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Marks of a True Christian | 2 Timothy 3 | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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It is always a joy to sing to the Lord with you always and it
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is always an honor and a privilege to open God's word
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with you. And so meet me in the book is
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second Timothy as we have been in the past few weeks, in
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chapter 3, in your Bibles and as pleasing as a sound of worship
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in song is, can I tell you another sound that I love the
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rustling of the leaves of the scriptures.
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I'm thankful for technology but I'm a book guy and I'm sure you
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understand what I'm saying by that.
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Second Timothy chapter 3, And let's pray.
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One more time, shall we? Heavenly Father, we thank you
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for Gathering us as your people. We thank you that we have
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freedom still. We thank you that we have access
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to the full revelation of your counsel and your mind and your
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will We asked, oh, Lord. That as we expound these verses,
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that they would not come through a vessel that thinks he is
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strong and himself. Lord, we are weak.
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I am weak and we ask for your help apart from the help of the
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holy spirit. This meeting will be futile,
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it'll be void of your power and the transforming Grace that is
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necessary to build our faith. Lord help us, demolish every
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distraction anything that would hinder the reception of your
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word Lord. Pray that you would cancel the
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assignments of Satan and the Lord instead, we would know your
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presence and your power in your house.
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We ask these things in the precious name of the master in
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Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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So we can spend the next few weeks dissecting expounding upon
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each of the characteristics that Paul lists here, when he speaks
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about the marks of mankind. And the last days today we're
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going to be concluding our time in this portion of scripture and
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prayerfully. We're going to move forward in
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this Pastoral Epistles. Nonetheless, before we do that,
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we're going to be looking at the final warning at the holy spirit
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of God provides Us in the section.
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And this final point is extremely crucial for the
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Believers understanding. And dare, I say this afternoon,
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that it might even be the means by which some would be truly
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saved. Truly saved.
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And I say truly saved because what Paul is about to disclose
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is one of the most damning deceptions known to mankind.
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The Apostle is going to conclude this index of godlessness not by
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pointing to another component of those who are described by being
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alienated from Christendom. What?
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I mean by that Paul is not about to speak about something that
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deals necessarily with those who Are separated from Christian
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households, separated from faith-based schools,
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disconnected from even churches. When you look at something like
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in verse 4, where he speaks about lovers of pleasure, rather
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than lovers of God, that's obvious.
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We know that this is speaking about those who want nothing to
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do with Christ, who want nothing to do with God.
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God is not in their plans, he's not in their trust, he's not
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under thoughts, he's not in their conversation, he's not and
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their affections, why? Because they are slaves to their
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pleasures, and they are self-declared masters of Their
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Own. Fate.
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Instead, we'll Paul is about to write to us, is not the obvious
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Corruption of Outsiders, but a frame of mind that is actually
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found within the walls of Christendom.
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It's in verse 5. we read having the appearance of godliness, but
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denying its power avoid such people having an appearance of
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godliness, but denying its power.
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Paul writes in this context that as we approach the final days,
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as we come to the combination of the age, there will be an
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increase. There will be a growth of those
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who aware the costume of piety, who wear the appearance of
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godliness, but will be void of the true power.
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We might think that the appearance of godliness is a
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good thing. But God here tells us that it is
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to be listed among it is a custom.
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That should be named with the most despicable.
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And deplorable practices that are condemned by his Holiness.
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And by the God-fearing What does he mean here by having the
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appearance of godliness, the idea of appearance speaks of an
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outline, it speaks of a form of something or someone that is
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attempting to present itself as something or someone.
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It's an attempt to convince that it's substance is true.
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When in fact, it lacks the very qualities that would make it
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legitimate. The appearance that Paul reports
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is so tricky, that it can even falsely.
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Convince those who are undiscerning and careless with
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their examination. It's a cloak is something that
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can be put on and put off, but it's something that can also be
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so realistic that it can deceive, it can deceive others,
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and it can even deceive, the one who is trying to display
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something. My brother recently brought
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bought a Furniture piece in his living room and it was an olive
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tree. And the thing looks so real.
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I remember when he brought into the living room that at first, I
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didn't know anybody talked about buying it, but I saw it.
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I thought there was an exotic plant in this place and it's has
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olives the way that the the leaves are colored and the
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branches, the way the texture set out.
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It can actually convince somebody a passerby that there
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is this beautiful plant in this house.
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But upon closer examination when you know what a real Leaf feels
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like and you have an awareness of what authentic animation is
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the lifelessness of the object becomes apparent.
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And what Paul is trying to say is that there will be a growing
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breed of professing Christians, who will Adorn themselves with
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the Sight and Sounds of religiosity.
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But upon examination, they lack the life-giving power that truly
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makes someone Godly. And that's why he says here that
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they will deny its power denial. He is not speaking about a
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verbal verbal rejection of God. This is speaking about a way of
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life that testifies, that that individual has never truly met
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him in the first place. This denial of the power of God
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does not dismiss the fact that those who have the appearance of
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godliness can recite Doctrine. That they know biblical stories
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or that they even come into sacred settings, such as this,
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and come to events that have a spiritual Focus.
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This denial of power speaks of someone who does not have the
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evidence of communion with God and is Barren of the conviction,
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for the things of God, that can only be inspired in the Soul by
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God himself. And this, this mention of such
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people, again, might have references in their mind in the
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Bible. They might know some ideas
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concerning Jesus and his work. Tell you straight forward, they
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don't nothing of true worship. There is no sense of delight in
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God. In fact, their Delight is
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directed towards everything but God The measure of their love
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for the world and the love for the things of the world is no
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different than one who blasphemes God.
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If we need an illustration for this and look no further than
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Judas, the Apostle who committed suicide just after he denied
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Christ. This is an example of one who
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had the appearance of godliness who Blended in so well.
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So well that he camouflage himself that even in a setting
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when a woman came with an alabaster flask and broke it at
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the feet of the Christ and begin to Worship the Lord from head to
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toe this Judas criticize this woman publicly and he gave the
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impression to those in that same room that he was righteously
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indignant. Because such a thing could have
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been sold and we could have given to the needy And nobody
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questioned him. But John tells us by the spirit
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that this man did not care about the needy.
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He was upset that a opportunity was wasted where he could have,
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he could have taken more money from the Ministries Treasury.
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So camouflage was Judas that even in the night in which Jesus
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declared that one of them would betray him.
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Nobody suspected Judas. Nobody said, we knew it.
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This guy has been off these past three years.
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He's so worldly. Nothing of the sort.
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Nothing of the sort. But this man was Dan to hell.
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Judas is a testament that one can be closely associated with
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Jesus. And even busy himself with
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ministerial, work and still be a son of Destruction.
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How do we make sense of this? We'll figure out in a moment but
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I find it quite fascinating that by the spirit.
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We are told that there will be forms of godliness as we
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approach the return of Christ as we approach.
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The Great Tribulation, they'll be manifestations of
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spirituality. Or you thought that as we come
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near to Christ's return that anything spiritual would be
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extinct. No, in fact, it will increase it
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will actually multiply, you will have different people who have
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some expression of spirituality, some formality.
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And they will have forms of godliness, and that's not so
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hard to believe, we're already seeing it now.
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All you have to do is peek over into persecuted countries like
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China, who are persecuting Christians this Sunday and other
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faiths, And their governments didn't liquidate their lands
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from religious buildings and religious tax.
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No no they have churches there. They have religious and sacred
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texts there. But what they have is State
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compliant churches they have people who have a form of
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godliness that will obey with a cruel government and Antichrist
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government was say and they will submit not to God but to Caesar
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Forms of godliness will not disappear as Christ, appears,
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no, they will increase, but they will be void of the true saving
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power of the Gospel. And I believe it's worth
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exploring, a couple of things. One of them is this, how is this
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possible? How is it that it will be, that
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people will arrive to this appearance of godliness while
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being emptied of this power. How will they arrive there?
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How would this thing be discipled?
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How does this thing even occur? Let me ask it for now.
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How is it that there are people today?
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Who claim to profess Christ? But when you look at their lives
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closely, you realize that they haven't really met him.
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They haven't really been saved by him.
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I believe there are a couple of considerations and I want to
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present them to you today because the goal of this
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message, if you haven't realized it already is to make sure that
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everybody in here, does not just have an appearance of godliness,
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but as truly met God, One of the ways I believe according to the
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scriptures that some arrived to this appearance of godliness.
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But denying the power, the true saving power, the holy spirit's
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power and a man or woman's heart is found an example found in the
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book of Acts chapter 19, And verse 11, I would like to read
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this as an illustration to you to drive a point home.
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Of how this appearance, how phony false Christians are in
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existence today and will be in the days to come. in Acts 19 11
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to 13, we read Acts 19 11 to 13. And God was doing extraordinary
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Miracles by the hands of Paul. So that even a handkerchiefs or
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aprons that he touched that it touched.
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His skin were carried away to the sick and their diseases left
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them in the evil, spirits came out of them.
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Then some of the itinerant, Jewish exorcists undertook to
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invoke the name of the Lord Jesus, over those, who had evil
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spirits, saying I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.
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I love this text while Paul was in Ephesus.
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You've heard me say this before but I'll say it again.
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Wherever this man went there is either Revival or riots.
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And here in this case there was a Revival God had release an
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unusual source of power upon him and through him.
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And so great, was this power that even the materials that
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touched his skin was used to bring deliverance from disease
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and demons? And news spread fast and the
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news of this man. And the success of his ministry,
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reached the ears of certain Exorcist Jewish Exorcist.
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Who apparently had some kind of profession and providing
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spiritual services to those who are bound.
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And I don't know how they did it.
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We can have strong confidence that I was superstitious and
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that their Solutions were not concrete.
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Because we read here something more interesting than the fact
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that there is some Jews, who believe they can cast out
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demons. And it is this, they believe
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that they can borrow the name of Jesus.
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They undertook upon themselves to declare the name of our Lord.
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And so they saw recipe. They saw a formula that they
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thought that they can just replicate easily and copy.
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They saw that Jesus proclaimed. This name.
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This name had power, he had a certain method and they said,
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well, if it worked for him, surely you can work for us.
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And this is so sad because they indirectly even admit while
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trying to perform a Deliverance that this Jesus, they did not
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know, but it was a guy that Paul knew that Paul proclaimed.
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And these preachers got beat up by the demon. and they run off
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naked because those demons said something that I wish a demon
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would say of you Jesus, I know and Paul we know Who are you?
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Demons are so busy that they don't even consider people that
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are not threats to them. But Paul was a threat.
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This man was so filled with the Holy Spirit he made demons
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nervous when he woke up. and in this case, I read something that
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teaches me. Something about what we're
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trying to understand here. These sons of sceva proved that
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there are those who can adopt biblical vocabulary, and even
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engage and Christian activity, but don't know the Lord.
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They don't know Christ. He's a name that they sing.
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He's a name that they might even tell others about, but he's not
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the name that they adore and love.
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This is one of the ways that false Christians breed.
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The same way that the sons of skiba were able to mirror Paul
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is the same way that many sons and daughters of Christian
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parents evolved, overtime pay attention.
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If you grew up in a Christian household by way of observation
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and exposure to Christian culture, they substitute a true
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connection with the Lord by being able to mimic behavior and
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lingo. That holds no true life.
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It's something that becomes second nature.
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It's all that they've known and the fact that they remain in it
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and part deals with comfort more than conversion, It's their
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familiarity. It's part of their Heritage.
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It's something that they just know when they really don't know
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him. There is never true conversion.
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There is never a moment of declaring that Jesus Christ was
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Lord, there is no evidence of private Devotion.
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To God, there is no hunger for Holiness.
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There's no longing to explore him and to declare him.
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They're just they're parroting things.
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And they're, they're familiar with things and the best that
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they really have. Is a worldly life perfumed with
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christianese. And a long history of being
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involved with in the church. And in a Christian home, that
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gives them a false sense of salvation.
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Charles Spurgeon said. Not generation, but regeneration
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that makes someone a Christian and it is true.
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There are many things in creation.
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That fascinate me many things, I'm sure you as well.
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One of the things that blows my mind is those birds that can
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talk. It's incredible to me.
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But upon looking into it, I realized that these parrots
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don't actually understand what they're saying.
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Maybe you knew that already maybe you didn't.
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I disappointed you. They don't understand what
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they're saying all they're doing is because of their amazing
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ability was understand. The sounds and then maneuver
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their vocal boxes to take those words and make him sound like an
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actual human. It's incredible.
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And when their owners were her certain phrases over, Them.
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They're not, they're not learning how to speak their,
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just able to put things together and then respond and they can be
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so trained that certain context trigger certain ways of
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communication and so an owner can walk in and in that one cage
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you here. Hello.
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Hello? Because they've been trained
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over time that in certain settings, you say certain
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things. and I say all that to say that many Christians operate
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in the same way, Professing Christians at least their
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knowledge of God is as deep as a parrot's understanding of the
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English language. It's impersonated.
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And if it's well-trained enough, they know what to say.
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And who to say to, and when to say it and when not to say it,
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Would anybody be crazy enough? This afternoon to say that a
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parrot could be a human because from time to time they sound
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like one, then why is it that we are so easy to say that those
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who have an appearance of godliness actually are Godly.
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And so it's inherited. It's a behavior that is learned.
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Christianity is not a matter of Faith.
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It's a matter of culture. And you have heathens now who
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are proving that, because they wear a cross around their neck
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though. They live like Devils every day.
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a symbol that declares not only our salvation, but a lifestyle
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of dying to self and they can put those things around their
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neck and on their ears as they live for their father, the devil
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It's a culture and that's not just traditionalist.
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By the way, I'm not talking about those denominations that
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are extremely rigid. In their church services, I'm
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even talking about those in the Evangelical Church.
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Appearance of godliness and they just Coast through life.
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Thinking because they have the language down, they have some
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stories, they understand. And because they come to a place
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like this, while their life, contradicts everything that this
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Christ tells us what a true father looks like that.
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They're safe you're in for the shock of your life.
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But number two, this appearance of godliness is also the fruit
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of false teaching and not just false teaching, but Unfaithful
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teaching. So this idea of those who have
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this appearance this facade of following Christ even though
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even though their feet of travel through Christian homes and
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faithful Christian Ministries. It's not just limited to that.
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There are those who will be discipled into this appearance
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of godliness because they sit under ungodly teaching.
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And the false teaching is an obvious truth.
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Jesus himself condemn, the whole group of people who are known
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for their appearance of God, godliness known as the
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Pharisees, he caused trouble for these guys.
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In fact, one of the most scorching sermons from Jesus was
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against these religious folk all the way he spoke to prostitutes.
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And the way he spoke to tax collectors, could not even come
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close to the Heat and to the sharpness.
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When he, when he faced Pharisees, Just read Matthew 23,
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when you have the time, and I want you to see something from
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The Book of Matthew chapter 23, you don't have to turn there
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because by the end of this message, is going to be a lot of
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verses that I would love for you to know.
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But in Matthew 23:15, in this series of woes against the
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Pharisees, he says, at one point something that's actually kind
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of startling in verse 15, he says woe to you, scribes and
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Pharisees hypocrites. For you travel across sea, and
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land to make a single proselyte. And when he becomes a proselyte,
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you make him twice as much a child of headed, hell is
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yourselves. You know what he's saying?
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They were already dead and and then once you apparently
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converted them there, now twice. Damned Now, this is in the
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context of condemnation, but there's something commendable
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about the Pharisees here at these group of men.
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I mean, you might have had the impression that they're just
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this separated, stoic men, that just looked at everybody else's.
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As you'll never come here. No, no, they were evangelist.
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There are missionaries. They were spent days and weeks
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to travel across, just to see one person introduced to their
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belief system. That's convicting.
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But they were false, they were bringing people into a
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legalistic understanding of the Jewish faith, that would damn
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them as they were Damned. You know what?
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You're seeing here. The modern Jehovah's Witness,
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the modern Mormon, you've seen them, and maybe you've been
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convicted by them, as they've knocked on your door, they spent
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a Saturday afternoon. To go and declare people.
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The false gospel? And they travel.
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And they spent two years and one will spend two years, dedicate
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two years of his life to be a missionary, he will allow two
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years of his life, he will put a hold on his dreams on his plans
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as a young adult and go to some foreign country and preach a
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false Christ. And damn those, who would
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believe it. But the appearance, it's an
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appearance of godliness, there's devotion, there's seriousness.
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And if people are not careful, that will be the very reason why
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they would be attracted to false teaching.
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I remember, when I first got saved, I had a conversation with
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a couple on a missions trip and this couple were sharing their
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testimony in. The wife had had shared some of
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that just stuck with me and it still sticks with me then when
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she was in college and she had some vague Catholic background.
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She was hungry to know. Truth.
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She was hungry to know, God, and she was moved.
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She was impressed. She was magnetized towards
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Muslims. Because she saw their fasting
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lifestyle and their willingness to pray in public, and she
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compared it to the slothfulness of professing Christians.
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She was so close. Believing a false god.
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And this appearance of godliness, it's going to
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convince people, there's going to be a false sense of Liberty,
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a false sense of piety that will be attractive.
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We're seeing it with a New Age movement where people feel and
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they're expressing spiritual experiences.
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This is only going to become more evident and prevalent, but
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notice I said not just false teaching that will produce
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appearances of godliness. I also said, Unfaithful teaching
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What do I mean by that? I mean that appearances of
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godliness will also become true because there will be those who
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declare and profess and claim to be Ministers of the true gospel
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in ministries that apparently preach the Full Gospel.
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When in fact, they are not giving the complete gospel.
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And because of this, this is what's going to happen.
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It's already happening. It's going to continue to
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happen. We're going to see half
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converted semi saved moralistic mannequins.
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Infecting the angelical World. Why?
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For one reason? Among many, because the teaching
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because the proclamation of the Gospel is not complete.
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I'm more angry at such men than Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
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And Jeremiah spoke of such men and I want to show you I want to
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show you from this is where I'm going to encourage you to turn
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when God speaks about the prophets who were supposed to
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represent the truth and what they did and what it resulted to
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its Heroes. Jeremiah 23.
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We looked at Matthew 23, scroll in your sacred scripture.
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Did Jeremiah 23. Verse 14 liquid.
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God says Jeremiah 23 14, but in the profits of Jerusalem, I've
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seen a horrible thing. That alone is just sobering, not
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among the Heathen, not among the apostate among the prophets of
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Jerusalem, I've seen a horrible thing, they commit adultery and
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walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of
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evildoers so that no one turns from his evil.
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Imagine that That is as a result of the ministry of these
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prophets, they didn't call people out of sin.
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They convince them to remain in it.
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Their life in their preaching, didn't admonish them to let go
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of their fleshly desires. But to have a stronger grip on
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them, it's a false security. Remember in Jeremiah these false
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prophets were saying, peace, peace.
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When there is no peace. There is no conviction, there is
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no rebuke. There is no call to repentance
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and because there is no authority, never mind their
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message, the message isn't even mentioned here.
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He's talking about their lifestyle.
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Because it doesn't matter even if you preach the truth of the
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life contradicts that cancels the power of the message.
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And that's why God is highlighting this.
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There is no Authority because there's no authenticity.
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Why are they profits that for the same reason?
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Why preachers some preachers are preachers today?
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There's something attractive about that kind of authority.
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You get respect. t', when you are Pastor or an evangelist or a
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podcast preacher, Your source of information that people can come
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to people rely on voices, that declare truth or perhaps some
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are attracted to it because because they want that authority
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to control people. And they want to manipulate
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people and they want to take advantage of the vulnerable and
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the naive. And there are even some who see
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this as a job. It's a job.
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And sometimes it's not just a paycheck to paycheck thing, they
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will even twist their message to have greater gain from people
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who have simple faith. Regardless of the fact, these
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men here are told by the god that they apparently represent.
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This is horrible. This is absolutely atrocious but
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it's later in the same chapter that you see God, not just
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judging their practice. But it's condemning their
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Proclamation. And it's in verse 21 of the same
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chapter. Would you like to know how these
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prophets who can claim to be messengers of God came to be?
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Would you like to know how is it that it happens?
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How is it that you have? Those who are apparently
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supposed to give the truth but don't give the truth.
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Why this? Why are you even in that
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position? Why would you even dare to to
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walk in such a call? Jeremiah 23, 21.
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Look what God says about the same profits.
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I did not send the prophets. Yet they ran, I did not speak to
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them, yet they prophesied. Number one, they were never
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called by God to begin with. I didn't send them their
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self-appointed Ministries and ministers.
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They didn't have a call, they have a conviction and whatever
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desire. There wasn't a pure desire was
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an Unholy desire. Could have been again that they
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saw something of personal gain by being a prophet.
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They saw the praise that they could receive.
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If they just sued the religious consciousness of men among other
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things. Nevertheless God says, I never
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sent them. If you're entertaining Ministry,
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but you don't have the pure desire for Ministry according to
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the Bible and you don't sense. God calling you to Ministry.
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Can I say this in love? Stay away from Ministry, just
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stay away. Go go, join the Mormons.
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Go join the Jehovah's Witnesses or go do something else.
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But do not come into this. If your desires are not in line
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with the word of God, and if you do not have the conviction that
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the Lord himself has called you to this ministry.
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Because such men strengthen the hands of evildoers and no one
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turns from his evil, but that's not the only thing.
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Look at verse 22, Jeremiah 23 22, but if they had stood in my
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counsel, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people
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and they would have turned them from their evil way and from the
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evil of their deeds, So number one, they won't even send, but
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even if they did start from a right place, there was a failure
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along the way, and the failure along the way, if it wasn't from
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the beginning, was this, they did not know me and spend time
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in my presence. That's what he means here.
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If they had stood in my counsel, if they were in that inner
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circle of intimacy, with me, if they sat at my feet and sought
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to me, if they came to my word and allowed it to burn in their
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hearts, if they had come to me. Then they would have spoken my
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words. Because you cannot fellowship
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with the Holy One and not have that impress you to see the evil
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in the world and remain silent about it.
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There is no way that you can actually come in contact with
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this God, on a daily basis and not be moved to be faithful to
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his message. I can tell you something boldly,
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that many of these people, that will not declare a message of
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repentance unto salvation or call to Holiness for those who
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are saved. By faith.
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They don't know God. I don't care how smart they are,
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I don't care how impressive they are.
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I don't care how philosophical they are.
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If they do not preach the complete truth, they don't
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fellowship with the person who is truth because God said it.
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If they would stood in my counsel, then they would have
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Proclaim my word. They don't commune with me, they
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don't know me. They don't hear from me.
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But if you stand in the counsel of God, you will never bend your
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knee before, man. No matter what kind of faces,
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they might show you while you preach and would you know?
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It preachers are encouraged. Not to look at the faces of
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people, not in some Seminary text in the Book of Ezekiel do.
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Not look at their faces. You preach the truth and Let My
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Words reach their hearts. And look at the result, they
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would have turned from their evil way.
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They would have, they would have been a chance for repentance.
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There was a chance for True, Conformity to my Holiness, to my
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will, but because you didn't preach it, you raise a
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generation that had the appearance of godlessness This
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is what we're seeing today on a vast level.
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This is what we will continue to say c as well, and I can go on
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about different reasons why people will clothe themselves
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with a false false sense of relationship with God.
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A false sense of Faith but I want to end this message on a
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different note. I want to conclude with
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something that will directly deal with all of us.
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I want to offer to you a series of marks in the past few weeks
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and we could have done it with every single one of these things
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in the past few weeks, you've been hearing about the marks of
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the of the men, and women who will be plagued by their own sin
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in the last days. But I want to conclude this
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section on this. On this exclamation point that
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Paul gives us in verse 5, with a series of marks of somebody who
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is truly born again. Now, this part is going to do
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two things. At least two things.
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As you hear these different marks of what it means to truly
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be saved, the spirit of God will bear witness in your spirit that
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you are a child of God, and you will be able to say confidently.
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Amen, amen, amen. That is true of me.
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And two others. It may cause you to say, if you
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are honest with yourself and if you love your soul, to think I
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hear these things, but I, I do not know if I can say that.
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This is true of me. I've grown up in the church,
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I've done the ordinances. I even have been involved in in
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some Ministries. But these marks I'm afraid are
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not evident in my life. And I'm also going to give this
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disclaimer that I am aware of people who are truly born again,
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then when they hear such things, all it does is cause more doubt,
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though they have no reason to doubt.
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Because they are just prone to introspection and one of their
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weaknesses is that they struggle with understanding the love of
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God and the Salvation that he offers freely.
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I'm not I'm not trying to cause more doubt to you.
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I'm trying to make sure But every person here though,
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imperfect and those striving on to maturity and Jesus would fall
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along the way they could say, on a foundational level in my being
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and the Holy Spirit who is in me though, I may grieve him.
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Sometimes I can sense the testimony that I have truly been
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brought from Death To Life. But how can we do this?
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Are we just going to pull some verses here and there we can but
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I want to tell you something, there's an entire book in the
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Bible that has the ambition, the main goal of its writings for
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this very purpose. And whenever I've had
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conversations with people, whether they doubt their
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salvation or whether I think they should question their
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salvation is go to the book of First John and read it through
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and through. And as you see, what John says
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about those who are truly born again, if you can say amen.
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Amen, amen. Then you are safe.
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But if you cannot testify in your heart, that these things
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speak of you, then fall on your face, and called to him was
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ready to save you and so I want to prove this to you in first,
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John 5 verse 13, Now, look for those in here.
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We're like yes I'm a I even know where you're going preacher,
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maybe you don't know where this is going, equip yourselves with
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these verses so that you can help another.
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So you can pass this along to somebody else so that you can
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use this. When you might be facing
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somebody that you're trying to evangelize who is church.
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And I used but not truly Born Again.
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Look what John says. In first John 5:13, I write
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these things to you who believe in the Name of the son of God,
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that you may know that you have eternal life.
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What's amazing is this is the same John who wrote the Gospel
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account in the Gospel of John and you know what he says near
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the end of that book, right? And John 20:31.
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He says, but these are written so that you may believe that
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Jesus is the Christ. So that it's an Evangelistic
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text. Look at the deity of this man.
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He's the God man. Jesus Christ.
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But then he comes to First John, and he speaking to Christians,
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primarily, and he's not saying I'm writing these things to you
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so that you may believe I'm writing to you who do believe
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for what purpose that you may know that you have eternal life
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that you may have the assurance that you make be concrete.
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See God is not satisfied with you.
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My precious brother who might waiver in your trust in the
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gospel. God does not want you to live in
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doubt of his love. He wants you to know that you
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have eternal life. He wants you to not just believe
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theologically that you are secure.
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He wants you to be able to Rejoice because, you know, that
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you're secure. And so he writes these things
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that you may know that you have eternal life and if you hear
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these things and you don't know, then why would you play around
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with your soul? Because you don't want to
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disappoint some people that thought you were a Christian.
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That's not going to matter if you go to hell.
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And so, let's look at five marks in the book of First, John Put
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your seatbelts on. And some of you will rejoice and
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some of you, it may hurt, but if you respond appropriately, you
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will rejoice as well. If first John 5:1, we see the
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first Mark of somebody who's truly been born again.
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And you'll notice something of these verses.
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Every single verse will say those who have been born of God,
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those who have every single verse will have that phrase, so
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it's an Evidence. It's a mark of somebody who's
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been born of God, which is what Paul is talking about that
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power. Within being born from above, is
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the power of God unto salvation. The holy spirit's work in a
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heart. Not you clothing yourself in
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your righteousness. Everyone who believes that Jesus
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is. The Christ has been born of God.
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And everyone who loves the father loves, Whoever has been
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born of him. Number one, faith in the person
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and work of Jesus Christ. Notice that it says, whoever
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believes everyone who believes Now, I understand the conflict
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with this because those who might have an appearance of
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godliness, might claim belief, but their lives contradict as
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tight as tells us in chapter 1, that there are those who profess
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to know God, but they deny him by their works, but you have to
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read it. So slowly to understand what
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John is trying to say, because this Faith does something to
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you. It's not intellectual assent.
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It's not an odds acknowledgement of Creed's?
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No, no, it does something to your affections.
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It does something to your direction, it does something to
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your Because right after he says, everyone who believes that
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Jesus is, the Christ has been born of God and look how he
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correlates it. And everyone who loves the
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father, what's the connection that?
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If you believe in Jesus Christ, you're going to love the person
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of God. There's going to be an Awakening
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to the reality of relationship with the one who saved you.
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That there's going to be this newfound relationship with this
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God though you cannot see him. You love him and you adore him
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and you want to worship him and you want to serve him and as you
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grow in the knowledge of you want to see him.
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You love the father, it's a faith that actually causes you
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to be in relationship with God, to commune with God, not to get
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a ticket in and live how you want.
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No, no. It's an understanding that this
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is deeply. Relational.
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That this is a Salvation work, that brings me to God himself.
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And so, you understand that upon being born again?
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Yes, the belief we can rehearse the truth that you come to the
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knowledge that you cannot save yourself and that you cannot
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work your way to heaven and that you cannot appease the wrath of
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God in this life. We can talk about that.
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It's important justification by faith.
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Yes. but that kind of faith is not just A whisper of belief,
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it's not just a slot filled in your knowledge of something.
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It's a trust that causes you to rest.
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It's a trust that produces an anchor in your soul that you are
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ready to meet death that you are ready and confident to stand
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before a holy God. And that trust that causes that
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burden to roll off your back. At the same time causes you to
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love the father. And I actually adore him and
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cherish him and worship him. And that is why when somebody
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comes from Death To Life, they're able to Now sing.
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They're able now to to come in and wash themselves with truth
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because they want to know God They want to know their savior.
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Do you? You believe great but do you
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love the father? You understand great.
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You can even preach the gospel to me, probably But do you love
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God? Because everyone who believes in
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the same breath, John says everyone who loves the father.
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Belief in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
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You've surrendered your attempt to win your salvation, you've
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surrender, the idea that you can actually be righteous before
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God, you fall at his feet and at the same time, you want to know
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him. Mark number two and first John
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chapter 3 verse 9 This is where the ESV does us a service.
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No one born of God, makes a practice of sinning.
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For God's seed, abides in him and he cannot keep on sinning
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because he has been born of God that word seed in the Greek is
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the word Sperma. And what's being implied here,
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is that when you're born again, the very DNA of God gets inside
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of you. And you become his offspring
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spiritually. And one of the ways, you know,
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that you you've been born of God that the spiritual DNA has been
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imparted into your soul, is that you cannot go on.
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Living in habitual sin, And the King James new King James, it
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would read, they do not sin. But that would, that would be
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kind of hard to understand because early on, he says, if we
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do sin we have an advocate. So the idea here is is something
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continual habitual. And here's what I want to tell
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you that, if you've really been born again, not only do you now
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enter into a relationship with God, but you actually have a new
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relationship with sin. you don't have the same attitude towards
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the things you once enjoyed, and even may be justified, In fact,
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now you have a white-hot hatred for sin, you realize that it put
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the Christ on the cross. You realize that there was a
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bloody payment for your salvation because of your sin,
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you realize that it will fracture your fellowship with
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God. You realize that it's ugly and
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it's horrific and now you are understanding God's mind though.
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It is still polluted because we are still in this flesh and that
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is not To say that you will not never know, Temptation or that
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you'll never slip as you pursue maturity and Jesus Christ.
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What it does mean, though, is that you cannot be comfortable
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and willing to be in sin and claim to be born of God.
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Others might say it and they may not say it directly but they
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remove it from their preaching. So might as well take a pair of
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scissors preacher and cut it out of your Bible.
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You cannot claim to be a child of God and still love your sin.
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People always wonder but I'm not perfect.
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And it's been a while, I still struggle and there still a
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battle. And I always respond with this.
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Do you want to be free from sin? I wish I could like that.
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Do you want to be liberated from this thing?
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Yes. It hurts me hurts, my family
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hurts my brothers and sisters in Christ.
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It hurts, my God primarily and I said, you have nothing to worry
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about because it's that attitude, it's not about instant
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Perfection. It's about new heart Direction.
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He says here. No one born of God makes a
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practice of sinning. But we come to the third mark.
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And it's found in first, John 229.
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If you know that he being God is righteous, you know that
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everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
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So, being born again is not a matter of you stopping or
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ceasing to do that, which is wrong.
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But there is, there is something that happens in your heart, that
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changes your Pursuits in life. Your priorities, your
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affections, and there is this towering goal.
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Now that cast a shadow on every other thing in this world.
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Every other thing in your plans, every other thing in your
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dreams, this thing is so mountainous in your heart and it
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is this, I want to be like him. I want to be like the one who
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saved me. You see, we are all from
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different backgrounds, we have different stories and upon
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salvation, we do not share the same vocation.
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We do not have the same personality after we meet
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Christ. We might not even be living in
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the same place or going in the same direction.
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But one thing that we all share is that we have a desire to be
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like the savior So, no matter who you're married to, you want
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to be like Jesus, as the husband that you are to the wife.
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That you have no matter what kind of occupation you have.
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It's not about primarily having more money, or more promotion,
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or more Comfort. It's about wherever I am.
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I want to be like Christ no matter what kind of temperament,
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no matter how you look, no matter what kind of disease, you
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might be riddled with, no matter what kind of chronic pain, no
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matter what kind of built you have, there's something towering
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over all of that. And it is this Lord.
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How would you live? Like if you were me, And do it
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through me. There is a thirst for the
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commands of God, to be to be respected and to be obeyed and
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there's a pain in the heart when you find yourself in
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Disobedience and yes there are days where you will know great,
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tides of Temptation and you will even know some Falls that would
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hurt you and others and you might stay there long enough,
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but let me say it again. When you come down to it, as you
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battle lukewarmness, as you battle Temptations of this world
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down deep inside. You know that your life means
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nothing apart from living for him and like him.
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That's why I first, John 5:3, he says, for those who are in this
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category born again, that the commands of God are not
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burdensome. They're a joy to you.
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What you once despised and rejected and ignored, and maybe
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even made fun of you now, want more than anything.
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And you seek God's power and help.
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When you realize that you are blind to a certain aspect of
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your personality, or about your habits or your decisions.
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And you say God, would you deal with that?
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That's somebody who has been changed.
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You want to live out in righteousness and it's not a
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burden to you. It's a joy to you.
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We come to the fourth, Mark, and first, John 4:7.
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Beloved. Let us love one another.
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For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born
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of God and knows God. So not only are you now awakened
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to loving the father because you realize the father, so loved you
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that he sent his son to rescue you But there's something else
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that's inspired and it's an inspiration for horizontal
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sacrificial. Love and look at the language
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here. He says beloved let us love one
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another. In other words you who are loved
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love one another which teaches us that the motivation to love.
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One another comes from the stream of the knowledge of God's
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love for you and God's love for me and from that place because
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you were motivated by an experiential revelation of God's
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love towards. You the Holy Spirit comes into
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that one. Stony heart.
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He takes it out. He puts in a heart of Flesh.
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And that heart of Flesh. You know what he does throughout
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your life as you yield to him as you submit to him.
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Christ comes and he carves in that heart a love.
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I love for people. And there is now this committed
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compassion that you have selflessness.
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Begins to evaporate though, it might be stronger on some days
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and others and now there's a consideration, there's a
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willingness to serve, there's a willingness to give there's a
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willingness to reach out your life, becomes really
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prioritizing and restructured, it's not about the funnel coming
52:25
down to me. It's about me now, funneling out
52:30
That's why you serve, right? And that's why you're here,
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right? And that's why you want to know
52:35
what God is requiring of you. That's why you pray for your
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co-workers. That's why you you serve your
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family members, so they don't know, they don't know Christ.
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But this love though, it is General.
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It is specifically targeted towards the Bride of Jesus
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Christ. Because back in first John 5:1,
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what does he say? It's so clear.
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He says that everyone who loves the father loves Whoever has
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been born of him. This is amazing.
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I'll tell you why. Show me your love for the church
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and I'll show you your love for God. though, imperfect, she may
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be They'll annoying. She may be though inconsistent.
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She may be You love her. And the way you love her is that
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you are not afraid to be associated with her.
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And the way you loved her as that you were willing to serve
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her, You're willing to. Link arms with those who are
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also children of God and walk this life with them.
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I'm very wary of those who claim to be lovers of God and lovers
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of Doctrine and lovers of theology, but are isolated and
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continually live their Christian lives.
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Criticizing the church as though, you were not a part of
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it. If a person doesn't take Church
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seriously it's very hard for me to believe that they take god
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seriously. because scripture says, let us love one another
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and you know that this love is not a talk love because John
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says earlier let us not love and talk, but in word and In Deed Do
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you love the church or do you love sermons big difference?
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You might like sermons, that doesn't mean that you love the
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bride. because if you love The Bride, it will show in word and
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deed. The final Mark of somebody who's
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been born of God is found in 1st, John 5:4.
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For everyone who has been born of God, overcomes the world.
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And this is the victory that has overcome the world.
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Our faith, our faith. Here's the understanding.
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What does it mean to overcome the world?
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I believe. It means many things.
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But I can't help. But think when I read this verse
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about the different soils that Jesus described the different
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ways, people receive the Gospel, the seed of the message that
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saves a soul. And one of those soils is rocky
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soil and the way Jesus describes that soil is that when that seed
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is implanted, when it is received by that heart, it is
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met with immediate Joy. There is excitement, there's
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posting about it. There's telling some people
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about it as well and it says even that they endure.
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For a while. but then, when persecution comes And
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tribulation. And Challenge and conflict from
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the world and threats. When false teaching enters in,
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as John was dealing with, by the way, he was dealing with
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Antichrist. As all these things, begin to
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flood and reach the ankles. Of those who are professing
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Christians. Jesus speaks of those with rocky
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soil that they, as much as they immediately Rejoice, they will
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also immediately fall away. That is not an overcomer. but an
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overcomer who's been really born of God, nothing can snatch him
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out of his hand. And there is a willingness
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though. There might be fear at sometimes
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and weakness at other times, there may be concerned for your
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family. There may be concerned for
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yourself, you realize that in you, is the Holy Spirit who
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makes you an overcomer. And this kind of reality, this
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Mark can only be observed with time.
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But as time goes on, There you are.
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You're still loving the Lord. They'll Christians might hurt
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you. They'll professing Believers
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might disappoint. You might betray.
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You might try to scare you there you are, you're still serving
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him. You're Still Loving Him.
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You're Still Loving the church. You're an overcomer.
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Because the one in you is over coming through you what about if
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they don't overcome will go back to 1st John to what does it say?
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If they left us? They were not of us.
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They had a type of soil and time told that it was not legitimate.
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Do you believe in him today? Yeah.
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No. No.
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Do you really believe in him today?
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Does your belief cause your soul to clutch at his Mercy?
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Where you say? I know, I know that I am saved
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now. I know Jesus died.
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I know that I'm saved. I know that I will stand before
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him clothed in his righteousness.
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I know it. Do you hate sin or are you
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trying to justify and your grip? Your giving great energy and
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strength and trying to hide something because you love
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iniquity. But you also want to hold on to
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your Christian culture. What's the hunger?
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What's the pursuit? Come on.
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Is it for righteousness? Is it for the things of God?
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Is it to be conformed? Mold in a melted Into His Image?
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What happens? What kind of Harpoon is thrust
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into your soul when you realize that even for a moment, you
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misrepresented him. Do you love the church?
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Do you love sermons? Do you love the people of God
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though? They are.
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Sometimes foolish. This would be Tiant.
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But you you filter it through this Jesus died for them.
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And you also turn that filter. Realize I'm not perfect either.
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And the last one. Only you will know if you're
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really an overcomer. I pray that you would be but the
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only way you can be an overcomer is if you have this Faith true,
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Faith living inside of you. I call you today, if you are one
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who has had an appearance of godliness, To repent and believe
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in the gospel. Don't fool yourself anymore.
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Coming to real life with Christ. No Abundant Life in Jesus.
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Believer. I hope that as you heard these
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verses resounding within you was.
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Thank you. Jesus, you've saved my soul.
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Thank you. That I know that I have eternal
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life because I know that I've been born of him because I know
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that those things that have been said though, they are marred by
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my imperfections at times they are.
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True nonetheless, Hallelujah. If you feel like this was
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strong, no, this I wish somebody preach it to me when I was in
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high school. I wish somebody had the boldness
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to look at me before I went off to college.
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Telling people, I was a Christian while I was getting
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intoxicated at parties. I wasn't born again and had a
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rude awakening at the age of 20. and I could tell you this, the
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revelation of the destination of my eternal State mattered more
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to me, More than what my parents would have.
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Thought, when they found out that I was really saved that 20
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even though I was baptized at 11, Let go of your pride.
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Let go of it and come into Abundant Life in Jesus Christ.
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Because in the days ahead, family of God, there will be
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many appearances of godliness, but denying the true power and
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may God by his Mercy display. True power from us as his church
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Let's pray. Lord this morning, we Rejoice
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that. Again it has been confirmed that
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at a certain time. You have truly saved us and that
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we are born of the spirit. Lord.
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In this moment, we ask that you would deal with any false sense
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of doubt. That you would Target it and you
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would destroy and replace it with true Joy.
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But at the same time, we ask that you would convict the heart
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that you would cut through the costume through the mask and
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that the right Hearts would be pricked.
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Lord may this message not be interpreted as trying to make
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people feel unnecessarily, convicted.
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Because Lord, in the spirit of First John, you've given us
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these truths that we may be secure and we may be able to
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bless you and thank you as we examine ourselves in light of
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your word that you have truly done a work in US Blessed, Be
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Your Name and so Lord made this afternoon.
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No, true. Joy.
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A joy of confirmation in the joy of conviction that would lead to
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conversion. and Lord, may you be able to look into this
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congregation as you did a couple of churches in the Book of
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Revelation and find nobody wanting But a group of people
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who have been changed. A corporate change For Your
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Glory in the days where there will be great, appearances of
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godliness. Make us truly Godly.
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Thank you for salvation by faith.
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Thank you that we enter in by Grace.
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Thank you. That we do not impress you.
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You come to save us and all we do is fall at your mercy, repent
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of our sin and Trust in that precious name.
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Blessed, Be Your Name. As we sing to you now, in light
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of our Salvation, in Jesus name, we pray, amen.