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Authentic Imitationology #109 [Morning Devo] · The BLAZE (Bible Study)

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  Speaker 1: Good morning family, God bless you. Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Devo. It's your brother Sam Lopez aka DJ Sam Rock.
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  Speaker 1: And of course when you share it to your community, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to your groups. We're available there too, So thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for sharing, Thank you so much for hopping
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  Speaker 1: on these morning sessions. But it's Friday, so we switch
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  Speaker 1: gears and we get into authentic imitation ology. Amen. This
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  Speaker 1: is episode one hundred and nine on the Morning Devo
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  Speaker 1: on Fridays. One hundred and nine times we got together
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  Speaker 1: on Fridays, and we are on our mission to try
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  Speaker 1: to imitate the most successful person who has ever lived
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  Speaker 1: on this planet Earth, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So here it is. And I heard this the other
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  Speaker 1: day while I was talking to a brother in Christ. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and I heard him say it. I say it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I used to say it a lot. I don't say
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  Speaker 1: it as much as I catch myself when I say it.
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  Speaker 1: Sinner saved by grace? You ever heard that before? I'm
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  Speaker 1: just a sinner saved by grace. And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: used to say that so many times because I heard
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  Speaker 1: it said I was taught that way, amen, And I
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  Speaker 1: could venture to say that you probably taught that way too.
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  Speaker 1: This is a common teaching, a traditional teaching, that we're
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  Speaker 1: still sinners even though we're saved with sinners saved by grace.
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  Speaker 1: I know I've spoken about this lots of times. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm not making myself clear enough, So asking
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, how could we make this more clear? How
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  Speaker 1: can I make this more clear? To express my point
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  Speaker 1: about not being a sinner identifying as a sinner after salvation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying, amen, I have to say it's slow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I don't sin. And even if I
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  Speaker 1: did say, hey, I don't sin, you know I'm sinning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm lying. And if you said you have no sin
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  Speaker 1: or you don't sin, I won't believe you either, because
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  Speaker 1: I know you're lying. But what I am saying, as
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  Speaker 1: we don't identify ourselves after we're born again, after we're
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  Speaker 1: christ followers, after we have Holy Spirit living inside of us,
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  Speaker 1: after we are forgiven for our sins, we don't go
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  Speaker 1: around telling everybody you know, I'm still a sinner. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need to help the enemy beat us down. The
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  Speaker 1: enemy is trying to kill, steal, and destroyed from us.
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  Speaker 1: He is the one that's going to try to beat
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  Speaker 1: us down. We don't have to help him by calling
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  Speaker 1: us something that we're no longer. Aymn Sis Joanne, I
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  Speaker 1: see you. Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: the morning deep with my sister, my friend. So here's
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  Speaker 1: a question. Are you a sinner saved by grace and
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  Speaker 1: a new creation simultaneously? Make that make sense? I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask you again. Are you a sinner saved by grace
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  Speaker 1: and a new creation at the same time? Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, WHOA. I never thought about it like that.
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  Speaker 1: Neither did I. A man the Lord downloaded that A
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  Speaker 1: man and I had a great discussion with my brother
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  Speaker 1: in Christ that we were speaking the other day, a man.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he said it, I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: stop saying that. Think about it. We had to sell
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  Speaker 1: a moment and they said, you know what. I received
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  Speaker 1: that because I think we would just just so used
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  Speaker 1: to saying that, so used to beating ourselves down with
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  Speaker 1: something that no one in the New Covenant has called
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  Speaker 1: us after we're saved, Jesus didn't call me a sinner again.
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  Speaker 1: The apostles never called me a sinner again, Apostle Paul,
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  Speaker 1: and I quote said, I am the chief sinner. Can
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul say what he wants to say over himself
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  Speaker 1: or do we have to say, okay, he meant for everybody. No,
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  Speaker 1: he was talking to himself. The disciples never called a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna venture to say, I don't even think
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  Speaker 1: that enemy pulls us a sinner at the salvation. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the scriptures. If you find a scripture where the
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  Speaker 1: devil himself says, yeah, you're still a sinner, let me know,
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  Speaker 1: because I know he's accused of the brethren, Amen, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he actually went up to the
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  Speaker 1: disciples and started saying you're a sinner. When of the
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  Speaker 1: disciples believe that, not even Judas Iscariot was called right
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  Speaker 1: a sinner. And when he did what he did to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he was so he felt so much guilt that he
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  Speaker 1: hung himself. Amen. Good morning, brother Robert, Robbie newborn in
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  Speaker 1: the building, Good morning, and blessings to you as well. Mother.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna be in two scripts today Tewod Corinthians
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  Speaker 1: five twenty one and one Peter Chapter two, verse nine.
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  Speaker 1: We're to see how we can combine those to scriptures, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and come to realization and once and for all that
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  Speaker 1: we're not sinners anymore. We're saved by grace. That's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent. We're saved by the Lord Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 1: his grace and his mercy and his love. But we're saved.
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  Speaker 1: We're born again. We're not born old again. We're born
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  Speaker 1: new again. We're a new creation, not an old creation
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  Speaker 1: any longer. So, like I said, I know I speak
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  Speaker 1: about this often. It's just that it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that needs to be clarified. Amen. At least I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to make it more clear on my side of
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  Speaker 1: how I'm explaining it. Amen. But the scriptures speak, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God still speaks, Holy Spirit still teaches, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to reach more people with this gospel message. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Or for the glory of God. So let's go for it.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions, comment concerns, or any pray requests,
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  Speaker 1: please don't hesitate to leave it on a live chat.
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  Speaker 1: That's what We're here for whether I'm live or not.
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  Speaker 1: If something comes into your mind, something comes into your
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  Speaker 1: heart and you want to share it, go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: share it. Don't be afraid. And also we're gonna pray first,
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  Speaker 1: and after we pray with shit us out for like
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  Speaker 1: sixty seconds, and when we come back, when the time
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  Speaker 1: clock stops. Amen, We'll get right into today's morning. Devo
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  Speaker 1: Sinner Saved by grace Father, Thank you, Lord God, that
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  Speaker 1: you have forgiven us for all those whosoevers who call
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  Speaker 1: upon your name to be saved are saved. We're redeemed,
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  Speaker 1: we were born, we're restored. We'll protected, guide and guarded
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  Speaker 1: by way of your Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord God
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  Speaker 1: for covering us as we walk through this life, this
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  Speaker 1: uncertain place. It's uncertain times. But we know whether we're
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  Speaker 1: not alone, that you are with us, you are in us,
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  Speaker 1: You're working through us, and you are shining your bright light,
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  Speaker 1: the blazing light of Christ through us so others could
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  Speaker 1: see the glory of God, could see the mercy of God,
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God, and we could offer the gospel
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  Speaker 1: of God, which offers forgiveness to all those who need
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  Speaker 1: to be forgiven for their sins, past, present and future.
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  Speaker 1: I pray, Lord God, that you are glorified to date,
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  Speaker 1: that you will give us clarity of this message, of
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  Speaker 1: this teaching of this morning devot, and that we could
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  Speaker 1: become authentically, just amazingly like you, and we could become
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  Speaker 1: authentic imitators of who you are. I pray Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: a hedge of protection over my life, my family physically
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  Speaker 1: emotional and spiritually, my wife, our children, our grandchildren. I
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  Speaker 1: pray for archreen angels to annihilate the tactics of the
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  Speaker 1: enemy right now by the authority and in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus. And I pray that over every
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  Speaker 1: single person on the other side of the screen and
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of this mic, that you will
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  Speaker 1: give us a clear mind, a clear conscience, and that
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  Speaker 1: you will help us walk in holiness and in righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and we will move in victorious ways so others may
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  Speaker 1: inquire of who we serve, or would ask why we
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  Speaker 1: are the way we are transform and redeemed and being perfected.
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  Speaker 1: As long as we, Lord God, are following you and
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  Speaker 1: are in your lights and no longer in the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: we could testify of your power and your grace and
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  Speaker 1: your mercy. So I speak life concerning all things living
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  Speaker 1: and death to those things that try to distract us
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  Speaker 1: and try to bring us out and take us down.
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  Speaker 1: And no longer will we beat ourselves down with false
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  Speaker 1: accusations upon ourselves. We break head in the powerful name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and Jesus Holy Name. We pray this. Amen
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  Speaker 1: to that. Amen. If you agree, go ahead and say amen,
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  Speaker 1: let's share this out sixty seconds. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get right into I have two scriptures tewod Corinthians
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  Speaker 1: five twenty one and one Peter Chapter two, verse number nine.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Hey man, Amen, we're back in
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  Speaker 1: the building. Let's go for it. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for helping me share this out. And for all those groups, man,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much. They were flashing across the top
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  Speaker 1: of my screen over here. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: allowing me to share this on your group. Brother Carlos,
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  Speaker 1: I see you, Good morning, God bless you. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning deb with my bro. Amen. So let's
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  Speaker 1: go for it. Let's let's challenge this way of thinking,
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  Speaker 1: because we've been saying this for years at least I
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  Speaker 1: know I used to say this for many years because
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  Speaker 1: I was taught that way. I've heard it quoted that way.
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  Speaker 1: I've literally heard people say that, and I literally took
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  Speaker 1: that as the word of God. See, I'm still a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still a sinner. I'm still a sinner saved by grace.
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  Speaker 1: I used to say it all the time, and then
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know what, let me let me take
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  Speaker 1: my own advice. Let me read the scriptures for myself. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always telling people, why don't you read the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: for yourself to see if that's true, or to see
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  Speaker 1: if we're being taught correctly, or to see if that's
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  Speaker 1: really in the scriptures. Amen. And I took the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to look around, searched around in the New Covenant because
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  Speaker 1: I know that before Christ, I know we are identified
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  Speaker 1: as sinners. We're bound to sin, absolutely one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, you know, now that I'm a Christian,
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  Speaker 1: I don't sin. I'm not saying that. I'm saying now
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  Speaker 1: now that I'm Christian, I don't identify myself as a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a saint, saved, born again, woral priesthood right, a
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  Speaker 1: child of God more than a conqueror through Christ. I'm
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  Speaker 1: all of what Jesus and what Holy Scripture says. I
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  Speaker 1: am identifies everything that identifies me in the scriptures, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say something apart from that. So
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  Speaker 1: as I journeyed through the scriptures and I looked, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, wow, Jesus, the Apostles, the Disciples, the writers
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  Speaker 1: are the news. No one says that anymore. And that
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  Speaker 1: we were like everything's in past tense. We were sinners,
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  Speaker 1: we were haters, we were this, we were that past sense.
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  Speaker 1: What people are going around saying present sense that I'm
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  Speaker 1: still that, I'm still what I used to be, And
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  Speaker 1: that's not flying right. It doesn't make any sense. Robbie said,
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  Speaker 1: we are saints, Yes we are. Literally, I know it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like we're boasting or we're being arrogant, But why
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  Speaker 1: are we so afraid of repeating what the Gospel says,
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  Speaker 1: what the Word of God says we are. Why are
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  Speaker 1: we so hesitant say yeah, you're holy, Yeah God says
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  Speaker 1: he's holy, so we're holy. Righteous? Yeah, God says he's righteous,
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  Speaker 1: So we're righteous. Like enough of the enough of not
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  Speaker 1: being able to say what the Scripture says over our lives. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And I'm humble about it. I know you're humble about
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  Speaker 1: it when you say these things because you're thinking in
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  Speaker 1: the back of your mind or I can't hold up
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  Speaker 1: to that. You're right, I can't either. Holy Spirit is
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  Speaker 1: helping us through Amen, Sister Joys. Good morning, God, bless you,
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  Speaker 1: praise the Lord. Yes, welcome back to the morning deep
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  Speaker 1: with my sister, my friend. So let's get into these scriptures. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: As I see more people sharing on the groups, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much. Again, I don't take that for granted.
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  Speaker 1: I really am grateful that you allow me to share
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  Speaker 1: this on your group pages. Amen. Hi, this cursor real quick,
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  Speaker 1: because you don't want to see all that on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to see that on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go for it into commentationlogy. Remember Fridays we
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  Speaker 1: switch gears and we switch it to authentic imitationology and
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  Speaker 1: the center saved by grace. We say it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But let me just see what the scripture says about
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  Speaker 1: that Second Corinthians shot the five verse number twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: But Ile says he made who knew no sin to
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  Speaker 1: judicially be sin on our behalf. This is the justice
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  Speaker 1: of God. Right, So that in Him and who in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: we would become the righteousness of God. You see that
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  Speaker 1: we're becoming the righteousness of God. That is, we would
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  Speaker 1: be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him by his gracious, loving kindness. So this
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  Speaker 1: is the word, this is other scriptures. We're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: this at face value. We're gonna really, really really look
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  Speaker 1: at this and say, Okay, it was the justice of
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  Speaker 1: God that made Christ had no sin to be sin
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  Speaker 1: on our behalf. What does that mean? Does that mean
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  Speaker 1: that Christ' sin? Know? It means that he took the
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  Speaker 1: sins upon himself, the whole sins of the world upon himself,
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  Speaker 1: Yet he himself did not sin. That was the justice
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  Speaker 1: of God, not the justice of man. He didn't deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't a curse on him or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: He did it because of the righteousness of God, the
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  Speaker 1: justice of God, so that way we could be made
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  Speaker 1: acceptable to him. There's nothing we could have done to
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  Speaker 1: make this happen. He did it to make it happen
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  Speaker 1: and placed us in a right relationship. So if we
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  Speaker 1: could be placed in a right relationship, there must be
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  Speaker 1: a wrong relationship with God, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are experiencing a wrong relationship with God because they're not
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  Speaker 1: serving the true, living, holy, righteous God. They're serving a
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  Speaker 1: God that's manageable to their lives, that fits in their schedule. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But the frank God bless you and also your family
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  Speaker 1: and everybody on the morning devot. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for the blessing. God bless you too, my friend and
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  Speaker 1: my bro and it's good to see you on the
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  Speaker 1: morning devo. So that's the first scripture that I looked at.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hmm, that's interesting. That's the apostle Paul,
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  Speaker 1: inspired by Holy Spirit writing this scripture. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the next one, man, This one is one Peter, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: verse number nine. But you are a chosen race, a
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  Speaker 1: royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a special people for God's
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  Speaker 1: own possession. Now, I had to remind my brother the
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  Speaker 1: other day that I was speaking on the phone with
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  Speaker 1: He says, I'm nobody special. Said, yeah, you are special. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You see how the Bible says a special people for
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  Speaker 1: God's own possession. We are special not because we saying
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  Speaker 1: we're special. It's because Jesus knew we were special. He
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  Speaker 1: deemed us special. He died on the cross for all
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  Speaker 1: of us, for all of us and for those who
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  Speaker 1: accept that truth. And we go and repent and turn
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus for forgiveness of our sins. Amen. He did
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  Speaker 1: this because he found us special people for God's own possession.
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  Speaker 1: Now quickly, I know there is some theologian saying, first
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  Speaker 1: Peter chapter two, is Base talking to the Israelites, Sam
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  Speaker 1: not talking to gentiles. Well, Amen, we're just looking at
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  Speaker 1: the conversation then, and we're calling we're calling out what God,
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  Speaker 1: through Jesus is calling his people. Last time I checked,
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  Speaker 1: we were grafted in. We are adopted into the promises
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  Speaker 1: of God. We are adopted into the family of God. We
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  Speaker 1: are adopted into the body of Christ. So this applies, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: specifically to the Israelites. But Amen, but now we're part.
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  Speaker 1: We're brothers and sisters according to the grace and the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of God. So that you may proclaim that excellencies,
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections, I love it
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  Speaker 1: of him who called you out of darkness, Amen, into
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  Speaker 1: his marvelous light. Listen, I can testify I was in
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  Speaker 1: a dark place when the Lord found me and shine
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  Speaker 1: his marvelous light on me. I was in a real
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  Speaker 1: dark place. What about you before Jesus right, and he
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  Speaker 1: took me out of that darkness and brought me into
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  Speaker 1: his marvelous light. So I can never say, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the dark because God put me there. No, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the dark because I was put there by the
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  Speaker 1: deception of the devil. I followed the wrong leader, and
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  Speaker 1: I was listening to the wrong voice. What about you
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  Speaker 1: and man? Who could testify that we were at that place?
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  Speaker 1: I went to the wrong screen. Who could testify that
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  Speaker 1: we was at that place once in our lives? Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we were there. We were in the darkness. And there's
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  Speaker 1: some brothers and sisters right now that are flirting in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness. They're flirting with sin, and they're putting the
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  Speaker 1: cells in dark places that they should no longer be at.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because we've been using that sinner say
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  Speaker 1: by Grace so much that now we're using that to
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  Speaker 1: justify our actions. God is still working on me, still
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  Speaker 1: a center saved by No. Listen, let's not help the
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  Speaker 1: enemy with his lies. The enemy is doesn't need our
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  Speaker 1: help when it comes to lives. He's the father of lives. Lies.
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  Speaker 1: There's no truth in him at all. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: could quote a scripture, but best believe he's going to
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  Speaker 1: what He's going to manipulate it. He's going to something
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  Speaker 1: about it is going to be off like he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: say that the one part and then he's going to
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  Speaker 1: try to twist the scripture and just to use deception
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  Speaker 1: that he always uses when he speaks. Right, he say,
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  Speaker 1: didn't God say X y Z, And then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden he's going to be lying to us about
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  Speaker 1: another part of the same scripture. So don't trust him.
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  Speaker 1: So that that was trying to lie to us to
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  Speaker 1: see us beat us down. We don't have to lie
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  Speaker 1: to ourselves and to see ourselves and beat ourselves down.
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  Speaker 1: He's already trying that, man, and we're not on his
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  Speaker 1: side anymore. We're not in darkness. We are on a
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  Speaker 1: lot of christ sinner saved by grace. Rethink that statement.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, that's my challenge and love I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying it. And man, rethink that statement. When you say that,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a humble statement. If you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: you're actually saying I'm still a sinner regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did, I'm still a siner regardless of what the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures say. I'm still a siner what regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit inspired writers of the New Testament were saying.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's an issue either Wait telling the truth
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  Speaker 1: or God is telling the truth. So, as believers in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: you're not merely a sinner saved by grace. That's a
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  Speaker 1: small statement. As a matter of fact, you are a
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  Speaker 1: new creation, a saint, like brother Robbie said earlier, who
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  Speaker 1: sometimes sins. Think about it when I sin, I'm sinning
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  Speaker 1: as a saint, not as a sinner. That was a
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  Speaker 1: good one, right, thank you Jesus. I'm sitting as I'm
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  Speaker 1: sinning as a saint, not a sin. That's why I
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  Speaker 1: could get out of it, Not that I get away
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  Speaker 1: with it. I can get out of that repent, turn
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  Speaker 1: from that sin, and turn to the righteousness of God.
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  Speaker 1: I have the power to do that. Invest it in
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  Speaker 1: all of God's children. We all have that power to
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  Speaker 1: stop repent and turn back to Christ. Guess who doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have that power unborn again, I'm unbeliever who was not saved.
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  Speaker 1: They're bound to sin. Remember, do you remember when you
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  Speaker 1: were a sinner when you could literally identify as one. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I was so bad in sin before Christ saved me.
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  Speaker 1: People couldn't even tell me I was sinning, couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: tell me I was doing anything wrong. I was so
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  Speaker 1: deceived that everything that I was doing at that time,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it's okay, I'm not hurting nobody. And I
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  Speaker 1: was killing myself. And I was being a bad example
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  Speaker 1: to my son. I was being a bad examplento my friends.
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  Speaker 1: I was just a bad person all the way around,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what people say, Oh, you was always a
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  Speaker 1: good guy. Listen. I was just a professional sinner at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and I hid really good. Amen. Now that
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the light of Christ, it's impossible to hide
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  Speaker 1: my darkness. If I walked in it, you would see it. Amen. Sisters,
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  Speaker 1: joy says Amen Ephesians two and one, two one to ten.
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  Speaker 1: Saved by grace from our sins, we are made new.
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  Speaker 1: That is good, brother Sam. I agree with you, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll read that scripture as well. Thank you. So
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  Speaker 1: we're new, so that means we don't identify as the old.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. When you are a new born baby, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you would have said that was you, and that was
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  Speaker 1: me as a baby. Are we still babies? Amen? I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of our parents wish that we would
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  Speaker 1: never grow up and we would stay babies. No, we
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  Speaker 1: got older, we got we got more mature or at
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  Speaker 1: least a hope, and now we're older. But that was
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  Speaker 1: us before. We didn't know nothing. We know how to talk,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't know how to walk. We had to be
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  Speaker 1: taught everything at that point. Then when we learned enough,
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  Speaker 1: then we started doing things on our own. Right, how
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  Speaker 1: much more do we have to be taught and learn
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  Speaker 1: how to walk? Amen? And rely on our father. So
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  Speaker 1: that way, when we get mature enough, we could start
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  Speaker 1: doing stuff on our own, inspired by Holy Spirit who's
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  Speaker 1: leading us. And then we found ourselves in a different place.
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  Speaker 1: So when they're like who we used to be a
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  Speaker 1: man as infants. Now we're mature, we're adults. Some of
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  Speaker 1: us are teenagers, young adults, whatever the situation. In Christ,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a young adult, Amen. In Christ, i'm twenty something
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  Speaker 1: years old. But physically my date of birth, Amen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in my fifties, so I'm not the same. I'm the same.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you ask my mom, who's that guy on
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  Speaker 1: the scream? My mom said that's my son. I knew him,
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  Speaker 1: so he was in the belly. Amen, he asks Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who is that man? Well, that's my son. I knew
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  Speaker 1: him before his mom knew him, before he was in
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  Speaker 1: the belly. That's the difference. We are called. We are
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  Speaker 1: set apart. You have been given a new heart and
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  Speaker 1: a new spirit. And I speak about this a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I let me just cite the scripture where I
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  Speaker 1: get that from Ezekiel thirty six, twenty six and twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: A prophecy of someone who's going to give us a
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  Speaker 1: new heart? And who was that prophecy? Who is that
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  Speaker 1: prophet prophesying about? And who gave us that new heart?
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gave us a new heart and a new mind.
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  Speaker 1: We have the mind of Christ. He Booshot at eight
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  Speaker 1: and ten. Another sighting of a scripture. You could check
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  Speaker 1: it out for yourself, God being the scriptures to that way,
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  Speaker 1: you could back up what you're saying with the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: And the scriptures don't contradict themselves. And even if we
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  Speaker 1: found contradictions, just say, if you ever found a contradiction
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible, does that change the Gospel? No, it
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  Speaker 1: would just be hard for me to say that the
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  Speaker 1: byle's in errative, that there's no errors. But we don't
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  Speaker 1: see that. If you take an honest look at the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: there are no contradictions. So guess we struggle with sin.
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  Speaker 1: The world knows it. Why are we saying otherwise? The
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  Speaker 1: world knows when the believers of God's sin, we struggle
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  Speaker 1: with it. But because we struggle with sin, and no
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  Speaker 1: longer defines you or defines me as a sinner. Instead
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  Speaker 1: we had defined by what Jesus accomplished through his death
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  Speaker 1: and resurrection. I'm a child of God. You're a child
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  Speaker 1: of God set apart for his glory, sanctified children of God,
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  Speaker 1: set apart for his glory and purpose. We read that
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  Speaker 1: in One Peter, chapter two, verse nine. So this transformation
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  Speaker 1: means what that you are no longer a sinner by identity,
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  Speaker 1: but a saint who occasionally sins. And when we sin
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  Speaker 1: as a saint, we stop. We don't stay in that
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  Speaker 1: dark place. Amen. And if you do stay in that
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  Speaker 1: dark place and you craving sin and you love sin,
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  Speaker 1: you might have to check your steve. You're still in
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  Speaker 1: the faith. So understanding his truth and this truth can
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  Speaker 1: impact your daily life as it encourages you to live
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  Speaker 1: out your true identity in Christ, relying on His grace
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  Speaker 1: to guide you and empower you. Right Titus two eleven
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  Speaker 1: and twelve. I hope I got my point across. Go
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  Speaker 1: to them scriptures. Remind the tape, get those other scriptures
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Repeat those scriptures. Know the scriptures. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: hang on to the word of God. Second Gristhians Chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: Read the whole chapter. First Peter chapter two. Read the
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  Speaker 1: whole chapter. Amen. Thank you so much for hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with me. It's a blessing that we could come together
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  Speaker 1: right in the morning, first time of the day. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever you watch this or listen to this as
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  Speaker 1: a replay, thank you so much for coming through. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you will bless God. Bless you all, God keep
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  Speaker 1: you all, and remember always that God is Good. Peace.