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#10138 - God’s Will Must Be Done God’s Way - Genesis 27:24-46 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Open your Bibles, Genesis
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chapter 27. We're going to finish the
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chapter today in our verse by verse study, through the Book of
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Genesis and the title of our message is God's will must be
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done. God's way God's will must be
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done. God's way we covered the first
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half of chapter 27. Last time we learned it's
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another one of those unfortunate chapters in the Bible.
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Fortunate snapshots in a family. A sad chapter among many
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blessings of God. We learned that sad chapters.
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If we looked at our lives in a similar way like a books add
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chapters common go. I was talking to a brother not
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too long ago. Reminding him that the
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difficulty that he's in right now.
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I said, you know, these things they pass and so endure it face
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it, but these things pass and it may not feel like that right
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now. But Aang's past, and we grow
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through them. And God, he reveals the whole
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story to us. He doesn't hide these episodes.
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He lets us see that the people that he uses are imperfect
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sinful, And I shared last time that it's one of the reasons why
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I believe in the inspiration of the scriptures.
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If we were writing, the Bible of we were writing these stories.
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We'd leave out all the bad stuff and we'd want to make ourselves
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look well. But God doesn't do that.
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He gives us everything the good, the bad, the ugly that he might
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get the glory for the great things he has done.
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But there's another reason why these true stories in all their
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difficulty are recorded in the scriptures.
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Just jot it down, I'll read it to you and Corinthians chapter
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10 in verse 11, the Bible says this now, all these things
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happened to them as examples and they were written for our
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admonition, in the NLT. It says to warn us.
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Why are we reading Genesis chapter 27?
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It's a warning, and it's a very strong warning.
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It's a warning. Not to be manipulative, it's a
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warning, not to be deceitful, it's a warning, not to play
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favorites in your Home. It's a warning not to be a liar.
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There is all sorts of warnings in this chapter.
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It's recorded for us to see the effects.
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Sometimes you just don't believe what the pastor says.
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You just don't believe what Mom and Dad are trying to tell you.
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You just don't believe what a friend's council is basically,
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the council sounds like this. Don't do it, you'll regret it.
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Oh no, I've got a special anointing, I've got a special
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reason, I've got a special, it might be bad for you and might
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be bad for them but it won't be bad.
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For me, but the Bible is very clear that the wages of sin is
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always death, always nobody here gets around that.
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These stories are revealing to us the warnings that God has for
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us. Through example, another passage
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in Romans chapter 15 and verse 4 says, for whatever things were
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written before were written for our learning.
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So you got warnings and learning so that we through the patience
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and the comfort of the scriptures might have hope
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Studying through the Old Testament, you may stop.
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And think, what in the world are we doing in the Old Testament?
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Why are we reading the Old Testament?
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Some Churches even take the position.
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Where New Covenant Believers, the Old Testament is not
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relevant anymore. That's not true.
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We don't take that position. But when you're reading through
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the Old Testament, may be reading through the Bible and
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you're going through Genesis, you can understand it.
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Leviticus. You can our Genesis Exodus, you
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can understand it. Leviticus.
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You start to wonder. What value is this?
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And why would God have this in your?
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And how can I learn from this book of the Bible or this
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chapter, or this true story here in the 21st century?
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Why are we studying a book? That's thousands of years old,
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how irrelevant something? The Bible can be, especially the
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Old Testament, how boring look, you don't understand something.
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You understand this very clearly I want you to know this for the
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rest of your life. The Bible might be a lot of He's
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but one thing, it's not it's not boring.
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This is not a boring book and forgive us pastors.
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If we have ever made the Bible boring for you because we have
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met were misrepresented, the very love letter of God to your
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heart, the Bible is not boring. Now you might be boring, the
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Bible is not boring, or you might be on his interested, or
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you may not want to listen, or I might fight some of the truths,
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but the Bible is not boring. Every the Bible says, Jesus
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would even quote this from Deuteronomy chapter, 8 man
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should live by every word. That proceeds from the mouth of
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God, every word, don't avoid the Bible or minimize the Old
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Testament, it's valuable, it's practical.
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And when you think about it, we're studying the life of the
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early church on our weekend Services were looking at the
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beginnings of life in Genesis. The beginning of everything, in
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the book of Acts were learning about the beginning of the
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Church. What God's will is for the
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church in the early church, you can see that they continued
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steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine and fellowship.
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The breaking of bread and prayer.
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You can see, they make great progress.
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Cities were transformed lives, were transformed leaders at the
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time when they would show up to a city, would look at them ago,
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we looked of the Apostles. The Believers, those that are
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turning the world upside down have come here to.
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They were angry with the followers of Jesus, as much as
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they were angry at Jesus himself.
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And how did they become so strong?
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Well of course we know in the book of Acts and chapter in the
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early chapters they receive what the baptism of the Holy Spirit
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they became Witnesses through the power of the Holy Spirit,
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they received the power from on high to be the witnesses that
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God has called them to be and the main tool that they used was
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the scriptures. Now what scriptures were they?
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It wasn't the New Testament. In the beginning of the book of
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Acts and New Testament did not exist.
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It was still being lived out real time.
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What were the scriptures that strengthen?
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Their early Believers? The Old Testament?
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The Holy Spirit, use the Old Testament in the Fulfillment of
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Messiah, and it made them strong men and women.
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One of the commitments that I've made to you as a pastor and as a
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leader of this church is to feed.
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You spiritually to nourish you in the word of God, week after
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week, month after month year after year.
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And what I mean by that is my plan is is eventually one day.
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I hope to teach you through the whole Bible verse by verse
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chapter, by chapter book by book.
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So One day, I will be able to say, like, Paul did to the
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elders and in the book of Acts and Ephesus that I have not
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shunned to declare to you. The whole counsel got, I can
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say, like, he did. I'm innocent of all men's blood
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so far. I've made it through in 23
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years, the New Testament. And I was some of the Old
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Testament. Maybe a third, maybe a, I don't
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know, we haven't looked yet. I didn't count the books, but a
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lot of the Old Testament, as well.
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But my goal is not just to do that to do that.
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I want to do it be led by the holy spirit.
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So the time he's not my business, I'm going to go
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through and some books. We've had to repeat over the
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years because God has been doing different things and we need to
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be reminded, that's my commitments, how I was
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discipled, that's what I grew under and that's what I have.
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The privilege of bringing to you, to teach you the Bible, and
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teach you, what it means, and teach you how to live it.
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The early church was students of the Old Testament.
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These things are here for our strength and our growing.
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I do want you to hold it. We will get to Genesis 27 but I
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need to build this for you. So why we split it up into two
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weeks? Go over to Second Timothy real
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quick here. Just to you see the reminder in
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the New Covenant, in the New Testament, what Paul wrote to
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Young Timothy about the power of the scriptures.
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Second Timothy chapter 3, when you get there I'll draw your
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attention to verse 14, second, Timothy 3, Verse 14.
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Says but as for you Timothy continue in the things which you
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have learned and being assured of knowing from whom you've
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learned them that from childhood you have known the holy
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scriptures parents. It's important to read the Bible
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to your kids even beginning in the womb that they might know
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the word of God and hear your voice.
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Reading to them the scriptures. That's what happened in
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Timothy's life. How did Timothy become Timothy?
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A lot of different things in his life, but I'll tell you one that
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we learn right here, his mom and his grandma studied the Bible
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with this kid and discipled him in the word.
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So he says here you've known the holy scriptures and notice what
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the holy scriptures do they are able to make you wise for
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salvation through faith, which is in Christ?
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Jesus, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is
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profitable. Notice the four things that the
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Bible is profitable for number 14, Doctrine, Doctrine, teaches
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us, the truth about God. The Bible's profitable, you want
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to know about God. You need to know the Bible.
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Secondly. Not only for Doctrine, but for
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reproof reproof is teaching us what's wrong?
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The Bible teaches to what the truth about God.
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Then the Bible teaches us what's wrong about us.
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And in our lives, what needs Improvement, thirdly the Bible
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teaches us correction its profitable for correction.
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This is teaching. God is so gracious to us.
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He doesn't just point out all the problems with us all the
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difficulties. But the third thing, he does, he
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teaches us how to take the wrong things and make them, right?
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That's what correction is. I know, Corrections not very
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popular among us because we get Very defensive, we're all puffed
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up with pride, but you and I need to be corrected continually
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in learning how to grow in. God's grace, the Bible will do
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that. Not only that number for the
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last thing is instruction in righteousness.
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So doctrines teaching us. What's right?
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Reprove is teaching us what's wrong Corrections teaching us,
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how to fix what's wrong and instruction and righteousness is
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teaching us how to stay, right? And the Bible covers everything
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about your life. Life.
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So in verse 17 that the man of God the woman of God may be
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complete thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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So please please, please be careful with your Bibles.
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Be careful with your Bibles. Don't let anyone take it away
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from you? Don't let anyone discourage you
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from using it from reading it. Don't let the church that you
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attend. Just make minimize it.
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Like it's not important and you don't need a Bible.
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I'm here to tell you, you I need a Bible even if you're in a
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church right now that tells you you don't go buy one, you need a
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Bible, you need a Bible for when you're not in that building for
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an hour you need a Bible for the other 23 hours and the our
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you're in there you need the word of God.
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You need to read it. You need to listen to it.
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You need to study it and you know what else?
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You need to do it. The Bible is profitable for you
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super important in your life. God's word is truly effective
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and Powerful. I look around as we've been
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going through the servants class that we've been reminded in
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First Corinthians that God has chosen the foolish things of the
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world to confound the wise. And I look around and I see the
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progress and I see the change and I see what God has done
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Among Us. I see it individually in many of
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your lives. I see it in a broader sense over
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the larger life of our church. I see it with the City of
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churches in our community. They're following after the
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Lord. And I looked particularly here
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among us and it leaves you in awe, of the faithfulness of God,
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he keeps his word and his word is profitable for you.
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If you will read it and do it, your life will change very, very
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quickly. I look around as we learning
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God's word Watching God. Do the work as we're reading as
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we're studying, as we're taking heed to it.
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God's word will accomplish his work.
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My warning to you. My encouragement to you, is to
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stick with it, there's nothing else.
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I know you're look, you might be looking for something else
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today. On the radio program someone
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called in today to or actually they texted in about the new
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popularity of Deliverance Ministries, Deliverance
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Ministries. Look Read your Bible.
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Don't worry about chasing after all kinds of new Ministries and
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Butt-head. You don't understand.
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The Bible is boring. It's not and because you think
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that you open yourself up to all kinds of weird stuff.
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Now you need some special Ministry and you need some
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special. I know what my problem is, I
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just got a demon. If you are a believer in Christ,
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you've got no demon inside of you.
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The Holy Spirit, dwells inside of you, he is come to
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permanently dwell in you and Empower you who is convinced.
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That it's a demon. Possessing you a demon doesn't
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possess you. False teaching, possesses you
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You don't need some Deliverance Ministry or watch some.
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Well, you know, there's a new movie out there.
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Why did you go there? It's all bunk.
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That was an old 80s term if you remember.
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But you use whatever you want to use today, it's not true.
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Just give me the Bible. What do you have to say?
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To me, God I'm struggling right now. 99 times out of ten.
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I'm not saying the Demonic realm.
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Spiritual warfare doesn't oppress.
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You doesn't stress. You out doesn't come against
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you, doesn't you circumstances to distract you to try to get
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you to believe a lie? The Demonic Realms?
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Real don't misunderstand me. But the idea that you can blame
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everything on the demon is not true.
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It's your flesh. So just repent.
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It's amazing. What repentance and forsaking
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sin will do in your life? Where do you learn that in the
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Bible? Not some Pastor In a Pulpit.
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The Bible says that to a church. No less Jesus himself.
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Who is very careful with his words to the church in Ephesus?
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He said remember from where you have fallen repent and repeat
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the first Works. He said that to a church.
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He didn't say, I'm sending a Deliverance Ministry, hang on,
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we'll be right there. He said, look, you know, the
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biggest problem in your life, as you've walked away from me.
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As you've left, your first love is need to.
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Remember, remember when we were close and intimate when you were
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open to me, you were communing with me.
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You were reading and praying. You were receiving from me and
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now because you remember now, you know where you are, the next
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step is, you need to repent, that's a sinful condition for a
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Believer to be in. And then go back and start over
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again. Pick up where you left off, go
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back to that new Believers. The, or that does that time when
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you were to obey God very, very quickly, and you're not so quick
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anymore. Now you're thinking about in and
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checking it out and you're not so sure.
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And you're asking everybody's opinion, that's not how it was.
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When you were a new believer, you didn't know anybody to ask.
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It's just you and Jesus. You're like, okay, okay.
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You want me? You want me to you?
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Want me to go apologize to people, I offended.
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Okay, I can do that. That you don't ask around, who
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should I apologize? Wuxia.
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How should I should iyou know? I think in the end you didn't
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develop this phrase until a little bit later on, but this
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phrase is often used for delayed obedience.
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Don't get mad at me. You just admit it, okay?
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But this phrase is often used for delayed obedience.
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You know what it is? Well, let me pray about it.
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there are definitely times to pray, but there are also times a
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get up These are you serious Pastor?
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Yeah, that's exactly what God told Joshua.
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He told Joshua enough get up their sin in the camp.
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You go take care of it. There's no you don't need to
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pray anymore. This you know what's wrong?
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And God began to reveal to him. the Bible is powerful church
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when you read and study the scriptures, whether it's the old
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or the New Testament, Look at the examples.
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Look for the examples and the lessons that God wants to warn
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us with or teach us pause telling us not to miss out and
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gloss over them. Like they don't matter.
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It's been said that experience is the best teacher.
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It's true but listen, it doesn't have to be your own personal
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experience. It could be somebody else's that
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you can learn from. So I was raising my kids.
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I would share with them, you don't, you don't part of my
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parenting and sometimes I went a little overboard trying.
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Two. Trying to help my kids avoid all
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the sin, but my I was super concerned about my kids turning
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out. And following my bad example,
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which none of them really ever saw in my BC days because by the
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time, my kids were born, I was saved in my young, my oldest was
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just coming to make observations of our family when we got saves
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that, you know, he was what three or four years old when I
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got saved four and a half. And so I would teach them like
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man, I don't want you to do this, I don't want you to do
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this. I want trust me.
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You don't want to make these decisions.
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Trust me, you want the benefits of obedience over and over and
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you know, there could be that, that response.
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They don't come on dad, come on, come on, dad.
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But truly my heart. As I know, they'll make their
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own decisions and I know they will venture out, but my heart
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will never change. Just trust me.
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Trust me, son. Trust me daughter, It's A Hard
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Road. The way the Old King James says,
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the way of the transgressor is hard and it truly is with that
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in mind Genesis chapter 27. We have we drop into this family
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where the transgressions will make life, very hard for them
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because they attempt to do the right thing.
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The wrong way. Pick up where we left off in
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verse 24. Now, then he said, are you
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really my son? Esau.
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And he said, I am and he said, bring it near to me and I will
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eat at my son's game so that my soul may bless you.
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So he brought it near him and he ate and he brought him wine and
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he drank, then his father. Isaac said to him come near now
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and kiss me my son and he came near and kissed him.
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And he smelled the smell of his clothing and blessed him and
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said, surely the smell of my son is like the smell of a field,
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which the Lord has Has blessed. Therefore my God give you of the
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Dew of Heaven of the fatness of the earth, plenty of grain and
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wine. Let the people serve you Nations
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bow down to you be Master over your brethren and let your
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mothers sons bow down to you. Cursed is everyone who curses
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you and blessed, be those who bless you, then it happened as
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soon as Isaac finished blessing. Jacob Jacob had scarcely gone
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out from the presence of Isaac that Esau, his brother came in
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from hunting. Isaac pronounces.
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The blessing upon Him questions. He's uncertain.
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His eyesight is dimming. He smells he comes near and the
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blessing was given which leads us to the theological question,
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was it? The will of God for Jacob to
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receive the blessing? The answer?
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Yes. Yes, it was.
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The will of God, Rebecca knew that Jacob knew that that's not
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the problem here. The problem of Jacob receiving
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the blessing is. That's not the problem.
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That's not the issue. The issue is this.
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Rebecca went about it the wrong way.
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She went about it the wrong way, God would have accomplished his
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will without all of these manipulative deceitful
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Shenanigans by Rebecca. This is a perfect example of two
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people who are convinced in the purpose of purposes of God and
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believe, God will do what he said but are impatient and want
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to help God out a little bit. They went about doing God's work
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but not in God's way. Moses did the same thing, Exodus
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chapter 2 David second, Samuel chapter six.
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We can think of over and over again examples where you want to
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do the right thing, but you choose the wrong methodology.
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Her deception was designed to bring about the purposes and
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plan of God, but the Bible never sank sins a sin to bring about
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God's blessings. God never sanctions or approves
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of sin in Romans chapter 6 and verse 1.
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Paul said as much inspired by the Holy Spirit, he said, what
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shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that
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Grace May abound, certainly not. How shall we who died to sin
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live any longer in it? You want to know the will of God
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for your life. There are many parts of the will
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of God. We may not know exactly but we
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do know this. It is not okay to send that is
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not God's will for your life. But you don't understand that if
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I do this, and I do this, and I do this, and I do this, and I
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cut this corner, something really, really good will come
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out of it. God does not sanction sin.
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You are deceived to think that you can control the outcome of
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your decisions. You're deceived, you don't know
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how it's going to turn out. You don't know what is the
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consequences, maybe? I don't know, but I do know
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this, if I'm obediently following the Lord, I can trust
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him with the outcome. I can trust him with the outcome
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of the decisions, as I seek to follow him.
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Notice, again, in verse 30, it happened as Isaac receives, the
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finishes blessing. Jacob, Jacob barely went out,
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and then it's brother came in verse 31.
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He also made Savory food and brought it to his father and
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said to his father. Let my father arise and eat of
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them. With son's game that your soul.
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May bless me and his father. Isaac said to him, who are you?
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You gotta on wonder what that sounded like was a timid that
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Was he afraid? Like, did he sense who you are?
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Was he who are you? What are you talking about?
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Like he's, there's confusion there, sin always brings
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confusion. He says, I am your son, your
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firstborn Esau verse 33, then, Isaac trembled exceedingly and
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said who, where is the one who hunted game and brought it to
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me? I ate all of it before you came
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and I have blessed him and indeed he shall be blessed.
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You get the scene right at that very moment.
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God arranges a, he's Esau comes in from hunting makes a meal for
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his dad. There's great fear, Isaac.
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Realizes he blew it. He's been deceived.
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Something's Happened. He doesn't quite know.
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Notice verse 34, when he saw heard the words of his father,
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he cried with a nice. Exceedingly, great and bitter
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cry and said to his father bless me.
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Even me also o my father, but he said your brother came with
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deceit in his taking your blessing away and he saw said is
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he not rightly named Jacob which can mean conniver or deceitful
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or supplanter? He has supplanted me.
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These two times, he took away my Birthright and now look he's
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taken away my blessing. He said have you not reserved a
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blessing for me verse 37, then Isaac answered and said he saw
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indeed I've made him your master and all his brother and I've
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given him to you given to his servants with grain and wine are
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sustained him. What shall I do now for you?
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My son and he saw said, have you only one blessing?
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My father bless me even now and he saw lifted up his voice and
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wept And then, Isaac, his father answered said to him, behold
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your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth and the Dew
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of Heaven from above by your sword.
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You shall live and you shall serve your brother.
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You know, it shall come to pass when he becomes wrestle you when
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you become Restless that you shall break his yoke from your
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neck. Esau, he weeps bitterly begging.
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His dad bless me. Bless me that his dad.
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Basically says, you're too late buddy.
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It's gone. The blessings been given.
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You see, Esau here we have more insights on who he is.
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Really the The circumstances in our lives, these difficulties.
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I wonder who I'm speaking to you today.
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That's been ripped off. That's been taken advantage of
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one of the benefits. If you will, you want to call
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it. That one of the consequences of
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this situation, it's as revealed your heart.
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To reveal who you are. You didn't quite know who you
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were until you experience that. That's where he saw his.
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You can see his response, he wanted the blessing but he's
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lost his senses in his anger and rage.
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You notice in verse 36, he's not thinking straight in verse 36
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season. He rightly named Jacob for, he
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has supplanted me. Now, he took away my Birthright.
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We just studied this church. He didn't take away his
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Birthright, he saw gave it up for a bowl of stew.
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That's what'll happen when you're filled with bitterness,
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when you're allowing anger to control, you will not see
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reality, you will redefine reality.
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This is not the true. Jacob didn't steal his
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Birthright, Esau despised. His Birthright.
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He despised him. He's described in Hebrews, when
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we studied Hebrews chapter 12, he talked.
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He saw his described, he says, Let there not be any fornicator
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or perform profane person like Esau who for one morsel of food,
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sold his Birthright. And, you know, that afterward he
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when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected for.
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He found. No place for repentance, though.
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He sought it diligently with tears.
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We learned something about this. This an emotional response does
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not necessarily equate to repentance big crocodile tears
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and emotion, doesn't necessarily mean that you're repentant.
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It requires as we learned in the the letter to the Corinthians
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Godly sorrow, not human sorrow. Godly sorrow where you recognize
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your synagogue is against God, not what you've lost, not the
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current condition of your It wasn't really the birthright or
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the blessing that he saw wanted. I mean it wasn't really the the
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position that God placed him in, he just wanted a blessed life.
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He wanted a blessed life, the birthright, he didn't want the
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birthright, he sold that for a bowl of Stew.
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I want you to equate when you think of Birthright
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responsibility. Birthright equals
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responsibility. He didn't want that.
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He wanted the blessings. You could say it this way.
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Esau here is an example to avoid a warning for unite now not to
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want the blessings without the responsibility.
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Not to want the blessings without the responsibility.
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I just want bless me. Lord bless me.
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Lord, bless me. Bless me.
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Bless me. And there are many.
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There are many today in the broader Body of Christ that want
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the blessings, but not the birthright.
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They want the blessings of God, but they don't want
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responsibility. They'll take religion, but not
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responsibility. Take church.
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I'm not opposed to church. Some would say, as long as it
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doesn't change my life. I can fit in somewhere.
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What do you have for me? Pastor, what service is, what
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night of the week? I can't do this, but I can do
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that. I can't do that.
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But you can. And I'm not talking about like,
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hey, I can't be in Fellowship because I have to work.
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I mean that you have to provide for the needs of your family but
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you know, I can't be. That's my golf day.
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Oh really? You can't change your golf date
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of being worship and serve the Lord.
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No, not really because I paid for it in event, you know all
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the reasons. So you kids, stay home and
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you're all golfing in the everything is in disarray, why?
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And I wonder if somebody I could somebody he's golfing right now.
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It's not in my notes. I just golfing.
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I don't golf's on my mind. I don't know why.
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I'm not even a golfer but I wonder it doesn't have to be
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golfing. You put anything in there?
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You want the blessings? Not the birthright.
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You want the benefits but you don't really want to die to
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yourself. You want to add to your life,
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you don't want to lose your life.
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And that's going to cause you great problem.
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They'll be those that would come into the church, sit down and
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say, okay pastor. Here's my our you better make it
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good preacher. And then they'll walk out upset
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church, then it was boring. So boring, it's so boring.
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Yeah, maybe it was. But what about you?
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Where are you in your walk with the Lord?
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Even in the most boring a Bible studies God has a word for you.
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Even if this, it's this more and more we we were warned about
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this years ago. I remember teaching this in the
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early days of this church, 23 years ago how the church is
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becoming very consumer. Very consumer is very at the
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right at the birth of the church growth movement where men came
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in with their plans and their methods and now they're going to
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build the church and it created generations of people that now.
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Look at the church of what do you have for me?
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What do you have for me? And there is responsibility for
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the leaders but there's also Also, responsibility for the
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Believers to buy that nonsense. What do you have for me?
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When did Christianity ever become?
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What do you have for me? somewhere along the way, we've
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lost the self-denial that's required and being effective
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followers of Christ, Jesus would even say that you are not a
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follower of him, if you do not deny yourself.
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That is the pathway. And God is not wanting to
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develop consumers but commune errs worshipers of God,
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surrendered, men and women. If you walk out upset of a
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church, let it be for the conviction of sin in your life.
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For the revelation of where you are, let it be where you're not
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happy with, where you are in your walk, and where you are in
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relation to God, not all these other things.
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What do you have for me? And you didn't have this and you
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didn't do that. And it'll get you nowhere.
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Let it not be the case for us, but rather to yield, you're
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going to end up being like, Esau here.
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I want the blessing. I want the blessing, don't you
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have any blessing? Esau, you've got a heart issue.
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You've Got Deep problems. This family is in disarray.
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For a variety of reasons. But that doesn't end with the
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bitter cry. In verse 34, this exceedingly
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great and bitter cry. This isn't the kind of crying
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that is because of pain. It's not the kind of crying
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because of loss. It is an angry bitter
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unrepentant, response to his dad here.
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His dad was deceived. His dad was unable to see, he
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was deceived. Might I add by the person that
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he trusted the most, his spouse. And he was deceived by perhaps
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the second or third person. He trusted the most his son and
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his other son comes in and gets mad at dad.
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Gets mad at his brother. I can see that.
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And it didn't stop there and bitterness won't stop until it.
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Can totally consumes you look verse 41.
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So Esau, what does your Bible say?
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Say it out loud. So Esau hated Jacob.
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What did Jesus say about hatred? Hatred is just like murder
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starting to murder him in his heart already.
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Because of the blessing, which is father of blessed him.
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He saw said, in his heart, the days of mourning for my father,
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at hand, and then I'm going to kill my brother, Jacob.
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I'm gonna spend my days seven days, customary days of
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mourning, but as soon as I'm done morning, you're a dead man.
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Jacob. That's what's Happening Here.
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The wages of sin is death. This is what's happening because
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of the sin in this family. Jesus said, hatred the beginning
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of murder. We're learning Genesis chapter
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4, verse 5. It says Cain was very angry.
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His countenance fell. And what does he end up doing
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murdering? Is his brother in the words of
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Esau verse 42? Her older son were told to
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Rebecca so she sent and called Jacob or younger son and said to
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him, surely your brother Esau Comforts himself concerning you
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by intending to kill you now. Therefore my son obey, my voice
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flee to my brother Laban and haran and stay there with him, a
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few days until your brother's Fury turns away, until your
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brother's anger turns away from you and he forgets what you have
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done to him. As if that's gonna happen, then
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I will send and bring you from Are why should I be buried also
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of you both in one day and Rebecca said, Isaac, I'm weary
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of my life because of the daughters of Hef.
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If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these
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who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be
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to me? Sin has wrecked them all.
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Jacob can't be at home. Esau has become a murderer.
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Rebecca's all jacked up and worried and concerned and she is
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weary. It says we'll get to that in a
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moment. Esau notice I circled the It's
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just so they would stick out for me.
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It says, in verse 34, bitter cry.
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I have that circled verse 41, hated verse 41, kill verse 44,
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Fury, verse 45 anger, That's this whole home is in disarray
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because they tried to do the right thing the wrong way.
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And it's important. We learn to do the right thing,
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the right way. Allowing God to lead and guide
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us. She really believes this is
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going to cool over for in a few days.
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Just another sibling, squabbles Between Brothers, but she was
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wrong by the time. Jacob returns home.
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His mom will be, Mary will be buried.
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It's going to be away for a while.
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The result of her conniving was that she lost both her sons.
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It didn't work out the way and verse 46.
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Did you notice the result of her conniving sinful plan was as
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she's weary. She's weary for a reason.
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She's concerned about Jacob and who he's going to marry, but
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she's weary why? Because deceitfulness and
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Rebellion against God will wear a person out.
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It will destroy the person on the inside out.
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That's why you don't see it right away.
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People are good to put on a face and a smile and everything's
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good. How you doing, brother?
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How you doing brother? Oh, hi sister.
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It's great. Hallelujah.
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Great song Pastor or whatever the behavior is but inside
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bitterness is destroying their lives.
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Little by little, they're weary and tired, not serving the lord.
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The Bible says, don't grow weary in well-doing.
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You can be wearied and well doing You can be weary and sin,
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which will you choose? The Bible says, don't be grow
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weary in well-doing, because you have a hope there's a future.
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There is a good into it, but not for Rebecca.
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She lost both her boys over this.
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The person who lives in sin, weariness is a part of the
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package. I mentioned this verse, but let
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me give you the address and Proverbs 13.
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Verse 15 says good understanding gains favor, but the way of the
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Unfaithful is hard and that's where that's the new King James,
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the Old King James, the way of the transgressor.
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Now, as we move forward, in Genesis know that Jacob, the
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conniver he is in for some tough hard times too because he's
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going to meet a man by the name of Laban and Laban will be a
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hard man to work for and to live with and he has lessons, you'll
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meet his match in Good Old Uncle Laban.
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We can, we can avoid it altogether as we submit
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ourselves to the Lord and do his word.
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Allowing him to use us and grow us that we might do the right
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thing the right way. I was just sharing that with the
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team today. It's so important past in our
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pastors meeting as well. It's so important to do the
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right thing all the time. If you do the right thing all
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the time, you don't need to worry about the future.
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God is taking care of it. You don't need to worry about
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being found out, you don't need to worry about some things,
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hidden sin being exposed, you don't need to worry about
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somebody being hurt down the road because you handled it the
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right way the first time and when you handle it the right way
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the first time every time, it gives a sense of peace and rest,
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where you can just trust in the Lord because you don't need to
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worry about anything. That would come from deceit.
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Of course, are we perfectly perfect in that know we're human
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but I'm telling you, you can have a pattern of obedience in
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your life and you can have a pattern where when I think the
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saying is, when you tell the truth you don't need a good
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memory. Well I would say the same thing
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when you're doing the right thing every day you don't need
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to worry about the future. Because the truth is the truth
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and the revelation of the truth will always come out, just give
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it time. And as you're waiting on the
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Lord, your strength is renewed. You're not trying to connive and
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and put on the hairy arms and make somebody smell like the
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dirt and come on. We're going to make no, we're
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just like hey I don't know how though.
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I know what God Said. I know what he wants to do, I
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know how he flipped the blessings?
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I don't know how that's all gonna happen, but I know God's
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word is true. I'm going to trust him.
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And you just live your life day by day Moment by moment.
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So, father, I thank you for the word that you have for us for
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the strength that you impose to us through your word.
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We're grateful for the warnings. We wouldn't want to see other
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families heard or, you know, situations like that.
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That brings us no joy. However God we know that even
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now in the presence of you and all eternity, you've sorted it
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all out for them and they're in your presence and there's great
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joy in your presence of the work that you're accomplishing in
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them. With this whole family, how you
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sort it all out in perfect judgment and perfect
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righteousness. But today, we're here God and we
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recognize our great need for you.
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We recognize that there are some that need to remember from where
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they have fallen and to repent to do.
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The first works not just in some big sin.
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Like some big dramatic thing but every little day we don't want
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to leave our first love God. We don't want to be caught up in
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the things of this world or the cares and concerns that might
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take us away. But rather, God, we want to
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press in. And to be built up in you.
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May you have your way with us tonight and maybe today you're
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just hearing your, you've got your like and I need to I need
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to be in a relationship with God.
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And if you're even thinking that like kind of considering that I
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would agree with you, Jesus, he came to die for your sins, so
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that by faith in him, your sins can be forgiven and your life
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can be forever changed. Do you know?
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Jesus, he came and he said, unless a man and by extension a
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woman is born again. He won't see the kingdom of
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heaven, and I invite you to turn away from your sins today and
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receive the Forgiveness of your sin to turn your life in a way,
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where you're now. Presenting yourself to God and
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denying yourself and choosing to follow him, because that's the
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simple invitation of Jesus. The simple invitation of Jesus
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is follow me, and I think over the years, we've complicated, it
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made it, more than it is Jesus, invites you to follow him.
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He doesn't say join a church or Get religious try to change all
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your behavior. He says, you just come to me all
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you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest
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the real rest that you're looking for the rest of the
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Forgiveness of your sins because he says he will give you a rest
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for your soul. That's that the concern of your
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soul is your eternity. And so if you're here today and
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you'd say Ed, I do I want my sins forgiven, would you stand
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to your feet on want to pray with you?
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I want to give you the opportunity to turn away from
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your sins. God bless you guys over here.
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Who else would say? That's me that this is the
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moment that God would say bless you, that God would say that.
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And today I want you to know that there's a Assurance of your
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salvation You can know that, you know, there's a surance
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confidence. Is there anyone else you guys
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online or on the radio right now?
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Got speaking to your heart drawing you to himself
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downstairs, perhaps I got just has your attention. the God
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would Minister to you, courage, you strengthen, you And so, one
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of the things we started doing you guys, that are standing, as
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we started just having the pastor's come to you, you're
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going to see a lot of that as things, there's going to be
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movement in the room Church where God is moving because a
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pastor's are mobilizing just like Jesus.
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Did he just went to those? He went to them.
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So we're trying something new that we just think God's going
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to use greatly and that the pastor is going to come to you.
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So if somebody sends standing next to you sought on purpose,
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Encourage you and to build you up and to remind you, you're not
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alone. So pray with me.
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You can pray, something like this.
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You could say, God, I come to you tonight and ask for your
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forgiveness. For the sin, my life.
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I desire wholeness. And completeness and peace.
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I believe Jesus, you died for my sins and rose again, the third
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day. So that I don't have to live.
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In sinful Behavior, like just feeling stuck all the time.
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I turn away from my sin and I choose to follow you and father,
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I just feel that burden and I I feel that burden like people
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feel stuck in their sin not just stuck in Life or in a
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relationship or in singleness not that but stuck in their sin.
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If you're you you that's you right now.
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I want you to respond. Do you feel stuck in your sin?
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I want you to respond right now. I want you just to say out loud.
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I don't want to be stuck. God unstuck me.
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Release Me. You don't have to live that way.
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You don't have to be stuck. Jesus Christ has set the
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captives free. You can live in Freedom where
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the spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty, there is freedom and
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it's accessed by faith. Believe God that he is freed.
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You believe God, that he is healed, you believe God that
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there is a future and a hope for you.
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And I just think you know, just saying it out loud.
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You could say it out loud maybe while we're singing you can say
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it out loud. How'd you know while I'm
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talking, it doesn't matter, just say it out loud.
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Got free me, I by faith. I believe you got.
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It seems impossible. But what's impossible with man
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is possible with God? And father, I just pray for a
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releasing of the power of your spirit among us.
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We would learn our true identity and you walk in the power and
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the Privileges that are ours by Birthright.
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Born-again Birthright. We receive and accept the
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responsibilities. And also we want to enjoy the
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blessings of being your daughter and your son.
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So bless your church tonight. Lord, refresh Us in the spirit
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in Jesus name. Amen.
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Amen. Bless you guys have responded.
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