here today have been
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overtaken with a sin. Nobody knows but you.
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You didn't want it. You didn't invite it, but there
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you are. And God calls you to repentance.
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Why? Because he knows you.
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He cares for you. He cares for your family.
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He doesn't want you to destroy yourself.
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He wants to help you. You're not it's, you're not in a
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hopeless situation. You can come to the cross.
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You can come back to the Lord. The Bible tells us in John six
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that anyone that comes to the to anyone that comes to Christ,
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anyone the Father given me, I will never reject them.
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Jesus said anyone the Father's given me, just come to him
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return. He says, brethren, if anyone's
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overtaking any trespass, you who are spiritual, you who are
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spiritual. This is a direct reference in
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context to walking in the Spirit.
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Paul is not creating a first class, second class, 3rd class
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Christians here. That's not what he's saying.
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Some of you are spiritual, some of you are super spiritual, some
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of you are not. That's not what he's doing.
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He's taking us back to walking in the spirit.
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Those of you that have chosen to to die to the flesh, those of
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you that are dealing with stuff, those of you that are walking in
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the spirit, you who are spiritual, you don't want to get
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caught up in works. You don't want to get caught up
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in all this judgmental pointing fingers.
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You don't do enough, you're not good enough.
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You're a horrible crit. Nothing.
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No, he says stop it back in grace.
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You walk in the spirit and when you walk in the spirit you see
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people that are hurting. That's what he's saying.
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You who are spiritual, you that are in the spirit, you that are
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walking, you that remember what happened, what legalism did to
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the church in Galatia. It made him he.
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They were said stop biting and devouring one another in a
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church. Stop being conceited and
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provoking one another because that's what happens with
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legalism. You got your own little gig
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going and you're earning your favor with God.
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And then when somebody doesn't measure up, you start judging
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them for your family. Who are you?
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What are you doing? Hey, you know, you're trying to
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share your heart. Would you pray for me?
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I had a really bad thing on I-25.
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I didn't want it. I had, you know, a finger came.
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I didn't even know I had that finger anymore.
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I, I haven't seen it in forever. And it came up and I was, you
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know, stuff in my mind, whatever.
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And and you're just wanting prayer, but you pray with a
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legalist and they get all over your case.
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What kind of Christian are you? How could you do that?
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Christians don't do that. He's like, bro, trust me, I
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don't want to do it. I trust me.
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That's why I'm coming to you to pray for me.
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I didn't come for you to beat me up.
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And that happens in churches. Instead of pointing him to the
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Lord, you point him to your own self and that God's not going to
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bless that. That's why there's a lot of
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wounded people in the church or not in the church.
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They don't come back because they met a person that wasn't
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walking in the spirit in a church building.
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And it does happen. We just have to keep our eyes on
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the Lord. Let me give you another
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scripture. In Proverbs chapter 24 and verse
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17, the Bible says do not rejoice when your enemy falls
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and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.
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It requires us to be spiritual to not rejoice.
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I don't know what it is, but there's something in all of us,
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like a twisted part of our flesh that takes a little bit of weird
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joy and seeing someone fall. And you may even have good
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reasons for, I think in the world that I live in.
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But we all kind of live in it. You know, some mega pastor is
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finally exposed for their adultery or something.
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And then they're, you know, hey, they had to be removed And and
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now, you know, the it's finally happened.
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And. And there you are going.
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Well, yeah, he got it. He deserves it.
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Yeah. It's good.
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I'm glad. I'm glad.
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I'm glad it happened. I'm glad we've known it for a
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while. And and while it is very good
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that a sinful, adulterous pastor is not in the pulpit, that is a
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good thing. It is not good to be happy about
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it. Like sweet, weird, twisted joy.
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I, I think of all the pain. I'm not happy about a man that's
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been exposed as a Sinner. I mean, I am happy that the
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church will be healthy again. And God reminds me that God
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takes care of his church. But what about his wife and his
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kids? What about the tarnished name of
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Jesus Christ? That's nothing to be happy
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about. That's nothing to be joyful
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about. And that all the pain, you know,
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over the years, God has getting trusted me and given me the the
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honor of stepping into lives and families of of pastors in
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particular. It seems to be a flow of
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ministry for me that of pastors particularly that were exposed
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for their sin and removed from their position.
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I'm ministering to one right now.
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And right when I got back, I reached out to him after my time
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away just to check in on him and check to see how he's doing.
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And one of the phrases that he shared in his text was, yeah.
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And I, it's not completely true, but this is how he feels it
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because it can't be completely true because I'm in his life.
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But he wrote in the text, yeah, we have lost all our friends.
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All our friends have abandoned us.
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And he's trying to describe everything that was lost because
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of his sin. Yeah, you're right.
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You could say. I mean, even inside.
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Well, it's because of. I know it is, but he's still
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hurting. God's dealing with him.
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He's not in the pulpit. We're not.
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He's not there. But now his wife and his kids
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And. And so there's something about
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us. They go, well, pastor, that's
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not my life. Well, it could be at work, you
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know, You know how these things happen at work too, where you
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might be competing for a job with someone and the person
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you're competing with just isn't faithful.
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They're just so lazy. They just talk behind the boss's
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back and they get the job, you know?
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Oh man, that's even worse. But then finally, after working
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with their boss for a little while, they're finally see it.
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And then they get fired. And then where you are.
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Hey, lunch for everybody, crumble cookies for all.
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And and while that person may not need to work there, what
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could happen to them wouldn't have been a better for them to
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change their behavior because now they have a mark on their
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record and they might not be able to get another job.
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Or it's not entirely as good as you think and it just does
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something in our heart. We have to walk in the spirit.
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Those things happen. But if you're spiritual, you'll
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look to pray and to help notice very practical as we wind down
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here, turn back to Genesis Chapter 9.
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I want to give you a very biblical, practical illustration
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of this in our own hearts. It comes to us from the life of
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Noah and his family, the life of Noah and his family.
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You know, for many, many days now, after days of tossing and
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turning on the floodwaters of judgement, Noah and his family
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have been in the ark. The ark finally rests.
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And they, Noah and his family come out and they're going to
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repopulate the earth and they're going to rejoice and they have a
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newness of life. God's still going to do
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something. And they're super, super
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excited. And it seems as if Noah got way
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too excited. Notice with me Genesis 9, verse
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20, Noah began to be a farmer and he planted a vineyard and
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you can just in your mind or write in your Bibles.
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So far so good. Then he drank of the wine.
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Uh oh. And was what does your Bible say
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drunk? Can I just say you'll never get
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drunk if you don't drink of the vine, you'll never get drunk.
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And what happens when he gets drunk?
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He became uncovered in his tent, which again has the picture of a
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drunken man nakedly dancing or whatever he's doing.
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He's just being a drunk and he got no clothes on and he's not
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the man that was in the arc. And we know about Noah.
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Very humble man, very useful man, very obedient man.
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Everything about Noah is amazing.
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And here he is drunk, doing whatever he's doing naked, being
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a drunken fool. And notice what happens.
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Noah as he's drunk, Ham, his son, the father of Canaan.
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See that word? He saw the nakedness of his
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father. He saw it.
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Why the works of the flesh are what evidence.
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He saw it. He saw it.
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He saw dad, drunken fool in the tent naked, doing whatever he's
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doing. And there's there's areas here
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where like he is, he's gaze, he's staring at his dad and what
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does he do? He went out and told his
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brothers outside. And that's one option.
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When you see someone send, you go and tell and you actually
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make it worse. You gossip and things that the
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church are known for. Hey, boys.
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And Can you imagine that conversation?
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Hey, guys, you won't believe it. Dad is jacked up.
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You will not believe it. Oh, yeah.
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Righteous Dad. You know, Dad, that was
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disciplining us. Dad, that was the righteous.
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Oh, Mr. Righteous Dad, the one that built the Oh, you won't
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believe this. He's a drunken fool.
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You got to come and see this. The brothers, they come notice
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what it says, but Shem and Jpeth took a garment and put it on
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their shoulders and went backward and covered the
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nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned away and
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they did not see their father's nakedness.
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They don't even have a visual of it, but instead they walk
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backwards. Cover that up so he can sober
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up. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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It sounds like a New Testament covenant theme throughout the
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Bible, doesn't You know it? And as soon as I start to say
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it, you can finish it for me. Love covers a multitude of sins.
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We see that happening here with the boys.
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Ham, very, very sinful response. Shem and Japheth, they cover up,
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wait for dad to sober up, and then they deal with the
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consequences. So there's always consequences,
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but they didn't make it worse, they made it better.
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They took a really bad situation and set the table for helping to
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do what Galatians says, restore back in.
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Galatians restore these boys, they're, they're spiritual.
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They're men, by the way. They're spiritual, and they're
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restoring one in a spirit of gentleness.
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It doesn't. Covering sin doesn't mean we
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excuse it. It doesn't mean we ignore it.
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It doesn't mean we don't pay attention to it.
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But when you cover sin, you walk in forgiveness, you work things
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out, you lead someone to repentance, you help someone see
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the love of God so that we can do things right.
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That word restore again, if you like to write in your Bibles, it
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means to set a broken bone. That's the word that was often
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used in the medical community to set a broken bone because sin
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shatters and breaks and how important it is.
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We need to help someone when sin has shattered their life.
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Then he says, considering yourself, lest you also be
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tempted like we don't go in and and all pridefully and I can't
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believe you did this and you'll know it's not that at all when
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you're spiritually like, oh, hey, you know, there's a phrase
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I I'm sure you've had many of you have adopted it.
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If you haven't, you've heard it. It's like go something like this
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there, but by the grace of God I go or something like that.
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There go I except by the grace of like, if it wasn't for the
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grace of God, I'd be destroyed. If it wasn't for the grace of
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God, I'd be lost. If it wasn't for the grace of
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God, I'd be caught up. But because of God's so
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goodness, I'm so grateful I didn't get caught up in that.
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But you did. And when I step in to serve you,
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I need to be careful to know that I also am susceptible to
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sin, and I could fall and the tables could be turned
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immediately if I don't acknowledge the power of God in
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my life. So if you're spiritual, you'll
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seek to restore, but if you're carnal and fleshly, you'll seek
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to reveal. The legalist can't wait to point
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out fault flaws and failures in others because it always makes
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them look better. It always puffs them up in
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pride. But bear there, by the grace of
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God, there go I, and we walk in gentleness, spiritually and
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cautiously. We step into difficulties
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prayerfully and carefully. One of the principles I like to
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share with the leaders here, the pastors, the wives, those that
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serve you come to a huddle. It might be one of our what I
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share in teaching us and what I what I just what I want us to
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learn. I'm going to all of us as a
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church. I want you to learn this grasp.
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It's so important. I always like to run.
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I always want to be reminded and remind those that serve here
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that when you're sitting with someone that has a destroyed
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life, what's in front of you is a person.
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It's a person who's very loved as a family.
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It's a person. You're dealing with the problem.
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You have a problem in front of you.
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You're not dealing with the problem.
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You're ministering to a person. You have a broken marriage
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there. It's not a broken marriage.
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It's too hurting people. You have an addiction, drugs
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all, it's not the drugs and the addiction, it's a person.
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And when you remember it's a person creating the image of
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God. So often a person that's been
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born again by the blood of it's a person, it's a person and ask
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servants of the Lord, we that serve those that are broken, we
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are all people. So it's a person serving a
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person, a person in a position of leadership has a
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responsibility to church is not above the people doesn't make
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you better. If you're if you're not
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struggling with sin right now and overtaken, but you're
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ministering to someone else, you're not better than them.
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You're just in a different space.
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You're a people too. I'm a people too.
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And God has reserved through the power of the Holy Spirit to use
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people to reach people. And if you forget that and you
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think you're just solving problems, you're not going to be
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very good at it. And if you forget that and
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you're just fixing marriages, you're not going to be very
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affected of that because God doesn't want you to solve
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problems and he doesn't want you to fix marriages.
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He wants you to help people get their eyes back on the Lord.
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He wants you to help people see the love of God, the hope of
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God, the restorative work of God.
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God loves to restore. He loves to rebuild.
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He loves to use us to help each other get right with the Lord.
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And so, Father, I thank you for the power of your Holy Spirit
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among us that we might be in Your hands to be used in helping
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others get through their stuff. If anyone's overtaken, we want
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to restore them. Lord, I know some listening that
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that's something that you just like.
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It's really hidden deep because they haven't always wanted to
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restore, but you're doing something new in them.
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So stir it up Lord, ban the flames, use them in great ways
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and others. I know some of you as we're
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praying church, keep praying, but some of you are here today
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and you've never repented of your sin.
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You've never turned away from sin and chosen to follow Christ.
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There's a lot of ways to say that, but like you just you've
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never really surrendered your life to God.
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And I want to give you the chance to do that today.
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If you're here and you say pastor, that's my that you
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describe my life. I need God in my life.
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I want to follow him. If that's you, would you just
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stand to your feet because I want to pray with you and pray
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for you just everywhere in the room here.
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If today is the day that you choose to follow Christ, I want
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to help you. God bless you there.
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I want to help you do it. I know there are more and
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there's just this fighting battle and you don't need to
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fight anymore. You can just wave the right
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white flag, right? And just like, hey, let's
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surrender, just choose to follow the Lord today.
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Remove, respond to the prompting of your spirit right now.
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God's, you're feeling something. That's God.
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It's not a man, not my voice, not the room, not the music,
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it's God. It's God.
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He's speaking to you, ministering to you.
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So today, if you want to be born again, today's the day.
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God bless you. Who else would say?
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And you guys outlaw online and outside of the building.
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God sees you downstairs. There are those there to help
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you and let's just like choose to turn away from sin.
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There's a Bible word for that. It's repent, turn away from sin,
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Follow Jesus. So many of us have already the
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work of God. God bless you guys in the back.
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I see you. And even if I don't see you,
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don't worry about it. God sees you and the pastors and
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leaders are going around to stand with you because that's
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our way of making sure you don't fall through the cracks.
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So don't be uncomfortable. It's like the first connection
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point with godly loving believers.
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Just to let you know you're welcome.
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Because I know when I got saved, I just didn't really believe
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that God could save me. And it was good that there were
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people in my life to tell me, no, it's OK, God is in your
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life. I say yes.
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Last night I felt a burden. Now as we're praying, I felt a
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burden to call out anyone that really needs to make a
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rededication. I don't do that very often
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because as a pastor, I don't want to teach you rededicate
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sin, rededicate sin. I don't want, I want you to just
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go for it. But I know there are times in a
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message like this, if we're talking about the fallen and
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we're talking about those overtaken and we're talking,
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well, I want to give you a chance as well.
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If you, if you just sense in your heart of hearts that you
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want to publicly rededicate your life to the Lord, just like
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deep, deep stuff, I want for you to stand as well because I want
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you to be acknowledged and I want, we want to pray for you.
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So you just like a real deep rededication.
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Like yes, I haven't been where I need to be.
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I haven't been my eyes, my ears, my life, my marriage, my kid.
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I just need to rededicate myself to or if that's you, I want you
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to respond. Would you please, let's just do
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it. No more pride, no more
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resistance, no more, no more of the well, you know what it is.
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I don't need to, you know, God knows and he loves you.
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These are the days pressing in, pressing in.
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This is the culture that needs the church, that needs the
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church to be the church and we will and the power of the Holy
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Spirit. So let me pray for you and I'll
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separate it in a minute. But Lord, I just pray for those
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rededicating. We love them.
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There's more of them than we have people to stand with them.
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So bless them. Pour out your Spirit upon them.
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Let today be a turning point. Let it be another date that they
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write down to say I was saved on this day and I had all these
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other things. But then today on October 5th,
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2025 was my rededication day and just no more looking back but
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looking forward. Bless some men and women, boys
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and girls and those that are praying to receive the Lord for
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the first time. Pray with me because the Bible
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says you can confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe
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in your heart. God raised him from the dead.
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So you could say something like this.
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God, I come to you today and I want to be forgiven.
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I believe in Jesus who died for me and rose again from the dead.
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And I choose to follow him today.
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I repent, turn away from my sin, and I choose to follow you.
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Take my life and use it. And for all that are responding
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near and far, let our hearts rejoice that you are moving
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among us and that lives and families are being changed.
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Father in Jesus name, Amen. Amen.
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