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The Walk of the True Christian, Part 1 (Ephesians 425–32) John MacArthur GTYtv (1) · THE BELIEVER'S CHURCH | Let’s Build Our Faith Together

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  Speaker 1: Today on Grace To You.
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  Speaker 2: If you keep going back to the same sins, have
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  Speaker 2: you noticed? People say to me, why do I do
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  Speaker 2: the same sins? And the answer is because they're ingrained
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  Speaker 2: in you. Those things can tamper with your assurance. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not walking in the Spirit, you're not going to
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  Speaker 2: experience love, joy, and peace. What in the world makes
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  Speaker 2: us so embarrassed about the Gospels? For I determined to
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  Speaker 2: know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose if there's a common question that I'm asked,
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  Speaker 2: both personally and by mail and on Grace To You Radio.
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  Speaker 2: It comes up all the time. It is this question,
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  Speaker 2: how can I be sure I'm really a Christian? How
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  Speaker 2: can I be sure I'm really saved? Assurance can be hard.
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  Speaker 2: It can be. We can be insecure. We can lose
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  Speaker 2: our assurance. Assurance is hard to experience and it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to hold on to. Even though you know salvation is forever,
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  Speaker 2: there are times when you can really struggle to believe
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  Speaker 2: that you're actually a possessor of the true salvation. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why is it hard to have assurance? Why do I
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  Speaker 2: struggle with my assurance? I'll give you some reasons. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: convicting preaching. You come and you sit under the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God, and the Word of God is powerful, sharper
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  Speaker 2: than any two-edged sword, Hebrews 4, and it goes into
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  Speaker 2: you and it cuts you and it dissects you and
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  Speaker 2: it takes you apart and it reveals your heart. And honestly,
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  Speaker 2: You probably wouldn't have that experience of wondering about your
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  Speaker 2: salvation if you were sitting in a place where the
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  Speaker 2: Word of God was dealt with superficially. But when you
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  Speaker 2: expose yourself to convicting preaching from the Word of God,
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  Speaker 2: you can struggle with your assurance because You are being
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  Speaker 2: convicted by the word of God and the standard is
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  Speaker 2: so high. Which leads to a second reason people are
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  Speaker 2: insecure or lack assurance. It is this, guilt. Guilt. I
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  Speaker 2: talked to a man on the phone this week. Graduated
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  Speaker 2: from a Christian college many, many, many years ago, half
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  Speaker 2: a century ago. And he said, I was not a believer.
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  Speaker 2: I came out of that school. I lived 30 years
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  Speaker 2: as a homosexual. The worst, dissolute, unimaginable kind of life.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I came to Christ. And he said, now
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  Speaker 2: I spend four or five hours a day in the
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  Speaker 2: Word of God. because I need that exposure to cleanse
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  Speaker 2: the garbage of 30 years. When you have vivid realities
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  Speaker 2: of your sinfulness and the standard of holiness is high,
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  Speaker 2: you can very definitely struggle with assurance. There's a third
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  Speaker 2: reason people struggle with assurance, and it is that they
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  Speaker 2: misunderstand the gospel. They think that the gospel is God's
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  Speaker 2: plan to save you, and then you keep yourself saved.
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  Speaker 2: So that they would say, yes, you're saved by grace,
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  Speaker 2: but you're kept by works. And if you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep yourself saved by your works, you will never have
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  Speaker 2: any assurance And along that same line, there's a fourth
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  Speaker 2: reason why people struggle with assurance, and it is because
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  Speaker 2: they have wrong ideas about forgiveness. I was reading this
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  Speaker 2: week about one viewpoint that said, when you're saved, God
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  Speaker 2: forgives all the sins of your past. That's true. But
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  Speaker 2: not the present and the future. If you believe that,
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  Speaker 2: of course you wouldn't have assurance, because you know you
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  Speaker 2: can't keep yourself righteous. There's another reason why people struggle
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  Speaker 2: with assurance, and it's because they can't remember the time
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  Speaker 2: of their salvation. By the way, that's true for most people.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember. Oh, if you're like me or many Christians,
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  Speaker 2: you probably grew up in a church. You prayed to
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  Speaker 2: be saved a thousand times or a hundred times. And
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  Speaker 2: you were always trying to reach back and find out
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  Speaker 2: which of those was the real deal. And you never
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  Speaker 2: will know. Even when you think was the moment of
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  Speaker 2: your salvation may not have been. Maybe a moment you
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  Speaker 2: prayed a prayer, But the divine miracle of regeneration is
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  Speaker 2: God's work on His schedule, not ours. So convicting preaching,
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  Speaker 2: guilt over sin, understanding a high standard of holiness, misunderstanding
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  Speaker 2: the gospel, not accepting full and complete forgiveness, no memory
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  Speaker 2: of the time of your true salvation. Those things can
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  Speaker 2: tamper with your assurance. There's another one. Strong impulses of
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  Speaker 2: the flesh. You keep going back to the same sins.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed? You don't all of a sudden come
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  Speaker 2: up with a brand new sin. People say to me,
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  Speaker 2: why do I do the same sins? And the answer
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  Speaker 2: is because they're ingrained in you. That's the.
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  Speaker 2: Or the lack of character, but that's the nature of
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  Speaker 2: your sinful flesh. You have sins that you prefer. And so,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you go back to those sins. You go
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  Speaker 2: back to them also because you have past carnal fulfillment
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  Speaker 2: in those sins. And when you think about the strong
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  Speaker 2: impulses of your flesh that seem to be making you
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  Speaker 2: recycle those same old sins, you might say to yourself,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'm not really saved. Another element in life that
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  Speaker 2: will tamper with your assurance is a failure to see
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  Speaker 2: God's goodness in your trials. What do I mean by that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: you find out you have cancer, you find out You
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  Speaker 2: have to have a heart surgery and you say, why
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  Speaker 2: is God doing this to me? Or one of your
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  Speaker 2: children denies the faith or you thought you had a
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  Speaker 2: girl that you wanted to marry and she shunned you.
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  Speaker 2: Or you had a career in mind, a goal in
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  Speaker 2: mind or an objective. It could be a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of things. Life is full of disappointments. And you can
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  Speaker 2: get on the sort of the pity side of all
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  Speaker 2: of that and say, if God's supposed to be my
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  Speaker 2: Father and bless me with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies,
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  Speaker 2: why is this happening to me? Why is this happening
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  Speaker 2: to me? It's a failure to see God's good hand
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  Speaker 2: in the trials. It's a failure to go below the
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  Speaker 2: trial to the providence that's unfolding. You have to understand
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  Speaker 2: that life is full of those things. But Romans 8, 28, right?
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  Speaker 2: That's why that verse is so popular. God orders all
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  Speaker 2: things so that they work out for what? For good
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  Speaker 2: to those who are the called. So all of those
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  Speaker 2: things can trouble you with regard to assurance. But there's
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  Speaker 2: one other thing that is the dominant reality, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just simply this, sin and disobedience. If there is in
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  Speaker 2: your life the appearance of sin and disobedience on a
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  Speaker 2: regular basis, you will forfeit your assurance for the reasons,
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  Speaker 2: some of the reasons we just mentioned. Guilt and familiarity
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  Speaker 2: with those sins But also, I have to tell you this.
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  Speaker 2: If you're walking in disobedience, the Holy Spirit will withdraw
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  Speaker 2: that assurance. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, right?
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  Speaker 2: So if you're not walking in the Spirit, you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to experience love, joy, and peace. We want assurance,
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  Speaker 2: and it's for those reasons. Let me just kind of
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  Speaker 2: lay it out simply. We want assurance. Because with assurance
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  Speaker 2: comes peace, joy, praise, love, gratitude, strength, patience, purity, hope.
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  Speaker 2: With assurance comes love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control,
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  Speaker 2: all the fruit of the Spirit. We want that. We
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  Speaker 2: want assurance because we want those wonderful Spiritual blessings. But
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to have them if you're sinning and disobedient.
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  Speaker 2: If that's going on in your life in some kind
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  Speaker 2: of routine way, even though the dominant tyranny of sin
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  Speaker 2: has been broken because you have been made a servant
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness. If you see continual pattern of sin for
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  Speaker 2: a season or a time, that's going to take away
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  Speaker 2: your assurance. And honestly, it should. The only accurate evidence
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  Speaker 2: that you're a true believer is righteousness and godliness of life.
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  Speaker 2: Not as a perfection, but as a dominant direction. Let
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  Speaker 2: me show you this, now we'll come to Ephesians. Ephesians
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  Speaker 2: chapter two. I wanna go back to this and we'll
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  Speaker 2: make a few comments. Verse four, we remember this, God
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  Speaker 2: being rich in mercy because of his great love with
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  Speaker 2: which he loved us. Again, everything is divinely designed planned, initiated,
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  Speaker 2: and achieved. Even when we were dead in our transgressions,
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  Speaker 2: made us alive together with Christ by grace you have
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  Speaker 2: been saved, and raised us up with him and seated
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  Speaker 2: us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
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  Speaker 2: so that in the ages to come he might show
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  Speaker 2: the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness toward us
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  Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. This is a description of our salvation
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  Speaker 2: and its security. Look at it. God, out of His mercy,
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  Speaker 2: out of His love, made us alive with Christ by grace.
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  Speaker 2: We have been raised up with Christ. We are seated
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  Speaker 2: with Him in the heavenly places in Christ, which means
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  Speaker 2: we have a place in heaven. That's what Peter meant
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  Speaker 2: when he said we have an inheritance waiting there. That's
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  Speaker 2: all said and done. And in the ages to come,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord will pour out surpassing riches of His grace
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  Speaker 2: and kindness toward us in Christ. So that's the reality
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  Speaker 2: of our eternal salvation. For by grace you have been
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  Speaker 2: saved through faith, not of yourselves as a gift of God,
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  Speaker 2: not as a result of works so that no one
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  Speaker 2: may boast. But then this, for we are His workmanship,
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  Speaker 2: created in Christ Jesus four good works which God prepared
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  Speaker 2: beforehand so that we would walk in them. As surely
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  Speaker 2: as He predetermined your justification, He predetermined your sanctification. God
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  Speaker 2: prepared beforehand your good works that you would walk in them.
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  Speaker 2: Justification and sanctification come together. We are spiritually transformed. Our
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  Speaker 2: lives are dramatically changed. It's not just that God declares
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  Speaker 2: us righteous by covering us with the righteousness of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He transforms us. That's what verse 10 of chapter 2
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  Speaker 2: is saying. Now I want you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: chapter 4, which is where we have been for the
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  Speaker 2: last few times in Ephesians. And I draw you to
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  Speaker 2: verse 17. So this I say, and affirm together with
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, Paul and the Lord agree, that you walk
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  Speaker 2: no longer just as the Gentiles also walk in the
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  Speaker 2: futility of their mind. You don't walk that way anymore.
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  Speaker 2: How do they walk? And how did you walk before
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  Speaker 2: your conversion? Verse 18, darkened in their understanding, excluded from
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  Speaker 2: the life of God, because of the ignorance that is
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  Speaker 2: in them because of the hardness of their heart. They,
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  Speaker 2: having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for
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  Speaker 2: the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's a description of unconverted people. They walk like pagans
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  Speaker 2: because they are. They're futile in their mind, empty, darkened
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  Speaker 2: in their understanding. excluded from the life of God, ignorant, hard-hearted, callous,
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  Speaker 2: and given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of
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  Speaker 2: every kind of impurity with greediness. You look at the
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  Speaker 2: world around you, the unrestrained world in which we live now,
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  Speaker 2: and you wonder how can people be so dissolute, so reprobate,
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  Speaker 2: live at such an aggressive level of of going from
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  Speaker 2: one transgression to another as fast as they can possibly go.
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  Speaker 2: It's because that's who they really are. And the last
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  Speaker 2: word in verse 19 is very important. The unconverted people
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  Speaker 2: pursue sensuality and impurity with greediness. They never have enough.
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  Speaker 2: They're greedy. They never have enough. You and I as
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  Speaker 2: believers may sin. But we're not greedy to sin. We're
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  Speaker 2: not longing to sin, lusting to sin. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: this dominating greediness to go to the next sin and
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  Speaker 2: the next sin and the next sin and the next sin.
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  Speaker 2: How do I know that? Because verse 20 says this,
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  Speaker 2: you did not learn Christ in that way. You don't
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  Speaker 2: live like that. You don't think like that. You don't
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  Speaker 2: function like that. You can fall into sin and disobedience,
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  Speaker 2: and you will forfeit your assurance. But if you're a
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  Speaker 2: true believer, those are the exceptions to your righteousness. And
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  Speaker 2: you don't pursue sensuality and every wicked thing with intense greed.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't learn Christ in that way. Verse 21, if
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  Speaker 2: indeed you have heard Him, have been taught in Him
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  Speaker 2: just as the truth is in Jesus. And here's what
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  Speaker 2: you learn. In reference to your former manner of life,
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  Speaker 2: you lay aside the old self when you come to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: That old self is being corrupted in accordance with the
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  Speaker 2: lusts of deceit, but you have laid aside the old self,
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  Speaker 2: and you have become renewed in the spirit of your
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  Speaker 2: mind and put on the new self. which in the
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  Speaker 2: likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness
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  Speaker 2: of the truth. That's exactly what 2.10 says. God has
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  Speaker 2: ordained that we walk in good works. Here, God has
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  Speaker 2: created us in righteousness and holiness of the truth. We
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  Speaker 2: are dramatically different. When Paul wrote Ephesians, he also at
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  Speaker 2: the same time wrote Colossians. Turn over to Colossians chapter 3,
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  Speaker 2: just a few more thoughts. Chapter 3, verse 1, if
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  Speaker 2: you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the
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  Speaker 2: things above where Christ is seated at the right hand
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  Speaker 2: of God. Set your mind on the things above, not
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  Speaker 2: on the things that are on the earth. This is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what Peter says. Add to your faith moral excellence,
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  Speaker 2: which is virtues. and all those other things that we've read.
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  Speaker 2: For you have died, and your life is hidden with
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  Speaker 2: Christ in God. You're a completely new creature, and when
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  Speaker 2: Christ who is our life is revealed, then you also
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  Speaker 2: will be revealed with Him in glory. That's security. When
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  Speaker 2: Christ comes in glory, you'll be there. Because you were
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  Speaker 2: raised with Christ, because you were seated at the right
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  Speaker 2: hand of God with Christ, you'll be there when He
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  Speaker 2: comes to reign. Therefore, consider the members of your earthly
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  Speaker 2: body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed,
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  Speaker 2: which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these
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  Speaker 2: things that the wrath of God will come on the
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  Speaker 2: sons of disobedience. In them you also once walked when
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  Speaker 2: you were living in them. You once walked that way.
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  Speaker 2: But now... You also put them all aside, anger, wrath, malice, slander,
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  Speaker 2: abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one
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  Speaker 2: another since you laid aside the old self with its
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  Speaker 2: evil practices and have put on the new self who
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  Speaker 2: is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the
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  Speaker 2: image of the one who created him. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: language here is so rich. You have been transformed, totally transformed.
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  Speaker 2: And you see the reality of that in your righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: in your godliness, and in your virtue, even though it
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  Speaker 2: falls short. Now, back to Ephesians 4, verse 1. Therefore, I,
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  Speaker 2: the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in
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  Speaker 2: a manner worthy of the calling with which you have
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  Speaker 2: been called. Walk worthy of this calling. This is a
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  Speaker 2: The calling of salvation call. Walk worthy with this calling.
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  Speaker 2: Consistent with its godly and righteous nature. Verse 17 again.
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  Speaker 2: Walk no longer as the Gentiles walk. Not like you
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  Speaker 2: used to. Don't go that way. Chapter 5 verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: Walk in love, just as Christ loved you. Verse 8,
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  Speaker 2: walk as children of light. Verse 15, walk wisely. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, this is a call for obedience. This is
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  Speaker 2: the definition of the Christian life. It's a walk. It's
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  Speaker 2: a step at a time, one step at a time. Peripatene,
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  Speaker 2: from which we get the English word peripatetic, which means
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  Speaker 2: to walk around. We live the Christian life one step
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  Speaker 2: at a time, one day at a time, one moment
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  Speaker 2: at a time. Romans 8, Galatians 5 says we walk
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  Speaker 2: in the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 5 says we walk by faith.
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  Speaker 2: 2 John, 3 John say we walk in truth. 1
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  Speaker 2: John 2 says we walk as Christ walks. This is
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  Speaker 2: the evidence of true salvation. This is the evidence. And
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  Speaker 2: that is what Paul says. Go back to chapter 4
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  Speaker 2: of Ephesians. Since you have laid aside the old self,
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  Speaker 2: verse 22. Since you are being renewed in the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of your mind, verse 23. Since you have put on
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  Speaker 2: the new self that has already been created in righteousness
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  Speaker 2: and holiness of the truth and bears the likeness of God,
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  Speaker 2: verse 25, therefore, this is how you live. This is
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  Speaker 2: how you live. You lay aside falsehood. Speak truth, each
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  Speaker 2: one of you, with his neighbor, for we're members of
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  Speaker 2: one another. You're angry, but you don't sin. Don't let
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  Speaker 2: the sun go down on your anger. You don't give
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  Speaker 2: the devil an opportunity. Verse 28, you don't steal anymore.
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  Speaker 2: You share. Verse 29, your speech is not filthy. It's edifying.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 30, you don't grieve the Holy Spirit, who is
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  Speaker 2: grieved by unrighteousness. Yes, you were sealed for the day
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  Speaker 2: of redemption. That's your security. But if you want to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy assurance, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and
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  Speaker 2: clamor and slander be put away from you along with
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  Speaker 2: all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the key. It doesn't say if you
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  Speaker 2: do this, God in Christ will forgive you. It says
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  Speaker 2: you do this because God in Christ, what? Has forgiven you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't earn your salvation, but this is how it
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  Speaker 2: is manifest. So that's the character of this section of
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  Speaker 2: Ephesians that we barely touched. In fact, that was one
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  Speaker 2: page in my notes. But the message is simple and
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  Speaker 2: profoundly important. The Lord wants you to enjoy your salvation
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  Speaker 2: not just in heaven but now. He wants you to
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  Speaker 2: have peace and joy and hope and assurance. Even though
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  Speaker 2: you're under the powerful preaching of the Word of God,
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  Speaker 2: even though you understand the high standard of holiness, Even
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  Speaker 2: though you feel strong impulses of the flesh. Even though
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  Speaker 2: you battle with sin. This is the Christian life. We
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  Speaker 2: are new creatures. We struggle to live fully as new creatures.
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  Speaker 2: Because our bodies are not yet redeemed. But you need
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  Speaker 2: to understand your salvation is secure. And you can enjoy
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  Speaker 2: the assurance that comes with true obedience.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you were encouraged as Pastor John described the
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  Speaker 1: Christian life as one where Christ wants peace, joy, hope,
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  Speaker 1: and assurance for you. Even though you battle daily with sins,
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  Speaker 1: Your assurance and security come by truly seeking to be
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  Speaker 1: obedient to Scripture. We can only be obedient if we
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  Speaker 1: know the standard Christ sets for us. To help you
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  Speaker 1: with this, I want to recommend a resource available through
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  Speaker 1: Grace to You, and that is Pastor John's short book entitled,
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  Speaker 1: how this ministry is impacting your life for Christ. The
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  Speaker 1: Believer's Walk with Christ is great for personal or group
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  Speaker 1: This ministry is made possible through the support of viewers
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  Speaker 1: continues in Ephesians 4 with part two of The Walk
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  Speaker 1: of the True Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Next week on Grace To You. If you allow yourself
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  Speaker 2: to cultivate anger, you gave the devil an opportunity. You
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  Speaker 2: threw the door wide open and said, come on in, devil.
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  Speaker 2: Take over territory in my life. There's nothing more devilish
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  Speaker 2: than lying and hating.