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Galatians chapter 5. Let us pray.
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Our Father, our King, our Lord Adonai, Jehovah, El Eleon, El
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Shaddai, you are everything to us, Lord.
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You see all you know. All God and you are everywhere
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all at once. And so, Lord God, I pray in the
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name of Jesus Christ today, I claim the blood of Jesus Christ
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today so that I can boldly come into the throne room today and
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to speak with you, Lord, and to ask of you and to make
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supplications known to you. Father and Lord, my desire today
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is to bless your holy name. My desire to day is that many
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will be saved. God, my desire to day is that
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you will break off fear of man. God, my desire today is that
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your word will be profitable and propagated throughout all
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countries, all people groups, all languages, all continents.
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Father, I pray that it falls on fertile soil and produces fruit,
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produces A crop, produces a harvest.
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God, raise up laborers unto yourself.
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God, I pray that will not grow lazy and despondent.
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God, let us not live in despair, Father and anxiety.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus for a sound mind.
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Let mental illness break off of us.
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God, I pray that you will cause us to be warriors for you.
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Lord, break off addiction in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Lord, I pray for every unclean and foul spirit to be bound hand
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and foot and cast into outer darkness.
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God, I pray for a hedge of protection around our lives.
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God, I pray that you will mark us with your name.
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Mark us, Father, with the Holy Spirit, Fill us with the Holy
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Spirit. Help us to live the abundant
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life that you have called us into.
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Help us not to choose self preservation.
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Help us not to choose vanity and pride.
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Help us not to be self seeking, self motivated.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that we will be sold out
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to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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Help us not to compartmentalize our lives, Father, but help us
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to be raw and to be real and to be transparent with others and
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with you. More than anything, Father, I
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pray that we will not live in deception, God, that we will
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yield our members unto you, Father, our mind and our will,
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our emotions, our bodies, our eyes, our ears, our senses, God,
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all-encompassing into the weight of your glory, Father, for we
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have counted the cost. We've locked eyes with you.
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We've put our hand to the plow. Lord, raise up laborers for
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yourself. Father, I pray God that we'll go
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out into the harvest. Lord, I pray that we will be
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your hands and feet and wash the disciples feet.
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Lord I thank you God for another day to come and to worship you
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in spirit and truth. Lord Jesus Christ, you are the
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chief cornerstone and we build our lives upon you and we will
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never be put to shame or dismay and we do not fear those that
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can kill the body, but we fear you God we have an awe inspiring
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awesome fear of you Yahweh everlasting.
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Lord, lead us in paths of righteousness.
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God, take us from glory to glory.
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God and where you are, we desire to be.
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Father, seat us with You in heavenly places.
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Fill us with the Holy Ghost today.
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Heal our bodies, heal our marriages, bring prodigals home,
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break off addiction in the name of Jesus Christ.
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God, give us a sound mind and remove the chaos and lead us in
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paths of peace. Lord, I thank you God, for all
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the many blessings that you have already poured out on us.
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I thank you, Lord Jesus, that you are a mighty warrior and
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that you won our salvation. You wrought for us on the cross
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of Calvary the keys to death and hell.
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And we thank you Jesus, for your example for us.
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Lord, I pray that we can have the zeal for your house.
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Let it consume us as we consecrate this temple, as we
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drive out the money changers, Lord, as we take all the idols
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out of the temple and burn them in the streets.
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God, we cleanse the temple so that you can come in and fill
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us, sanctify us, make us more like Jesus Christ today than we
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were yesterday. I decrease as you increase.
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Holy Spirit, give us discernment.
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Holy Spirit, convict us. Holy Spirit, teach us today.
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Teach us your words. Teach us the mind of Christ.
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Teach us in the ways. Of.
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Eternity. Thank you God for all that you
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have done. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for your
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sacrifice and Holy Spirit, fill us and fill this room, fill this
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temple. Let the train of your robe fill
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this temple. We cry out, ABBA, Father, we cry
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out holy, holy, holy, worthy. And there was only one found
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worthy to open the scroll. Eyes like fire and hair like
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wool. We love you King Jesus, and it's
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in your holy and precious and perfect and powerful name that I
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pray. Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. Stand fast therefore, in the
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liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not
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entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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So here Paul is going to go off on a tangent and he is very
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zealous for these Galatians, this church, these churches that
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he started in the area of Galatia.
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And he could see that these Judaizers have come in, these
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legalistic Christians who are trying to intermingle the law
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with grace. And it's no different than in
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our day, in our hour there, there is this Jewish roots
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movement and there are different denominations who desire to
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entangle us with all of the requirements of the law
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intertwined with our freedom and liberty and grace that we so
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incredibly desire and enjoy in Christ.
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And so Paul here is letting them know that it is heretical to try
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to intermingle in the things of the law as a requirement for
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salvation into the things of grace which Jesus Christ won for
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us on the cross of Calvary. And Paul here, he is not just
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mildly upset, he's going to be very explicit and what he says,
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he wishes that these Judaizers, these legalizers who are trying
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to trap these early babes in Christ with legalism, he is
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going to tell them what he wishes they would do. 1st 2:00.
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Behold, I Paul, say unto you, that if you be circumcised,
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Christ shall profit you nothing. He's saying all the work of
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Christ, the innocent blood shed for our redemption, for our
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atonement. His righteousness imputed for
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all of our wickedness, profits you nothing if you go back to
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the law, if you go back to all of the requirements, he's saying
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you could never uphold them to be in right standing with God.
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If you are guilty of 1 infraction, you're guilty of the
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entire law being broken. And he's saying that the perfect
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shed innocent blood from Christ at the cross profits you nothing
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if you desire to go back into bondage.
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And it's much like the Israelites when they were let
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out of Egypt and they were on the other side of the Red Sea
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and they were mumbling and grumbling because they wanted to
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go back to where there were leeks and onions.
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They wanted to go back to Egypt and.
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This is how. We are when we come to Christ,
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but then we desire to work for our salvation.
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It's no different, friends. We're mumbling and grumbling and
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what we're doing is we're actually saying that all the
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sacrifice of. Christ was of no profit to us,
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because we want to work for our salvation. 3 For I testify again
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to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the
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whole law. So he's saying that if you want
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to try to work your way into heaven, you would have to obey
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the entirety of God's law, over 600 commandments in the law that
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we would have to keep. And there is not a human being
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on planet earth who has ever lived, is living, or will ever
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live apart from Jesus Christ, who has ever been able to obey
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the entirety of God's law. And that God's law was put into
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place to show us our need for Jesus Christ and for his
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sacrifice. So whenever we turn our back on
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the grace of Jesus Christ, the free gift of salvation, and we
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say no, that is too easy, we want to.
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We want it harder, we want it to be more difficult.
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We want to actually observe these calendar days and we want
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to go back and pretend as if we are the natural and we're just
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the wild branch. We're the unnatural branches.
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And we need to make sure that we understand that.
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And there are many Messianic Jews of the lineage of the
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ethnicity of the Jewish. Lineage from Abraham who?
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Have actually come into the fold and they have placed their faith
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in the Lord Jesus Christ and praise God and they are the
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natural grafted back into the natural friends.
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But they are not held to all of the festivals.
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They're not held to all the regulations.
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They're not held to that anymore.
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And that is what Paul is so adamant about here in this 5th
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chapter of Galatians. He wants these Judaizers to know
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who have crept in. This is for them in this moment.
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He wants them to know if you're coming in and trying to get the
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Galatians to adhere to all of the Mosaic Law that was given to
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Him, then you would have to obey every single one of them to be
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made right with God. And the obvious application is
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that they could never do that. So they must wrestle with the
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fact that only one ever did or ever could.
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And His name is Yeshua, for Christ is become of no effect
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unto you. Whosoever you are justified by
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the law, you are fallen from grace.
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So he's saying if you're trying to justify yourself by obeying
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the law, then grace has no application for you.
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You have fallen away from the simple gospel of Jesus Christ
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which says that there is no good in us, that all of our
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righteousness is filthy rags. And it's not until you see God's
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holiness and your sinfulness in the right light that you will
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fall to your knees and you will see that you are just an
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unprofitable servant and you have only done what was required
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of you. And you will.
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See that you could never save yourself, You could never obey
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the 613 laws. You could never be perfect.
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Only one was. But for so many people, they
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struggle and stumble with this because they want to be able to
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measure where they stand with God.
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They want to have the scale. And what you need to understand
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is that Christianity is the only religion on planet Earth that
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operates out of grace, and it's nothing that you do, and it's
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everything that he did. Every other religion on planet
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Earth operates with scales and balances.
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And when you die, you better hope that your good outweighs
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your bad. But it never could.
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We all know that our bad outweighs our good.
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And so we when we're trying to work for our salvation, we stay
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in a perpetual state of nervousness, biting our nails
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because we don't know that we know that we know where we stand
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with God. We have to guess and have a hope
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so and a maybe so. And there have been many
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religious leaders who have come down the line that have used
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this to usurp authority and power over the masses and to
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give get people to give much of their time, energy, volunteer to
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give their resources, their money, to give their talents
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towards a religious entity. And they profit greatly off of
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people who don't know where they stand with God.
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But that is not. The grace of the Lord Jesus
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Christ. If you find somebody who is
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truly sold out to the Lord Jesus Christ, they're operating in
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grace, then they realize that there is nothing that they could
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ever do to make God love them anymore, and that there is
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nothing that they could ever do to make God accept them anymore.
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And vice versa, if you're operating in grace, there is
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nothing that you could ever do to make God love you any less.
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There is nothing that you could ever do to make God accept you
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any less. In Christ Jesus.
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You are holy because He is holy in Christ Jesus.
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You are perfect because He is perfect.
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In Christ Jesus. You do not have to worry about
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your very last day on planet earth.
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Your worst day on planet earth will be your best day in
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eternity when you get to see Him fully from face to face.
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So that is what Paul is so incredibly incensed about is
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that there are people who are trying to place these heavy
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burdens back on the early Christians to say that it is
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following Jesus Christ and it is following all the requirements
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of the law. And he says far be it from us to
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fall back into legalism. Friends, we desire to please our
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Lord. We get to read the Bible and get
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to give to the church, and we get to go and attend church.
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We get to worship Him in spirit and truth.
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And these are privileges, friends, not requirements. 54 We
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through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
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That is what it takes, friends, to walk out this Christian life.
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You must have faith. And faith is just believing the
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things that have not happened yet as if they already are.
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It's taking God at his word. It's viewing the entirety of
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God's Scripture as already fulfilled as a book of promises,
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not a book of rules and regulations that mandate our
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life. It's not just basic principles
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to learn from and to operate out of that will benefit you.
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This is an entire book of promises for us who truly
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believe in Him. And whenever you approach
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Scripture in that manner, it will come alive for you.
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When you do not call any of it into question, it will become
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alive to you. It will quicken in the inner
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man. Friends, we through the Spirit
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that has been deposited into us, we wait and help God help us to
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wait well, and we have hope, and we are covered in the
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righteousness of Jesus Christ. 6/4 In Jesus Christ, neither
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circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision but faith,
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which works by love. So it's a double edged sword.
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You have to have faith, but you must operate in love.
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And that is how we know who belongs to Jesus Christ is
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because the love that we share for one another, when we one
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another, one another, this Koinonia, friends, it is a mark
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of who truly belongs to him, this faith and this love.
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But the greatest of these is love.
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And we know that, friends, and we can see here that we have to
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get in Christ. Just as Noah got in to the boat,
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we must get in Christ, and He is our protection from the coming
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wrath that will test all the inhabitants of the earth.
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We get in Christ, friends, and we can see that circumcision and
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uncircumcision doesn't have any hold on us anymore.
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The Law of Moses is beneath the believing St.
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And yes, as we operate in the Spirit, as we operate with the
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mind of Christ, we will fulfill the law.
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It is not that we have to fulfill the law in order to be
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made right with God, but as we realize our position in Christ
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Jesus, we will naturally fulfill the law, the things that are
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required in it. 7 You did run well.
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Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth He's
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saying you started out pretty good, and I want you to know
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something. Friends, It's a whole lot easier
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to start a race than it is to finish.
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And we could see that in the life of Solomon.
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He started out with such character, such a man of God, a
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person of peace, which is what his name means.
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And then you could see towards the end of his life, he started
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compromising. He started compromising more and
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more and more until he was so entangled with sin he did not
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finish his race well. And what a call for us.
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You can see so many ministries upended towards the end of a
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person's life because all of the tragedies of that ministry start
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to come to light. You see all the controversy.
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You see all of the moral failures start to come to light
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towards the end of a ministry because it's so much easier to
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start a race than it is to finish it.
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And here Paul is telling the Galatians, you started well, but
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then these Judaizers crept in and they hindered you and now
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you're not obeying the truth and Jesus Christ is the truth, and
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they're not obeying the simple gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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This says anyone who thirsts can come and drink and they're
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trying to place these Mosaic law on to the new converts there in
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Galatia and Paul is not having it.
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Hey, this persuasion comes not of him that called you.
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He's saying that all of these legal requirements, that's not
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from the Lord God Almighty. Jesus Christ doesn't place all
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these requirements upon you. You are free and you are free
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indeed to operate in liberty, but we do not abuse this
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liberty. We do not abuse this grace.
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Friends, when you realize that you were in right standing with
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God Almighty, no matter what you do or don't do, it will make
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you, it will cause you, you will want to do the things that
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please him. Friends, big difference.
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It's not that you have to, it's that you get to and you want to
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and you desire to, and it gives you a new heart and a new mind,
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friends. And we don't see the world
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around us the way that we used to and we don't hear the world
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around us the way that we used to.
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God gives us his sight. And I pray that that is your
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story. I pray that you're not so
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steeped in the flesh and in the carnal things that you're
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abusing grace and you call yourself a Christian, but
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there's no difference in your life and the lives of all those
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who do not claim the cross of Christ as their inheritance. 9 A
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little leaven leavens the whole lump.
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So this was the words of Jesus Christ when he was talking about
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the Pharisees. And he's saying a little bit of
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yeast works into the batch and the whole batch is leavened.
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The whole batch rises friends and is gets puffed up with
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arrogance and pride. And we need to beware of the
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yeast of the Pharisees friends as they come in and they try to
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sell us this grace plus works theology.
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It is garbage and you need to understand what James, the
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brother of our Lord Jesus Christ says in his epistle when he says
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that faith without works is dead and that is valid and that is
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factual. But it is not that the grace of
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our Lord Jesus Christ plus the works equal salvation.
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That is not. It is a natural overflow.
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It is an outpouring of our relationship with God Almighty
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through His Son Jesus Christ in grace that produces the good
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works that we do. But the works are not what saves
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us. Jesus Christ alone, the blood of
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our Lord Jesus Christ covering us is the only thing that makes
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us in right standing with God Almighty.
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Then beyond that it is just a rewards based system.
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From the time you give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ until
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the day that you die, all the things that you do in between
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those two points will have to suffer the judgment of the Bema
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seat. When Christ tests all the works
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that we did and most of it all gets burned up, and there will
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be some things that you get to take with you into eternity and
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that should make you want to please Him, that should make you
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want to do the things that He is asking us to do in the.
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Revealed will of God. Here that we hold in our hands.
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10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will
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be none otherwise minded, but he that troubles you shall bear his
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judgment, whosoever he be. He's saying that these Judaizers
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that have crept into the churches in Galatia and they're
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trying to cause all the early converts to come under the law
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of Moses, they will have to pay for it.
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They will have to suffer the judgment of going in and
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polluting the grace of God, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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And it's no different in our day, in our hour, at this time,
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for such a time as this. There are many who have crept in
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unaware. There are always a Judas in the
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camp, friends, and we need to beware of the yeast, the
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Pharisees. We need to beware of those who
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try to preach a different gospel than the ones that we have been
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given by our Lord Jesus Christ. If anyone, anyone, I say it
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again, if anyone ever, and the entirety of your life tells you
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it's the Bible plus something else, run away from those
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people. If someone gives a dream, a
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vision that is not in line with Scripture, it is not from God
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Almighty. And we need to be on guard of
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these people who creep in with all of these new doctrines.
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It will never amount to anything but eternal damnation, friends,
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these heretics and the apostate church is rising at a rapid race
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and we must be on guard friends. And how you safeguard yourself
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is by studying the authenticity of God's Word from Genesis to
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Revelation. You will safeguard your life
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when you study the real thing. You will understand when the
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counterfeit comes across. It will not line up with God's
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scripture. But how would you know about
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what God's Word says if you're not getting into the Word and
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reading the Word, owning the Word, memorizing the Word, and
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hiding the Word in your heart? Friends, that is how we
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safeguard ourselves from false teachers and false doctrine,
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from these ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing.
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Friends 11 and I, brothers, if I yet preach circumcision, why do
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I yet suffer persecution? This is the offense of the
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cross. Then is the offense of the cross
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ceased. So what Paul is trying to say is
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if he's trying to preach all of the Jewish customs, then he
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would not be persecuted by his own countrymen, his own
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brothers, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Sanhedrin.
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The offense of the cross would be removed.
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If all he thought about was the Mosaic Law, they would not have
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any reason to persecute him. But he's saying, look at the
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persecutions that I have suffered, and it shows you that
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I am not trying to preach the law, the Mosaic Law, because we
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are above it and we are not subject to it.
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We it does not master us, but we master it. 12 I wish that they
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would even cut off which trouble you.
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He's saying you know what, instead of just circumcising you
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should just castrate all those that trouble you.
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Just go ahead and let them castrate themselves, is what he
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says in verse 1213. Four brothers, you have been
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called unto liberty. Only use not liberty for an
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occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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He's saying you've been called into freedom, but don't abuse
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this grace, don't abuse this liberty, don't abuse your
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freedom, but speak truth in love.
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Do everything out of love, as Christ has loved us and he loved
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the church so much that he laid his life down for it.
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And that love knows no greater than for a man to lay down his
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life or his brother. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one
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word, even in this you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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So we know that that's what Jesus Christ told us, that all
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of the law is completely fulfilled in loving the Lord God
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with all your heart, all your mind, with all your soul, with
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all your strength and love, your neighbor as yourself and
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everything that's fulfilled in those two.
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And if we will do those two, then we do not need to sit and
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worry where we stand with God in relation to how we live our
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lives. 15 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed
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that you'd be not consumed one another like a Shark Tank,
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friends. It's like those who are not
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walking in the spirit is much like the womb of a shark, that
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they eat each other up until only the strongest survive.
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And that is what we see here in this passage, that they devour
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each other, they consume each other, they break each other
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down, they are jealous of each other's ministries.
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They are not operating in the spirit of love and grace and
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unity that God has called us into.
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And anytime you see people who are not walking in the spirit,
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but they're walking in the flesh, even though they might
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call themselves a Christian, you can see all of this strife, all
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of this argumentation. You can see all of it, friends,
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and it shows and it reveals itself.
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And we need to make sure that we are people who are operating out
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of love and grace and mercy and joy and all the fruits of the
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Spirit. Friends. 16 this I say, then
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walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of
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the flesh. That's the whole crux of the
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whole matter of the whole situation, friends, is that if
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we'll wake up every single day and we will acknowledge the
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Lord, He'll direct our steps. He'll give us contentment.
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Friends, we'll walk in the Spirit.
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We'll see the whole world around us the way that He does.
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We won't look backwards and have depression.
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We won't be ahead of ourselves and have anxiety.
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We won't have the fear of missing out on things.
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We can know that we're in the perfect and pleasing will of God
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when we're walking in the flesh. We can lock in for today.
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We will not be discontent. We will not be greedy, we will
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not be angry. We will have the mind of Christ.
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And he will. Give us His heart, and He will
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give us His thoughts, and we will be able to know that we
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know that we're being led by Him, and that He is a Good
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Shepherd. 17 For the flesh lust against the Spirit, and the
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Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary, the one
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to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would.
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That is Romans 7 in a nutshell. And he's saying that the flesh
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and the spirit are at war with each other.
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And we can see here that we must subdue the flesh.
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Sin is crouching at our door, but we have to get a hold of it.
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We must master it before it overtakes us.
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Friends, we must crush the head of the serpent.
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We must not be in direct rebellion against God by
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following after the lustful carnal pleasures of this world
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and giving in to the temptations of the enemy.
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We must walk in the Spirit and allow God to give us victory
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over all of the things that are coming our way that are not
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profitable. 18 But if you be LED of the Spirit, you are not under
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the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest.
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Which are these? Adultery, fornication,
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uncleanness, lust, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variants,
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emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying,
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murder, drunkenness, revelling, and such like.
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Of the which I tell you before. As I have also told you in time
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past that they which do such things shall not inherit the
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Kingdom of God. It's pretty simple stuff here,
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friends. You need to know that when your
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identity is found in these things and when you are a
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habitual offender of the cross, when you do not see your need
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for repentance, it is a great indicator that you are not
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covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, that you are still
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operating in the spirit of religion.
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And if you have somebody who is steeped in these sins and they
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see no wrong in them, they are not convicted by them.
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They do not see their need for repentance or confession.
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They do not see their need to humble themselves, and they
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continue on in these things. They will not inherit the
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Kingdom of God. They will stand at the door and
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they will knock, but it will be shut and they cannot come in.
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And they will stand there and they will try to give a long
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list of the things that they did for God, and they will be turned
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away because they were never covered in the blood of Jesus
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Christ. Their identity was marked in
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murder and in anger. Their identity was marked in
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drunkenness and envy. Their identity was marked with
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lust and pornography. Their identity was marked with
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lying and stealing. Their identity was marked with
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adultery. And you can see that they were
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never truly covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, which is why
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they will not inherit eternal life.
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It was all about religion for them.
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It was a show with pomp and circumstance.
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It was all about an outward expression.
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But they failed to clean the inside of the cup. 22 But the
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fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering,
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gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, and
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against such there is no law. So just remember, friends, when
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we're operating with the mind of Christ, these are the natural
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overflow of the attributes of Christ that He modeled for us.
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He is love. He is the one who gives us joy
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that is not dependent upon circumstances.
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It is not just what happens to us.
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It is a joy that we can have in the face of adversity.
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We can have peace that surpasses all understanding and the peace
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of God through a right relationship with Jesus Christ.
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We can have patience. We do not need to outpace God.
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We can wait well in the middle as he pulls out all the
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impurities. We can have the goodness, and
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there is none good but God, and God is good, and good is God.
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We can have gentleness. We don't have to be wrathful and
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violent, friends. We can be gentle and you
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remember that Christ is gentle and lowly.
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We can be faithful and that's what pleases God, friends.
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And we can be kind and we can pray for our enemies, and we do
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not need to be vengeful friends, but we are kind and we will
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cover a multitude of sins, friends in love.
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And it produces this kindness that he is after.
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That is what you need to understand this self-control.
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We do not give more strength to the flesh, but by denying the
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flesh it becomes weaker and weaker and we have self-control
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and we increase the faith in our lives and we give muscle to
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faith. And every time that you flex
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that muscle, it gets stronger and stronger and stronger,
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whether it's the flesh or whether it is faith.
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Whichever 1 you keep feeding is the one that will grow larger.
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So we must starve out the flesh, and we must continue to feed the
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faith. And that takes self-control,
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friends. And he's saying here that
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there's no law against those things.
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If we'll do those things, then we do not need to have to worry
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about breaking the law. 24 And they that are Christ have
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crucified the flesh with the affections and lust.
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All of it was crucified with Christ, all the wrath of God was
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satisfied on the cross, and we do not have to live after all of
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our carnal desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also
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walk in the Spirit. We'll end on 26th.
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Let us not be desirous of Vainglory provoking one another
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and envying one another. This Vainglory, friends, where
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we use all of our liberty and all the grace to try to go
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around and act as if we're better than others.
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That is not the way of God. Always think of others as better
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than yourself and He will exalt you in due time.
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Walk in the Spirit so you will not satisfy the lust of the
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flesh and the fruits of the Spirit will reveal themselves
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naturally. This is not something that we
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even have to try to do. If you are in Christ and Christ
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in you, this is your inheritance and these are the things that
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will mark a person who is truly sold out to him.
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But perhaps you've let some things come into your life that
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do not belong, and there are. There's so much garbage that
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you're letting in through the music choices that you have.
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There's so much garbage that you're letting in through the
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entertainment choices that you have, the scroll that you have,
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that you doom scroll for hours on whatever social media
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platform of your choosing. There's so much garbage that's
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coming in. It's polluting the mind and it's
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causing so much envy and strife and wrath and rage, and you're
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letting it in and you don't even realize how it's coming in,
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Friends. But we must get rid of it.
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We must take it out into the streets and burn it.
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It has no place in the temple of God.
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Fill your mind with things that are holy and pure and good,
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Friends. Fill your mind with God's Word.
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Fill your mind with things that edify the Spirit so that you can
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be a blessing to others. What you're putting in is what
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will come out. It's that simple, but it's that
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hard. That's why we must rely on the
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Holy Spirit to guide us and to help us.
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Yield yourself to the Holy Spirit completely today, not
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just in part. I hope you've been blessed by
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this chapter. I know I sure have.
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Praying for you. I love you.
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So does our Lord more than you could ever know.
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God bless you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow.