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#20230813 - This Salvation - 1 Peter 1:10-16 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the Study of God's Word, recorded live at Calvary
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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word.
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Hey, man, so good to be here with you.
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And I'm so glad my wife is here with me as well.
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And yeah, about a year ago here speaking and just God, thank you
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for your prayers and and she's here with me today.
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So I'm so delighted in in that And it's just it's such an honor
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to be here with you all to share God's word with you.
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And you know as he was just sharing that I I called Pastor
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Ed about a year ago and said I don't think I'll be able to
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speak. And then I talked to my wife.
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She's like boy go to work, you know.
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Anyway so now she told me to you know go ahead and do what God
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told me to do and to preach and God took care of everything and
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and know we thank the Lord for that.
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But then again the delight to be here with you we are in first
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Peter chapter one versus. We'll be looking at versus 10 to
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16 and I pray to the Lord will bless you.
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Going to talk about a topic today that all of us know about.
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The most of us know about that is the salvation that we have in
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our Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ And like spouses many
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times we take each other for granted and you know or or maybe
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the job you have you take it for granted.
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And sometimes I think as believers we begin to take our
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salvation for granted at times. Amen.
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I just need to be reminded that man what we have is so unique in
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the Lord and how we should be appreciative of that each and
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every day that we have been transformed, We have been saved
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through faith in Jesus Christ. Amen.
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And so you know, let's before we go any further, let's pray and
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ask God to bless his word. Father, we come to you in the
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name of Jesus and we ask for you to bless your word.
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Lord, you to show up and show out you to speak to our hearts.
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You give us ears to hear what the Spirit of God is saying to
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the Church. Give us hearts to receive your
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word and Lord that you will be glorified.
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We commit this time to you now in Jesus name and everyone said
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Well, salvation by definition. Again, we're starting with the
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basics here, but salvage, my definition, is the preservation
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or deliverance or deliverance from harm, ruin, and loss.
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And that is exactly what happens when we come to Jesus Christ.
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Amen. It is that He has delivered us
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from harm so that we might be healed because of our sins.
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He's delivered us from ruin, that we might be called the
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righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
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He's delivered us from loss, that we might have everlasting
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gain. Amen.
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Those who come to Jesus Christ shall not perish, Jesus said,
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but shall have ever lasting life.
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Therefore Paul the Apostle declared in First Thessalonians
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chapter 5, verse nine. He said, For for God did not
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appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through faith
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in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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God has not appointed us to wrath, but unto salvation.
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Every one of us has an appointment we're going to keep
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in regards to salvation and and I don't care what what male,
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female, what, whoever you are, whoever you think you are, you
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know what your political association is or anything like
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that. We all have an appointment we're
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going to keep. The Bible says it's appointed on
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the man wants to die, then the judgment and and you either have
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an appointment for salvation or you have an appointment for
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wrath. Those are the only two
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appointments that we can keep. Well, you know, I'm kind of, I'm
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kind of in the middle. No one's in the middle in that.
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Jesus said that if we have rejected him that we shall not
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have life. We will perish, that we will be
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condemned if we reject him. And so we have an appointment we
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must keep. And that appointment is with
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wrath or with or salvation. For the believer, we have an
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appointment with salvation. Aren't you glad about that?
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An appointment for salvation in our Lord?
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The Bible says there is now Romans 81.
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No condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus God.
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It is, you know, in Christ there is no condemnation for us.
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We have an appointment apart from the judgment of God against
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our sins because of our faith and our Lord and Savior, Jesus
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Christ. Now why is this important?
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Why am I you talking about this salvation?
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Because. We need to understand, as David
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declared he said, Restore it unto me.
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Restore unto me, Lord, the joy of your salvation, and uphold me
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by your generous spirit. Where did you say that?
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And Psalm 51 verse 12. Restoring to Me Lord, the joy of
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your salvation. Sometimes in our journey as
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believers, we forget that it is not my salvation.
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It's His salvation, the joy of your salvation.
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A lot of times as Christians, we don't have joy because we're
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focused on our definition of salvation.
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We begin to sort of, you know, as we walk with the Lord, we
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start thinking we're we're all that in a bag of chips and we
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and we start living according to our performance and how good we
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are and and what people. Say about us and we think, oh,
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you know that. That's where my joy comes from.
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No, it comes from the joy of his salvation.
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In other words, what the Lord has done by the arm of the Lord,
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what he has provided for us, what God has done for us, rather
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than what we can do for God. Do you have joy today?
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It's his. Do you have joy?
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Amen. Do you have joy in the Lord?
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If I was just The joy of the Lord is our strength.
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How can I have joy when I'm I'm, you know I failed.
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How can I have joy when I fall short so many times?
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How can I have joy because I'm rejoicing in what He has done
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for me, not what I can do for God.
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That's where my joy comes from. And I have to remind myself of
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that in my Christian journey that my joy comes from what His
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arm has provided, not what my arm or my hands can provide.
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So we should always have joy as believers, and His joys are
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strength. And the devil knows that.
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That's why he wants to rob you of your joy.
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Have you walk in here today without any joy because you've
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been focused on some failure or something you didn't do or
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accomplish in the Lord? The Lord said, no, no, no.
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Your joy comes from me rejoicing what I've done for you.
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Are you rejoicing today? Oh, come on, there's one person
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over here. I think there's a few others.
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There's a few others. All right, Lord, we're rejoicing
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in you today. The joy of the Lord is our
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strength. So we talk about our salvation.
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This salvation minute. We're talking about joy.
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We should have joy. God means for us to have joy in
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the Lord. David understood that true joy
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is sustained by what God has done, not what he could do for
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God. And so Peter here reminds the
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church right into the churches of Asia Minor.
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He's right. Right into the churches,
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reminding them the Jews and Gentiles alike, reminding them
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of three aspects of our salvation. 3 Aspects, There are
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reasons why we have joy in our salvation and those three things
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are prophecy. The second one is what I call
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disclosure, and the third one is transformation.
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There are many reasons we have joy in the Lord, but Peter
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points out these three and I think they're like pillars to
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our joy that support the joy that we have in the Lord #1, the
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salvation we have in the Lord and the reason we have this joy
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is because it is a fulfillment of prophecy is prophetic.
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Now we shouldn't look at that light because people think, oh
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the religion you have, you know your faith in crisis.
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Man made religion has nothing to do with man and everything to do
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with God's promise, the promise of a savior.
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Look at verses 10:00 and 11:00 here in first Peter chapter one
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what Peter says of this salvation.
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The prophets have inquired and searched carefully who who
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prophesied of the grace, the grace that would come to you,
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verse 11, searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of
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Christ, who was in them was indicating when he justified or
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testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ.
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In other words, he's saying, you know what the the the prophets
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they search, they want to know God made a promise that he would
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send the world a savior if if if God thought our greatest need
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was a politician, he would have sent a politician.
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If he thought our greatest need was a scientist, who would have
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sent a scientist? No.
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But our greatest need, mankind's greatest need, your greatest
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need today is that you have a savior, and he sent a savior.
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He promised a Savior who would come and die a tone for all of
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our sins. So Peter declared Second Peter
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chapter one, verse 21 that the prophets indeed inquired about
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When is this going to happen? And the scripture tells us in
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Second Peter chapter one, verse 21.
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For prophecy never came by the will of man.
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It's this is not a man made your faith.
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Your salvage is not made-up by men.
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It was not by the will of men. But holy men of God spoke as
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they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. And verse 11 tells us in first
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Peter chapter one we just read it which says that the Spirit of
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Christ was within him. Jesus in the Old Testament, the
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Spirit of Christ, Father Son, Holy Spirit of 1.
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Jesus in the in the Old Testament speaking prophesying
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about the promise of God through the Old Testament prophets of
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the promise of God that was to come, the promise of a savior.
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How glorious that is, How precious it is, The salvation we
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have, that it is a fulfillment of God's promise, a fulfillment
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of prophecy. The prophets of old spoke about
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this, inquired about this, when is God going to fulfill this
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promising. And now we're on the other side
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of of the first advent of Jesus Christ.
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And we're we're, and we have enjoyed the benefits of
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receiving Christ as Lord and Savior.
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But the prophets of old, they didn't know exactly when this
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was going to take place, when the Messiah was going to come.
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And so they inquired and looked and the scriptures to see when
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it was going to take place. And one of the There are many
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prophecies talking about the advent of Christ and the promise
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of Christ coming. But Daniel Chapter 9 is one of
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the most significant prophecies concerning the the coming of the
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Messiah, the first advent of Jesus Christ.
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You know there's two advents of Christ.
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The first time he came as a lamb.
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The second time he comes, he's going to be a lion.
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Amen. Revelation chapter 19.
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He will come and strike the nation's Amen.
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And we're looking forward to that day.
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Praise the Lord when Jesus will come the second time, but the
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first time he came as a lamb. Daniel Chapter 9 verses 2426
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gives us an idea. Of when he would come.
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There we find what is called the 70 week prophecy of Daniel, 70
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prophetic weeks. 1 Prophetic week is 7 years and Daniel
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declared in Daniel Chapter 9, verse 25.
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In regard to the coming of the fulfillment of God's promise,
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the coming of the Messiah, he said this.
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He said no therefore and understand that from the going
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forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until
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Messiah the Prince that is the promise of the Savior, there
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shall be 7 weeks and 62 weeks. 7 + 62 is 6969.
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Prophetic weeks 69 * 7 = 483 years, 483 years from the time
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the decree goes out to rebuild Jerusalem after the 70 year
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Babylonian captivity to the time that Messiah comes with the 483
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years. And we know according to history
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that the decree was issued by King Arthur Xerxes of Persia and
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4:45 BC and is noted for us in Nehemiah chapter 2 verses 1:00
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to 8:00. And there's a lot of
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calculations that the that are have been that are given there
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concerning the prophecy, or a lot of calculations I should say
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one website gives us. It's called christian.net.
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christian.net and it and it gives us a Jewish calculation of
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the time from the time the decree goes out to the time the
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Messiah would come. Then if you want to go look into
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that, you can. I don't have time to share all
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the detailed information only to say that 483 years Daniel
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prophecy would pass before the Messiah comes. 173,880 days.
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Amen. Before the Messiah would come,
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that places us and again, you can go back and look at all the
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calculations at christian.net. But that places us on April at
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April the 6th, a D32. What was happening on April the
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6th, 8032, Daniel said from the time that the screen went out to
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rebuild Jerusalem to the time that Messiah comes 483 years.
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What was happening on April the 6th?
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A D32. Jesus was entering the city of
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Jerusalem on that triumphal entry into the city on that
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first Palm Sunday. Amen.
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The Messiah was coming into the city exactly when Daniel said
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the time would happen. What a glorious testimony.
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A glorious fulfillment of prophecy on our behalf.
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The Savior had come to die for the sentence of the world.
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Amen. Oh make no mistake about it.
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This is a glorious salvation we have.
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It is not man made, It is prophetic.
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And Jesus came to fulfill that prophecy.
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Amen. Praise his holy name.
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But when Jesus came into the city, the Bible says he was not
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rejoicing and partying like everybody else.
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He was weeping because the the, the religious leaders and and
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many of the Jews miss the coming of the Messiah, the Bible tells
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us in Luke chapter 19. Now as he drew near, he saw the
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city and he wept over it, saying, if you had known, yes,
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even you specifically or especially rather in your day,
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the things that make for your peace, but now they are hidden
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from your sight. The peace of God has hidden from
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the side of the world. Today the peace of God is hidden
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was hidden from the side of the Jews because they miss the
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coming of their Messiah. The the the religious leaders
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knew Daniel Chapter 9. They knew of the prophecy but
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they ignored it. You know why?
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Because like a lot of meet people today, they were looking
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for a different Jesus. See, a lot of people miss Jesus
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because they come to church looking for a different Jesus.
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And a lot of churches are trying to manufacture a different Jesus
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after the spirit of the world. In Jesus Day, they were looking
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for a politician. They're looking for someone to
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come and overthrow the Roman government and to establish the
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the, the, the former prominence of Israel once again.
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That's why they were waving the Palm branch, Palm branches at
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all. We call it Palm Sunday.
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It was a declaration of Israel's former glory.
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And when he was crucified on the cross, even the disciples
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abandoned because how could this be our Messiah?
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Because they didn't believe in a suffering Messiah.
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They thought he was going to come and overthrow the Roman
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government. And like a lot of people today,
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they're looking for a prosperity Jesus.
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They're looking for a different Jesus.
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I remember when I first got saved how there were the people
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had these drawings of Jesus or whatever, you know, artistic
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renderings of Jesus and different styles.
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Like there was a Jesus with an Afro.
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It was a Jesus who was surfer Jesus.
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It was Jesus the businessman. Remember, some of you might be
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old enough. Remember selling those old
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posters? We want to passion him in our
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own image and we doesn't show up in my life the way I want him to
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show up. And I got a problem with Jesus.
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I'm blind to that, which makes for my peace.
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Is that you today? Have you been looking for Jesus
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made and fabricated from your own thinking, your own mind?
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Or you looking for the Jesus who came in the image of God to die
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for your sins? Are we looking for the right
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Jesus? Jews didn't believe in a
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suffering Messiah, but he had to come and suffer first to die for
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our sins. Isaiah chapter 53 tells us that
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but he was wounded for our transgressions.
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He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisman for
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our peace. Was upon him.
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And by his stripes we are healed.
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And I know a lot of Christians use that.
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They go, oh, by his stripes I'm healed.
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And and God is a healer. Yes, he does heal, but then he's
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not talking about physical healing here.
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He's talking about spiritual restoration and redemption.
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By his stripes we are healed. And then he goes on to prove
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that by saying the prophecy goes on and says that all we, like
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sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to His
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own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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Weren't you glad about it? Hallelujah.
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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, that my
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iniquity my sins. Were fully laid upon you, that
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you came to meet mankind's greatest need, and that was the
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need for Savior. You came as a fulfillment of
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prophecy. So our salvation, it's not some
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happenstance. It's not manufactured by men.
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It is a fulfillment of the promise of God.
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Aren't you glad about it, Amel? Oh, come on now, let the Lord
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know you're glad about it if you don't know that salvation.
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I pray before this service is over you and make a decision to
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follow Jesus. Here's the second thing that
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Peter points out here about our salvation that it is fully
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disclosed. That means that it has been
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pronounced announced to the entire world, the Gospels being
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proclaimed to the entire world. It is fully disclosed.
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Aren't you glad you'd when you walked in today that you didn't
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have to know the secret handshake to get in yet?
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You're not a partisan secret club.
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Aren't you glad that God disclosed the gospel to you?
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I'm so glad I was on my way to hell and God disclosed I.
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Someone shared a gospel with me and I gave my life to Christ.
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Aren't you glad you know weren't excluded because of the color of
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your skin or your your economic situation or your political
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affiliation? The Gospels for all the world is
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fully disclosed to the entire world.
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Verse 12. And Peter said to him it was
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revealed to them. Rather, it was revealed, that
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is, to the prophets, not to themselves, not just for them,
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but to us. They were ministering.
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The themes which now have been reported have been reported to
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you through those who have preached the gospel to you by
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the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things which angels
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desire to look into. Wow, this gospel fully disclosed
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to the entire world. It's good news.
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It's good news for the whole world.
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It's not only unto the prophets or to the Jews, it's to the
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entire world. But God so love the world, that
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he gave his one and only the only Son, that whosoever will
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believe in him shall not perish again, but have everlasting life
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fully disclosed to the entire world the gospel of Jesus Christ
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and therefore. Jesus told his disciples and he
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commissioned the church to go out and disclose, to preach, to
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share this good news with the entire world.
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There's no shame in our game. We only hide the good news of
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the gospel and the and the gospel is not good news until we
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give it away, right? Share it with other people.
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Mark chapter 16, verse 15 and 16.
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One of the Great Commission, but it is found in some of the in
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the other gospels. But Jesus said there, and he
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said to his disciples to go into all the world and preach the
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gospel. To how many?
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That is every creature fully disclosed to every creature.
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He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does
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not believe will be condemned. Why?
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Because they have rejected the love of God, rejected the love
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of God that has come in the in the form of the only begotten
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Son of God who died on the cross for our sins.
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The gospel is meant for all of us, not just a select for you.
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That's so important for us to understand that because it
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doesn't matter what you've done, it doesn't matter who you've
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done it with. It doesn't matter how many times
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you've done it, There's still room at the cross for you.
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There's some people under the persuasion of the devil who
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think that there's no hope for them.
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They feel hopeless. You're not hopeless because
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Jesus is the God of all hope. You're not hopeless.
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Don't listen to that lie of the enemy this this morning, that
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today you Christ, died on the cross of you.
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You have hope. There is everlasting hope in
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Jesus Christ. And even some believers begin to
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think that you have everlasting hope in Christ.
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Amen. You are not hopeless because
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Christ, because of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as Christ died for
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you. The old songs is there is room
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at the cross for you. Though millions have come,
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there's still room for one. Hey man, there's room at the
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cross for you. We have hope in the Lord,
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Hebrews Chapter 7, verse 25 says.
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Therefore he is also able to save.
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Jesus is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to
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God through Him, since he always lives to make intercession for
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them all. That that's that's that's
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twofold meaning there, you know, he he he saves to the uttermost.
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He saves no matter who you are, what you've done, how many times
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you've done. He saves to the uttermost.
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I like to say to the Guttermos, because that's where God found
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some of us. Oh, you, oh, you don't want to
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admit it right now, but that's where he found you.
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Amen. He saves to the uttermost.
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You're never hopeless. And he always And after he saves
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you, he always makes intercession for you.
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Aren't you glad Jesus never forgets to pray for you?
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Sometimes people will come to me and say, pass it out.
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Will you pray for me? Yeah.
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Yeah. And I'm doing a million things a
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week later that I'll see him and say pastoral, thanks for praying
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for me, Lord really came through And I'm like, dude, I totally
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forgot. I like, you know, But you know,
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you play it off like, oh, praise the Lord, I'm so glad Jesus is
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praying for us. He never fails to pray for us.
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Amen. Hey man, give him praise and
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glory so you're not hopeless. For those of you who don't know
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Christ, you're not hopeless. And those of you who know
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Christ, you're not hopeless. You're not helpless because he's
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making intercession at the right hand of the throne of Father for
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you right now as you're sitting here.
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No, he says to those who who have preached verse 12, the
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latter part in first Peter chapter one, those who have
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preached the gospel by the Holy Spirit.
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I love him that he says preach the gospel and he says by the
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Holy Spirit. In other words, when we share
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the gospel, understand that as we share the word of God, it's
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the work of the Holy Spirit. It's not by might, nor by power,
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or by the Spirit of God. In other words, when I share the
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word of God, I don't have to persuade people.
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I don't have to convince people. I don't have to sell people on
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the Kingdom of God. I just sell them on salvation.
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Because I always say, if you can sell somebody into the Kingdom,
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the devil will sell them out because the devil knows your
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price. But if you're born again by the
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Spirit of God, you're impregnated with the Spirit of
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God living inside of you. Oh, you'll be transformed.
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You'll be changed. You'll never be the same.
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Amen. You'll never be the same.
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The work of salvation is the work of the Holy Spirit.
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God calls us to be holy male men.
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You know that. Just deliver the mail.
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Just deliver the mail. Don't worry about you know the
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results. The results are in the hands of
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God. Jesus said in John chapter 6,
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verse 44, that no one can come to him unless the Father who
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sent me draws him and I will take him up at the last day.
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Amen. I will raise him up at the last
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day. No one can come to the
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fatherless. Holy Spirit draws him.
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We're just simply to do deliver the mail, unleash the Word,
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unleash the good news, and watch God, the gospel work, and the
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lives of other people and draw them to Christ.
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Peter goes on to say about this, this Full disclosure of of the
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gospel, that this is something that angels desire to look into.
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You just see that angels desire to look into Like what?
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Look into salvation. It blows their minds that God
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loves you. They can't figure it out how God
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loves Al Pitman. It blows their minds.
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I know we get all excited about the angels in my you know we
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have a a guardian Angel and all that and angels over there.
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It's great and and they're the messages of God and they they
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inner you know intervene and and there are angels and all of that
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But we we're caught up with an Angel.
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You know, angels are blown away. When they look at you, they go,
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huh. How does, how does how does this
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work? You know, I share the last
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service, you know. You know, I was a little boy.
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I got into a loud, you know, dumb things that boys get into.
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And one day I was real small and I have a two other brothers
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younger than me and the one next to me, we're underneath the
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kitchen sink and got into Mom's Easy Off oven cleaner and, you
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know, Easy Off oven cleaner. Hey, man, I don't even know if
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they make it anymore. So dangerous.
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But it's it's a paste and you paste it on the side of the oven
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and it like eats all the stuff. I don't know.
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It's got acid in it or something.
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I don't know, but I had the idea of opening the jar.
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It smelled kind of sweet. And then I tasted it and tasted
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a little sweet. Oh yeah.
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So, you know, because I'm a generous person, I got a big
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spoonful and gave it to my younger brother and then I took
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a little bit. Anyway, Long story short, they
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caught us. Mom yelled at us and rushed us
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to the hospital. They gave us a a shot of milk
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and cod liver oil, I think it was.
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And you know that due to you cleared us right up.
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But I'm just imagining angels in heaven, Lord, saying you don't
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want me to tell you my eternal plan.
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You know that young man, that little boy down there?
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I'm going to call him the Ministry.
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And angels like the dude. That ain't easy off.
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Are you kidding me? How are you?
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Your spirit's going to be in him.
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You're going to call him the Ministry?
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The guy is easy off. And what about you?
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What about some of the things you've done?
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The angels are like, whoa. They desire to look into these
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things because they're amazed. The Spirit of God, Creator, who
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holds the universe and the span of His hand.
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The one without who nothing exists, who is the creator of
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all things. The Spirit of God lives in you,
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and it blows the angel's minds, and they desire to look into
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these things, salvation. But they can't, because it's
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only for you. It's only for you, only for
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those who call upon the name of the Lord.
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And so the psalmist says in Psalm One O 3 this is closure of
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the truth, that this hope that we have of salvation and that
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which we received from the Lord. This is what the angels marvel
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over for It says they're in Psalm One O 3.
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For as the heavens are above the earth, so great it's the Lord's
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mercy toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the
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West, so far has He removed our transgressions from us the
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angels like. How is that?
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As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who
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fear Him, for He knows our fray that He, and remembers that we
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are dust. How can glory dwell within dust?
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But God made it so through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Aren't you glad about it? Today praises Holy Name, Full
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disclosure of the gospel. Full disclosure of the gospel is
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this that our sins and our frailties have been swallowed up
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by the mercy of God for all who would fear the Lord and put
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their trust in faith in Jesus Christ.
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That's the gospel fully disclosed.
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The third thing that Peter declares declares here
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concerning our salvation. The joy that we have in our
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salvation is that it is transformative, transformative
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salvation. In other words, our salvation
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changes our lives and the Bible tells us that that if if we say
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we walk in the light and yet we walk live in darkness, you know,
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John says the first John chapter one, he says.
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You're a liar and the truth is not in you.
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If you've been transform, if you've given your life to Jesus
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Christ, you've been saved. You have salvation.
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It should change your life. Amen.
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Then say that you were perfected or you were perfect, but there
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should be a transformation within your life.
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And there are actually 4 indicators that Peter gives us
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here of a transformed life. But verses 13 to 16 read along
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with me. As Peter says, therefore gird up
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the loins of your mind. Be sober and rest your hope
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fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the
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revelation of Jesus Christ, verse 14, as obedient children,
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As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the
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former lust, as in your ignorance.
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But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all
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your conduct because it is written Be holy for I am holy.
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The first indicator that Peter points out that if you've been
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you have salvation, you've been transformed through faith in
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Jesus Christ, is that you have a girded mind, a mind gird, and no
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one talks like that anymore. Nobody walks in.
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Here's the last time someone said hey is your mind girded
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you, you don't we don't talk like that anymore.
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But but he says gird it. Gird up your your the lines of
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your mind. Now we get into a little bit
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more explanation and and and that day men would wear these
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long flowing robes or or cloaks or whatever and and when they
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would get ready to run for action or battle whatever they
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would grab the excess material bring it up tuck it into their
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belt. Now they're ready to run and and
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and ready for battle. There there's a what is is a is
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a of of of readiness, he said. Let your mind be ready to you
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know and have a ready mind to obey God gird up the the loins
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of your mind. You're ready for action for
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righteous works. Now we have a modern day example
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of greeting of the loins of your mind.
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You've ever seen these kids that don't see it that much anymore.
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But they used to sag, remember sagging.
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You know the kids will wear their pants down below their
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behinds and and the the belt, the, you know, it's down here
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and they got the underwear showing and he thought the girls
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thought that was cool. You know, I don't know what.
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Girls thought that was cool, but they thought it was and you
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know, they were you know, walk around like that, thought it was
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cool. But I see some of these guys
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sometimes and and they, you know, they got a run or
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something running from the police or whatever, and they're
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running with their pants held up like this, you know?
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And they're, they're running. I'm like, dude, I mean, you
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know, back in the day, we have some crazy fashions, but at
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least we wore our pants on our on our hips, you know, And so
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you couldn't. You saw the police Boom.
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You could take off, see. But now you guys, you guys are,
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you know, cinching up you guys. And then I thought about it.
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But really, you know, they were being biblical.
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They were girding up the loins. So that they could run and get
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away from the law, whatever they were being biblical anyway.
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I hope it's a fad that has faded out.
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But just when I'm ready to beat up on the younger generation
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about sagging and stuff, I'm reminded of platform shoes and I
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shut up. Amen.
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So some of you remember that painful experience Gird up the
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lines of your mind. That word mind.
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It means, it implies our way of thinking, readiness to learn.
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Our attitude. Was your attitude girded up when
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you walked in, say, speak to me, Lord?
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Or did you have a saggy mind? A loose, saggy mind,
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undisciplined mind? It's the devil's workshop.
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We have to have a mind that's ready to follow the Lord, and
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that comes through being in the word and personal devotion, time
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and all. You know, some days I'll be
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quite honest, my mind's a little bit more saggy than others, but
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I understand I need to gird up my mind if I'm going to truly
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serve the Lord. Peter said be sober.
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This is how you this is how you would have girded mind.
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Looks like you're sober. The Greek word nepho, it means
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to be selfcontrol, clearheaded, selfcontrol, clearheaded.
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You know, under the the the direction of the of the Holy
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Spirit. Next time somebody calls you
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with a little bit of gossip, you should you should say to them.
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Call me back when you're sober. Oh, it gets quiet.
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Call me back when you sober up spiritually, because there's
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nothing worse than an inebriated, spiritually
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speaking, inebriated believer who's under the influence of the
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world and spreading gossip. Call me back.
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You know, girl, Girl. Let me tell you what.
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Yeah. Oh, I got something in is.
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Is that what Jesus is saying about the pastor?
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Is that what Jesus is saying about that brother or sister?
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Oh, call me back when you're sober.
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Have a sober mind. Here's the 2nd indicator of
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transformation. You know, last service laughed
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at that line. But you guys are real quiet, so
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I don't know. I mean, hit a nerve.
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I don't The second indicator here is transformation or of
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transformation I should say is resting in the grace of God, he
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said. Peter says rest in the grace of
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God. I love that rest in God's grace.
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Do not rest a little bit. But he says fully resting in the
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grace that is to be brought to you when at the revelation of
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Jesus Christ when Jesus Christ is revealed.
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Hebrews chapter 13, verse 9 says, do not be carried about
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with various and strange doctrines.
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Be careful, for it is good that the heart be established by what
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grace, not with foods which have not profited those who are
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occupied or obsessed with them. In other words he's writing the
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book of Hebrews written to Hebrews written to Jews who
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we're very familiar with Jewish the law and and and and what was
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kosher to eat and what wasn't kosher to eat.
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And yet their their their rest was found in what they didn't
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eat or they did eat and and in the right of Hebrews are saying
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don't let your rest be in what you didn't eat or did eat.
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Let your rest. Be in the grace of God.
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Let your heart be established not in works, but be established
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in God's grace. Is your heart established in
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God's grace? They fully established in the
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grace of God? Grace is the great stabilizer of
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our faith, the great stabilizer of our faith.
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May have a rough week and things and go right, or maybe you
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messed up or whatever, but God is grace.
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And what did God say to Paul when Paul was saying, Lord, just
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take this one thing away from me.
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I'll be just fine if you remove this one thorn in my flesh.
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The Lord said no, I'm going to leave it there.
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I know you're flawed, but my grace is sufficient for you.
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Amen. Some of us are like Lord.
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I didn't know I needed that much grace, but thank God his grace
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is sufficient for us. Grace is the great stabilizer.
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Grace stabilizes us today. And when we see Jesus, it will
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be there. It will be the atmosphere that
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will be present. When we see Jesus face to face,
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I think some of us have the idea that we'll get to heaven and the
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Lord will say, hey, I'm glad you're here, but got a couple of
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things I want to talk to you about.
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No, he's not going to call you on the carpet.
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Peter says grace that will be revealed at the Revelation of
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Jesus Christ. Grace will be there to welcome
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you home. Amazing Grace, Thank God for His
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grace. Grace at the Revelation of Jesus
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Christ awaits us. I love what it says in
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Revelation chapter 21 verse four.
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Talk about God's grace, what grace looks like to me.
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And I know some of us may go home see the Lord before Jesus
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returns. But when we we come to be with
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him, whether we leave now or, you know, he comes back to the
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earth and we're still here when he comes back or we shouldn't be
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here. Amen.
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Should be in the rapture of the church.
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But there's be some believers that will be around even when
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Jesus comes back because they'll be converted during the great
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tribulation period. But having said all that, kind
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of doing, a little rabbit trail. But this is what grace looks
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like. Revelation chapter 21, verse
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four. And God will wipe away every
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tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death,
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nor sorrow, nor crying, nothing to cry about.
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There shall be no more pain. For the former things have
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passed away. Aren't you glad about that?
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That he will wipe away every tear from our eyes?
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Amen praises holy name. Here's the third indicator of of
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a transformed life that Peter gives her is obedience verse 14
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as obedient children, obedience not being conformed.
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What does it mean to be obedient to the Lord?
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To not be conformed to the world or a former lust, but to be
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transformed by the power of God? Romans chapter 12 verses one and
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two says, I beseech you. Paul says therefore, brethren,
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by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living
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sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is a reasonable
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service. And do not be conformed to this
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world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you
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may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of
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God. The the what we see today with
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all this woke ISM and people being canceled on all this, is
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that people demand that you be conformed to this.
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This to Godless ideologies to be conformed.
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It means there's peer pressure from outside and if you don't
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conform, we will cancel you. And there's a lot of people who
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have who have bought into this and and who have been bought
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into, bitten into the forbidden fruit, if you will, and and have
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bought into this lie. And so we have people with
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educations and and degrees and and their professors and and
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colleges and universities and when you.
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Ask them, because they've been so conformed to the world, what
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is the definition of a woman? They have no idea.
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You know why? Well, because I'm openminded.
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No, you're so openminded. Your brains are falling out.
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What's happened is you've been pressed, pressed into a form in
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a mold by the spirit of this world.
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And the Bible says, don't be conformed, be transformed, be
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transformed. Amen.
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And how are we transformed? Through obedience.
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We must obey the Lord as obedient children.
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We are transformed that we're transformed from the Greek word
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metamorpho. And it means it's where we get
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our word metamorphosis, and it means to change into another
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form. What's the form worth being
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changed into and to the likeness of Jesus.
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Second Corinthians, chapter 3, verses 17 and 18.
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
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there is liberty. But we all with with, excuse me,
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unveiled face, Behold, as in a mirror the glory of the Lord.
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Are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory.
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Amen. Lord, I don't know what my next
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stop is in life, but I know it's glory.
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Amen. From glory to glory.
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Just as by the Spirit of the Lord, transformed as we behold
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Christ, we're transformed from glory to glory as we're obedient
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to the Lord. The 4th and final indicator, if
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you will, of our transformation is He says be holy has to do
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with our conduct. Verse 15 read along with me
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first Peter chapter one. But as he who called you as
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holy, you also be holy and all your what conduct?
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All our conduct. This is evidence of
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transformation. I mean, I'd be perfect, but but.
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Jesus, if I truly have been saved, I have salvation and I've
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and I've been transformed and my life should change, it should be
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a transformation of change in my life.
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Because it is written. He says be holy, for I am holy.
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The devil has given holiness a bad name.
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I know as a young man coming up. As a young man not coming up
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but. Mama dragging me to church.
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Amen. Holy people to me is they dress,
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you know, drag all black or whatever, and they didn't wear
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any makeup. You know, they they look scary.
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Amen. There.
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That was, that's what holiness was scary to me.
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It was like, you know, that's holiness.
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Now that person, that person over there looks like they're
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mad. They've eaten a bunch of and
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lemons and and prunes and stuff. You know, that person is holy.
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You know I'm holy. And so when I think about
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thought about holiness as a child and even as a new
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believer, I thought, oh, oh man, it's like, you know, put me in a
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straitjacket or whatever. No, holiness is liberating.
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I, I, I, I love the way that this gentleman is theologian
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John Brown declared or described holiness, if you will.
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And he said holiness does not consist in Mystic, super Mystic
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speculations. Enthusiastic fervors or
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uncommanded austerities, that is restrictions, that is laws and
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regulations. It comes in thinking or it
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consists rather in thinking as God thinks and willing as God
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wills. close quote. It is just saying Lord you will
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be done. It isn't that what Jesus taught
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us, to pray that will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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To do God's will and to seek to do God's will is what it means
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to be holy. It's not what you how you dress
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and all that. It's Lord.
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I want to be like Jesus. I want to do what pleases you.
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Lord, help me to be holy. Help me to be holy.
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Want you to note that Peter is not just subscribing some form
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of doctrine so that he can control the people.
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He says no. It is written.
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It is written. Be holy, for I am holy.
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It is. He's declaring the word here be
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written it be holy, for I am holy.
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That word holy is from the Greek word hegios.
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It means physically pure or morally blameless.
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Lord, I want to do what pleases you.
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I want to hate evil. The fear of the Lord is to hate
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evil, to love what is good. And so Lord, help me to do that.
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I'm not perfect because holiness, my friend, is a
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lifelong endeavor. It's sanctification.
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And the Holy Spirit is is, is sanctifying us and working in us
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all the time. And I love what it says.
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I'm thinking Hebrews chapter 4. You should have had the
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reference here, but Hebrews chapter and in the book of
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Hebrews it says that that those who are sanctified, He who
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sanctifies and those who are being sanctified, He is not
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ashamed to call them one. He's not ashamed to be one with
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them. I love that that while God is
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cleaning us up, cleaning our act up, that he's not ashamed of us.
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He's not trying to hide, you know, you and the addict you
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know, or someplace. But he walks with us and helps
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us to be holy in our conduct. He corrects us and he
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disciplines us and all. Philippians chapter 2 tells us
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that it's a lifelong endeavor, holiness St. being sanctified.
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It says that work out your own salvation with fear and
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trembling. Verse 13 of Philippians chapter
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two, he says For it is God who works in you both to will into
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the and to do for His good pleasure.
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That's that's the work of sanctification.
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That's the work work of holiness in our lives.
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God working in us that we might do His.
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Good pleasure that we might live a life pleasing to him.
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So if we've been transformed, it should affect our conduct, the
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conduct of our lives as well. I would say holiness is this
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way. Consider it to be this because
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again, a lot of times theologians, you get so wordy
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and stuff that it messes with people's minds and they they
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think they got to do a certain thing or be a certain way here.
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Here's what holiness is for men in my life that is continually
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running. To Jesus.
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Rather than running away from him, when I fall on my face, I
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run to him. When I make mistakes, I run to
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him. Whether I'm in the valley or on
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the mountaintop, I'm going to always run to him.
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Running to Jesus. Have you been running away from
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the Lord? I just can't do.
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No, you can't do it, but the Lord can submit yourself to Him.
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Run to him. Don't run away from 1:00 because
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he is provided for us a throne of grace, whereby we might
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receive grace to help in time of need.
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Aren't you glad about that today?
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You're not Okay in recap. By way of recap, we have joy in
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the salvation that we have. Peter says that we have joy.
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It's a whole hallmark of our of our salvation having joy in the
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Lord. And Peter said we have it
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because it's it's the fulfillment of prophecy.
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We have it because it's fully disclosed to the whole world.
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Anybody can possess this joy. We have it because it brings
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transformation, that change in our lives.
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Therefore, you know what is. What is the big So what?
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In this entire message, here's what the So what is to me?
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I don't have to fear in a world full of fear because I've been
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saved through faith in Jesus Christ.
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Amen. I don't have to fear, you know,
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think about the fires and Maui and different things going on in
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the world. And Jesus said in the world we
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will have tribulation. But behold, I've overcome the
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world, and because we have salvation in Him, we are
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overcomers through Him. Because we have salvation in
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Him, we do not need to fear this word, declares and Isaiah
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chapter 43, and we will close with these verses.
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The Lord says to us, Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have
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saved you, I have called you by your name.
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You know He calls you by your name and and your name.
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He knows everything about you, and yet He still calls you.
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I've called you by your name. You are mine.
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He's not ashamed of you. You belong to him.
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When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and
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through the rivers they shall not overflow you.
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When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor
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shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God.
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The holy one of Israel, your favor.
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Amen. Praise this holy name.
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Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord.
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If you are here today, you do not know Jesus Christ is your
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Lord and Savior. Today is your day to guarantee
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that your appointment would be one of salvation and not one of
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rest by opening your heart to Jesus right now where you're
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seated, bow your head and simply repeat this prayer up to me to
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give your life to Christ to receive Him as your Lord and
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Savior. Simply say Lord Jesus, I
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believe. You are the Son of God.
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I believe you died for all of my sins, and I believe that you
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were risen from the dead. Forgive me for my sins.
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Come into my life and change me. I receive you today as my Lord.
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It has my Savior in Jesus name. Amen.
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If you prayed that prayer, the Bible says that you're a new
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creation in Christ. All things have passed away.
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Behold, all things become brand new.
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There will be people after the service or doing this last song.
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You can come down and meet with them.
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They'll be standing here at the stage to give you some
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information to help you to continue to grow in the Lord or
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just to pray with you. God bless you.
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Thank you. See you next time.
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We pray that you've been encouraged by this Bible study
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delivered live from the sanctuary of Calvary Church.
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this week.