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2 Corinthians chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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  2nd Corinthians Chapter 7 Let us pray.
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  Our Lord, our God, our King, our Master, our Savior, our All in
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  all, El Elyon, the Most High God Yahweh, from everlasting to
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  everlasting, the only uncreated Lord, we lay down prostate like
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  dead men at your feet. Lord, we worship you in spirit
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  and truth today. God, we want a touch from you.
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  Lord, we want to grab a hold of the hem of your garment and
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  receive healing today. Healing over our past, healing
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  over all of our emotional instabilities.
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  God healing over all of the times that we were wrong,
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  Healing over all the times that we were slighted.
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  God and spoken down about. God, we desire healing today.
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  God from all of our childhood traumas.
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  God, we desire healing today from all of the wrong thinking
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  about what is happening in the world today.
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  God, let us get out of the negativity.
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  Father, I pray that we can be found being completely saturated
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  by the words that we hold in our hands.
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  God, let this be our worldview today, Father and tomorrow and
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  for the rest of our lives. God, let every insecurity fall
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  off of us. Let all greed and malice fall
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  off of us. God, let all of our hurts and
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  hang ups and habits and addictions fall off of us.
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  God, I pray mental illness, cancer.
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  God, I pray epilepsy. Lord, leave in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  against Alzheimer's and dementia.
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  God, let it leave. In the name of Jesus Christ, let
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  all tormenting spirits in our lives be cast into the judgment.
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  Lord, that you have a waiting for them.
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  Father God, bind them in chains of everlasting darkness.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that we will ascend the hill and
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  come up into the mountain of Transfiguration today, and let
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  your Kingdom come to this earth just as it is there.
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  God, I pray for strength right now for the church at large, the
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  persecuted church all over the world, and God here in this
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  land, I pray that we will humble ourselves and call upon your
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  holy name. God, cleanse this land from all
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  the innocent blood that has been shed upon it.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ for men and women to be
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  sold out bondservants of your holy name.
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  Lord, I pray that this word that we hold in our hands, that is
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  alive and active, Lord, will shape US and change us for all
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  of eternity. God, let us be useful in this
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  day and this hour. Father, I pray for all of the
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  children who are in the school systems.
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  God, I pray against the indoctrination, Lord, of the
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  doctrine of demons. Father, I pray right now, in the
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  name of Jesus Christ, for righteous leaders to rise up in
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  this land. Father, I pray God Almighty that
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  the judeo-christian values God will be our highest law and
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  order over this land. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for all military personnel, God, and all law
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  enforcement. Lord, I pray God for a hedge of
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  protection around their lives. Lord, I pray that they are
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  willing to spill their lives out, God, for their brother,
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  which there is no greater love than that.
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  And so, Father, I pray that you keep them in perfect peace in
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  whatever situation that they find themselves in, God.
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  And I pray that your will is done today, God, just as you
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  have it there. Lord, I'm praying for daily
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  bread. I'm praying for forgiveness,
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  God, for ourselves and for us to extend that to others.
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  God, I'm praying against deception, Lord, I'm praying
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  against the tempter and the accuser of the brethren.
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  God, I'm praying that you, Lord, will keep us from being
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  deceived. Lord and God, we acknowledge
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  that it is You and You alone who has all the power, that it is
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  your Kingdom that is coming, Father, and You have already
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  started to instill it and install it here on this earth.
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  God through US. Let us be little Christ, Father,
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  and let us bask in your glory today.
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  Father, let us be seated there with you in heavenly places.
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  Thank you for preparing a place for us.
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  Thank you Jesus Christ for the shed blood on Calvary that made
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  us white as snow. We love you Holy Spirit, come
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  and teach us and guide us. I decrease as you increase in
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  Jesus Christ. Holy and precious name I pray,
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse
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  ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting
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  holiness in the fear of God. We need the fear of God today.
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  Friends, if you will fear God, everything else will bow unto
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  Him. Fear is the greatest motivator
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  of the evil one, but he has been defanged and he has been
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  declawed and all he has is a loud roar that will make the
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  hair stand up on the back of your neck.
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  And if you're not paying close attention, you won't notice that
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  his teeth have been pulled out and his claws have been
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  declawed. Friends, you need to understand
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  that it is the fear of God that we need.
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  We do not need to give in to the fear of the beast and the fear
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  of death and the fear of what could happen.
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  Let the fear of man go in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  We fear God and God alone. And He says, work out your
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  salvation with fear and trembling.
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  And that is what is referenced here.
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  Friends, this cleansing of the temple that we talked about in
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  the last chapter, this cleansing of the temple is what He is
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  after. To get rid of all worldliness,
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  let go of filthiness, let go of all of the fleshly, carnal,
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  natural thinking, and be filled the Spirit and be holy because
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  he is holy. To receive us.
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  We have wronged no man. We have corrupted no man, we
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  have defrauded no man. So we're about to hear the heart
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  of Paul when he's writing to the Corinthians and he's saying
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  receive us when we come to you. Do not let a wedge be driven
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  between the two of us. Do not give the devil a foothold
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  by holding on to resentment, friends.
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  Let it go. It's all washed in the blood of
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  Jesus Christ. You need to understand what it
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  means to forgive those. You need to understand what it
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  is to be forgiven. Forgive yourself, friends.
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  If you find somebody with a critical spirit, it is a sure
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  sign of a backslidden Christian, and that is what you need to
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  understand. Paul is asking for the
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  Corinthian church, even though he has written to them very hard
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  letters. He's saying, Receive me when I
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  come unto you. But he has done no wrong to
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  anybody. He has only spoken the mind of
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  Christ to them. And whether they accepted it or
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  not, it did not change the facts and the truth.
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  That is what God thinks about those things.
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  These are the infallible, inerrant, inspired words of God
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  on these pages. And we need not call a single
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  syllable into question. We need not try to reason out
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  what is the plain meaning of Scripture.
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  Friends. Three, I speak not this to
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  condemn you, for I've said before that you are in our
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  hearts to die and live with you. So Paul is saying that he would
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  die for them, he would lay down his life for them.
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  And he knows to live is Christ and to die is gain.
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  And he's telling the Corinthians that he is wide open to them and
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  they need to be wide open to him.
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  For great is my boldness of speech towards you.
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  Great is my glorying of you. I am filled with comfort.
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  I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
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  So Paul can say, through all the trials and tribulation and the
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  hardships and the cold nights and the hunger pains, and all
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  the whippings and lashings and shipwrecks, he can count it all
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  as joy, and he is exceedingly joyful with them.
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  And it is if the Corinthians have gone through all of those
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  things as well, because of the writings of Paul towards them
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  are of great comforts. And we are benefited for all of
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  eternity, for all of the things that Christ went through, all
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  the prophets of old went through, for all of the other
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  gospel writers and all of the epistles and the New Testament
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  writers. We are the benefactors of all
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  their persecutions and martyrdom, friends.
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  And that is what is referenced here.
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  We could be comforted by all the tribulations that those men had
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  to go through. 54 When we were coming to Macedonia, our flesh
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  had no rest, but we were troubled on every side.
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  Outside were fighting's and within were fears.
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  Paul's just being real. He's keeping it. 100 friends, He
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  sang outside. Externally there was so much
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  strife, and then internally we were having to battle out all
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  the fears that were coming against us.
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  Fear of death, fear of drowning, fear of imprisonment, fear of
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  lack, fear of abandonment. And this calls for faith.
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  And we have to let the faith rise, Friends.
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  It is impossible to please God without faith.
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  And in the middle of our persecution we let the faith
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  rise up. Friends, faith over fear, faith
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  over feelings. 6 Nevertheless, God that comforts those that are
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  cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus.
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  We're going to get to see an epistle of Titus, and it is a
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  wonderful letter written to us for our edification for the
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  building up of the Saints. And Paul here understood the
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  knowledge that Titus possessed, and he was greatly comforted by
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  Titus's coming unto him. And God knew that he needed to
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  send some new troops onto the battlefield, because his
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  sergeants were getting beat down and discouraged in the fight.
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  And a fresh wind and a fresh fire was brought into that camp
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  through Titus 7 and not by his coming only, but by the
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  consolation, where with he was comforted in you, when he told
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  us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind
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  towards me, so that I rejoice the more.
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  So Titus brought the good news that the Corinthians were
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  repentant, that the Corinthians had turned a corner, that the
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  Corinthians had read Paul's hard letters and took them to heart
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  and they actually put them into practice.
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  Friends, it's not enough just to know what to do, but we must
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  actually do those things. Friends, it's not enough to have
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  head knowledge. We have to be practical.
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  And blessed are the balanced. Blessed are the Mary's and the
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  Martha's working together. And it must be worked out of us,
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  friends, that we're not just filling our minds up with all
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  the things of God, but we are actually practical in the
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  application of going out into the harvest and scattering the
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  seed. Friends. 8 For though I made you
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  sorry with the letter, I do not repent.
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  And though I did repent for I perceive that the same epistle
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  has made you sorry though it were, but for a season.
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  So he's saying that God disciplines those that he loves
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  and Jesus Christ never had to ask for forgiveness.
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  Paul here in his humanity, he was saying that he did repent of
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  saying things that were too harsh to them, but he sees that
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  it actually led to their repentance.
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  And so therefore he's not sorry for the hard things that he said
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  to him. And just remember that God will
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  discipline those that he loves. And if he's not disciplining
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  you, perhaps he has taken the lampstand from you.
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  And this discipline is only for a season, and it leads to our
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  sanctification, it leads to us being refined in the finer's
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  fire, being tread out in the winepress, friends, and it
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  produces perseverance and it produces the faith that we need
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  for the journey. 9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made
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  sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance, for you were made
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  sorry after a godly manner, that you might receive damage by us
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  in nothing. So Paul is saying this godly
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  sorrow has led to their repentance, friends, and that is
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  what we need. We don't need to just be sorry
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  that we got caught. We need to be grieved that we
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  have broken the heart of God and that we have broken the
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  communion with God and we have allowed the worldly, lustful
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  idol worship into our lives. Friends, That the connection has
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  been breached between headquarters and we're no longer
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  receiving from God because we have grieved the Holy Spirit
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  into silence. Friends, we have seared our
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  conscience and that is what we should be sorrowful unto
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  repentance. Friends, it's not just that we
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  got caught and we're about to lose our mate, or lose our job,
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  or lose our reputation or lose our dignity.
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  Friends, we need to be sorry that we have broken the heart of
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  God. 10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, not to
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  be repented of, but the sorrow of the world works death.
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  There are many who are so sorrowful that they got caught
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  that they actually exterminate their own lives because they
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  cannot take the pressure of being found out and being on
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  display for all of their wicked schemes.
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  But godly sorrow leads us to repentance, which flows in to
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  salvation. Friends, And we need to
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  understand that. We need to understand that God
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  will prick our hearts, that the Holy Spirit will speak to us in
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  a still small voice, and He will let us know every single time
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  that we break the heart of God. And then we have the choice as
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  to listen to that voice, or harden our hearts, as in the
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  days of rebellion which will lead us into death. 11 For
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  behold this self, same thing that you sorrowed after a godly
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  sort. What carefulness it wrought in
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  you. Yeah, what clearing of
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  yourselves? Yeah, what indignation?
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  Yeah, what fear? Yeah, what vehement desire?
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  Yeah, what zeal? Yeah, what revenge in all
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  things. You have approved yourselves to
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  be clear in this matter. So we can see what repentance
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  will bring about in our lives, friends, if we will have godly
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  repentance, if we will confess our sins to a holy God, and if
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  we will turn away from them and turn away from selfish desires
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  and carnal pleasures, and we will turn back to a holy God, we
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  will find the clearing of our consciences.
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  We will find that indignation leaves.
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  We will find that fear goes. We will find that our desire
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  will be vehement towards Him and not towards our lustful,
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  youthful desires. We'll find zeal that consumes us
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  for His holy habitation, the temple of God.
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  And we will find that we will revenge evil by the showering of
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  the good news of Jesus Christ. We will take the good news into
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  all arenas, friends, not scared to lose our lives.
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  And we will tear down all the strongholds.
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  And we'll, we will attack it in the same way that we were
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  attacked. And the violent take the Kingdom
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  of God by force, Friends. What revenge against all evil?
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  Whenever we finally come to our senses, when we finally are
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  being used for godly matters, you will find that you hate the
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  things of sin that tear apart families and tear apart lives.
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  We will hate those things, friends. 12 Wherefore, though I
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  wrote unto you, I did it not for his, 'cause that had done the
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  wrong, not for his 'cause that suffered wrong, but that our
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  care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
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  So you can see here that there was someone in the church that
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  was involved in an incestual relationship.
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  And Paul rebuked them in his first letter to the Corinthians.
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  And here they have repented. They have kicked him out.
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  And then Paul wrote his writing to them now telling them to
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  reinstitute that man. And he's saying that he did it
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  for their clear consciences so that they would not be a tool of
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  the enemy over this man's life. And it serves as a witness and
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  as an example for us. For all time's sake, for all of
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  eternity, friends, heaven and earth shall pass away.
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  But not one of his words, not one jot, not one title, friends.
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  And we need God to appear among us and to fill us with the Holy
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  Ghost. 13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort.
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  Yeah, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus
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  because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
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  We can see that the Corinthian church was repentant, this godly
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  repentance, and Paul was refreshed in his spirit and so
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  was Titus, friends. And that is what we need to
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  understand is that all of heaven rejoices over 1 Sinner who sees
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  his need for repentance. And it is a great refreshing to
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  the ministers and the pastors and all those that are
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  shepherding flocks, when they see one person who sees their
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  need for repentance. 14 For if I have boasted anything to him of
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  you, I am not ashamed. But as we spoke all things to
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  you in truth, Even so our boasting which I made before
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  Titus is found a truth. So he's saying all the things
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  that I was boasting about to Titus about you have become
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  true, that you have made good on the investment that I made there
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  whenever I was traveling and when I called together a body of
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  believers, and whenever Paul placed the Apostolic authority
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  over them. And then how they started up a
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  church. And then the enemy crept in and
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  Paul kept fighting for them. He believed that they would
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  persevere, and they have now. And now his joy is made
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  complete. 15 And his inward affection is more abundant
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  towards you, while he remembered the obedience of you all, how
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  with fear and trembling you received Him.
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  This is what it means to work out our salvation with fear and
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  trembling. We cannot just ride in on the
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  coattails of yesterday's victory.
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  We must come to the Lord every single day and make a commitment
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  unto Him to serve Him and to serve Him with all of our heart
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  and all of our mind and all of our strength so that we are not
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  LED astray, so that we are not deceived.
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  We cannot just put this thing on cruise control, friends.
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  Every single day we have to make a decision to be used for godly
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  matters and not to be deceived by all of our carnal worldly
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  thinkings and reasonings. And you cannot approach God from
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  a moralistic way. He will tear all of that down.
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  Friends, if you want God to behave in a way that you think
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  that He should, He will not behave that way and you will be
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  offended and fall away. And that is why we come to Him
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  every single day and we empty ourselves of all of our own
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  thinking's and all of the ways we think things should go.
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  And we just say yes and Amen to all the revealed will of God.
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  And He will be well pleased to reveal to you the unrevealed
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  things that are not written here, and they will all line up
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  with scripture. Every single bit of the
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  unrevealed will of God for your life and for the world at large
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  will all line up and be congruent with the revealed will
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  of God, from Genesis to Malik to Revelation.
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  Friends, we'll end on 16. I rejoice, therefore, that I
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  have confidence in you in all things.
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  Is Christ rejoicing in you that you have confidence in Him for
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  all things? Friends, that is the question
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  you need to ask yourself. Are you still playing both
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  sides? Are you lukewarm?
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  Do you not see your need for repentance?
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  Do you think you've got it all together and you've arrived
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  somehow? Far be it from us.
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  Ask God to reveal to you the things that you've stuffed down
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  and seared your conscience over, and allow the Holy Spirit to dig
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  those things out and allow God Almighty to pour salt on them
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  and purify the pus and to get rid of all the things that are
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  holding you back from experiencing the fullness that
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  He desires for your life. Let His light shine through the
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  magnifying glass and burn all the dross out of your life so
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  that you can be light and salt to those everywhere that you go
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  in. The Word of God is an offense to
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  those that are perishing friends and it sounds ignorant to those
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  that are choosing this world over God.
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  Do not be surprised when you were ridiculed and kicked down
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  and persecuted for propagating A beaten Jewish man who was raised
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  to life on the third day. Count the cost before you ever
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  go out on the harvest. Be filled with Him before you
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  ever go out in the harvest. Don't play both sides.
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  Hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for you.
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  God loves you, so do I. We will see you back here
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  tomorrow.