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Sermon on the Mount: How Are We Doing with Our Faithfulness | Kanesh Varmaa · Generations Church

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Hello, and welcome to the Generation's Church Podcast. We're so excited to have
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you here today. It is our prayer that God's word will inspire and help
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you grow in your faith. Now let's get right into it. And by
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extension, I wanted to thank all of you for giving me this opportunity today
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to share with you, right, to share with you a little bit about
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God's word. To go through the Bible. It's going to be exciting.
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When I was paying it, I know I'm not a good preacher. So
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what I did was I spend a lot of Bible verse. Yes, I
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spend it so you'll be confused and not question me. Okay, all right,
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pass And is preaching in johor in Cavalry. Right, let's keep it
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in prayer as we also commit this time in prayer. Cool, let's pray.
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But I thank you the Lord. You're a good God. And I
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pray as we dive into your word this evening, I pray a Lord,
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your word goes forth and not returned. White Love Father. I also pray
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with our blessing to be upon passer Andy, that Lord you use him mightily,
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the Lord as he preaches this church in Joho, that many will come
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to know you and they will love your la Father. So I pray and
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I ask the Lord, you take good care of us. You cover us
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our father in Jesus name Amen. In the span of two minutes, I
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changed my voice many times. That's sound check. Okay, now this is
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all right. But let me start with a story. Okay, just just
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you know I'm the epic Eye, so I spreaker. I'll start with a
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story about myself. Now. My name is kanish I am. I'm married
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to a beautiful wife called Kaitlyn. Yes, that's right. I attend G
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six, I lead six, and we had yesterday, right, so it's
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it's it's really nice. Like the GG came around, they prayed. They
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wanted to say that carnage, you do well tomorrow and stuff like that.
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So it felt good. Okay nice. I'm also part of the past all
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team, so just building a little bit of credibility. Now, when I
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was very preparing my message, I shed around just to make sure I'm not
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like Pa song Loud. Okay. Now I am quite old out right thirty
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four ready, So I learned that I'm a mixed parentage. Okay. My
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dad is an Indian. My mom is a Chinese, so they call me
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a Chindian, right. But the thing is, I only found out that
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I'm a Chindian, or rather, I only found out that my mom is
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a Chinese when I was seventeen. Yes, prior to seventeen, I always
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thought that I'm a like Indian Indian like Okay, now this is not a
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racist thing, so just it's it's my life. I'm just sharing, Okay.
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So prior to seventeen years old, you know, in school, and
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I've always thought that I am I'm an Indian Indian. Okay, now I'll
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tell you why. So my mom is this very fair looking lady, right,
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but she has an Indian name, Like to me, how much more
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Indian can there be? Like Indian name? Okay, Tana like me Bawani
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you you can't hear more Indian? And that so Indian name. And then
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she speaks ta Mail right like this very fair looking lady but she speaks tar
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Mail. So yes, wow, okay, mom, she speaks time mails.
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So you know you grow up right, you're a young boy. You
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see Chinese people speaking Chinese, they're Chinese Indians speaking Indian people speaking Tamil there
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Indian right as simple as that we grow up a simple life. So uh,
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there's number two. Number three, my grandparents or rather my mom's parents,
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they're Indians. I mean you can't go wrong with that, lah.
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Okay, that means my grandpa, my grandma, they are all Indians.
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There's number three, right, so my mom has to be an Indian.
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Okay. Number four, which is the most important thing. She has this
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great dog. Yes, so that's four points of why my mom is an
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Indian. And then number five she's very fair. So I have eighty percent
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very sure validated that she's an Indian, and then that twenty percent doesn't matter.
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So I grew up in this environment. Okay. Every time there's this
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what do you call it? Report cut day? Right in school? Report
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cut day? And then my mom will come to school. Then my friends
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and my teachers, wait, that's your mama. Why is so fair?
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Is she a Chinese or what? And I defended my mom. I said,
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no, she's Indian and here's four reason why. So I had to
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defend her and defended her. I think too, pibgla teachers day, La.
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I don't know if you can relate with that. Hopefully you can,
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Okay, So that kind of thing. Okay, my friends had to ask
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me, and I defended my mom. And then at fourteen years old,
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So I'm fourteen years old. This year, at fourteen years old, I
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asked my dad because I want to know, right, I asked my dad.
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Dad all my friends, my friends are saying that mom is a Chinese.
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I want to know too, what do you think? So my dad
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answered, this is a very sensitive topic. If you ask your mom,
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you know, you know, she might cry, she break down. So
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my dad told me that that is Ketler. So I don't I didn't ask
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my mom. Fourteen years old, I didn't ask my mom. Okay,
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but let me before I continue my story, let me show you my mom
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first, how she looked like, and then you tell me whether she is
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what she is. Okay, that's my mom right there. Okay, that
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red dog, but purely anyone who says she's a Chinese lab Okay, that's
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that's me thirty cages ago okay. And then yes, because because my because
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my brother came you schues you there, I put him in a photo.
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That's my brother. Because my sister didn't come cheest you there, I remove
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her. Okay, So this this other guy is my dad, and he
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always say, why you want to make your hair so nice? One day
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you'll be like that. I bought that like Mark Chau. Okay, so
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I'm preparing okay, but that's the thing. So so seventeen said okay.
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From seventeen years oldkay I completed SPM. Okay graduated from SPM. There's this
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bilogitition where we had party. Okay, like celebrated finish finish school and orders
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to we had party. The party is over and then I went into the
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can and my mom, my mom fetched me. You know, my mom
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was fetching me around and my sister was there. So I asked my mom
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mom, I'm a doubt now, right, a doubt. I think I
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deserve to know at this point because everyone is asking me, I just want
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to clarify because you know, you know, it's really important to me to
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know. I just want to know my Indian and my chini in some of
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you might thing is a small matter, right, it's to me his identity,
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right, I want to know. I really want to know because I
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mixed with a lot of friends. Naturally, the girls that I tried to
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pick up their Chinese girls, and one girl rejected me. Because I'm an
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Indian, said, But she literally said that I can't get together with you
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because you know you are Indian. Da da da da da Okay, fright
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whatever, Okay, So at seventeen, I want to know, so okay,
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I asked my mom and then she started to show the face not like
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worry, you know, said but my mom said, I can't believe you
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don't know, untie today I'm a Chinese. Then my sister is like,
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you didn't know everyone knows me. At seventeen years old, I found out
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that I'm a mixed. So I found out my mom was a Chinese.
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So she went back home. She took out the whole document. Okay,
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this is my icy Wow, okay, I'm not put up one my grandfather's
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name. And then she took out a birth so Chinese. Near the surname
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is called Yo y e O Hesh. I don't know if she's related to
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mister Yo Pocona. But oh my gosh, let me tell you something.
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My life at seventeen years old turn around. Such a how what a man
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share kanesh? Yes, take that ex girlfriend. So the vibr says,
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blessed the poor and spirit, for they will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Okay. Now today we'll cover the Sermon on the Mound. Okay. This
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Sermon on the Mound is basically Jesus preaching, Okay, one of his His
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ministry started right in Matthew chapter five. So Jesus was preaching to a multitude
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of people. And if you read using the NKGV version of the Bible,
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I don't know how peopel still use that physical thing. I think even in
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the app it's also funded in red. Okay, the NKGV want special.
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Everything that Jesus said is fonted, so you can differentiate. Now, if
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you turn your Bible to matt five, six and seven, right, you'll
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realize the entire thing is in rade because Jesus is like preaching, this is
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his sermon okay, in a mound. That's why it's called Sermoney on the
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Mound. Okay. So we want to do that. And today as I
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share this with you, we want to go through and uncover three things,
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hopefully at the end of this message. Right. Number one, we want
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to uncover the audience to whom Jesus is speaking to during this time when he's
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preaching. Number two, what is your response to it? And number three,
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What is this whole message that Jesus is talking about. What is the
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point? What is what is the ending? What's the goal of him doing
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this? What's the end? The end point lone? Okay, So this
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three will uncover throughout this time of us discovering and going through the world of
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God. Is that cool? Okay? Bol air all right? But to
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understand this sermon on the Mound starting from Matter chapter five, we have to
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have a little bit of context to why Jesus is preaching what he's preaching in
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Matthew five. So let's look at context first. Okay, the context we
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have to go back to the time of Malachai. Okay. So Malca is
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like the end of the Old Testament writer the last book. So what happened
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in the Book of Malachai and then what happened in Matthew and the events that
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happened in the book I met you that Jesus said what he said. So
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in the bodd of Malachai is four chapters, right, and I would just
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quickly summarize this part because the message is not about what's happened in Malachai,
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is about the message of the five. So in the Book of Malaca.
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If you read, okay, so very short chapter in Malachai, chapter one,
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it talks about God expressing his love for his people. Okay, God
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expressing his love for his people. Now, Malacai is written in a way
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that's very unique. Okay, Marca is written a way as way unique where
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God used Malachai to deliver his message. And the message is delivered in a
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way where Malaca is saying, because you said this to God, God responded
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this way. And because God responded this way, you responded this way.
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And because you responded this way, God responded this way. So if you
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read book of Malachi is like that, it's like that. You have to
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see what people say, what God responded to that, what people say to
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that, what God responded to that. And so in chapter one you see
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that God expressed his love for his people, people Israel. And then you
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go to chapter two where you see the people of Israel. You know,
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God is sadden by the people. There. Sadden said because of the things
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the people said about God. And let's look at at verse thing. He
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says, yeah, you have varied the Lord with your words. And then
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they say, but you say, how have you wearied them? And he
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says, every who does evil in good. Evil is good in the sight
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of the Lord. So during the time of Malachi right, the people alally
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say, Wow, God, so many evil is happening, and you think
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delight in it. You never stop anything from happening. You let evil happen.
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It's the kind of questions that we asked today, or so right,
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why does evil happen? Oh God, why do you allow this? Oh
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God, why do you allow that? So it's sadden God in this part.
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So where is the God justice? So they said in God? And
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then you go to Malachi chapter three, where they not only say harsh words
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towards God, they stop serving. They stop serving. Okay, your words
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have been hard against me, says the Lord. But you say, have
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you spoken against you? And you have said it is vain to serve God?
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And you know why they say that? They say, what is the
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profit of our keepings? Is charged? Or of walking as in morning before
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the part of horse, and now we call it arrogant, bless evil to
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us not only prosper But they put God to test and they escape. So
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this guy in Israel I say, what's the point of serving you? Because
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all the bad guys do bad things and they get to get away with it.
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So as the point of serving you. So this is in the times
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of Malachi, all right. So after all that conversations and Malachi delivering that
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kind of message to the people, they ended with one rather one sentence in
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chapter four, God says, okay, whatever it is. In chapter four
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he says, remember the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded
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him in horror for all Israel with the status and judgment. So after all
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that, God's so called final sentence through Malachi, which is the last book
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of the Bible recorded, says, remember the law of Moses. Now let's
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fast forward, okay to Matthew chapter five, because now we're talking to a
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generation of people hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years after what happened to Malach
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in the event in the book, Guy, you follow, okay. So
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now Jesus is speaking to a generation of people where the ancestors once believe in
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God and then later rebel. Je is speaking to a generation where the ancestors
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had men of God, the ancestors messengers, had profits, and the suddenly
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no more for a very long time, no more until the events that you've
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seen about the Matthew for generation where they heard about God. You know,
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they heard about this prophecy. They heard about the coming of Messiah. They
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hear, but after hundreds and hundreds of years, nothing happened until the event
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that happened in marriage of the Five. So Jesus is speaking to these growl
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of people, and he said, blessed are the point spirit, for that
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is the kingdom. So let's take a look at this. Why why did
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Jesus say this? Who are the poor in spirit? These are the people
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who are hung on to a truth that they do not know existed. To
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say, hah, because why the messaging from the time of Malachi hundreds and
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hundreds of years, you know, it got weaker. Some who stood strong
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didn't know what happened. Doubt have people around them ridiculing them all that until
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the time of Matthew. Right, So those who hung on to the truth,
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those who hung on to the truth, remembering what Malachi said in chapter
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four, which is remember the law of Moses. So Jesus is essentially telling
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this group of people, Wow, point Spirit, you shall enter the Kingdom
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of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn moren one. More Over, the
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sin of Israel. Blessed are those who continuously pray for Israel. More Over,
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the sin of Israel. People have turned their face away from God.
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Blessed are you because you mourn and you will have comfort. Right, blessed
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are the meek? What is mean and all this is in chapter five?
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You say, blessed are these blessed as this? Blessed as this a whole
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generation of people who came after the uncovering of what happened in the Book of
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Malachi. Blessed are the mink, So what is me? People who are
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faithful to believe in the truth despite being ridiculed, People who are like uh
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huh, People who are you know, humble or down to earth, despite
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people telling them they're wrong, and say, I don't think I'm wrong.
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I read the Law of Moses. So blessed are the mink, and they
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shall inherit the earth. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for many,
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many, many many years, and they shall be filled. Those who are
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point hard, right, blessed the point hard? What's that? I think?
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In seven? Yeah, so why peoint hard? Because again in the
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Book of Malachi, let me see here in a bood Marachai God spoke about
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people who stopped giving their tithe. In fact, God called them roberts.
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God's spoke about men who stopped their wives. So now Jesus say, blessed
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are those who are pure in hard who kept the law of Moses. They
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shall see God. Now. So if you read this, uh, Matthew,
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chapter five, these twelve verses from one to twelve, right, I
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think number twelve says blessed are those who are persecuted. You know you're blessed.
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Okay, So if you read this in the context of what happened in
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the ball like I think, and I really believe, you will read this
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in a new light. Because Jesus when he preached this, he had to
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address a very important thing he's talking about that there's a theme here, right.
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He addressed faithfulness. Jesus addressed faithfulness before anything else. You say,
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it's a sermon, right, Jesus preaching. He didn't even start with how
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to pray, He didn't even start with how to fast. He needed to
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address faithfulness that despite hundreds of years and this by everyone is saying and ridiculing
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your faith, you remain faithful and therefore you are blessed. So we talked
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about the three things that you want to uncover. Right. Number one is
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the audience to whom Jesus is speaking to. Well, let's not just look
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at the Jews in Jerusalem. What about us? What about us? Two
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thousand years after the death of Jesus. The question here is how are we
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doing with our faithfulness? Who? Actually it's quite hot and maybe it's my
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checket. Yes, how are we doing with our faithfulness? You know,
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maybe many years ago and this probably you know, as I was writing this,
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I was reflected upon myself many many years ago. You know, you
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get called right, you know, you get called like and God get your
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promise right, and God said that you do this, and you do that,
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and and asoteries to try and you get these, and you get that.
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Some sometimes God speaks to you in different ways right as you pray.
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But after many many years and many prayer meetings and many church attendance, you
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feel like nothing change. So quite similar right the time wala kai to hear
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the time of the death of Jesus to now how are we doing with our
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faithfulness? Okay, let's move on. So what else he talked about in
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the Someone on the Mound? So let's move on. Now, you see,
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you see how Gius does it right. So he has chapter five,
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he has chapter six, and he has chapter seven. Wow, so every
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preacher copila, I got three points of our salvation. Yeah, chapter one,
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let's talk about Yeah, so preachers at the copy and then you see
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how how preachers that I wouldn't call myself pachure up. But if you see
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a consistent see how people prepare messages. Right, there's always like point one
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and then if you complete point one, you go to point too, and
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point to are reinforced point one. He compliments one another and then you go
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to pointy stuff like that. Right, So when Jesus was doing his sermon
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right, he had to start. He started with faithfulness. Now let's take
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a look at what follows after. Okay, after that, After that,
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you will see a whole chunk of chapter five, six, and seven of
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Jesus teaching Christians how to live their life. Right. You will see that
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he talks about how do we pray? He talks about how do we fast?
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And then he talks about treasures on earth were us. He talks about
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don't worry, right, and not just talking about it. He teaches principles
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about worrying. He teaches principles about charging people right. He teaches us principles
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about how do we deal with enemies if someone box you and you tell your
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cheek and you know. So it's like multiples are chapters and Jesus teaching and
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teaching and teaching. So if you remain faithful, which is probably the point
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one. If you remain faithful, what's next? Right, Because it is
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not just enough to be faithful and knowing that there's a God, because then
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just move on, right, It's also being faithful to His word, knowing
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what's being spoken by God. It's important to know the word of God.
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And this is my encouragement to all of us that I hope we do not
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fall into the trap of so good at being a Christian and not be a
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Christian. You have that or you've seen this light. Don't just be good
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at being a Christian. Be a Christian? And what does that mean?
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Read a word of God. So a lot of people, and I think
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I also speak for myself because growing up right in youth service fifteen sixteen years
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old, we are very good with you know, we we have this hunger,
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a hunger like waw, I want to go church. This is a
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group. I just want to be with the church community. It's awesome.
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I want to serve. I want to do this fifteen, sixteen, seventeen
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years old. And then you go to campus and like, oh, let's
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set the ministry and let's do everything you can for Jesus. And then when
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we when we grow it out right, actually things things start to like not
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really you know, it kind of like goes slower downwards by so doubts.
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Sometimes we are we are very good, and we know the right thing to
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say. Wow much of Yes, we know the right things to do,
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we know the right Christian jargon. We know how to encourage a nice way,
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right, we know how to build a good fassan and everyone will look
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up to you. But you can't just stop there. You have to know
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the word of God. You're following me. And why this is important is
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because when you don't learn and read the word of God, you let other
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people's theology, it takes your life. I think I'll cover that a little
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bit more later. Okay, you let other people's theology, it takes your
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life. So Jesus is saying that, yeah, faithfulness, great, Okay,
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now step up, read the Word of God, understand, understand and
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live it out. Not generations is quite special because in a way Passa and
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D has started this whole thing about everyone needing to explore and read and even
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challenge the preachers and speakers. Right so past one time, I think last
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year he spoke about being like the Burian. You don't remember that message,
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you can check it out in I wanted to say, MPG, you can
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check it out in our podcast. Okay, okay, yes, feel like
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appearance? So what are the periods? Appearances are basically a group of people,
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a group of Jews right at the time in I think somewhere yeah,
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later we go through an X ray. So a grow of people who who
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Paul and Silence came to this group. But Paul and Silence they are very
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prominent figure. They were a prominent figure in that time. So they came
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to the girl people called Epperiance and then they preach, right, they preach,
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and they tell them the scripture, and then the Beeriance were like,
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ah, great, good word. And then they go back and then they
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opened the Bible. And what they did was they tried to cross check.
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But Tolgany is it correct what you said? Is it in the scripture?
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So there's not a bearance you hear everything that's being prett here. Please don't
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stop here, go back, read, learn the word of God. And
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they asked during the talk, things are that right? So next chapter seventeen,
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verse ten, the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silence away by night to
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Perial and when they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now,
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these Jews, which is a Barian, because the imperial were more noble than
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those in Thessalonica, they received the Word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures
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daily to see if these things were true. Now, why is it important
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for us to understand and read the word of God and know the word of
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God? Okay, Because after Jesus talks about faithfulness, he shares about living
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life as a Christian. He talks about hey, ask sick and not right
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if you don't know what to do, ask if you don't know where to
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go, sick, if you don't have what you have. Now that's stuff
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like that, right, So these are like men Tachapter seven stuff. Okay.
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So Jesus is like, you know, leading one point to another,
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and he wants to come to one final point, which is the end of
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his message. So you see where he's going. Faithfulness, Great, read
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the Word of God. Great? Why because and this is Jesus is towards
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the end of his sermon. You know, this is the part where when
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Jesus preached the end of the sermon, you know, the clouds will power
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and then some keybodies up there will stop playing music. Dang dang, dang
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dang dang. Okay, like one of those things. The ending of yours
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a sermon on the Mound in chapter seven, verse twenty one, and he
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says, not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord, shall enter the
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Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my father in heaven.
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How interesting is that right? Not everyone who says to me, Lord
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Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will
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of my father in heaven. Many will say to me that, Lord Lord,
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have we not prophesied in your name? And this is where I earlier
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say, don't just know how to be just be good at being a Christian?
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Okay, you have to really be it. And he says, here,
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Lord, have you not prophesied in your name? Have we not cant
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out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name. And
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then and this Jesus saying, and then I will declare them I never knew
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you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. And what is lawlessness?
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The word of God. If you don't know the word of God,
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you can't quite practice the word of God. Right, So what does this
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mean? He who is the will of my Father in Heaven enters the Kingdom
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of Heaven. And this is Jesus closing of his message in chapter seven,
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because after that chapter eight he moves out right and his encouragement is that everyone
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to stick and do the will of God. So now you see the whole
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the whole thing piece up together. Great faithfulness, good job. Learn the
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word of God. Why because you need to find the will of God for
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your life. And what is the will of God? So there is the
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overarching will of God that is clearly written in a Bible, and you can
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find them, okay, like literally in the Bible. He says, this
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is the will of God. So that's the overarching one, which is great.
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We need to read it and put it. Because this is the will
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of God. You have to do it. Okay, So let's let's look
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at one or two. There's many in the Bible. Okay, you can
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google them. What is the will of God and be like the periance,
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Ah, is it true in the Bible? Research and then do it.
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Okay, but I'm gonna pick up two. Second Peter Tree, verse nine
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says the Lord. Now we're talking about the will of God. What is
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the will of God? Second Peter three vers nine. The Lord is not
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slack concerning his promise, as some count slightness, but it's long suffering.
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So a lot of people say, God, why it is so slow?
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Now patience okay, not willing so by its long suffering towards as but not
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willing that any should perish. But I all should come to repentance. That
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means that means in this scripture, God is saying my will is a nine
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shall perish and all shall come to repentance the will of God. How can
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we be part of this? Right? And then you talk about Matthew twenty
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eight. And then in one Tasalonians five sixteen to eighteen, again we talk
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about what is the will of God? And he says, rejoice always pray
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without seizing in everything, give thanks. Okay, let's wake some people up.
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Everybody say rejoice. Okay, let's go a little bit abbah. Everybody
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say pray. Everybody say give thanks for this is the will of God in
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Christ Jesus for you, amen, Amen, okay, and their many will
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of God that you can search in the Bible. But I also believe that
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there may be individual calling for everybody to discover the will of God in our
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personal lives. And He's written in Romans of the Triphies is poor and encouraging
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people. Right, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but
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be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you'll be able to test
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and approves what God's will is for his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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In order to test and approve what God's will is, you must first be
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transformed by the renewing of your mind by the world of God. Follow because
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Jesus said, not my will, but your will be done. So that
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is a very specific calling upon Jesus life on earth. So what is God's
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will in your life? What is your calling? Would you search for it?
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You guys? Good, Okay, let's get to the point of this
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message. Actually, when I was preparing this I speaker again. When I
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was preparing this message, I think I think I'll finished in fifteen thirty thirty
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minutes, right, all right, right, based on this length of material,
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I think I've finished in thirty minutes. I mean, I'm not a
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professional, and I professional speak for one hour. Then now I remember,
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I remember my wife always saying, hey, you speak really faster. So
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two times I think I would finish in fifteen minutes. Cannot can knock get
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out, So I lengthened my thing. Okay, anyway, because I was
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about saying extra close, it's only like five o'clock. Okay, so close.
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Okay, wow, let's not set up presidence where so this ends early
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every week? As he closed, I want us to look at Matria chapter
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four. Okay, most scriptures. I told you a spam you scriptures so
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that you know you're going read a Bible and don't question me. Okay.
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Matthage after four very interesting because this is when Jesus he did his fast and
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prayer right forty days fast and prayer, and then at the end of that
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part of first and prayer, Devil came to him and spoke to him.
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They had a conversation. The devil tempted him. Right, that's a matter
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fall, so let's free. Then Jesus, I think this was fun y'ah
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correct, Okay. Then Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness
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to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights,
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he was hungry. Jeerus was hungry, right, hungry people needs food.
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And the tempter came and said to him, if you are the son
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of God, command these stones to become loads of prayer. And this is
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what Jeus answered. He said, it is written, and shall not live
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by braay alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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Now this is the devil first attack, tempting you based on what you
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want. So Jesus was hungry, and the devil attacked it. And I,
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of course there many ways people like to interpretty love, but just looking
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at what we've covered in Message of the Five, I think that Jesus was
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being faithful towards his fast and pray that finishing forty days, and he was
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hungry, and and the devil came to him and said eat right, and
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Jesus was faithful to say, no, I shall not be tempted. But
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let's look what happened next. He says, Then the devil took him to
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the Holy City and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to
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him, if you are the son of God, throw yourself down and see
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what the devil did. Right. He quote the scripture, and he's very
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important. He said here, he said here, for it is written these
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devilt telling Jesus, the devil telling Jesus. Right. It is written here
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commanded is angels considing you, and on their hands they will bear you up
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lest you strike your foot against as a stone. It's quite interesting because now
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we talk about knowing the word of God. The thing here is, if
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you don't know the word of God, you don't know what is written,
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and you're not able to answer right, You're not able to tell the devil
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of Because why this form of devil right that comes using scriptures and the word
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of God is everywhere today. It's in the reels that you watch people who
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shares very great story, not get the word of God. Very great story.
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Good examples encourage you, charismatic preachers. You know, the reels that
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you watch, the YouTube, the online things that you watch. Great they
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know the scripture. But if you don't be like the bearing to go back,
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read referm and validate scripture, you might be stuck here. Now you
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might throw yourself from the hill thinking that Ah, he will command his angels
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concerning you, and the angels will take you up. So Jesus was very
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clear, because he knows that he understands the word of God. He responded
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to the devil using the word of God. Guys, if we don't know
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the word of God, we cannot respond this way. We need to know
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the word of God. I'm not saying that I know everything. Ah,
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but can we try? Can we start? Don't just be good at being
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Christian, we have to be Christians, learn and live the Word of God.
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Amen, be like the appearance. And thirdly, the devil asks for
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worship. Then the devil took him not this one next click down? Oh
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is it this one? Yeah? Again. The devil took him to a
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very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
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And he said to him, all this I give you if you will
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fall down and worship me. And Jesus answered, be gone, say,
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for it is written you shall worship the Lord, your God, and him
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only shall yourself. Now here's the thing, right, God wants you to
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worship him, to serve him, and to have communion with him. Do
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you also know that Satan wants you to also worship him, to serve him
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and have communion with him. He's written here. So maybe a question to
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ask is who are you worshiping in the daily things that you do? And
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sometimes you just don't know, don't realize because why I'm sure what the word
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of God says, unsure what the will of God is for your life?
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I also reflecting her hang on, so aspitual your close. What's the point
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of today's message? Though? It is in Jesus' sermon that he starts with
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faithfulness, and some of you you maybe less prepare to pray, okay,
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So dang dang dang okay. It is jesus sermon that he started with faithfulness,
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and I think let's pray for that because some of us here has really
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been very, very faithful, but I have not seen the breakthrough that you're
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looking for. Some of you has really been very faithful and so faithful to
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the point where the people around you constantly persecute you, constantly question you constantly
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ask you whether this guys but real or not? Why do you go to
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church on a Saturday, man and Sunday persecution like the comp answers that you
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need to give some of you have been so faithful hanging on to the promise
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of God, but not knowing when he'll come through. And that's quite painful
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to be honest, hanging on to the promise of God not knowing when he'll
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come through. It is very painful. But I think, and this is
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just me, I think Jesus has answered that by saying, blessed are you?
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Blessed? Are you for poor in spirit? For you shall enter the
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King of Heaven? Cool? Pretty cool, right, because despite him answering,
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not answering, despite him solving your issues, not solving your issues,
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I think he has already answered you You're blessed because why you're faithful. Because
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you're faithful, you shall inherit the earth. You shall be comforted. What
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do you think about that? And then we go to the second phase,
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right, because it's not just enough to be faithful to the concept of God.
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You have to be faithful to the word of God. Don't just be
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a good don't just be good at being a Christian. You have to leave
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out his commandments from Message of the five to menage upter seven. Some of
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you maybe, or let me let me use the word us. Some of
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us we need to learn how to love again, because that is written in
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the Bible. Some of us maybe need to learn how not learn, but
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maybe need to forgive someone written in the Bible. Some of us probably need
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to stop judging, probably need to stop being toxic, also written in the
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Bible. Some of us maybe need to consider fasting, pursuing God and his
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holiness. Some of us maybe maybe it is, Maybe it's for you and
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some of us. Maybe you need to stop starring treasures on earth. Or
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maybe don't worry? Right, maybe don't worry? Why worry? And that
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that's also written in the Bible. Let's tomorrow worry by yourself. If you've
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God, can cloth you know, feel and feed the birds? Why worry?
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So that's whatlso written the Bible. Some of us need to start asking,
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seeking, knocking. Let's prayer right, and there's a whole chunk of
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Matthew five to seven encouraging us. Hey, let's live out a Christian life.
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Finally, the third part and the closing part where gas say, seek
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the will of God, and let me show us what happened in the parable
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of talents. And this is in Matthew twenty five. Is so some of
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you might know, some might not know. But this is a story.
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Right. The servant that has five talents came back to the Master and said,
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Master, you have given me these five talents. Here is the other
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five. So the same thing happened to the servant with two talents. You
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gave me two. I came back with additional too, right, And so
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this is a Master's response to these servants. And he said, well done,
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my good and faithful servant. And the Master can only say this because
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the Master first have them instruction. The Master first gave them a calling,
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and then the servant acted on it, doing the will of God. And
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when they did the will of God, that came back, look look at
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what I've done. And and and the Master said, uh, well done,
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my good and faithful servant. Can I encourage us that one day?
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You see? The parable is basically Jesus telling a story of the Kingdom of
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Heaven. He tries to bring a parallel world between the parable and how the
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Kingdom of heaven is that means one day, right, we will need to
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be answerable, and we hope that one day we were here. Well done,
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my good and faithful son. But do you know what is the opposite
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of that? The opposite of that is you call me lord, Lord,
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you said your prophesy and all that, but I don't know you. Thank
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