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Episode 58: Add To Your Faith · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we honor, we bless, we magnify, glorify your
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great and wonderful name that is above every name. Every need bows, every
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time confesses that you are. Lord. We thank you for this glorious,
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beautiful, magnificent day that you have allowed us to see. O, God,
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we give you the honor of the praise. We know that our help
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comes from you. Our life is in you. It isn't you we live
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and move and have our being. And Lord, we just want to thank
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you for supplying every need according to your riches inglory. Lord, Today we
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ask that the blinded eyes be opened to death, ears be unstopped, and
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Lord, somewhere some body will come to see and to know that you are
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the true in the living God, and they will come calling on the name
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of the Lord that they might be saved. Lord, get the glory out
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of the lives of all of your people everywhere, as we, Lord,
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seek to finish this race. Amen with patience, looking to you as the
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author and the finish your blessing, we shall be blessed, keep and we
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shall be kept. In the name of Jesus Christ. We ask your blessings
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upon your people everywhere Amen and Amen. All right, God bless you again.
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We welcome you to this another edition of In Time Revival Ministries US a
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podcast. I am your host, Pastor Als Zachary, and today we are
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going to continue in our series on Amen this very important question. Are you
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saved? Amen? Are you saved? Amen? It is critical Amen,
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to know that you are washed in the blood of the Lamb, that you
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have been redeemed, Amen, and that you are a child of God.
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Amen. So we are looking at this in this particular series, and we
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right, God bless you again. Today we are going to continue, Amen
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again in this series on this question. Are you saved? And today we
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want to a man examine from the word of the Lord, Amen, the
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very very very important Amen, admonition given to us by the Apostle Peter.
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Amen. Add to your faith, Amen, add to your faith. Amen.
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Once we have been delivered from sin, Amen, from the power of
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darkness, we are in the faith. Amen. And of course the faith
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of God is now operating within us. So it then becomes incumbent upon each
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and every one of us as children of God who are saved, who have
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been set free, a man by his glorious gift, a man the gift
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of the Holy Ghost, a man who is now operating again in us.
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It is in common upon each and every one of us to now walk in
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the spirit with a desire, a man, a willingness, a man to
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cooperate, a man in our growing in faith. This is a journey a
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man. We are on a destination. Our destination, ladies and gentlemen,
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is not heaven. Our destination is to be like Jesus that is what we
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have been called to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. So we
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are on a destination to be like Jesus, more and more like him every
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day. So our only a man way to accomplish this. In this world.
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A man is to be a man in cooperation, in obedience, a
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man to the Word of God, and of course to the Spirit of the
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Living God, who is now a man operating in us. And of course
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this salvation is a walk of faith. It always has been a walk of
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faith, a man for all of those who have been saved, and of
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course it is for those who will be saved faith, faith, faith.
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The just shall live by his faith. That is the declaration from the Word
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of the Lord, even in the Old Testament, repeated in the New Testament.
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The just shall live by faith. Living by faith in this world requires
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a man, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God. It requires
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that we grow in faith, a man thankful of This is not something that
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is left to us, a man to try and figure out individually for ourselves,
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a man, thank you Jesus. But the word of a Lord has
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given to us precisely what we need a man in order to grow in our
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faith, to move a man to be elevated a man in our faith.
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God is looking for fruitfulness, a man. We've already talked about that,
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a man. These things that must be in us that are proofs, biblical
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proofs of our salvation, of course faith being one of them. But certainly
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God is looking for a man growth, maturity, perfection. That's what he
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said, Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.
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That's just what Jesus a man, demands of us. And the only
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way we can do that is to grow a man. We have to move
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from milk to eat Amen, to become become a man, mature an Amen,
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Believers, Christians, Saints, Amen. That's who we are to be
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in Christ Jesus. And so we're going to focus primarily on these three verses
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four verses from Second Peter Chapter one, verses five through eight. I'm gonna
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read those verses now, but we're gonna go back to Amen the text of
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that scripture a little bit later. But these verses are going to be the
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focus of our Amen session on today, version number five. And beside this,
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giving all diligence, listen what the Bible says listen carefully what he says
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add to your faith. A lot of people say they believe a man.
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It doesn't stop. Amen, with the day of your salvation, it doesn't
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stop. You just are now beginning the journey. Amen. You're just at
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the starting point. Amen. God is going to be working in you.
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The Holy Spirit is going to be working in you to grow you, to
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conform you, to sanctify you, amen, to elevate you. Amen.
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And so in order for that to happen, listen what the Bible tells of
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us. This is a part again of our cooperation. This is how we
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cooperate. This is what we must do now that we are saved, now
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that we are delivered, now that we know better, Amen, now that
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we are believers. Amen. We talked about what you believe last week.
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Very important Amen. What you believe amen, And you must believe that you
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need sanctification. Amen. You need to be a God honoring Amen. You
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need to be God glorifying in your living, in your conduct right here in
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this present world. So in again, in order for that to happen in
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us, we must do our due diligence what God calls for us to do.
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Again in cooperation, I mean we're not. This is not saving ourselves.
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Amen. Jesus has saved us. But now that he has saved us,
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we are to cooperate with him. And this is a true mark of
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a Christian, of a believer, of a saint, a man, a
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child of God. They cooperate with the Holy Spirit. Amen. They walk
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a man according to the word of God, the truth of God. Amen.
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And so this is what Peter is talking about. And besides this,
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he said, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, and
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to virtue, knowledge and to knowledge, temperance and to temperance, patience and
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to patience, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly
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kindness, charity. Listen what he says verse number eight. For if these
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things be in you, If these things be in you, if virtue,
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if knowledge, if temperance, if patience, if godliness, if brotherly kindness,
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and charity, if these things are in you, And listen what he
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says, and abound in another way. Again, that's that fruitfulness. Amen,
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God expects. Amen. The fruit of the Spirit is in us.
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It's supposed to work in us. Amen, it is supposed to abound in
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us. Amen. For if these things be in you verse number eight,
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and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful. There
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it is again unfruitful. No, you cannot be unfruitful with these things operating
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in you. By the power of the Holy Spirit, you shall neither be
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barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. All right,
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we're gonna get back to those verses and just a man again a few minutes.
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Now. Again we're focusing on adding to our faith and faith. There
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are different kinds of faith in the bidement. I don't have time to go
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through all of that on today, but faith is certainly, as we already
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a man covered in one of our earlier sessions. Faith is one of the
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biblical proofs a man of our salvation that we have discussed a man in this
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series again with this very important question, Are you saved? And it is
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absolutely, unequivocally impossible for anyone to be saved without faith? Amen. Without
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faith, no one can be saved. We are saved. The Bible says
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by grace through faith. Through faith, you first got to believe God.
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Amen. You gotta believe and understand that you need to be saved. We
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talked about. This is the very first AMN session I believe of this series.
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Are you saved? You've got to the problem with a lot of people
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not being saved. It is because they don't even believe that they need to
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be saved. Amen. They don't believe they need a savior. Amen.
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That's the very first criteria. You gotta understand your condition. You gotta understand
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that you need to be saved. Amen. Thank you Jesus. A man
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and the Bible lets us know that we are saved by grace. Amen.
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The grace of God is the gift of God. It is through faith,
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and it is not of ourselves. Because a man faith the Bible lets us
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know comes by hearing, hearing by the word of the Lord a man,
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and we cannot hear, we cannot have faith and develop faith. Amen.
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Receive faith until God speaks, and certainly God has spoken. Amen. God
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has spoken, and faith comes by the word of the Living God and the
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Bible. Again, let's us know that without faith it is impossible to please
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God. Amen. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. He
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that comes to God must believe that he is, that He is a rewarder
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of those who diligently seek him. Jesus gave us these words in this admonition.
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He said, ask, seek, knock. Amen. That is exactly
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what we are instructed to do, particularly especially as children of God. Amen.
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We've got to have the faith to believe Amen, that our prayers,
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our petitions, Amen, when we're asking, according to His will, they
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will be answered. Amen. God hears our prayers. Jesus said, ask,
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seek, knock. If you're coming to Jesus, Amen, you gotta
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believe that he is. You gotta believe that God is a rewarder of those
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who diligently seek himsel ask in faith. We seek, believing that we are
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going to find, as Jesus said, and we knock with the assurance that
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the door will be open. Jesus, as a matter of fact, reminded
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us in the Book of Revelation and his admonition to the churches, I have
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set before you an open door, and no one can shut it. Amen.
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The door is open, Amen. The door of salvation is open.
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Amen. Today is today? Amen? Amen? Now is the time?
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Now is the acceptable time? Today? Amen. If you're not saved,
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amen, you need to amen. You need to be saved. You need
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to be delivered. That's what salvation is. It is deliverance. You are
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delivered. Amen, you are freed, you are liberated. That's what Jesus
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came to do. Isaiah's chapter sixty one of the Spirit of the Lords upon
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me, is annoyed me to preach the gospel to the poor, to set
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at liberty. Amen. That's what he came to do. To liberate us
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from the bundage of sin, from the power of sin, from the power
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of satan, from power of darkness, from the fear of death. All
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of those things a man. Jesus accomplished when he came down to this earth
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a man and conquered all of these enemies. Amen. Second Peter, Amn,
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we go back to the word of the Lord again, chapter number one,
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verses one through ten. I'm gonna pick it up at the beginning,
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Amen, But again I will focus his own verses five through eight. Simon,
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Peter, a man, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.
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Listen what he says to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through
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the righteousness of God and our savior, Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be
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multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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according as his divine power have given unto us all things that pertain unto life
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and godliness through the knowledge of Him that had called us to glory and virtue.
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Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these
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a man ye might be partakers of the Divine nature, having escaped the corruption
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that is in the world through us and beside this amen, giving all diligence.
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Add to your faith, virtue and to virtue, knowledge and to knowledge,
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Temperance and to temperance, patience and to patience, Godliness and to godliness,
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brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness, charity. Listen again, for if
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these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither
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be barren nor unfruitful. Amen in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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But he verse number nine, he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot
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see afar off, and have forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
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Wherefore the other brethren listen. Very important. There's our word again about
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diligence. This is something that we have to do. This is something God
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that commanded of his people in the Old Testament, a man diligently, if
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you would diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord, your God. You
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know we want the blessings of God, but wet we don't want to a
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man do as a man. The Lord prescribes for us to do, and
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he wants us to do this from the heart willingness a man, a willing
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obedience, give diligence. Peter says, to make your calling an election.
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Sure for listen, Oh my God, help us Jesus. This is what
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he says. For if ye do these things, this is our responsibility.
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This is your response. Is my responsibility, Amen, This is each of
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our personal responsibility to add these things to our faith. And he says,
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there's a guarantee here. It is an ironclad a man, God spoken God
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given a man, word of the Lord guarantee. If ye do these things,
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ye shall never fall amen. You will never fall amen. Of course,
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the writer of this epistle is identified as Simon Peter, who further identifies
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himself as a servant a man, a servant of Jesus Christ, who also,
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of course, was an apostle of Jesus Christ and Peter was one of
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the three apostles, a man who comprised what we referred to as the inner
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circle, A man of those who were, A man of the disciples of
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Jesus Christ, the other two, of course being James and John. Peter,
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along with his a man, fellow, a brethren, a man witnessed,
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a man all of what Jesus did during his earthly ministry, and those
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three in particular. A man also saw a man and witness things that the
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others did not, such as the transfiguration. A man, and when Jesus
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was transfigured right before their eyes, and they saw him talking with Moses and
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Elijah in this particular vision. A man, but a man, this Peter,
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A man who was of course an outspoken, a man sort of really
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the spokesman of the group. A man, he addresses this letter, A
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man to listen what the Bible says to them that have obtained like precious faith
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with us. Listen, Please understand that the same faith that you and I
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have is the same faith that the apostles had. Amen. And it's all
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about faith in Jesus Christ. That's what they preached, Amen, That's what
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we ought to be preacher, don't put your faith in the church. Don't
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put your faith in ministry. Don't put your faith in people. Amen.
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Don't put your faith in institutions. Amen. Your faith is to be in
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Jesus the Christ. Amen. And this is what he's writing. This is
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who he's writing to. Amen, those who have obtained like precious faith.
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And it is precious. By the way, Amen, this salvation is precious.
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The blood of Jesus Christ that he shared was precious, And Peter wrote
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about that. He used that word precious a man of quite a few times
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in his letter, speaking also of the precious blood, of course, that
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Jesus shared, which makes this a precious faith a man. And so we
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have obtained a man, this same precious faith, a man that the apostles
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had. And it is through the Bible says the righteousness of God and our
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Savior, Jesus Christ. Again, those of you who are saved, a
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man, who are a part a man of them, who are now a
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man in this precious faith, a man. We again, as I reiterate,
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are in the very same faith. Is only one Lord, one faith,
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one baptism. Amen, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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one savior, one salvation. A man, one hope, one redeemer,
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a man, one way, a man for all of us, any of
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us, to be saved. And that is through Jesus Christ. All of
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us are in the faith by the righteous of Jesus Christ again, who came,
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Amen, and fulfill all righteousness on our behalf where Adam failed, where
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we failed. Amen, Jesus a man conquered, a man. Jesus got
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for us victory, and he has given it to us. We have the
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victory. The Bible already declares us to be more than conquerors. But we
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still have to go through a man and live in this present world, in
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real time, facing real challenges, facing real situations, facing real tests,
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facing real trials, Amen, tribulations, and of course a man, as
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long as we are in this precious faith that has been given to us by
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the precious blood of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, depending on his
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righteousness, looking to what he has accomplished, Amen, not ours, Amen,
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it is of him man. And again the Bible, of course reminds
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us here. Peter writes that it is his divine power, of course,
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that hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness. And
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it is through the knowledge of Him, of course, who has called us
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to this glory and virtue. The power of God, it is that has
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gifted us with everything we need. It is not by might, amen,
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is not by our wisdom, not by our knowledge, not by our understanding,
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Amen, craftiness, none of those things. Amen. It is by
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the Divine power Amen, that God has granted to us, the power of
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the Holy Spirit, who now again is in us. Amen. He has
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granted. The Bible says, he has given to us all things that pertain
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unto life and godliness a man. So so we have everything we need,
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Amen. Everything. God has equipped us with everything we need a man for
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living a godly life, a man right here in this present world. He
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did not call us to glory and virtue without first equipping us with what we
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need. Amen. We've been called to glory and virtue, but we can't
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do it on our own. Amen. All we like sheep go astray.
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Amen, we would sin and fall short of the glory of God. Oh
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wretched man that I am. When I want to do good, evil is
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present. Amen. I delightened the law of God after the end with man.
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But there's another war. Paul says, warring in my memories and bring
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them into captivity. Amen. I know what I ought to do, but
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I find myself doing that which I ought not to do. Amen. So
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this is why we need the divine power a man that has been given to
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us. Amen, so that we can in this present world, right here,
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in this present in world, a man live of life, to glory
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and virtue, a man. And again, all that we need, all
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that we need is in the power of the Holy ghosts and the authority of
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the living Word of God. You've got to know the Word. You've got
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to stand on the word. Amen. As the Psalma said, your word,
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I've hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you. Jesus
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used the word when Satan tempted him in the wilderness. Jesus used the Word
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of God. It is written, it is written, it is written.
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Amen. Not just the spirit of God, of course, the spirit was
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all upon him. Amen. The spirit of the Lord is upon me.
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It has annoyed me to preach the gospel. That's what he did, That's
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what he came to do. But when it came to conquering the enemy.
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Amen. Overcoming the adversary, Amen, Overcoming the temptations. Amen, Jesus
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used the word of the Living God. Amen. And what we have in
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the Living Word of God, a man that has been given to us is
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listen what the Bible says, exceeding great and precious promises. Listen, you
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gotta stand on the promises of God. You got to know them first.
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Amen, It's incompetent upon you. The Bible says, these was more noble
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than those in Thessalonika in that they search the scriptures. You have the responsibility,
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you have the duty. Amen. This is your salvation. Amen.
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And you ought to work it out with fear and trembling. That's what the
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Bible tells us to do. Amen. And the word of God, the
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Living Word a man that has been given to us, is packed full,
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chock full, running over a man with exceeding great and precious promises. A
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matter of fact, the Bible says, all the promises of God in him
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are yea and amen to the glory of God. And it is by these
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promises that we are able to be partakers. The Bible lets us know of
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the divine nature. Amen, the promises of God. And do you believe?
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Do you believe? Do you believe the Word of God. Do you
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believe that you an heir, a joint heir. Do you believe that you
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are sitting now in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Do you believe that you
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are kings and priests and you will reign with Him? Do you believe?
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Do you believe that you will have a robe of righteousness, a new name?
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Amen? Do you believe a man, that you have a mansion,
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a place prepared for you? Do you believe? Amen? What you believe
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is important? And all of these promises God has for us in his word,
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and we've got to stand on the word, go through these trials,
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these light afflictions here in this present world, a man with the authority that
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God has given us, with the power of the Holy Ghost that is operating
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in us, a man the living Word of God. Ah. Amen,
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That's exactly what Jesus used. Amen. Again, all of these promises,
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equip us, Amen, equip us to be partakers of the divine nature.
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Amen. Because again we have escaped. This is what the Bible says,
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having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. I love the
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words of the Psalmists, Amen, Psalm number one twenty four. I'm just
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gonna read three verses there saw number one twenty four, verses six through a
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the Psalmists even understood, Amen, where his help came from. Amen,
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he knew where his salvation came from. It wasn't from the bulls and the
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bullocks. Amen, the turtle doves, and the pigeons, and the sheep,
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and the goats and the rams. No, no, no, I
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no, sir. Those things can never take away sin. Those things can
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never say. An animal can't save your life. Amen. The blood of
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bulls and goats can't and wash away your sins. Amen. Listen what the
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Psalmi says verse number six of Psalm twenty one twenty four. Blessed be the
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Lord, Amen, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers.
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The snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help, thank
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you, Jesus, is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and
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earth. Amen. Listen, this is it, what Peter we're talking about.
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We have been made partakers of the divine nature, Amen, having escaped
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the corruption that is in or how did we escape? Jesus saved us.
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Amen. Listen, what again, what the Psalmis said? Bless it be
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the Lord who hath not given us as a prey. Amen, listen,
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listen. If God doesn't save, you can't be saved you are. You're
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gonna be ensnared. You're gonna be caught up, You're gonna be tossed to
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and fro. You're gonna be cared about. You're gonna be lost in this
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sea of darkness, wickedness, corruption, that is in the world. But
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blessed be the Lord who had not given us as a prey. In other
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words, he did not give you and I, if you are saved,
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God did not give you over to a reprobate mind. He did not give
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you up. Amen. Again, it is by grace that we all are
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saved. I mean, God could could at any time give any of us
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over to do those things the Bible says which are not convenient. Amen,
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Romans chapter number one. But blessed be the Lord who did not give us
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as a prey, who did not give us over to the devil. It
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is the Lord who, Amen, Amen, who who keeps us even before
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we come to the knowledge of the truth. The Lord and I said is
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often he saves us. Before he saves us. Amen, he has to
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save you from yourself and from everything else. Amen. All again, all
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of the corruption that is in the world before you come into this salvation experience.
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Amen. The Lord broke the snare. Amen. See the enemy.
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Amen, the enemy of our soul seeks. As the Lord said to Peter,
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Satan has desired to have you, that he might sift you as wheat.
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He sets all kinds of snares, he sets all kinds of traps.
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He has the fiery darts of wickedness. Amen. Because again he has this
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desire, this longing for your soul. He wants to make you a prey,
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his prey, p r e y Amen, his victim. Amen.
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That's what he specializes in. Victimology. Amen. Did an entire series on
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the voodoo of victimizations. We are not victims, Amen. God has delivered
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this people. Amen. I'm not a victim. I'm not a victim of
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anything in this world. Amen. We are overcommerce, we are conquerors.
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Our help, the Bible says, is in the name of the Lord who
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made heaven and earth our soul. Every person who is saved, every person
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who's going to be saved. Every person who has been saved, your soul
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escaped, the Bible says, as a bird out of the snare of the
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fowlers. The snare is broken. We have escaped because our help. Amen.
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It's in the name of the Lord, Thank you Jesus. Amen.
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So, having now escaped from this corruption, This is what the Bible is
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teaching. This is what Peter is talking about. Having now escaped. Now
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that you are saved, So, you can't do these things without the Holy
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goes. You can do these things without being baptized into Jesus Christ. You
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can do these things without a man the fire, Amen of the Holy Ghost
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God working in you. So, having now escaped from this corruption, from
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this bondage, Amen, from this worldliness, from the power of sin.
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Amen. Amen. Having the dominion over you, having now escaped from that,
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Amen, Listen, we have been called to glory and virtue. Amen.
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And we are as the children of God, as saints of God,
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as Amen, people of God, as the Church of the Living God.
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We are all to give diligence in adding to our faith. Amen. Now
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again, what is it that we are to add to our faith? Amen?
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Again. If we are saved, if we are in the faith.
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Then Peter reminds us, he admonishes us that it is these seven things that
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we are to add to our faith. Listen. That means this is something
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I do, and I do it in cooperation with the Holy Spirit. He
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is alongside us to help us. He is in us. Amen, And
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listen, God is always listen with the Bible says, the spirit is willing,
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the flesh is weak. The spirit is always willing. It is the
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flesh that is weak. This is why we got to fast and pray.
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Amen. This is why we have to seek the face of the Lord.
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Amen. We have to discipline ours. That's what the disciple is, a
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one who is disciplined. Amen. And so these are the seven things that
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Peter amn writes in his letter to them who have escaped, Amen, to
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them who have have obtained this light, precious faith. Faith. Brother,
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these seven things we are to add to our faith number one, virtue,
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number two, knowledge, number three, temperance, number four, patience,
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number five, godliness, number six, brotherly kindness, and number seven charity.
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Amen. Hey, hollelujah, thank you Jesus. We need these we
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need and remember, as Peter is going to remind us, a man of
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the importance of having these things in us, Amen, having these things operating
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in us. Amen. So look at first of all, virtue. Brother
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number one is virtue, he says, add to your faith. Virtue.
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Of course, virtue is defined a man as behavior that's showing high moral standards.
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Our conduct, ladies and gentlemen, Amen, as children of God.
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Is to be exemplary, is to be an excellence, is to be befitting
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of those who have been delivered, those who have been set free a man
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from the power of sin, from the influence of sin. We're not being
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saved yet from the presence of sin. But again, yield not Amen.
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We are not to yield ourselves a man, Amen, to sin a man,
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but yield ourselves ourselves unto God, as servants of righteousness, unto holiness.
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Amen. Because the Bible says again the wages of sin is death,
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but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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and virtue, Amen, is what we need to add to our We have
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to make a conscientious effort. Amen, a conscientious effort, Amen to Amen.
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And this is not about being. Some people misuse the phrase holier than
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our thou No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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this is a part of our sanctification. As Job. I believe what
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the psamis one of our camera. I don't want to mix them up.
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I believe it was Job who said I was set. No wicked thing before
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my eyes, Amen, no wicked thing before my eyes. Amen. There
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is something about a man seeking to please God that we now again. Since
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we have the Holy Spirit in us, since we have the power of the
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Living Word in us, it is our duty to diligently cooperate with the Holy
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Ghost, with the Spirit of God. Amen. Again. Having now been
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called to glory and virtue. Amen. Our conduct as children of God,
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as ambassadors of Christ, as representatives of His is to be excellent, is
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to be exemplary. Amen. We are to be found blameless and thoughtless before
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His presence. That's what He is coming back for. A church without spot
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and without wrinkle, a bride adorned, a bride that has made herself ready.
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Amen. This is what this sanctification process is all about. Amen.
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And we all amen. We stumble from time to time, we sin and
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fall short, but we run Amen to the throne. We come boldly to
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the throne of grace. The Bible says we have an advocate with the father
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of Jesus Christ, the righteous, who is faithful in just to forgive us
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and cleanse us. See the cleansing comes Amen from him. Amen. We
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can't clean ourselves up. Amen, but we have to Amen. Of course,
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in our minds. Let this mind be in you that was also in
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Christ Jesus. In our minds, we are to a man seek to be
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virtuous. Amen. People of God Amen, Amen, as much as lies
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in us. The Bible tells us to even live peaceably with all men.
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Amen. A lot of times we can't Amen, demonstrate our virtue because we
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just can't get along with folk. Amen. We don't want to forgive.
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We talked about forgiveness. Amen. That's one of the biblical proofs Amen,
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of our salvation, not only that we have been forgiven, but our ability,
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our willingness to forgive. Amen. That's a virtue Amen, that we
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need to have in us. And so again, as children of God,
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we are to add to our faith virtue, and then we are to add
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to virtue. Knowledge. Amen. This is not just head knowledge. This
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is knowledge of God. This is knowledge of our savior Jesus Christ, or
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which of course is necessary ever for our salvation. How can you, a
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man, be saved and not even know who you're saved? Your is?
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How is it that you're saving you don't know? Again, this knowledge is
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not again just a head knowledge, is not general knowledge or superficial knowledge of
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God. But this is about an intimate acquaintance, a man in a personal
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relationship with Him, as a Salmis David, Amen, had the Lord is
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my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in
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green pastures. He leads me beside the steel waters. He restores my soul.
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Amen, He's with me. Amen. This is this is a love
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relationship. This is a personal relationship. It is an intimate relationship, an
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intimate knowledge of Him. A man, many of those saints of old,
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a man you can read through the Hebrews chapter eleven, a man about those
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who had gone through gone before us, who man in the faith, and
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they had intimate acquaintance with the Lord. Amen. An intimate acquaintance. And
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it's something that we build up. And man Abraham built it. He had
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to build it over the years. It took him a long time a man
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to get there. It was twenty five years before his son Isaac was born,
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the son of promise, Amn. But through all of the adversity,
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adversity, through all of the trials, through all of the tests that he
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went through, a man, he persevered, a man with a knowledge,
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and he grew in his knowledge, he grew in his faith, he grew
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in his confidence, he grew in his Amen intimate aman relationship with the Lord.
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And he built altars and worshiped Amen, because he had a man,
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not a superficial, not a general knowledge about God, a man about who
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he was. But it was personal, Amen. And the Lord even testified
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of Abraham. He said, I know Abraham. When the Lord says he
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knows you, Amen, that's that's that's that's high high compliment. I know
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Abraham. I know that he will command his children after him. Amen.
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Abraham. He called him his friend. Abraham is my friend. Amen.
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Not many of us have Amen. Uh. I mean, you know,
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with our social media world today, a lot of people have what they call
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friends on their social media profiles and things. But how many of us really
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have true a man, close personal friends that you can be intimate with.
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Amen. That you have that closeness with a man that you can share with,
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that you can talk to. Amen. This is the kind of knowledge.
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That Amen, the Bible is speaking of not a superficial, not a
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general knowledge of God, Amen, but a man, an intimate acquaintance with
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Him. And of course he says, add to virtual knowledge, add to
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knowledge temperance. And of course temperance is self control. Amen, self control
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those of us who are truly saved. Again, Amen, we have this
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attribute of the fruit of the spirit, the fruit of the spirit, love,
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joy, peace. And in that list of the attributes of the fruit
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of the spirit is temperance, self control. Amen, be ye angry and
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what sin not? Do not let the sonny go down on your wrath.
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Amen, there's no there's that's no no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no. Child. And again we all learned. Amen.
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And and and we all grow. We're on a path of growth.
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When a path of maturity a man vengeance his mind, the Lord says,
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I will repay. Even in the church there are times when their strife,
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there's disagreements between saints. Sometimes you have to be all right, wrote about
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this into the Corinthian Church. You have to be the one that willing to
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take the wrong. Amen, to suffer yourself to be defrauded. Amen,
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for the sake of peace. Amen. That's that's living a life of temperance
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and self control. A man not allowing the enemy, a man in opening,
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not allowing the enemy. Amen access. Amen. And and and there's
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no way that we can be a man children of God's, representatives of him,
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ambassadors of him, a man spokespersons for him, witnesses for him.
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And we have no self control. No, no, no, Amen.
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So add to your faith, virtue, add to virtue, knowledge, add
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to knowledge, temperance. And then he says, add to temperance, patience,
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all Jesus, helpers, helpers, all Lord. Amen, We're gonna
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need it. Patience is not simply waiting, Amen. Is not not a
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simple waiting exercise of waiting. But this is the ability to persevere. This
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is all about perseverance, persevering again through the trials, the tribulations. Amen,
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that we're going to face in this hostile world of wickedness. Amen,
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this world that is against God, that is at odds. Amen, with
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the righteousness of God, with the holiness of God, with the Law of
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God. Amen, with the truth of God. Amen. We're we're going
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to persevere Amen in this world. Amen, the grace of God. The
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bodyle saying that brings salve ag Amen. Teaches us, Amen, teaches us
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Amen. And we are required to live godly right here in this present world,
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and we're gonna need to be able to persevere. Amen. Again.
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This is this is again not just waiting. So I'm not I'm just going
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packing my stuff up, going into the mountains. I'm gonna sit somewhere and
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hide out in a cave and wait to Jesus comes back for his church.
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No, no, no, I've got to persevere in the midst of the
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storms, in the midst of the trials, in the midst of the tests,
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in the midst of all of this calamity, in the midst of all
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of this upheaval, in the midst of all of this wickedness that is in
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our culture today, in our world today. Amen, We've got to persevere.
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Amen. The Bible says that righteous man Lot in Sodom and Gomorrow vexed
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his righteous soul from day to day with their lawful, ungodly deeds. Amen.
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Persevering because God knows how to deliver, and he will deliver. Amen.
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But this is what we must add to our faith, patience, perseverance,
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Amen, being able to stand and go through Amen. Whatever comes our
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way. Amen. And here's the promise, another one of these promises we
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talked about the promises of God again, will pack pack with them. And
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I love this particular one. Do you not know that the Lord will not
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put any more on you than you can bear? And the Bible says he
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will, even with the temptation, make a way for you to escape that
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you may be able to bear it. Amen. Each of us are different,
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Amen, each of us are in different stages of faith and growth and
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sanctification. Amen. And and and in our knowledge and temperance. Amen.
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And the Lord will not put more on you than you can bear. Amen.
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God has not called us here to amen, for us to fall,
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Amen, for us to fail, for us to not finish. Amen.
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He's called us in order for this to be completed. He who has begun
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a good work in you will amen. Will It is him who He's going
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to do it. Amen. But we've got to cooperate. Of course,
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we are cooperating with the whole spirit. That's why he brought the Holy sent
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the Holy Spirit down Amen, to be in us. Amen. Amen.
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Jesus said these words. He said, I'll never leave you, I'll never
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forsake you. I'm here, I'm with you always, even to the end
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of the world. So we add this patience, this perseverance, Amen,
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to our faith. Amen. And again, of course we add to patience
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godliness. The Bible says we are to add godliness. Of course. Godliness
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is living a life of reverence, a life of obedience towards God. Again.
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Right here. You know a lot of people when I get to heaven.
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No, no, no, right here. The Lord expects us to
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live holy right here in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and
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the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus. Rice be ye also
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ready watch and be so birth. A man put off the old man,
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put on the new man. Amen. This is our responsibility. Amen.
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Now that we are in the faith, Amen, we are to add these
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things to our faith. And then the Bible tells us godliness. To godliness,
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we are to add brotherly kindness. Amen. Brotherly kindness, of course,
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you know that needs no defining. You know what kindness is, all
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of the fulfilling of the law. The Bible tells us hangs on these two
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commands, that we love God and we love one another. Love works no
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ill toward his neighbor. Amen. And true love is demonstrated in our kindness,
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in our kindness. Amen, that we show that we demonstrate one to
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another, and it begins. Listen to. Bible says, charity begins at
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home. It first starts in your home, and it then spreads abroad.
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Amen. I'm gonna give you a few scriptures before we close out on this.
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Amen. Romans. When we talk about kindness, Romans, Chapter twelve,
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verse number ten, this is what the Bible says. He says,
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be kindly affection one to another, with brotherly love and honor, preferring one
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another. Ephesians four and thirty two. He says, be ye kind one
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to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as Christ, even as
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God, for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. All of this is talking about
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kindness, kindness, kindness, and this is for the brethren. This is
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toward each other in the church. Amen. Look at Colossians three and twelve.
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The Bible says, put on therefore as the elect of God, holy
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and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
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long suffering. Amen. And finally, the last thing that we are to
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add to our faith is charity. Amen, add to your faith these things
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virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and finally,
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last, but surly not least, charity. You know what it is,
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unselfish, unfeigned love in action. That's what charity is. Unselfish,
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unfeigned love in action. There's no better place to turn than to first than
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First Corinthians, chapter thirteen. I'm gonna read that in closing today. Though
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I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity,
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I am become as sounding brass or tinkling symbol. And though I have
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the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I
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have all faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity,
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I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
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and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity,
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it profiteth me nothing. You see charity, he says, suffereth long,
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and it's kind. Charity envieth not charity, vaunteth not itself, is not
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puffed up, does not behave itself unseemly. Did we not just talk about
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temperance, self control. Charity seeketh not her own is not easily provoked.
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Thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not an iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth.
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Charity. Verse number seven beareth all things, believeth, all things hopeth,
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all things endureth, all things that we not talk about. The patient perseverance
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of the saints. Charity verse number eight never faileth. But whether there be
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prophecies, they shall fail. Whether there be tongues they shall see, whether
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there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part,
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and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come,
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then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a
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child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
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thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away
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childish things. We are now to grow up in Christ Jesus. For now
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we see the Bible says through a glass darkly, but then face to face.
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Now I know in part, But then shall I also know even as
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I am known? And now abotive, Faith, hope, charity, these
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three, But the greatest of these is charity. Again, I remind you
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what the apostle Peter says, if these things be in you and abound,
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they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of
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our Lord Jesus Christ. So give diligence, Give diligence to make your calling
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an election. Sure For if you do these things, Peter says, you
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shall never fall. Add to your faith these things. Amen. God bless
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you in Jesus name.