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Who False Teachers Target | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  If you have your Bibles, please meet me in the book is second
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  Timothy and as you're turning, there may also add that just
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  because we are doing membership in this church.
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  Does not mean that we don't love our guests and visitors.
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  And so, if you are a guest or visitor here this afternoon,
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  welcome. We're so blessed that you can
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  sing with us and receive God's word together.
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  We hope that you would leave here loving Jesus more than when
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  you came in. That is our prayer for guests
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  and members. So God bless you.
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  If you're there in, second Timothy meet me in chapter 3.
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  Anna meet me in verse 6 of chapter 3.
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  And let's read and then we will pray.
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  The spirit of God says, for among them are those who creep
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  into households and capture weak woman burdened with sins and led
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  astray by various passions. Always learning and never able
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  to arrive at a knowledge of the truth just as jannes and jambres
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  opposed Moses. So, these men also oppose the
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  truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the
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  faith. But they will not get very far
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  for their Folly will be playing to all.
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  As was that of those two men? Lord, we ask you today.
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  Lord, we ask you today to help us understand these verses, but
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  we thank you for a place for people that love your word and
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  love. Would you honor our hunger for
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  righteousness and Phyllis this afternoon?
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  Lord. We confess our weakness or
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  inability to understand or even to communicate this truth apart
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  from the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  And so Lord, we just we just call upon you with desperation.
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  In our hearts, we want to know your mind, your heart, your will
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  we want to know your character, your ways.
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  So we pray o. God, that you would give us the
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  attention that would be able to receive this word and totality
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  and then the power to obey it the power to obey it, but we
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  submit ourselves to you in this time in Jesus name, we pray.
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  Amen. after Paul, for won't for Warren's of the deceptions that
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  will come in the last days and the characteristics that will
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  describe those who will Populate, the Earth. that will
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  become normal, that will become praised and commended These past
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  few weeks, we've been trying to understand these things
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  separately but we we haven't touched on each of them.
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  That's okay. But we come to the final portion
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  of this text and we see that before the, the verses we read,
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  we recognize that Paul is given Christians.
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  A brief instruction in relation to how we should respond to the
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  Future corruption, that has been prophesied in the scripture.
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  And the summary of how Christians should apply this
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  long list of Despicable practices.
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  And attitudes is found at the end of verse 5, it's only three
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  words really but it is deeply meaningful important for us to
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  grasp. Paul tells Christians, Paul
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  tells Believers. Paul tells Timothy after hearing
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  about lovers of self and pride and by those who are
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  disrespectful towards Authority and slanderous, he says avoid
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  such people Avoid such people, that is the Christians take away
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  of how we are to properly counter.
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  The flood of Filth, that will that will come our way, maybe
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  even our lifetime to avoid. Simply means to turn yourself
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  away to keep yourself at a safe distance from those who are
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  dominated by the flesh. But how was Timothy supposed to
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  avoid something that was supposed to happen in the
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  future? Is this not telling us of a day
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  to come? Is that telling us about the
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  people that will surface in a future time?
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  Surely absolutely but for there to be a present application,
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  implies something very important that the things, the evil
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  beliefs and behaviors, that will be known, then are in operation
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  right now. They are here, they were there
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  in Timothy's day. They were there long before that
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  and they're, they're here in America and 2022.
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  So the understanding here is not is not to just see it as a
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  future thing, but as a present reality and as we heard week
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  after week, those things that we learn in verse 1, to verse 5
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  will only intensify as we race towards the final hour before
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  the return of Jesus Christ. Avoid such people is that really
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  the best way to relate to those who are spiritual blindness?
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  Who aren't hypocrisy, who are consumed with wickedness?
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  Are we not supposed to reach those people?
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  Are we not supposed to relate to those people?
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  The answer is yes or no the answer is yes or no.
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  God clearly tells us to avoid such people but remember back a
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  few verses when he says that the servant of the Lord must I'm to
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  everyone able to teach with patients with the hopes that
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  some of them might be able to Escape From The Snare of Satan.
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  Our participation and seeing people liberated from darkness
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  is not possible unless we interact with such individuals.
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  And therefore, we cannot mistakenly think that to avoid
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  such people is equivalent to not engaging with these people.
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  At the same time, Christian listen to me, there is a warning
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  in these words to be extremely careful about who we entertain
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  in our lives about who it is that we allow to have close
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  proximity to us who we associate with, who we allow to be in our
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  Inner Circle because I want to tell you today that there are
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  many Christians who believe they have the restraining power.
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  To resist, being influenced by others.
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  And I want to tell you, you don't There are those who are
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  convinced that they are impervious to the influences of
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  attitudes and the actions of others, that it doesn't matter
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  who they are around, who is around them.
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  He had the Holy Spirit speaks candidly to Christians about
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  this being a deception. This is a deception that
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  Christians can fall under. And we are told by Paul in First
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  Corinthians 15, do not be deceived Bad Company.
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  Ruins good morals. We always emphasize on the
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  second part Bad Company ruins good morals.
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  And we forget the first aspect of that.
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  Verse do not be deceived. Implying what Christians can be
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  misled and thinking that I can have bad company without Then
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  consequences. This is dangerous.
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  There are many reasons why Christians would believe this.
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  That they have some inner fortitude, where they can't be
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  swayed by a person or a crowd into the wrong direction.
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  Some think that it's just harmless that is just
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  relationships. It's just, it's just just having
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  time together. Others would think that, well,
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  you know, it's just me being kind and, and that is what they
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  work with. When in fact, they are really
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  wanting to satisfy a fleshly pleasure by being associated.
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  To some And yet, there are other good-hearted Christians that
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  have good intentions, and they are willing to link themselves
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  to others and be present. Have them be present in their
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  lives for the sole purpose of saying, I want to win them to
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  Christ. I want to I want to attract them
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  to the gospel. I want to bring them closer to
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  the truth and that is a noble, cause that is something that we
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  should apply. That is something that we should
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  Endeavor to do. But let me remind you this
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  afternoon that as much as you might be trying to win some
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  people, there are some people who want to win you There's some
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  people who want to win, you away from Christ.
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  When you away from Holiness who want to win, you away from the
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  principles of God's word, you have to understand that today.
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  But at the same time we also want to be present and those who
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  are arrested by Satan and his lies.
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  So what do we do? How do we work this out?
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  Very simple, get wisdom. That is what Jesus told his
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  original band of Soul winners, while he was on the earth.
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  He says, behold, I am sending you out as sheep among wolves
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  and what did he say? Be wise as what serpents and
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  innocent as doves. That is very famous verse but
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  people don't often quote what he says, next.
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  The first few verse in Matthew 10, 17, that was Matthew 10:16
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  after he says, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves,
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  he goes on to say, beware of men.
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  Beware of men. In other words, in your
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  endeavors to relate build relationships.
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  And your decisions are who you're going to let in, who
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  you're going to keep at a distance.
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  Be cautious, be alert, be Discerning, be realistic about
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  people. There are some who actually want
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  to lure, you away from the truth that you want to share as much
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  as you want to help people. Can I remind you today that
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  there are people out there that want to harm you I want to harm
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  your testimony your relationship with Christ.
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  You even physically, As much as you want to see people saved
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  realize that there are some people who want to take
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  advantage of your sacrificial love.
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  So, this calls for a discernment, this calls for a
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  wisdom. and if we don't, We may be inviting life-altering
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  problems. That could have been avoided and
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  that is exactly what Paul is. Teaching Timothy here in those
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  verses that we read. The potential threats of some of
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  those who are driven by carnal desires and those carnal desires
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  are listed in verse 12, verse 5. And that's in essence.
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  What Paul is telling Timothy is, hey Timothy, listen to me.
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  Understand what I'm trying to say that you and your people
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  need to learn to avoid other, some specifically, because as
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  much as they might be spiritually, blind, there are
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  some within that camp that are not just unaware, unbelieving.
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  They are vicious. And they're out for blood.
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  And they actually want to do more damage than you can
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  imagine. And Timothy, I want to tell you,
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  they are not immediately recognizable.
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  Some of them have the appearance of godliness and that is the way
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  they have their way, with those who are truly Godly.
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  Didn't we read it? And verse 6 we are told for
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  among them among who again the list of those people in verse 1
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  to verse 5, notice how honest the Bible is, it doesn't say all
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  of them, it says some of them. In other words, not everybody
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  who is outside of Christ is a lethal threat to you.
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  Not, everybody is a danger to you.
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  Now everybody's going to lead you into deception or two ways
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  of life that will be destructive, not everybody but
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  some of them will Because some of them will that alone requires
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  for us to be on guard and to seek God, for discernment.
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  Who to avoid who to allow, who to permit and who to disregard.
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  And these people here, some of them though, not all of them
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  have the potential, they have a goal, they were Twisted
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  ambition, and that is what we read to capture certain people.
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  Timothy, I need to tell you something that there are people
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  within the camp of those who do not obey Jesus Christ as Lord,
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  who don't just not believe in the gospel, but they actually
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  seek to take people captive And Paul is warning here, not a
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  physical kidnapping but about those who are skillful and
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  seducing, the Mind those who are able to trick people, the
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  Apostle is most likely primarily warning about those who have
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  false teaching and lure people into their damning Doctrine but
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  it's not just limited to that. He could very well be speaking
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  about those who have a cloak of Holiness, but it has since come
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  to those who are naive in order to manipulate them so that they
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  can take advantage of them physically.
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  Financially. And everything in between, can I
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  prove that to you go to the book of Jude with me right before the
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  Book of Revelation? 1 chapter verse for Jude verse
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  4, we are told as we turn our Bibles there.
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  For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were
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  designated for this condemnation, ungodly people who
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  pervert the grace of our God, into sensuality and deny, our
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  only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
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  So there are people out there who not only attack the
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  authority of God's word, but there are false people out there
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  who take God's word twist it and Jude uses the word perverts it
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  perverts. It isn't, it isn't a language to
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  milk a verse for here who pervert, the grace of God.
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  Right. Look at before that, who have
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  crept in unnoticed, isn't it the same language that Paul uses in
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  second Timothy? Verse 6 and chapter, 34 among
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  them are those who creep into households.
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  So what's the idea here is that they cunningly come off as
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  knowledgeable and spiritual people?
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  They come off as innocent and so innocent, do they come off that
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  they are actually able to enter into people's personal domains
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  and sit and have dinner with them and sit in their living
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  rooms. And so they come into people's
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  personal lives under false pretenses.
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  And so it's not immediately seen they worm their way and they
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  convince people falsely. And some of these imposters will
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  create friendships friendships in order to lure people away
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  from the gospel or not tonight, even believe it in the first
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  place. But not just that there are some
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  who actually build relationships through the shared love of a
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  supposed gospel. when in fact they perverted practically and
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  they seek to cause you to join them in their perversion, Of
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  Truth. So we're not just merely talking
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  about people who are clearly in lies about God or false
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  religions. We're talking about those who
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  pervert the grace of God. And listen, as much as you and I
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  should feel safe in this Community of Faith, we should
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  not be foolish, we should not be foolish to believe that there
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  are not some who were willing to daringly enter into your Slither
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  away. In order to do just that Lure
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  some away. We cannot think for a moment and
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  be ignorant of the schemes of the minions of Satan, to think
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  that he just lurks outside. Oh no, he didn't just lurk
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  outside. He seeks to lure those from
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  within, from the protective care of Elders.
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  And those who make up the body of that local church, you got to
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  believe it. But these wolves are clever,
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  man. They are clever, they know who
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  to sniff out, they know exactly who to go for as a primary
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  target. They don't just go for anybody.
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  Paul is about to describe the Criterion who it is that these
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  men specifically gravitate towards who it is that they
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  often convince and draw away from the truth, either from
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  initial belief. Or because there are weak in the
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  faith into destructive Behavior. Read it again.
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  Would you in verse 6? For among them are those to
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  creep into households and capture weak woman.
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  Weak woman. You can breathe woman.
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  He's not saying all woman my sister's, he's not generalizing
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  your sex. He speaking about a certain
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  class of woman. He speaking about those that He
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  by the spirit has observed. There is a pattern here. that
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  when these false teachers in these false people come after to
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  devour, they often initially come after those who are women
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  And somebody cleverly pointed out that even from the
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  beginning, when Satan slid with his way, to the first parents of
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  humanity, he did not go to Adam first.
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  He went to Eve, And those who Advocate error have followed his
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  example ever since. Perhaps some would mistakenly
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  think that the weakness of woman.
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  Here, remember he's not saying all women are weak.
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  He's being about a certain category of women who are weak.
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  Some would probably think that this speaks of a unique gullible
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  nastas or are trustworthy spirit that just just believes anything
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  that they here and that would be a misinterpretation of what Paul
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  is saying here. About weakness, the weakness
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  that he is describing here speaks of a Frailty and
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  morality. And in spirituality, he's not
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  speaking about a less than average intelligence or ability
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  to reason that is not the case at all.
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  What he's saying about weakness is described in these verses,
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  the weakness here is and what we just read.
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  And what's profound about Paul's thoughts.
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  Your, by the spirit is that these characteristics of what
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  makes a woman or a man week is that it is connected to
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  deception. Meaning if these things are true
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  in a person's life they are more prone to being deceived and
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  there are evil men out there who are fully aware of that and will
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  take advantage of it. So let's look at these
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  characteristics. Remember weakness is not.
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  Speaking of all women, let me clarify weakness is speaking
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  about a category of women who through pattern have fallen
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  victim primarily to these evil men.
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  Number one, We are told here, they are burdened with sins.
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  They are burdened with sins. The idea of being burden here,
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  speaks of having sins heaped, upon them, and experiencing the
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  heavy guilt that wrongdoing often causes it speaks about a
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  conscience that is tormented, almost it speaks about your past
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  sins, or your present sins that stir up humiliation.
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  That caused you to be disappointed in yourself to the
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  point where it even affects your emotional stability.
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  False teachers, please pay attention and false professing
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  Christians love to play on people's shame and guilt.
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  They loved it. They can smell it.
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  And what they do often is that they cleverly seek to discover
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  your secrets, your failures of the past, maybe your struggles
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  in the present, because they realize that if having these
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  insights, they can easily manipulate you.
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  Sometimes that manipulation looks like promising, false
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  relief, or false salvation. Is it not true that many people
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  seek out spiritual things? When they've made a wreck of
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  their lives? When because of their decisions
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  they have been LED on a path of destruction and and emptiness
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  and being void, they begin to seek out Transcendent realities
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  and and that can be good because they can find the gospel but
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  false teachers also want to present something that is not
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  true. And so, sometimes oftentimes
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  people who are burdened by their way of life, crushed by what
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  they've done to people into themselves, begin to now yearn
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  for something else, some answers to what can fill and help them,
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  not realize their shame and help them distract themselves from
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  their pain. And they are introduced to false
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  teaching false teachers welcome to the world of Cults.
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  You know how many Cults bring in people you know how they bring
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  in people many reasons, one of them is this they bring a an
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  invitation into a communal life. And that's a perversion of what
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  we know in the church but they try to convince you of some
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  satisfaction of some kind of love which is a false love.
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  It's packaged with poison and people who are burdened by life,
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  people who are lonely, people who have made decisions that
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  have caused them to be in a certain place gravitate towards
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  these false teachers because these false teachers gravitate
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  towards them. But it's not just limited to
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  that. People who are burdened with
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  sins. These people who are false can
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  smell it and they capitalize on it.
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  Not to lead you into damning beliefs, but to use that as a
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  weapon against you. And what these people will do is
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  they will often smear your failures in your face especially
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  when you do not give them what they ask of you.
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  They know how to they know how to play on your guilt, in order
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  to steer you in a certain direction.
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  And if you don't believe what I am saying, this is biblical,
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  this is a psychology, this isn't scripture.
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  This is the strategies of those who are consumed with the Flesh
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  and want to consume others to satisfy their flesh.
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  Turn with me to Second Peter, chapter 2, verse 14.
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  So remember there are those who come after people?
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  Who are burdened with sins as Peter says, promising them
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  Freedom while they themselves are slaves to corruption.
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  That's the new age. That's every other religion
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  apart from the true one promising, you Freedom while
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  they themselves are slaves to corruption.
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  But there are others who will manipulate those who are
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  unsteady who are burdened in order to satisfy their sin.
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  Second Peter 2, 14 proves it. This is a this is a context on
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  false teachers and Peter says about these false teachers.
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  They have eyes full of adultery. You know what that means?
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  They are so consumed with lust that every woman they look at is
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  it 10 shal fantasy to being fulfilled.
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  Somebody that they can commit adultery with somebody that they
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  can get to commit adultery with them there.
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  Their eyes are full of adultery, they just see women as objects.
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  But look how they do it. Look how they lure people, they
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  have eyes full of adultery insatiable for sin.
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  They entice unsteady Souls. They have hearts trained in
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  greed, accursed children. I want to tell you that,
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  Predators can easily detect those who have broken pasts.
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  And they favor those kinds of people as prey because they
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  know, they know that they have an advantage with somebody who
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  is emotionally damaged. Or unstable and their soul or
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  not anchored, who don't understand their identity in the
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  freedom that they have in Jesus Christ have been set free by the
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  knowledge of the truth. Burden with sins.
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  These weak women are burdened with sins but not just burden
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  with sins. They are LED was we what are we
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  told and led astray by various passions.
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  At the end of verse 6, this is not the same as the previous
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  Point. What Paul is teaching here is
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  that the communicating truth is that these women are driven by
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  the flesh? Their decisions and their
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  desires are not governed by the word of God.
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  They are dominated by the natural mind.
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  Now, by the influence of the indwelling power of the Holy
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  Spirit by the Flesh, and notice he doesn't mention any
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  particular sins, he says, LED astray by various passions,
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  there is a wide spectrum of selfishness, that all have the
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  same effect and they can include anything that we've studied over
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  the past several weeks, from verses 1 to verse 5.
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  It can be women, who are unrepentant of, pride of Gossip
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  of slander of the Love of Money of materialism.
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  But here's the main point because their lives are not
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  governed by the spirit, they're easily Guided by the wrong
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  people. To tolerate any sin can be
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  catastrophic in many ways. But let me give you one
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  consequence of sin that many do not consider When sin when a
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  life of obedience is not repented of but cherished and
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  embraced it blunts it. Dulls a person's ability to
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  discern. It creates a fog.
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  It does something to reason. It does something to your
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  ability to see things as they are, as they should be seen.
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  And there are so many examples, but the one verse that comes to
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  mind that makes us so clear. It's found in the prophets book
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  Hosea and 4:11. I believe this is worth turning
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  your Bibles to to see the wisdom of God, concerning the
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  consequences of sin. He speaking about his people,
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  his people who were destroyed for, what a lack of what.
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  Knowledge is the same chapter Hosea 4:6?
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  My people are destroyed, what a powerful.
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  Word destroyed shattered crushed because of a lack of knowledge.
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  And then he goes on to say in Hosea, 411 and speaking about,
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  The equation of lacking the truth of God.
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  And the addition of this, look at this and verse 11, whoredom.
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  Wine and new wine, which take away the understanding.
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  Whoredom wine and new wine. It does something.
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  It takes away understanding. Now, there's no debate that if a
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  person is intoxicated with drink that, they lose their ability,
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  at least a lot of ability to discern or to make right.
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  Judgments. That's obvious.
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  But what might not be obvious is that the Holy Spirit places in
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  the same? Verse of the category of wine
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  whoredom? A promiscuous, life Indulgence,
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  sexual immorality. And would you have ever guessed
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  that something like whoredom? Would have the same effects to
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  the mind to the spirit of a man, as alcohol does to the body.
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  Is anybody ever considered that? This sin can lead someone to
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  just as much foolishness as a person?
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  Who is intoxicated with alcohol can be That's why I'm Proverbs
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  6. We are told that he who commits
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  adultery lacks sense. He lacks sense.
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  She lacks sense. She didn't understand.
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  He does understand what this is going to lead to.
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  So there's an intoxicating influence from sin.
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  And we see that in numbers 25 you don't have to turn there
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  verse 1. When the sons of Israel are now
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  committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab, they're
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  getting involved physically with these Idol worshippers and then
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  in the very next verse, we are told that they start worshipping
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  these false gods. How did you go from Intimate
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  Relationships to Bow before an idol?
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  Well, because whoredom Takes away.
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  Understanding. What about, what about an
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  individual like, Solomon? That guy remember his community
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  of wives that he had. what a tragic figure a man with so much
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  wisdom, wisdom from God, wisdom to build God's house, but
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  because because of a lust, A lust for power, political power,
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  a Lust For Women obviously. That wisdom became blurred.
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  And it's not just lust, my brother and sister, it's not
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  just limited to whoredom and new wine.
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  So if you've been with us on Friday nights, we have a case
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  study of somebody who has lost all sense of perception,
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  concerning his fellow man himself and God King Saul.
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  Oh, the craziness of this man, believing things about God,
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  believing things about the right people about the wrong people,
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  it's just unfathomable. And where does it all start?
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  From all, you just trace it back.
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  He allowed pride and jealousy to rein in his heart.
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  And that pride in jealousy, bread deception.
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  And he couldn't see God, right? He could interpret events,
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  right? He couldn't see the people,
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  right? Sin impairs our judgment.
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  This is why we should flee from it.
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  Peter tells us to war against the passions of your flesh,
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  because they wore against you. Sin is not some little pet that
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  you can keep in your living room and visit once in awhile and
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  feed when you're hungry, when she's hungry, no sin will
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  destroy your life. It will shatter your life.
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  I'm just blown away by how under emphasize sin is, And many
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  puppets today. And if sin is cherished, if it
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  is tolerated, listen, it should be no question that it would
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  lead somebody to the wrong people and even to the wrong
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  beliefs especially when those beliefs allow you to hold onto
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  your sin. So Paul says these false
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  teachers, these people have an appearance of godliness, even
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  who might even hold a Bible. These people come after those,
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  who are LED, not by the spirit, not by the word, but by the
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  impulses of their flesh, Lastly says something quite
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  interesting. In verse 7.
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  Here's a third characteristic of those who are weak morally.
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  Weak spiritually. There are always learning and
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  never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
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  So this verse alone deals with any controversy about the
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  weakness here being spoken of of being uneducated or
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  simple-minded. That's not the case at all.
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  In fact, the woman that Paul has in mind, when he is teaching on
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  this demonstrate, great hunger for knowledge.
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  They actually eager to acquire information and let's put it in
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  our context. Some of these women can have
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  their beees, they're amazed their phds.
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  Some of them can be Avid readers, they can be students of
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  History, they can be familiar with the political landscape.
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  They can debate philosophy and they can even attempt to satisfy
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  their spiritual pitch by listening to gurus and teachers
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  who might even call themselves Christians, when in fact, they
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  are not biblical. But with all of that education,
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  with all of that acquirement of general knowledge would all of
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  the questionable, faith-based teachings, that they are
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  plugging into their ears through podcast.
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  Paul has one main concern about these women, who are weak their
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  biblically illiterate They're always learning.
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  But they never arrived to the knowledge of the truth and
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  primary, that means that they reject the gospel all together,
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  but it's not limited to that the word knowledge here.
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  Speaks about a correct and precise understanding.
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  It's the same thing that Paul prayed for, for the Ephesians,
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  when he says, oh that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened
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  concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ that you would have
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  a precise laser focus understanding of Jesus, a deeper
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  grasp of Truths of God. These women never arrived there.
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  They don't, it's not speaking about you having a memorized
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  Systematic, Theology. It's not about you being a
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  theologian. It's more than that.
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  Speaking about a disinterest, in the things of God.
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  Speaking about a failure, to see the beauty of the gospel and
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  wanting to discover deeper things in him.
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  He speaks about not being governed by the authority of
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  God's Sovereign word, And Hosea said it, my people are destroyed
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  for a lack of knowledge. Blend it all together.
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  Now, blend all these characteristics together.
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  What do you have when a person either rejects or is this
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  interested in discovering the glories of God's word?
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  What's going to happen eventually you will settle for
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  lesser things for cheaper. Substitutes that this world
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  offers namely sins, namely idols.
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  And when a person is ensnared, they are arrested by their sins
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  and they are void of the fulfilling Fellowship that comes
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  Through Jesus Christ, their candidates.
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  They are more susceptible to being led astray.
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  And sometimes being led astray means to believe heresy and
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  other times, it means being used and abused by merciless people
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  who claim to be religious. And sometimes they will abuse,
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  you financially, just look at the false teachers that are
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  being funded. And other times it can mean your
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  body being used by somebody Who tricked you with a few verses to
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  convince you that they were a man of God.
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  We've been speaking about week woman so far and again it's not
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  just limited to. Men are not exempt from this.
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  So, if your man in this place, you think you can be week as
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  well, but Paul again is seeing a pattern throughout history.
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  By the spirit. He understands something
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  specific. We've been speaking about week
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  woman. Let me address my sister's this
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  afternoon. As a brother.
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  God wants you to be strong. God wants you to be strong
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  strong and and a strength that the Bible describes, not as the
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  world describes. Not not financially strong, not
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  physically strong. Spiritually.
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  Strong. I want you to be encouraged by
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  this. I want you to leave here.
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  Built up with these thoughts. It is very difficult to
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  manipulate a woman. Who is secure in her adoption in
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  Jesus Christ. Someone who has truly tasted the
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  grace of God and seeks to grow in the knowledge of her savior.
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  It's very difficult to move. So, study study your word.
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  I know it's difficult. If you're a mom with babies
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  running around, But that does not exempt you from the
• 36:38
  invitation of knowing your God. Jesus just as much as your
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  savior, as your husband, savior, as your brother savior, there's
• 36:47
  this misconception that men should be more theologically
• 36:51
  discerning. And sophisticated and woman
• 36:55
  said, who asked Apollo's, how he felt when a couple came up to
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  him, and the wife knew just as much as the husband study, know,
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  your God be secure and understand these truths until it
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  causes you to worship. Not so that you can answer
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  questions. If somebody comes up to you to
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  see if your knowledge, oh no to cause your heart to be ravished
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  with the beauties of Jesus. Evil men will find it.
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  Very problematic to persuade a lady who like Mary of Bethany,
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  enjoy sitting at the feet of the Lord.
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  Who is mesmerized by him, who eats his every word, how can you
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  move a woman like that? When in that setting, there was
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  so much distraction but she was focused on the bread of life.
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  Oh, would you practice her posture?
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  Even if it's just a few minutes a day before the hoodlums, get
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  up. Before chores.
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  Come would you learn to do it while you're doing those things?
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  Just just practice the posture of looking at the Lord
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  worshiping him. Spontaneously, receiving his
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  words studying at talking about it with your husband talking
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  about with your friends, if you're single Satan and his
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  minions have little to work with. when they encounter a
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  woman who is led by truth rather than emotions, Who take this
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  word and determine how they discern.
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  How they decide? How they even feel, no matter,
• 38:31
  who says what? Paul speaks of weak woman, but
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  we pray that the woman of MBC would be strong strong.
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  God wants you to be strong and brothers, encourage the woman
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  spiritually. Encourage them, spiritually
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  speak spiritual things, to them have conversations and be
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  patient. Be loving.
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  Ask questions, have debates. build up your sisters because
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  there are evil men of there that want to manipulate take
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  advantage of. We read here in verse 8.
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  That if you are strong, you'll be able to avoid people, like
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  who Paul is about to mention. Just as jannes and jambres
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  opposed Moses. So these men also oppose the
• 39:24
  truth, men corrupted in mind, you might be thinking who would
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  dare take advantage of people especially women Men who are
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  corrupt in mind Twisted. Selfish driven by less.
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  That's who they're not just out there.
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  Sometimes they sit in places like this.
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  Men corrupted in mind, and disqualified regarding the
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  faith. Those names are not familiar.
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  They're not familiar to me. It shouldn't be to you, you know
• 39:54
  why? Because only mentioned here, the
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  only mention once in all of the Bible.
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  And the debate is, where did Paul get these names?
• 40:02
  Because it is often believed that these men were the Two
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  Chief magicians that stood against Moses, when Moses came
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  against pharaoh to see his people set free.
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  And so Jewish tradition claims that and we can spend the next
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  15 minutes talking about the sources that Paul had and how
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  that relates to this efficiency and the inerrancy of scripture.
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  But we're not going to go there because that's not Paul's main
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  point. Nor is it the holy spirit's?
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  That's a conversation for another time.
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  The main idea here is that Paul by the spirit points to these
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  two men, we have their names but we know what they did in Exodus
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  for a specific reason. There are many people in the Old
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  Testament that have opposed truth, that have stood against
• 40:39
  men of God, the message of God but why?
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  These two specifically? Why these two men, why that
• 40:47
  specific scenario? And I present to you three
• 40:50
  potential reasons. Number one, the ambition of
• 40:55
  these magicians is the same as false teachers and false
• 40:58
  Believers today. What were they doing?
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  When Moses came and said, let my people go and God had given him
• 41:05
  a host of Miracles to perform what were these magicians doing?
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  They were trying to perform the same Miracles with the goal of
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  making sure that God's people would not be set free.
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  They were trying to restrict and there are trying to cut off any
• 41:21
  potential of pharaoh or anybody else being persuaded that, these
• 41:25
  people deserve salvation and false.
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  Teachers do the same day bar people from the truth.
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  They don't want people to experience.
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  What only Christ can provide and whether they are aware of it or
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  not, whether they are intentionally doing.
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  So does not justify their falsehood.
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  Satan has all these false teachers with different masks
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  for the same purpose, to make sure that people do not know the
• 41:52
  Deliverance of the Passover Lamb.
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  So they have the same ambition. And what's important here is
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  that it's not just a bar people from accepting the gospel.
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  But it's also to ensnare people. Again, who have might have
• 42:06
  believed the gospel to bring you back to your former sins, to
• 42:10
  bring you back into the days of Egypt, where you are governed by
• 42:13
  pharaoh and not by the god of Israel.
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  So these magicians, desire to see you enslaved, desire to see
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  those two never be set free and those who have been set free to
• 42:25
  do, just what those people were tempted to do in the wilderness.
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  Let's go back to Egypt. Some would even say that these
• 42:34
  magicians followed Israel Into the Wilderness that's tradition.
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  And there are the voices that were continually convincing,
• 42:42
  these people to go back to Egypt.
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  It's called the mixed crowd and the Book of Numbers and that's
• 42:49
  not a far-fetched interpretation.
• 42:52
  The ambition of these magicians are the same of false teachers
• 42:54
  and Timothy's day. And today false people who come
• 42:57
  into the church even, secondly, The deception of these
• 43:02
  magicians. Has the same power as false
• 43:06
  teachers today. Now, the way you're going to see
• 43:09
  that is if you go to Exodus with me, so go with me to Exodus as
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  we close in a moment here, I want you to see something, you
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  know this, but I want you to see it for yourself.
• 43:16
  Let's begin in Exodus chapter 7. Exodus chapter 7 verse 10.
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  This is after Let's begin in verse 10.
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  So Moses and Aaron went to pharaoh and did just as the Lord
• 43:39
  commanded, Aaron cast down his staff before pharaoh and his
• 43:43
  servants, and it became a serpent.
• 43:47
  Then pharaohs summoned, the wise, men, and The Sorcerer's
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  and they The Magician's of Egypt also did the Same by their
• 43:53
  secret Arts. Go to verse 22.
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  This is after the Nile was turned into blood and all water
• 44:00
  sources were turned into blood. We're told an exodus 7 verse 22,
• 44:04
  but the magician's of Egypt did the Same by their secret Arts.
• 44:09
  So Pharaoh's heart remain hardened and he would not listen
• 44:12
  to them as the Lord had said go to chapter 8 verse 7, But the
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  magician's did the Same by their secret arts and made frogs come
• 44:23
  up on the land of Egypt. So we see in the first few
• 44:28
  plagues. The first few Miracles,
• 44:30
  whatever, Moses did The Magicians matched it.
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  Now, I want you to imagine what an onlooker would think, every
• 44:40
  time Moses did something The Magician's did the same, you
• 44:42
  know what could potentially, run through their mind, there's no
• 44:45
  difference between the god of Israel and the gods of Egypt.
• 44:49
  There's similar they can do the same things, equal power, equal
• 44:53
  messages, equal equal promises, maybe there's no difference
• 44:58
  here. And so, you see here that these
• 45:00
  men were deceiving people including Farrell primarily
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  pharaoh, to see that the god of Israel is not as powerful as he
• 45:06
  says he is and listen false teachers do the same.
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  To the undiscerning, they see the package, they see the
• 45:15
  performance, and they go, there's no difference here.
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  There's no, there's no difference here.
• 45:19
  Very similar messages. Very similar ideas, very similar
• 45:26
  Concepts, maybe even the same God.
• 45:29
  And I want to tell you, that's not just for those who interpret
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  religions all, as one different packages, leading to the same
• 45:35
  person you even have some Christians professing
• 45:38
  Christians. Who are not Discerning and all
• 45:43
  it takes is for somebody to come in and speak.
• 45:47
  Christian he's quote, a few verses and hold the Bible and
• 45:53
  maybe even have it highlighted and they show you.
• 45:55
  It's highlighted. That must be the real deal,
• 45:58
  really. Really.
• 46:03
  They have an appearance of godliness.
• 46:06
  Just like those magicians had an appearance of having the same
• 46:09
  power as the power of God. So demented, a persuade people
• 46:14
  with a form of power, a form of Salvation in falsehood and clear
• 46:18
  faucet. But even in Christendom with a
• 46:22
  false Christian message, by the way, can I let me just say this?
• 46:26
  Please please, do not think that false teachers have pulpits all
• 46:30
  the time. Did they creep into Pulpit?
• 46:34
  So they creep into households. They crept into households.
• 46:43
  Not all false people, where Shepherds clothing, they wear
• 46:46
  sheep's clothing. And so they can very well be in
• 46:51
  the pew. And today they don't just creep
• 46:55
  into household, by knock on your door, like this ancient time.
• 46:58
  They creep into your households through your television through
• 47:01
  YouTube. Lastly, not just the Ambitions
• 47:08
  of these magicians. Being the same as false teachers
• 47:10
  today, not just the deception, but also the fate and Paul ends
• 47:14
  this thought on an encouraging note in verse 9 back in.
• 47:17
  Second Timothy, he tells Timothy something that he would not be
• 47:20
  overly burdened by, as he brings us hopeful note concerning these
• 47:25
  people, we are told that after he mentions these names of their
• 47:30
  future and the future is clear of these men, but they will not
• 47:35
  get very Far for their Folly will be playing to all.
• 47:38
  As was that of those two men? Let me simplify what he's trying
• 47:43
  to say. These people that persuade the
• 47:46
  masses. These people that persuade even
• 47:48
  naive innocent burdened people within the church.
• 47:54
  They're not going to get away with it, they're not He says,
• 47:59
  their Folly will be plain to all that's what happens to those two
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  magicians. What happened?
• 48:04
  Eventually? It came to the miracle of the
• 48:06
  Nats, right? Moses performs that miracle and
• 48:09
  they try and they couldn't. And they look at Fair, they go,
• 48:12
  that's the Finger of God, they've reached a limit.
• 48:17
  They could, they could not cross a certain line with their
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  abilities and in the side of those who are Discerning, they
• 48:23
  said these guys are fake, they're not the real deal,
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  they're not legit. And to a certain degree, God in
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  this lifetime is willing and has been and can expose people.
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  He can if he even think about these false movements throughout
• 48:43
  history, they haven't lasted, they just come and go.
• 48:47
  There are others who try to manipulate people from within
• 48:50
  and they seem Christian they seem Godly and God exposes them.
• 48:54
  Their Folly will be plain to all not.
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  Everybody will get away. but even if Throughout a lifetime or
• 49:05
  throughout centuries. There are false things that are
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  not. They're not going away.
• 49:09
  They're not being exposed. There is a day coming when God
• 49:13
  will expose them. Remember, this is in the
• 49:15
  context, here's full circle in this section of the last days.
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  And in the last days, not only will Things become more ugly.
• 49:26
  But God will have the final say. Not only will deception be
• 49:30
  rampant, but truth will penetrate and bring all things
• 49:34
  to light. And you think about these men,
• 49:38
  not only did they perform these deceptive Miracles, not only
• 49:43
  were they exposed but in one of the Miracles were God in the 61
• 49:47
  precisely brings boils on the Egyptians these magicians.
• 49:51
  We were told were also exposed to the Boyles they were judged
• 49:54
  by God. And that's what's going to come.
• 49:57
  That's what Paul is saying. Timothy, although, you may have
• 50:00
  seen people captured, although you seen people being hindered
• 50:03
  from being saved, and maybe even seen people from within, who
• 50:08
  were close to coming, who had some kind of understanding
• 50:10
  Christian, but where were Swept Away?
• 50:12
  Know this, God will have the final word.
• 50:18
  And whether in this life or in the life to come, people will
• 50:20
  see the Folly of everything or everyone who's outside of Jesus
• 50:24
  Christ. And so I encourage you today to
• 50:28
  be encouraged to be encouraged that no matter what people are
• 50:32
  getting away with. Do you have to face God?
• 50:39
  One day? They will oh many things have
• 50:43
  been said, but I want to steer a direction out towards the Lord's
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  table. and I wanted to just prepare ourselves to meet with
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  the Lord and to reflect on our Redemption know this if you are
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  in this place and I want to make a gospel call here if you are in
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  this place, You're visiting, you may be a Christian, you may not
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  be a Christian. But this is, this is a message
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  for you. And what sense maybe you are
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  burdened with sins and you're trying to find relief.
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  And you've picked up books and you're listening to different
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  teachers and spiritist and you came out here for just for
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  curiosity sake. I want to let you know that no
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  one can give you Freedom apart from Christ.
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  No one you will fail. You'll be disappointed.
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  You will be empty. You might be happy for for a
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  brief season but you will realize that nothing has the
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  power to fill that void. Nothing can roll the burdens off
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  your shoulders, the burden of a conscience that is troubled by
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  your actions, your words Only Christ can deliver you and he
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  wants to deliver you today. Maybe you are LED Away by
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  various passions and it has led you into dangerous places.
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  No, this, no matter where your feet have taken, you no matter
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  what your hands have performed, no matter what you have, even
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  believe, no matter what you might even believe.
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  Now, Christ is ready to forgive you.
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  He is he wants to restore your redeem, you It may be.
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  You are always learning. Maybe to you Christianity is a
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  hindrance to intellect. I want to let you know something
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  that this book has been through intense scrutiny.
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  Men have tried to bury it, men of try to burn it.
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  Men of try to dismiss it, but the word of the Lord endures
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  forever, this word has transformed lives.
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  This word has test the stood, the test of time, this word will
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  be the very thing that will last forever with God.
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  And your conscience Bears witness to you this afternoon.
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  That you are a sinner that you have a judge to face.
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  One day, God is instilled that in man and that's why men wants
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  to dismiss God as much as possible.
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  They don't want to have to face the reality that when they give
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  their final breath, they will meet the king of the universe.
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  But may I add something to that thought that, that same King
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  that man will stand before. Came into this world.
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  He died on a cross. He went into a tomb heroes from
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  that grave. So that he can purchase your
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  Redemption. so, if your burden today, That burning can be
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  lifted off of you, but only one name can save you.
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  And that's Jesus call upon his name.
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  I've done my part and I'm here afterwards, with Pastor Daniel
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  and other leaders in this place. Other Christians in this place,
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  that might lead you to that truth.
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  More importantly, leads to this a living Christ who's willing to
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  intervene in your life right now.
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  Call upon his name Believers. Would you examine yourselves in
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  this moment? Are you walking right with the
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  Lord? Do you testify to the unity of
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  the body of Christ? Or is there disunity in your
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  language? Is there disunity in your
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  actions? Is there somebody that you're
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  supposed to reconcile with today?
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  Is there somebody that you're supposed to sit and say, sit
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  down with the say, hey, we have to deal with this before we come
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  to the Lord's table. Do that.
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  Don't come, don't come judge you.
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  Lest you be judged. That's what the text tells us.
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  And for those who are not Christians in this place, we ask
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  you kindly not to participate in this because this is an
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  ordinance reserved for those who have believed on Jesus Christ.
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  If you're in this place and you're not a Christian, we don't
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  we don't judge you. In this sense, we look down on
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  you with scorn. We just ask you kindly not to
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  participate because the Lord strictly reserves is for his
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  children. And so as we come you're going
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  to take the elements, bring it with you.
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  We just ask that you don't eat or drink yet because we're going
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  to sing A Hymn. And I'm Pastor Daniels going to
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  lead us in a few words to reflect and then we will eat and
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  drink together. Let's pray.
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  Louis, thank you for this word. Thank you, that even in a word
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  of warning you can encourage us. And we pray o God that we would
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  be encouraged to be strong, both men and women. we pray o God
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  that you would protect this assembly from those who are
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  false And that Lord we would be able to discern and dissect and
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  determine through the word who's for you, and who is against you.
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  Father in heaven. We ask that as we come to this
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  table, the Lord's table, that it would have a sanctifying effect
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  on this. People on all of us, Lord, and
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  Lord. If it will do anything, May
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  renew a joy in your salvation that as we hold this element of
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  bread and is element of the cup that we would remember that.
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  It's not about our good, it's not about our Behavior, it's not
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  about our performance that is purchase anything, but it's what
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  Christ has done. And Lord we might be going
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  through many trials, troubles, we might be wanting certain
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  things, but Lord made this may this time.
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  Now, remind us that we have all that we need in Jesus.
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  Please Lord, make that real in us, this afternoon in Jesus name
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  we pray. Amen.