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Does Sin Really Matter? · Wetumpka Church of Christ Online

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Good morning. It is great to see everyone
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here, especially our visitors and we hope and pray that you
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will stay a little longer. So we will all get a chance to
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meet you and greet you and just thank you for being here.
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Lori has so great to have you guys as a member here and
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especially all your kids looking forward, to all that, all of you
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will be able to do for the kingdom here.
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Have you guys ever made a bad decision or a poor decision?
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You know, the ones where you look back and you think well
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that was stupid. I shouldn't have done that.
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Now, stand up, before you hit. Brent keeps telling all the
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things that he's done wrong. Let me go ahead and I will
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explain to you one, just one of the many that I have done. and,
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Just so, you know, I was really, really young.
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Okay, so I have an excuse, but back when I was in Canada, and
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that is not an excuse. Okay, but back when I was up in
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Canada, I was in second grade. And, you know, when your second
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grader, you Well, you don't your brains not really developed yet
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and discretion. Well, I had none.
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And we don't really have that now anymore, but we had recess
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and the recess is basically a time where the teachers are like
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we need a break from you. You get outside.
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Well, unfortunately this day is raining.
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So the kids are inside and the teachers went outside.
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And so we are in the room by ourself.
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Second graders. Not smart.
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Okay, we're in the room by ourselves and I am being such a
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great student. I am sitting at my desk playing
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with, you know, those colored blocks where you can make some
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amazing art pieces and Designs. Well, I am doing that.
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All on my own, really focused on what I'm doing.
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And I'm making this masterpiece of blocks.
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And I realize as I get to the end.
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I'm missing a block. I need this one, not any block,
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but a specific color in a specific shape of block to
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finish this art piece and me with my not so developed brain.
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Yet looked around. And I noticed the exact one I
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need is at the bottom of the stack of this girl who's been
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building this tower for the whole time.
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And I hone in on that one. I don't look anywhere else to
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see but I see that one and I think that's it.
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And I get up go towards their again.
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My brain is not developed yet. And I don't think of what's
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going to happen and I just grab that block from the bottom and
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yank it out. And as the whole Tower Falls, a
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light bulb goes on and I think question had done that.
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And the girl looks at me and I look at the girl and I'm like,
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he's bigger than me. And I take off running now.
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We are in class desk, chairs, 30, students, and I'm running.
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I'm, I'm, I'm quick little, I am quick.
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So I'm running around that classroom weaving in and out of
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all these different deaths and I'm not sure what happened.
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If a desk stepped out in front of me or if a chair did or if I
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just tripped on my feet, but I go Superman into a corner of the
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desk. And split my eye open.
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From that point on, I remember some Bloods coming out.
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Somehow a teacher comes takes me to the bathroom.
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She's wiping the blood but it keeps coming later.
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Go to the hospital. They put stitches.
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Apparently, there was staff on the desk and I get a staph
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infection in my eye for the next two weeks.
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I'm in the hospital is called sick kids, but it's a children's
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hospital up in Toronto during that time.
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Younger brother determines. Hey, it's going to be fun.
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Since mom's not here. I'm going to go jump on top of
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the metal sprinkler system and split my foot open.
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Well, he has seven stitches and somewhat having to lift it up.
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Now, if you know my family, we don't sit still very long.
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And so he's hopping around all over the place with stitches.
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My dad ends up having pneumonia and my grandma is trying to deal
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with that and my mom's trying to take care of me.
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And it's all because because my brain was not fully developed
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and I took a little piece of block that actually was probably
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right there on the side of the table that I could have got.
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And I never finished that art piece.
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Dumb decisions. Luckily.
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I learned from that. Well, I'm still learning but
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it's one of those things, as a kid, you know, you're learning
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right and wrong. We're learning to make better
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decisions. But as I get older, as I was
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growing, as I'm developing and I'm learning what is right and
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wrong. I learn.
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Also those things that are wrong like me, taking that from her.
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Yeah, that was wrong. Wasn't a sin?
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Because I'm still learning those things.
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But as I learn what is right and wrong, then those things taken
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from other stealing from others, that is sin, and I'm learning
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what I should and should not do. In the teen class.
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We are going over the Book of Joshua.
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And there are so many amazing stories in Joshua.
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That helps us see the physical side of what God wants us to
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understand spiritually. And one of the things that we
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read a belt is sin. You know, too often our society
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kind of makes light of sin. It downgrades it.
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As it's really something that's not really that important in the
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2016. I know that's a little old for
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this Statistics, but that's the newest one that I could find.
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And I know that the statistics, the statistics are probably even
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worse now than 2016, LifeWay research group did a study on
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America's view of sin. And this is what they came in.
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They were able to find out 2/3 of Americans 67 percent, say
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that they are sinners. Meanwhile, only one in 10.
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Americans actually says that sin.
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It doesn't even exist. There's no such thing as Sin.
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There's no such thing as, right and wrong.
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There is no absolute truth. Within that.
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One of 10 people majority of it were 18 to 44 year olds.
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Eighteen forty four year olds guys.
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Now, they're older now and they still have that mindset.
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That there is no sin. Recorders.
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That means 74% of Americans disagree with the idea.
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That if you just make a, if you make a small sin, well, you
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don't deserve Colonel punishment.
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It's only the big sins. Like if I murder someone, if I,
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if I steal something that's a big sin, but you know, a little
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sins. It doesn't matter.
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That's seventy four percent that were that took this study are
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saying. You know, you can sin and it's
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not that bad as long as it's not the big.
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It scares me guys. Because in Romans chapter 3, 23,
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as Cody read for us, all of us, have sinned, we fall short of
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the glory of God. And then what is the wages of
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sin verse 6:23, it is death. As it doesn't matter.
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If we considered a big sinner, a little sin, its death.
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I bet you most people will consider lying a little sin and
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yet in Revelation, chapter 20 and 18 among all the big sins
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that the world would consider lying is also listed.
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And it says, if we continue in those things will have eternal
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punishment. Sin.
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Is a serious thing. And unfortunately, from these
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statistics the world is making light of it.
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Why do I think that it's the 1844 year olds that are having
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this mindset? Unfortunately, it's because the
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Christendom within this world we stop preaching about Sin.
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We stop preaching belt, the consequences of it, the effects
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of it, if they're not taking care of and we talk about the
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love and the grace which we have to know, we have to abide by but
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it's that love and grace that we Have that is able to take away
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that sin. So that we can actually do with
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that. Peace.
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That only comes from our savior. So this morning, what I want us
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to look at is kind of this mindset sin.
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Does it really matter? Does it matter?
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Is it something that we need to look at not make light of?
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We need to look at as far as you know what I'm gossiping about
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someone. You know, that's a little sin.
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That's not that bad or do I need to think of God can IMS it I
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need to make sure I'm not doing it or whether how I'm acting in
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front of school where I'm at or the workplace where I'm at.
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Am I reflecting Christ? Am I sinning when no one else or
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I don't think anyone is around. His is my mind thinking it's
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just a little thing. It's a little sin.
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It's It's not that big of a deal.
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God's eyes sin. His sin that separates us from
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him. So what I want to do is I want
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us to go to back to Joshua back to chapter 7, where we actually
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read about the story of Aiken, all of us, know, most of us.
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I'm pretty sure know the story of Aiken.
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So I'm not going to dwell dwell too much on it.
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I'm going to overview, it kind of quickly, but I want us to see
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that. As God said the Old Testament is
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therefore our learning Institute or for us.
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That's to look at and see what we see physically happening to
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Aiken. What we see the effects of his
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decision. How does that affect us?
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Spiritually your day? How can we gain from his?
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Misunderstanding of obedience to God's work.
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So this morning, if you don't mind turn with me to Joshua
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chapter 7 and what I want us to do is I'm just going to give you
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a quick overview. A bacon and actually it can
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actually story actually starts in chapter 6 and chapter 6.
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You see that Joshua is there with the army of Israelites and
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they are now going against Jericho and God specifically
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gives an instruction to Joshua to tell all the Israelites what
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they should and should not do when they are when they have
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conquered Jericho. And if you turn with me to
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chapter 6, verse 18, it says and you and this is referring to all
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the Israelites. Joshua is now explaining that
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and you by all means abstain from the accursed things.
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Right now, we have no clue what the accursed things are.
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But he says, abstain from the curse things lest.
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You become the cursed. When you take of the curse
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things and make the camp of Israel, a curse and trouble it.
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But all the silver and gold in the vessels of bronze and iron,
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are consecrated to the Lord, and they shall come into the
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treasury of the Lord. So this is what God had
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commanded, don't take any of the accursed things.
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When you see the gold, when you see the silver, when you see the
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bronze, all that supposed to be consecrated for the Lord and
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give them to the Lord. All of Israel heard that.
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But Aitken pepper, some verse 1, it says, but the children of
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Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed things
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for Aiken. The son of car me, the son of
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Zebedee. I the son of Zera of the tribe
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of Judah, took the accursed things to the anger of the Lord
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burned against the children of Israel.
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And so, he had taken those things when he took it.
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The Israelites had no clue. But they went up against AI
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small little town. They only took 3,000.
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People are going to go feed them and yet they were defeated.
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In fact, 36 people were killed because of that.
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They come back, and they just don't understand what's going
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on. God said, he's going to be with
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us. God says he's going to take care
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of us. We just defeated this huge City.
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This massive place that was had so much protection and God just
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took care of it. And now we can't even defeat
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this one little small City. They had no clue, why.
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And then God explains to them what's going or God explains to
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Joshua? What was going on?
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Verses 11 through 13 in chapter 7 and then God commands all of
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the Israelites to come before him.
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And he will pick down from tribe, from families, to
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household to. So, to show, who was the one,
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who they committed the sin. In Aiken was chosen.
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And a can because of his sin. He and his family.
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We're stoned and then he and the accursed things were burned
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together. And then we read last part of
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chapter 7 and verse 26. The Lord turn from the
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fierceness of his anger. Why?
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Because the accursed things, the sin that was in the camp had
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been removed. Now.
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You can ask the teens. That's the quickest.
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I've ever probably gone over a chapter.
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But that's kind of a background. Of what's going on here, Aiken?
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Made a bad decision. This decision was sin.
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In. So what I want us to look at
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today is what can we learn? From Aiken.
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From the story of Aiken cuz none of us want to.
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When we come into eternity be in that fire, the Aiken was in.
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And God says that if we are contrary to his will, that we
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will burn Eternal fire. You see the Old Testament is
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more of the physical and the New Testament is more spiritual.
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A can burn physically, we will bear in spiritually.
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And as we go through this, I want to take those examples of
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old news, physical, and spiritual.
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And I want us to gain a better knowledge of, what?
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What truly sent is in, God's eyes.
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So, number one. Lessons we can learn from Aiken.
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Number one. We learn what sin is.
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I'm not going to look at what the world is saying sin is
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because they say, you know, there isn't anything.
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Since just you it's in the eyes of the beholder.
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It doesn't matter if you're going against me than that.
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Sending. Because you're going against
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what I want, but that's not what the word of God says, in regards
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to what sin is. So let's look at it in Joshua
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chapter 6 1819. We just read God specifically
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said, do not take of the curse things.
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That's it. Don't take of it.
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Aiken said, I'm going to do it. 7:1, what were those things?
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We find out in chapter 7 verse 21.
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He says. In, this is Akin giving a
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confession before Joshua in the Israelites.
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Well, let's start in verse 20 in a can answer Joshua and said
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indeed, I have sinned against the Lord, God of Israel.
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And this is what I have done. When I saw among the spoils the
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beautiful Babylonian garment two hundred shekels of silver and a
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wedge of gold. Weighing 50 shekels.
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I coveted them took them there. We are it in the earth in the
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midst of my tent with the silver under it.
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You know. Aiken tells us that sin is going
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against God's command. Ten is going against.
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What God has told us to do, or told us not to do.
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It's interesting on the online dictionary.
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It states sin is the transgression of the law of God.
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Disobedience of the Divine, command a violation of God's
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will. Finally, the world got it,
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right. That's exactly what it is.
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Those Disobedience to God's command.
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That's exactly what a can did. You know, I think it's very
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interesting when we see what happened to Akin.
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He said, I saw, I coveted, I took it, and then I tried to
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hide it. you know, in James chapter 1, that's exactly what
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we see written here as well. James 1:13 says let no one say
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when he is, tempted. I am tempted by God for God,
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cannot be tempted by evil. Nor does he himself, tempt
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anyone? But each one is tempted when he
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is drawn away by his own desires and enticed, you know, his own
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desires right? Here is the same word that talks
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about over here as far as coveted.
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A can coveted. And here we are drawn away by
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our own desires, or the things that we covet verse 15, then
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when desire has conceived. It gives birth to sin and sin
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when it is full-grown or when is not dealt with, when it's not
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taking care of, when his not repented of brings forth death.
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That right. There is a story of Aikens Life.
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Esau. David took it, then he hit it.
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What's in? Tends to Disobedience to God's
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work. If God has told us what we
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should be doing in life. If he's told us that we're
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supposed to be honoring our father and mother.
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If he told us that we're supposed to live being set apart
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from the world not to live in a way that we are just like the
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world. And we want to be like the word
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world. Then that is what we are
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coveting. We're coveting.
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What is not holy. God says, sit be set apart.
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That's what the Israelites were supposed to be physically.
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They were set apart. We should be spiritually set
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apart. Number two.
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Sin has consequences. And most of it.
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Affects others. A can probably had no clue that
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just taking. The Garment silver, the gold.
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Would cause 36 men to die in a battle.
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I can probably had no clue that and probably even after this
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happened in they died. He probably didn't think.
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Oh, it's, that's on me. He probably thought.
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Wow. I thought we were better
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Fighters than this. And see that happens.
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A lot of times when we have sin in our life.
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It's all about us. We don't care about how it
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affects others and we see this in Aiken.
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Well, and I'll explain this a little more as we go on, but
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here, In verse 5, it talks about how the 36 perished.
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Another thing that happened is when we finish the book of, I
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mean the chapter 7, it says that he and his whole family his
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livestock all that he had. Was burned.
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What? Well, was known his family and
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him was stoned and then was burned. a lot of times sin,
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affects our families to the point where We can be such an
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ass Kurt discouragement to them or we can leave them down the
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same path that we're going as well.
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And again, sin is a selfish thing.
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It's all about me. And we see that from Aiken.
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I think. Well, I'm going to let just the
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Bible speak here, book with me. At 7:30, going the last part of
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verse 5, you see when these 36 men were struck down.
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It says therefore the hearts of the people.
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The Israelites melted a being came like water here, had that
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spiritual high as far as you have been on a mission trip or
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you've been at camp or something and you've just learned all
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these things spiritually and you are just so excited about
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teaching other people. You're so excited about doing
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these things and you On that spiritual High, that's how the
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Israelites were. They just defeated Jericho.
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God gave them a great. Victory.
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And on that Victory, they come to small town.
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And their decimated. And now their faith or hope in.
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God is just waned. And it says, their hearts
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melted. Now, their faith is like that
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tossing and turning of the waived.
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I don't know what to believe. They don't know who to believe
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and it didn't just stop with them.
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Keep reading verse 7 and Joshua the leader.
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The one God picked to lead them into the promised land and
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Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the Earth on his face before
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the Ark of the Lord until evening, and he and the Elders
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of Israel. And they put dust on their heads
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and Joshua said a last Lord. God, why have you brought this
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people over to over the Jordan at all to deliver us into the
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hands of the amorites to destroy us.
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Oh, that we had been content and dwelt on the other side of the
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Jordan. Joshua.
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Hard to blame God. I want us to understand that sin
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can affect. T', us.
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Someone else's sin. A consent that none of the
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Israelites realized at this time, made people dealt God.
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Made their faith crumble. As we cannot stop and not
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understand that fate our sin within this world.
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The things that we think is hidden the things that no one,
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we think, no one else will ever understand or no one else will
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ever know it affects others. And hear the leader of the
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Israelites. Has no clue, but he's starting
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to blame God. He started to mope around
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thinking. What are we going to do now?
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All the people in Canaan? They're all going to come up
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against us. Okay, you can't even beat the AI
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people yet. We're going to come together and
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we'll just wipe you out. Joshua's like Lord.
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What are you going to do now? All your people will be gone.
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As one man. Thought he could hide his sin
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from God. Don't think that our sin can be
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hidden. Especially from God.
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Now. Here's spiritual application on
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that one. If we take the physical, the
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Israelites. The Old Testament, we bring that
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to the New Testament. The Israelites represents the
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church. When we have people that are in
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the congregation that are in sin, it affects the congregation
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at the hole. I wanted to sit in.
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And let me give you example. Let's say, you are trying to
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encourage your neighbor. They come to Bible study or two
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to study with you. And they find out someone who is
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in, send that they are aware of attends there.
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What's their view of the congregation that person, they
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know? So, maybe you've heard this
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phrase. Oh, someone's.
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So goes there. They he did me wrong.
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There's if that's what Christianity is.
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I don't want any part of it. Or maybe it's like the church is
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full of Hypocrites. How many times have you heard
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that? But a lot of times it's because
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of one person the way they're acting in a simple way is what
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they represent as the church as a whole.
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So and so is a Christian I'll never believe that and I'm I'm
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holder than they are. You should see them at school.
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You should see him at work. You should see him when no one
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else thinks they're watching. Proverbs chapter 14.
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Think it states that the best. Proverbs 14:34 says
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righteousness, exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any
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people. See you living a life of sin and
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impact. Whole congregation in the
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influence that we can have in our community.
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Number one, we learn what sin is in God's eyes.
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Number 2, we learned the sin has consequences and most of the
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time. It affects others.
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And then that's for where's three?
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It's out of order. All right, and that is three,
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and three. You can't hide your sin from
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God. How many times we think that
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guys? How many times do we think?
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No One's Gonna Know. I was going to find out.
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I can handle it. It's all right.
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It's just in the world's eyes, a little sin.
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I'm good. I have a feeling that's exactly
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what Aiken was thinking as well. And why do I think that well
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chapter 7 1315? I want us to understand what's
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going on. God has just basically told
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Joshua, stop your whining, their sin in the camp deal with it.
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That's basically what he said. Verse 10 in chapter. 7 till lord
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said to Joshua get up. Why do you lie Less on your
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face? Israel has sinned and they have
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also transgressed much Covenant, which I commanded thee where
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they have even taken some of the curse things and they have both
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stolen and deceived. And they have also It among
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their own stuff. They are for the children of
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Israel could not stand before their enemies.
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And then God tells him, this is what you need to do.
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Verse 13, Joshua get up sanctify.
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That word sanctify is to set apart to make holy the people.
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In other words, terrify the people, their sin.
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You need to get it out. Pure for the people, sanctify
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yourselves for tomorrow, because less says, the Lord of God of
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Israel. There is an accursed thing in
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your mid. So, Israel, you cannot stand
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before your enemies until you take it away.
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The accursed things from among you in the morning, so it wasn't
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done right then, but it would have been done the next day.
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In the morning. Therefore you shall be brought
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according to your tribes and it shall be that the tribe which
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Lord takes shall come according to their families in the family,
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which the Lord takes shall come by household in the household.
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Which Lord takes your come Man by man.
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Then it shall be that Hugh is taken with the accursed thing
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shall be burned with fire. He and all that he has because
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he has transgressed the Covenant of the Lord and because he has
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done a disgraceful thing in Israel.
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All right. Step back for a second.
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So now God has told Joshua tell all of Israel every man who
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taken. There's sin in the camp.
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Someone's take the accursed things.
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We're going to have judgment tomorrow.
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A canoe. What was going to happen?
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Akin could have made it right that night and confessed.
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But from what we get there, he's still assumed that I was not
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going to find it. It's buried in my tent.
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No one else knows. Too often.
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That's what we do. When we think of sin.
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We think we can hide it from everyone else and we think we
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can hide it from God. A can have that mindset.
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Look at verse 21 chapter 7. We see Aiken, therefore
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confesses. But it's too late.
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It's because he was already caught.
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Can you imagine being in front of all the Israelites and they
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start going through? All right, here's all the
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tribes. All right?
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From this tribe. We're going to take Judo all
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those that are in the tribe of Judah.
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You guys come here. All right, from that.
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Let's go. Then to the families Z rights.
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Yeah, you guys are the ones Chosen, and you can see a can
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over. In the site is like So far, I'm
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still in here. Maybe it's someone else that did
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it in a lot of times. We think that to we think, well,
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I'm sure someone else has a bigger sin than I do.
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And then they brought the family of the zero Heights.
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Man by man in zap dog was taken and then he brought of the
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health soiled car, me, son of Zebedee.
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And then the son of Zira. The tribe of Judah was taken.
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And then Aiken himself. We can't hide the sins before
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God. And unfortunately, it was too
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late or Akin Proverbs chapter. 15, 3 says the eyes of the Lord
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are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good
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Hebrews 4:13, and there is no creature hidden from his sight,
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but all things are naked and Open the Eyes of him to whom we
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must give a count. It can had to give an account.
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We will also have to do the same X5 1 through 5.
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We talk about or we see about innocence of fire.
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They thought they could Lie to the Holy Spirit, they thought
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they could basically deceived God.
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We know how that ended up. We can't hide things for God and
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we can learn that lesson through Aiken.
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And his sin. And what happened to him,
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because of that? Second Corinthians, 5:10 reads
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for we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ.
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But each one may receive the things done in the body,
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according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
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As all of us are going to have to appear before God one day.
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I'm going to have to appear before God.
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As he lays out the book of life and the Deeds that we have done.
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Is he going to find sin that I've not atone?
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For I've not asked forgiveness up.
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Because one day that will come. We learn what sin is we learned
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that sin, affects others and make them and mostly in the
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negative way. You can't hide your sin from
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God, then for sin must be removed from your life.
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As we can't just say, sorry, God, please forgive me of this
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in and then continue in it. God says, it has to be removed
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again. Going back to Joshua chapter 7.
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Look at verses 11 and 12. I think this is very important
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because I think we have a misunderstanding of this Israel
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has sinned. They have congrat transgressed
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my Covenant which I commend them for.
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They have even taken some of the accursed things.
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They have both stolen. They just and deceived.
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They stolen what their curse things they've received because
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they have also taken the things that were supposed to be given
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to God the gold, the silver. And they're deceiving, everyone
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thinking that it's their own, and they have also put it among
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their own stuff. They brought it into the camp
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there for the children of Israel could not stand before their
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enemies, but turn their backs before their enemies because
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they have become doomed to destruction.
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Here's the part. I want us to understand, God is
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saying, neither will I be with you anymore?
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Unless you destroy the curse from among you.
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God says, I can't be among sin. I can't have any part of that.
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And if you're not willing to get rid of that sin, I cannot be
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part of you. Do we see that in New Testament?
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Yes, we do. We see it over and over again.
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In Romans chapter 6 if you guys want to turn their we're coming
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back to Joshua, but if you want to turn their Romans chapter 6,
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basically a lot of the whole chapters dealing with this but
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it deals with the idea of look just like Christ when we are
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baptized, we are buried. In his death.
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We are he take Christ, took on our sins on the cross and then
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he died to those sins when we come in contact with water in
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burial. Baptism.
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We are just like Christ in the grave.
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Our sins are there. And he says, but as you rise
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Anew, you are a new man. The old man, you have crucified,
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what? I've left that old man, the ways
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of sin, the way I used to live. I left that in that watery grave
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and I've rise to new, I'm a new man.
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I'm here in Washington. God's eyes.
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That's what the gospel is. That's what we're supposed to be
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obeying when it says that we are to obey the gospel of Christ.
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It's a death burial and Resurrection having our sins
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taken away. Being raised up a new.
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And then verse 7 for, he, this is chapter 6 of Romans verse 7
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for he who died has been freed from sin.
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Now, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
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with him. Knowing that Christ having been
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raised from the dead dies, No, More Death, no longer has
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dominion over him. For the death that he died.
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He died to sin once for all, but the life that he lives.
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He lives to God. This whole thing came about
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because people are saying, well, if God is great, then why don't
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we just send more and more? So we have more grace in Paul's,
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like, heaven forbid. Why would you do that?
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You've destroyed the sin. You've destroyed that an old
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man. Don't go back into it.
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Our sin. Well, it has to be removed from
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our life. In Revelation chapter 2. 14 to
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16 here crisis riding to the different churches in Asia.
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And this is the Church of Asia that he is writing to and He
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commands them to repent, the whole church.
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Why? Because they were allowing sin
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into the congregation verse 14. Says they were, they were
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abiding by the doctrines of Balaam.
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And then they were also biting by the doctrines of the
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Nicolaitans. And God says repent.
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Get that out of there. At the first part of Revelation
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2. It says, if you do not do these
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things then I will take my lamp stand in.
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Other words. He will take his name away from
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that church and recognize it as his church anymore guys, we see
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how Akin sin had to be taken away from the camp.
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We also see in the New Testament that sin within the congregation
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has to be taken away as well. Sin can corrupt and God cannot
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be a part of that. You know, we are so blessed.
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I cannot tell you how thankful. I am that.
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We're at a congregation here, where all our elders loved us so
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much that they don't want sin within the congregation.
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They know how it can affect our community and our ability to
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outreach and tell those and so because they love the souls of
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everyone of us sometimes They have to.
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Talk to those and withdrawal from those that will continue in
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sin. So that the church might remain
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pure. That's exactly what God was
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telling us in the Old Testament with Israelites.
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It has to be taken away for me to be there.
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But a blessing. Wait, we have to be here.
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Number 5. This is our last one.
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Unrepented sin will not go unpunished.
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All these are very basic all these.
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We all know sometimes I think we just need a reminder, a how
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important sin is in God's eyes. Why do you think a can never
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repented? I don't know.
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I really don't. But we see the consequences of
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what happened, because he didn't.
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He had an opportunity. But he didn't take advantage of
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it. We also have opportunities.
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What a blessing it is that we live under the New Testament.
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Where we have those opportunities to make it right?
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We don't have to do those continual sacrifice.
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Has you know, there's no way that we could be pure under the
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Old Testament, but we're under the new law and through the
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grace of God. We can have our sins washed
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away. We can remain pure in his eyes.
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What a blessing. What does the Bible say?
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In regards to this? You see Joshua.
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The unrepented sin because Tina's family to be stoned to
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death in the sins. That was a part of him is whole
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livelihood. It says a sheep has go.
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It's all that he had was burned with fire.
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I don't want that for my family. I don't want any of you don't
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want anyone around to go to hell.
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He can again, is that physical embellishment or embodiment of
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what will happen to us? If sin is not accounted for when
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Christ comes again? Joshua was the judge during that
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time, Christ will be the judge for us today.
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Again, second Corinthians 5:10 says that we're all going to
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have to appear before Christ, and the Judgment seat.
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Romans chapter twenty eleven through fifteen, tells us that
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we will all be judged. According to our works, Jude
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verse 14 through 18 states, that Jesus will come and execute
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judgment on. All those who are ungodly for,
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all their ungodly Deeds, which they can committed those who
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walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
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Going to have to come before God one day.
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You know, Aikens, a simple story.
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But a man who coveted something that God said not to, because he
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desired it so much. He led many others to death.
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Who questioned God? And if it wasn't taken care of
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God would have left all of them. Since serious.
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And I want us to understand look sin is serious, but the love of
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God is so great. The love of God is amazing.
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Is he even though? Realization of sin that is
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devastating. It's dangerous, its destructive,
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its deadly, it can affect others, it can cause others to
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lose their own life. If it's not removed.
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Where are we? We don't have anything to look
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forward to. What a blessing, it is that God
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has made that possibility of Salvation through his son.
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See you soon, is something that will will always have to deal
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with because we're living in a sinful or imperfect world.
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But I'm so thankful that this world is not our home.
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Because of Jesus sacrifice, we can be pure in God's eyes.
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When we submit to his will, and not our own, cool able to see
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his face. An eternity in heaven, John
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chapter 1. 137 and here, this letter is written to those that
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are already Christians. And it says, if we walk in the
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light, if we're doing what God is wanting us, if we are
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striving each day to be right in his eyes.
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He is in, if we walk in the light, as he is in the light.
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We have Fellowship one with another and the blood of Christ
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Jesus. His son cleanses us from all
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sins. If we say that, we have no sin,
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we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
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If we confess our sins. He is faithful and just to
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forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all
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unrighteousness. Let's keep on, let's keep that
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in our Forefront of our minds each day as we strive to live
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her life in accordance with God's word.
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This do what it says and not that The Temptations of the
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scenes around us go and heated. But to overcome through Christ.
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Confess those sins and strive harder not to do them again.
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But if you haven't obeyed, the gospel of Christ, do not put on
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Christ and baptism. Galatians 3:27, then you're
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still in your sins. As we read in Ephesians 1:3 and
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Ephesians 1 verse 7. Says, unless you are in Christ.
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You cannot have the spiritual blessings such as forgiveness of
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our sins and eternal life in heaven.
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Don't be like, hmm. He waited.
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We don't know when our time will be up on this Earth.
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We don't know when the Lord is going to return, but we do know
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that will all come before him in judgement.
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There's things that. You need, if there's things that
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you are struggling with, there's anything that we can do to help
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when you come as we stand in sync.