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Living Waters of Grace 09.09.25 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is living. Waters of Grace, the teaching
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  ministry of Lewis Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary
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  Chapel of Westmoreland County in Greensburg, PA.
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  Now here's Pastor Lewis as he continues teaching through God's
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  Word. We're not exempt in any way.
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  Sometimes we can be spots in a love piece.
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  Sometimes we can cause people to stumble with our behavior.
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  Sometimes we can be like clouds without water.
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  Sometimes we can not have fruit or not show fruit in our lives.
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  But again, God is warning us and saying in the later times these
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  things are going to be so. Have you ever attended a church
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  service and felt as though the pastor's message was speaking
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  directly to you? That is the conviction of the
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  Holy Spirit at work in your life, guiding you to hear what
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  you were meant to embrace. Today, Pastor Lewis wants to
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  remind you that even with the teachings of the Bible are
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  challenging to digest, it is God's way of inviting you to
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  reflect on your own life and realign yourself with him.
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  So take the time to listen, examine your heart, and trust
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  that God is always there ready to guide you back to Him.
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  Now here's Pastor Lewis in the book of Jude chapter 1 as he
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  continues his message apostates describe.
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  They have motives that are ungodly.
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  They're looking at the opposite sex in ways that they should not
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  because it's not their wives. They're looking at ways to take
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  advantage, to be able to get more for themselves.
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  And so when he says here that they're only serving, they do it
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  without fear. They do it without reverence of
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  God. They come among us without
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  reverence of God, without respecting who God is, without
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  having to all of God, not even fearful of the consequences of
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  their of their behavior, of their hearts and conditions of
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  their hearts. And they're serving only
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  themselves. The Bible says that a pastor is
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  supposed to feed the flock, but they serve themselves.
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  They're not really looking to give you the truth of God's
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  Word. They're looking to give you what
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  will deceive you into giving more to them, get you to follow
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  a doctrine that is Antichrist, to lead you away from the truth,
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  to lead us away from the truth. And then I'm going to go to the
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  next one. It says that they are clouds
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  without water, carried about by the winds, The clouds without
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  water, meaning that they are they, you know, they give the
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  threat of rain. We don't have these kind of
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  clouds until lately. We've been getting a lot of
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  water here. Greensburg.
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  But he's saying here that there are clouds without water.
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  So it's like they, it's like a farmer, a farmer.
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  One of the worst things for them is like when they're desperate
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  for rain for their crops, one of the worst thing for them is look
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  up in the sky and see a cloud that looks like it could bring
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  rain, looks like it could promise rain, but then it blows
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  away and nothing ever happens. They don't have their crops
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  watered. It's the worst thing that can
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  happen. It's the worst thing that can
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  happen for a church to have someone teaching or preaching
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  that gives the promise that they're going to give an A
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  nourishing word, a word that's going to refresh, a word that's
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  going to really speak to our spirit.
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  And then it doesn't. It speaks to the flesh instead.
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  We don't leave refreshed. We leave even more heavy because
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  he just talked about all the things that he has that we don't
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  talk about how to get things that we can attain all things of
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  the flesh, not really speaking to our spirit.
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  We need the water. We need the water to refresh us.
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  You know, Jesus told Jesus told the the woman at the the well.
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  He told her, he said, you know, if you knew the kind of person
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  that was here, you knew who was here in front of you, you would
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  be asking me for water because I would give you water that leads
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  to everlasting life. But if you have someone that
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  doesn't bring, that doesn't have substance in what it is that
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  they're teaching because it's not coming from the word of God,
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  then we're thirsty. We're left thirsty.
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  We're left leaving wanting to be refreshed and not.
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  And Jude is saying be careful of men who act like they're going
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  to bring refreshing, A refreshing word and don't be
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  careful of that. And then he goes on here and he
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  and he talks about the autumn trees.
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  He says they're like late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead,
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  pulled up by the roots, laid autumn trees.
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  And just as false teachers or clouds that fail to produce
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  water, likewise they also fail to produce fruit in their own
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  lives. They can't give us the word of
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  God that will cause us to produce fruit.
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  And we're supposed to be trees that produce fruit as
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  Christians, as believers in Isaiah 61 and three, he said
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  that we are trees of righteousness, the planting of
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  the Lord, that he might be glorified.
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  God is glorified by the fruit of our lives.
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  And if I'm, if we are a, a, a Christian or believer that
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  doesn't have fruit, then God is not glorified.
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  And John 15, Jesus also spoke when he talked about himself
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  being a true vine. He says if you abide in me and I
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  in you, you will have much fruit, much fruit.
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  But without me you can do nothing.
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  And that's true. Without Him we can do nothing,
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  and without His word we can do nothing.
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  We can do nothing. We need the word of God.
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  We need it. Men do not live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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  That is the true manner that comes from heaven that nurtures
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  us and feeds us. And he is the water he brings us
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  the water that comes from heaven.
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  And and, and Isaiah, he said, you know, just as the water
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  comes down from the heavens and it doesn't return back there,
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  but that it nourishes the ground where it it, it, it waters the
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  ground and it brings forth the bud and that bud becomes seed
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  and bread it produces. He said, so as my word, that
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  comes forth out of my life, my word.
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  So that is what brings the refreshing.
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  That's what brings the fruit. That's what brings production is
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  his word, his word, not mine. I could stand up here all day
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  long and give you a bunch of stories that sounds interesting,
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  but then you leave and somebody said, OK, but what did he
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  preach? I don't know, but man, was he
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  something. He was funny.
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  OK, good. But what did he think?
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  I don't know. That doesn't do us any good.
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  That's not why we gather. We gather to hear the word of
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  God. We gather to be refreshed by the
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  word of God. We gather to be transformed by
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  the word of God. We don't gather for stories.
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  And then he said they were trees without fruit.
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  Twice dead, twice dead. That means not only are they
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  dead spiritually, but they're also going to be dead
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  physically. They're twice dead and there's
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  no connection, he said. It's pulled up by the roots.
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  That means that these trees can never be connected.
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  They're not connected to anything to ever have life.
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  They're not connected to the vine, and because they're not
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  connected to the vine, they die. Then he says they're raging
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  waves of the sea, raging waves of the sea.
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  It's a beautiful thing to be before the ocean.
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  I think Clark right now is down there at the ocean.
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  And I know that he loves looking out at the sea and, and we lied,
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  you know, we, we love being at the ocean and looking at the
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  water. I love looking at, at water
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  anywhere. I like anybody of water, to be
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  honest with you looking at it. I'm not so crazy about getting
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  in it, but I do like to look at bodies of water.
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  But the ocean is a very, it's a majestic thing to look at, you
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  know, with the waves and the, and, and the way that it comes
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  right up to the shore and it's a very majestic thing to look.
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  It's very powerful thing to look at.
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  But when you see a, but when you see the, the, the ocean, when
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  you see the ocean when it's in a storm could be a very scary
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  thing. The waves are obviously a lot
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  higher, does a lot more damage. It's more dangerous, you know,
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  for those who are out in boats in it.
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  Obviously it is. But the thing that Jude is
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  talking about here is when he said if foaming up, he says
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  foaming up their own shame. When you walk on the beach after
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  a storm, if you've ever walked on the beach after the storm,
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  what you see is not pretty because the ocean brings up in
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  that storm. It brings up all that dirt, all
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  that, all the garbage that was in the ocean, it now washes up
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  on the shore and it's so dirty. In fact, you can't even go in
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  the water. They tell you don't even go in
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  the water for a while after a storm because it's so dirty.
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  It's, it's, it's a bunch of mire and, and, and, and filth.
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  And a lot of that comes up on the shore.
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  Well, this is what Jude is saying about false teachers.
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  They said they rant and they wave and they and they give all
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  this, all this, you know, this message.
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  And it's just like ways because it, it looks good.
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  It sounds good, but the only thing they're doing is bringing
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  up their own shame. They're talking about their own
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  life and their flesh and, and the things that they're
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  interested in. And none of those things are
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  spiritual. It's just bringing up their own
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  shame. In fact, another quote that I
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  found that I really, really enjoyed and this comes from
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  Warren Wheresby, he says the true teachers of the word bring
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  up treasures from the deep. False teachers only produce
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  refuse. That means waste, garbage, trash
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  and boast about what they should be ashamed of.
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  Do you remember time in your life when you boast about things
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  that we pop that would now we are ashamed of them?
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  I can remember that talking about things and boasting about
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  things that I should have been ashamed of.
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  If you think back in your life, maybe some of you can relate
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  boasting about those things. Or sometimes false teachers do
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  the exact same thing. They boast about things that
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  they should be ashamed of, foaming up their own shame.
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  Isaiah 57 and 20 says, But the wicked are like the troubled sea
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  when it it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt,
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  the false teachers, they're like raging waves of the sea.
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  And then he says here they're like wandering stars, for whom
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  is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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  Wandering stars for who is reserved the blackness of
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  darkness forever. 1 is to fix stars is a shipments or a
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  mariner. You know, it's their dream to
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  see the stars. They can navigate by the stars
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  because they're fixed. They're there.
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  They give you direction, they give you guidance.
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  But wandering stars like shooting stars and different
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  things that you see in the heavens that shoot and they,
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  they fizz up and then they fizzle out.
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  You don't see them anymore. They call falling stars or
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  whatever. You, you know, they, they, they
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  call them when you see them and then they fizzle out.
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  They're saying that's the same thing as a false teacher.
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  They come in with a lot of romp and rave and noise, but
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  eventually they fizzle out and then they go somewhere else.
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  They go somewhere else, they wander.
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  They just leave, go to another group of people that haven't
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  heard them yet. I know this message sometimes
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  can come across as wow, this is a real condemning message, but
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  it's the word of God. He's warning us and there's
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  things in the Bible sometimes going to be really hard to hear,
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  but what we should do is be looking at ourselves.
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  Is any of these things in me? We're not exempt in any way.
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  Sometimes we can be spots in a love feast.
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  Sometimes we can cause people to stumble with our behavior.
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  Sometimes we can be like clouds without water.
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  Sometimes we can not have fruit or not show fruit in our lives,
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  but again God is warning us and saying in the later times these
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  things are going to be so. And so we look at verse 14 as we
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  get ready to come to a close. Here in verse 14 through 15 he
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  says this. Now Enoch the 7th from Adam
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  prophesied about these men also, saying, Behold, the Lord comes
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  with 10 thousands of his Saints to execute judgment on all who
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  on all, to convict all who ungodly, who are ungodly among
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  them, of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an
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  ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly
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  sinners have spoken against him. And verse 15, the word ungodly
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  is mentioned 4 * 4 times. But the important thing is the
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  fact that this book, this particular Scripture, talks
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  about the coming judgement of those who are ungodly.
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  Now, first of all, we got to deal with this whole Enoch thing
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  because Enoch is only mentioned in the Bible back in Genesis,
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  chapter 5. OK, That's where he's mentioned.
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  And he's mentioned this interesting story.
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  Enoch is from the line of Seth, You know, when men begin to call
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  on the Lord. That line, Enoch was a righteous
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  man, a very righteous man. In fact, in the Bible, in
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  Genesis 5, it talks about Enoch walking with God.
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  And then he was no more. Enoch didn't see death.
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  He didn't go through the doorway of death the way many have.
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  Enoch was just taken and it's such a picture of the church, of
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  the rapture, of the church. One day when we too will be
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  taken, be taken out of here. I think about Isaiah 57 that
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  says that the righteous man perish and no one takes it to
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  heart that the righteous man are taken away from the evil to
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  come. Enoch was actually taken away
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  before the great flood. He didn't have to worry about
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  saying that. And the church one day will be
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  raptured. And that's a picture of, I
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  believe that's a foreshadow of the rapture of the church.
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  But it but Enoch is it. It was a apocryphal book, which
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  means that it was written outside of the Canon of
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  Scripture. It's not a part of the
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  Scripture, the book that he has written or a book that is said
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  that he has written because often times that these are
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  prophetical books. The author of these books are
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  not necessarily authenticated. So we don't really know whether
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  Enoch was the one that actually wrote this book or not, but it
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  does have. But there was a book that had
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  prophecies called the Apocryphal book of Enoch and it did have
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  this particular quote in it. There's this non biblical
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  prophetic source, but that's not different.
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  Paul himself also quoted non biblical poets and writers and
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  his scriptures. He quoted it.
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  In fact, one of the scriptures that we probably know very well
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  was actually a quote from someone who was non biblical,
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  and that's in Titus. I'm sorry that in First
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  Corinthians chapter 15, Paul quotes a a poet by the name of
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  Menander and this was the quote. You guys will recognize it.
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  Evil company corrupts good habits.
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  That was actually taken from a a, a a Greek writer, a Greek
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  poet, even in the Acts 17 that when he was at Mars Hill, when
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  he was beginning to talk with the minute Mars Hill about
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  Christ, he he, he gave a quote where he says we are the
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  offspring of God. He said even one of your own
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  poets said that we are the offspring of God.
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  That was a Athenian prophet or Athenian poet who said that.
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  So there's been other times in the New Testament or other times
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  in the Bible where non biblical sources were quoted.
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  However, God has purpose in putting these things in
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  Scripture. None of these things that have
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  not been contrary to Scripture and they've only proven what
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  Scripture was already saying. So it wasn't like it was saying
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  anything. It's no new truth.
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  You know, they're not giving a new truth.
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  They're not giving a new prophecy or anything like that.
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  These things are already said. But here in this book, it says
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  that, you know, he talks about these, you know, it is going to
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  be coming. He's already prophesied in
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  talking about how these men, these ungodly men, these, these
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  false prophets and false teachers, how they are going to
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  be judged. This is basically what this is
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  saying, and it's the same thing that's been said all throughout
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  the Scripture. And Judes thought it was
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  necessary or helpful to put it in, but he's talking about him
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  being ungodly and he mentions it four times, you know, convicted
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  who? All who are ungodly among them
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  of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an
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  ungodly way, of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners
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  have spoken against him, none of those things go against
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  Scripture. But it wasn't part of the
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  original Canon of the Word of God.
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  But yet we have it. We have it and you know.
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  The truth of the matter is, is that we were all ungodly at one
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  time. All of us were ungodly.
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  In fact, the Bible says over in the book of Romans chapter 5, he
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  says that, you know, while we were still without strength,
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  Jesus came and died for the ungodly.
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  He justifies the ungodly. So it was, you know, in fact, he
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  came, He came to, He came to earth for the ungodly.
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  He didn't come for those who are righteous.
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  Bible says he came to bring sinners to repentance.
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  The ungodly. Ungodly simply means without
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  God, without God in our speech, without God in our thoughts,
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  without God in our actions. We were all at one time ungodly,
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  but because of Jesus Christ, because of His love, because of
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  His mercy, and because of His grace, He justified the ungodly.
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  He justified us, and all we have to do is believe on Him and He
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  begins to change us from the inside out.
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  And the fruit that we were talking about earlier, that
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  fruit comes because we are connected with Jesus Christ and
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  He brings fruit in our lives. It's the washing of the water,
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  the washing of the water. We are cleansed by the Word of
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  God. We are sanctified by the Word of
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  God. We're washed through the Word of
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  God. So I thank God today that we can
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  come to him in prayer. Even those of us who may still
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  be without strength, we can still come to Him and we can
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  repent of anything that we do or are doing.
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  And we know that the Word of God is there for us, His grace is
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  there for us, His forgiveness, His love is there for us to
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  cleanse us and wash us from all our ungodliness and all of our
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  uncleanness. I'm so happy about that.
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  I'm so happy about that. So I pray that if there's
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  anybody here today who may feel in their own hearts, they look,
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  I'm ungodly and I'm not. I'm not good enough and my life
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  is a mess. You don't know the kind of life
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  that I live. You don't know the kind of sins
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  that I commit. I just want to tell you, it
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  really doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
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  He is here to cleanse you. He's here to save you.
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  He's here to redeem you. He came for the ungodly, the
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  unrighteous. And if you feel that my life has
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  just been a mess because I've tried to do it all on my own,
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  but I want forgiveness of sins. I want to be forgiven.
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  I want this Christian life. I want fruit in my life.
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  I don't want to be controlled by sin anymore in my life.
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  I don't want my life to be controlled by the enemy anymore.
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  I want to give my heart to Jesus Christ.
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  He's not asking you to do anything outside of trust him,
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  believe in. There's no list of do's and
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  don'ts that He's going to give you.
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  We're not going to give you a list of do's and don'ts because
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  you get saved. The Holy Spirit comes into you
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  when you the moment you believe, the Holy Spirit comes into your
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  heart, and He is the one who changes us, not men.
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  You've been listening to Living Waters of Grace with Pastor
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  Lewis Harrell at Calvary Chapel Westmoreland in Greensburg, PA.
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  As Pastor Lewis continues to preach through the book of Jude,
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  he wants you to realize that you can't be a part time Christian
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  if you're going to follow Jesus. He is going to ask for your
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  undivided loyalty. If you try to serve your own
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  interests while following Jesus, you find that you can't do
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  either one successfully. But if you run after Jesus with
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  everything you have, you'll be amazed at how He provides for
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  you and sustains you on the journey, even when you have no
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  idea of where your provision will come from.
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