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#10115 - Everyone Sins. Everyone. - Genesis 9 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word with pastor and author.
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Ed, Taylor recorded live from Calvary Chapel in Aurora,
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And now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Take your Bibles, open them to Genesis Chapter 9 Genesis
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chapter 9 and a Bible study that I've entitled, everyone sins
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everyone and we ended chapter 8. Last time learning about the
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incredible faithfulness of Noah, his enduring patients during of
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the most difficult time in human history, this worldwide judgment
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and I mean, even using the word difficult, it can't really
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describe this worldwide. Giant of sinful, man, it was
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devastating. And yet, in the midst of it, all
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was the ark and the grace of God, and the rescuing power of
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God. And if anything that we learn
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from the life of Noah, is that you can live a moral upright,
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righteous life in the power of God, in the midst of a very dark
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world that the world does not have to corrupt.
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You, you don't have to go along with the program but you can be
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extremely individually. Distinct.
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In your relationship with Jesus. So notice now in verse 1, so God
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blessed, Noah and his sons and said to them, be fruitful and
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multiply and fill the Earth, and this command to remote apply is
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now repeated exiting the ark. It's a time of new beginnings
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and we love New Beginnings. We love New Beginnings.
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If it means the recovery after disqualifying sin or falling on
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our face. We love the new beginnings of
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taking steps of faith. And going from glory to glory
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and strength to strength. And these are new beginnings,
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even though you have to use your Sanctified imagination.
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To think of what a difficult world that they walked out into
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a world. That's just experience the
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Judgment of God. It was a world filled with death
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and Devastation or you could even say it was a lifeless world
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and God's instruction in a lifeless world was multiplied.
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Bring life where there is lifelessness.
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And after destroying, man, does why would God want to multiply
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again? I mean, God loves human beings,
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he loves his creation. I mean, when you look at it and
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you see what happened in the in the first group that was
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created, you might step back and go why again, well, because God
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loves you. He wants to have a relationship
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with you. He loves humans.
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He has a plan for you. He wants what's best for you and
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me. For your life, to be fruitful
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for you to multiply his love and grace to others.
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And you know, this command here and 9:1, it was fulfilled.
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I looked up. There's a website where you can
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see in real time, what the population is and of the day, I
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looked this up the population now is seven billion, nine
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hundred and fifty eight million 635 and they click.
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It just keeps clicking and clicking and clicking and
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clicking and clicking and God starts over with no one.
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Instead of Adam and notice in this command he leaves off the
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instruction to have dominion over the Earth.
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He leaves off. That instruction.
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Why? Because Noah doesn't know it
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yet, but we can see it. He doesn't understand it yet in
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its fullness, but we can see it today because we have this
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biblical truth unveiled that the Dominion of the Earth has been
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taken by Satan. The Bible says, in John 12:31
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that the Judgment of this world now is the Judgment of this
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world. Jesus says, now the ruler of the
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world would be cast out and later on inspired by the Holy
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Spirit, Paul would say to the Corinthians and second
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Corinthians. 4:4 he says, who's the minds of the God of this age
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has blinded in Luke chapter 4 verse 6.
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It says, the devil said to him, all this Authority, I give to
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you and trying to tempt Jesus. The Bible says that the world is
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under the The sway of the wicked one.
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And so you look around and you can see those things.
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A lot of people today, and maybe that's where you sit listening
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to me right now. You're one of those many that
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blame God for the devastating effects of sin.
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In this world, you're blaming God for what you see.
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You're blaming God for the murderous Rampages, and
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devastating things and schools and parades and, and in life.
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But in reality, the blame goes directly to the devil.
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It leaves upon his shoulder sin, has wrecked at all.
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That's the devil alone that is the thief and a robber and a
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liar, and a murderer from the beginning, causing and creating
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Havoc around the world. But then we know when Jesus
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came. He came to confront the devil.
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He came to meet him and defeat him face-to-face.
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Let me show you this. Would you turn over to
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Colossians chapter 2? I want you to see it in your
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Bibles. I'm going to read it to you from
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the new living and in, New King, James return over to Colossians
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chapter 2, and consider the power of God.
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There are a lot of changes in a lot of different legislation and
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laws that could truly help man today, but the true essence of
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help for man is for a man and a woman to be born again.
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That's where life change takes place.
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That's where a murderer, no longer murders, where he no
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longer invents things in his mind and you can't legislate
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morality. Reality morality is a hard
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issue. It is to the depth of who a
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person is and their relationship with God and look what's
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available to you today. Notice with me Colossians
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chapter 2, and verse 13 first. I'll read it to you in the new
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King James Colossians 2 verse 13.
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The Bible says in you being dead in your trespasses and the
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uncircumcision of your flesh, he's made alive together with
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him having forgiven you all trespasses having wiped out.
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A handwriting of requirements that was against us which was
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contrary to us and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed
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it to the cross and listen to verse 15, isn't this glorious?
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Having disarmed, principalities and Powers making a public
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spectacle of them triumphing over them in it.
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Listen to how the new king or the New Living Translation this
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you were dead because of your sins and because of your sinful
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nature that was not yet, come Away and then God made you alive
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in Christ. For he forgave, all of your
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sins, he canceled the record of the charges against us.
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And he took it away by nailing, it to the cross.
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And then he says, in this way, he disarmed, the spiritual
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rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his
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victory, over them on the cross. We're reminded of the victory.
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When we look to the cross, the devil has been shame.
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He knows that he has just a short time and it seems as if
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he's pulled out all the stops. And you know what, Believers,
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it's time to no longer cooperate with him, don't offer him areas
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of your life through compromise and send don't cooperate with
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his. But rather, as Paul says, in
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Ephesians Stand Fast, put on the whole armor of God, that you
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might fight the good fight. Jesus is taken back that
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authority over the kingdoms of Swirled and as you live abiding
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in Christ you live in Jesus Authority.
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One of the things. The devil doesn't want you to
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know. I think it's high on the list of
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the things. The devil doesn't want you to
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know is the power and authority. You have in Christ that not
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everything just happens to you that you're not just merely a
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victim of circumstance but that you and I live in the victory of
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Jesus because he died and rose again and you can live over the
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victory of sin and death, you no longer have to be bound.
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Or Shackled to bad habits or to old ways of thinking, you can be
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reminded that you're a new creation in Christ.
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And while many people, cooperate, as many of us, I many
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of us that we did cooperate in the darkness of this world.
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Now, in the Light of Christ you live in Victory, generational
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change starts with you, the change in your family, starts
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with you and I know what a discouragement that can be to
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you because you think well it has started with me but no one
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else is following. No no it's Art's with you and
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then we allow God to do the work and don't give up, but at it's
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been five years, okay? Be faithful.
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It's been 10 years. Be faithful, it's been 15 years,
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edits been 55 years. And yet, look at you, you've
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been faithful unto the Lord remain faithful finish.
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Well, a couple of things I've been noticing in these last days
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that are very concerning to me and I think you would join me in
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prayer. Number one is that the message
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of the Gospel is no longer, exciting or encouraging.
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And now what we're seeing in many Believers lives and over
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the last few years is that they are doing exactly what the Bible
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predicted. Even though we may not have
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believed, it could be, it's happening in our generation.
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Should wear the word of God, they're not enduring sound
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Doctrine anymore. And so what they're looking for,
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teachers to submit themselves to so that their ears will be
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tickled. So that they will find a message
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apart from the simple basic doctrines of God.
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Some weird view, some weird addition something that gets our
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eyes off the Simplicity of Jesus Christ and to some weird
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teaching, some weird book some weird profit that is false to
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begin with some New thing on YouTube and not just loving God,
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with all your heart, soul and mind, and loving your neighbor
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as yourself. And it concerns me, it concerns
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me over and over again to see people that were wants a vital
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part of this church. Now following some weird thing
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and on willing to come back to the Simplicity of the gospel
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church, I commend you to endure sound Doctrine, endureth receive
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it. Let God do a thorough work and
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you know there's a second thing I'm noticing in these Days.
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Especially in the last few years is that many people are not
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finishing well, They're not finishing well a lot earlier
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than I anticipated. Some that I've seen in my life
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have shocked me. You know how the Bible says that
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sometimes even the elect will be deceived and I'm like, what does
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that mean in cycle? Most like the Lord showing me
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here, are people that that you saw that you walk in there.
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Just in a place of Deceit, they're in a place of
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backslidden, they're in a place of making decisions and it just
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Grieves me and I'm sure you're seeing the same thing watching
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it with your own eyes. The Stumbling and not finishing
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well. And I commend you Church Finish
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Well, indoor person. Remember what we learned in
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Hebrews there was that time where Paul was writing to the
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Hebrews and he said, you have need of endurance and it's true.
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We have need of endurance. And especially these days,
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notice verse 2, he says in the fear of you and the dread of all
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coming back to Genesis 9, now shall be on every beast of the
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Earth on every bird of the air, on all that, move on the earth,
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and all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
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And every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you,
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I've given you all things even as the green herbs.
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And so now God, the, instead of using the phrase Dominion he
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speaks of this dread, it's a different relationship with the
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animals after sin, and God has placed a dread and animals of
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man. And this is good, because if
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this dread wasn't there, we, they could have exterminated,
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those eight people right away. And as we, it's all All done
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because the the lions are upset about it and boom, just taking
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them out. But that is a good thing.
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Verse 3. God never intended for man,
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notice to trash the Earth where to be good stewards of God's
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creation and never intended for us to trash the Earth or to
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trash the animal kingdom, but to wisely use it for health and for
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nourishment. And yet it's in human nature to
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take a good thing and ruin it and here again is a place where
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those that would want to especially in.
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State. But now most States now that
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marijuana is legal is they will look right here.
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It says God has given me all the green herbs so it's okay to be
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under the influence and smoke pot and no it's not.
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Okay. And if it was really okay, then
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grow some Poison Ivy and rub that all over your body?
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No, no, no, it's not the herb that I want.
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I know because you make a distinction, don't you?
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And so sometimes God makes a distinction for us.
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This is what God gave It All To Us.
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Yeah, but not all of its profitable for you.
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Not all it is what God wants for you to be under the influence
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will see that later on. We'll see that being under the
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influence. Makes you a very vulnerable
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person even after the first drink even after the first we'll
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get to that in a moment notice verse 4 he says but you shall
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not eat flesh with its life that is its blood.
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Surely for your life what I will demand a reckoning from the hand
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of every Beast I will require it and from the hand of man From
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the hand of Every Man's brother. I will require the life of man,
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verse 6. Whoever sheds man's blood by
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man, his blood shall be shed for in the image of God.
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He made, man and as for you be fruitful and multiply bring
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forth abundantly in the earth and multiply it, let me just
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speak to an interesting doctor and it actually is floated
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through the church recently. And that is, there is this false
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teaching that says after After sin, man is no longer made in
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the image of God. Now man is made in the image of,
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man. And I want you to notice after
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the fall after the Judgment. I want you to see the foundation
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of human government. How God is establishing capital
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punishment? One of the ways.
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Speaking of this, he says, After the flood after sin that man, it
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says in verse 6, was made in the image of God.
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And it's just those that would want to catch your ear and go,
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man, as well. Of course, in one sense, men are
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made in the image of men in the sense that you carry along that
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human perspective, and humanity and that sinful nature is passed
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on, but your value and your worth doesn't come from, you
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being created in the image of another man, your value and word
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transcends Humanity, you your value.
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Your worth is In your Creator and the attributes, you share
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with your Creator and that false teaching is very easily.
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Dismissed here to Noah. Now this is the first
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prohibition of eating raw and bloody meat.
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It was both a dietary caution but also a spiritual truth will
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learn later on as you continue in your reading.
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And those of you that read through the Bible, this year,
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you read and Leviticus chapter 17 and verse 11 for The life of
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the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the
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altar to make atonement for your souls for it, is the blood that
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makes atonement for the soul? And not only do you have the
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value of blood here but you have in this section, the basic
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building block for human government for any law-abiding
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society. And interestingly enough God
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establishes here that capital punishment is Keeping the peace
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in any society and notice that God instituted it.
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Not man, this was not the creation of Noah.
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This is in the direction After the flood beginning to
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repopulate and multiply God institute's and it becomes a key
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foundation in the Mosaic law handed down through, Moses, I
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know capital punishment is a hotly debated topic today.
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Both sides, taking very strong and passionate opinions.
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But according to Romans chapter 13, would you turn there with
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me? Romans chapter 13.
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According to Romans chapter 13. In these first few verses
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capital punishment is the responsibility of human
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government. Notice Romans 13.
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And certainly it is misapplied in cultures, certainly in
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justices take place when it comes to capital punishment or
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really standing any before, any human court is a God is Not
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establishing that it will be carried out justly every time.
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Because apart from God, lots of Injustice takes place.
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However, that doesn't undermine the building blocks that God
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gives notice in verse 1. It says, let every soul be
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subject to the governing authorities for there is no
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Authority. Except from God, that's a
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statement of the sovereignty of God.
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Whether you agree with the government or you don't agree
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with the government. According to God, there's no
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Authority except from about whether you like your boss or
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you don't like your boss, there is no Authority other from God.
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God has placed the authorities in our lives, for our good and
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for our discipleship, I don't want you to read Romans 13.
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That this says that all of that no Authority.
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Is there is no A except from God or don't read it this way.
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There is no Authority that you don't like that isn't from God
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or that you like don't they insert that says well I love my
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boss. They yes the authority from God,
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I can't stand my boss. That's not the authority of God.
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No, Paul's very clear writing to predominantly slaves.
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In a very oppressive, authoritarian, anti-god
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government, the Roman government and he says the authorities that
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exist or appointed by God. And that's hard to accept when
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you don't like the direction of the government.
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So hard statement to accept many try to get around this.
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Instead of Simply learning like the Bible says, to mind our own
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business and live a simple life. Love God, with all your heart.
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Soul and mind love your neighbor as yourself.
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You know, that works in any culture, it works in any
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government. It works in any country, it
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works with any leadership structure.
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As we just mind, our own business live, simply before our
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God. Love him with all our heart,
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soul, mind and strength, and love our neighbors as ourselves
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notice verse 2, therefore whoever resists The Authority
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resist, the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring
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judgment on themselves for rulers.
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Out of Terror to do good works but to evil.
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Do you want to be unafraid of the authority?
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Do what is good and you have praise from the same for he is
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God's minister to you for good but that if you do evil be
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afraid for he does not bear The Sword in vain.
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He is God's Minister and Avenger to execute wrath on him who
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practices evil. We happen to live in a country
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with representative government where we're invited to
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participate. Eight and I believe we should
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participate in what we've been invited to.
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I believe we should prayerfully walk into the areas of
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government, the areas of voting and pray, not your conscience,
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but pray a Biblical vote, pray for a Biblical decision.
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You know, your conscience isn't always reflective of what God's
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word says. And so take a step and honor God
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through participant or not everyone around the world can
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participate in their government. Not everyone on the world can
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have their voice represented Not everyone in the world can step
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into and speak up and be heard to be listened to however in our
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representative in our form of government, there will be
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Seasons when you are unhappy with who was elected.
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And you will be unhappy with the laws of the land and you will be
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unhappy with the way things are done.
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And that too is used by God to make you a better man and a
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better woman, I think at times are great.
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It is danger is when things are going exactly the way we want
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them. I think our greatest dangers, we
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see it all throughout the scripture, your greatest danger
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in life is not to be in the midst of a trial.
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Your greatest danger is to be a surrounded with prosperity to
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have everything that you've ever wanted to have no resistance,
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you see the nation of Israel, their greatest difficulties,
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their greatest times of idolatry, their greatest times
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of Turning Away From God were in times of great.
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Prosperity. It was in trials and
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difficulties that break us and shape us and mold us and I
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believe in seasons in our lives, whatever your persuasion, maybe
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there is somebody in office that you don't like that.
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You don't want that. You don't want you don't you
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don't want anything to do with them.
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So that God won't remind you that your trust is not in human
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government, but in the almighty Sovereign, God and that we are
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to live for him and participate in every Fear of society as unto
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the Lord. But ultimately we walk into that
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voting box ultimately. We step into a school board
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meetings and what we don't trust the outcome, we trust the god of
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the outcome, and we live in such a way where our lives honor him
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and might I just say it again. The reminder just thinks, you
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know, mind your own business live, a simple life, and love
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God, with all your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbor
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with your as yourself. You're not going to go wrong
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living a life of a god. A pail of even in times of great
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difficulty and here, God establishes with Noah, the
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foundation and truly a nation that turns their back on, God,
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can expect the Judgment of God and we live in such a nation, a
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government or a governing Authority, that gives lip
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service to God or is just a full-blown atheist or a
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hypocrite will experience the Judgment of God.
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And in those times, when they personally affect us, we cry out
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to God. I think of, in the times of
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Judges, where everyone did what was right in their own eyes, and
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God came to rescue and then they went back into the cycle and God
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came to rescue and they went right back into the cycle and we
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see that continuing on through Humanity all around the world
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even today. You see, you are not without a
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leader. You are not without a king, you
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are not without a judge. You have the all Mighty God not
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only leading and guiding you through his word but dwelling
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inside of you by his holy spirit, therefore we have no
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permission or right to do that which is right in our own eyes.
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But if you choose to do that, which is right in your own eyes,
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you can expect the consequences of such decisions you seek to
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take things into your own hands and you can find that great
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difficulty awaiting you when attacking, I want to show you.
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One more thing about capital punishment, though when you go
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over, to Matthew, Chapter 5 to undermine, capital punishment,
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and perhaps, you have this view yourself, and I commend you to
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God's word to examine your view, not an You know, not a
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political, but a Biblical worldview, a Biblical worldview
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is necessary. And many people will take you to
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Matthew Chapter 5 in the teachings of Jesus to say, you
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know, Capital punishments and invention of man.
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Jesus didn't even believe that. And let me just say before I get
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to Matthew 8, Jesus affirmed capital punishment, he affirmed
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capital punishment, being executed in justly and you go
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ahead. Where do you do that?
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By hanging on a cross. Willingly.
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To die for the sins of this room of those in the car and the
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kitchen on the radio watching online, he affirmed capital
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punishment by submitting to it. And I'm grateful because it was
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through his death and resurrection that my life was
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transformed and yours too, but notice in 5:38 it says, you have
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heard it said an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, but I
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tell you not to resist an evil person, but whoever slaps you on
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the right cheek, turn the other to him.
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Also, and if anyone wants to sue, you take away your tunic,
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let him have your cloak. Also and whoever compels you to
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go one mile, go with him two. Give to him, who ask you and
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from him, who wants to borrow from you, do not turn away.
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And they'll take you and go, look, this is this is
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contradictory Pastor than what you just read in Genesis.
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But remember The Sermon on the Mount, which is where we are.
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Matthew 5 is Jesus speaking to his disciples explaining, the
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true, meaning of the teachings of the day.
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You'll notice that phrase repeated over and over again.
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You have heard it said that he's referring to the teachings of
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the rabbi's of the day and there were many different schools just
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like, you know, the question comes up, why are there so many
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denominations, why? Well, because there's so many
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people, so many leaders and all these different opinions, it's
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nothing new in the day of That very prominent, rabbis with very
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contradictory views, it was confusing.
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The people they didn't know who to listen to, and then Jesus,
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God in human flesh. Comes and says, I know what
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you've heard, but I'm telling you the truth.
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I'm bringing you back to the truth.
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I want to say to you and these teachings were misinterpreted by
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the rabbi's. And so, Jesus quotes, to them,
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Deuteronomy chapter 19, which is also known as The Lex talionis.
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And what that means is when a crime was a committed, it was
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necessary to give out a punishment that meets the crime
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speedily and completely and it was done for two reasons.
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Number one, it was done to deter future crimes and secondly it
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was a limitation, it was a merciful, it was a merciful
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instruction upon Humanity to limit vengeance.
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Now, any of you that have felt Vengeance, deeply, you may not
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have used the word Vengeance, but you would use a form of that
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word and that is any of you that have ever sought Revenge.
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Maybe even just felt it. Deeply you were wounded and
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hurt. So deeply that the response that
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well dip welled up in, you was not merely to hurt the other
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person. In the same way you were hurt.
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But rather to hurt the person in the same way you were hurt and a
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little bit more. Or in some cases a lot more.
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And in the instructions of the scriptures, it's important to
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realize that man's nature is to go beyond Justice.
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Even in our own definitions of Justice.
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Sometimes we don't have the true jet definition as described by
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God. And so we can easily lay a
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heavier burden on the person that committed the crime then
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was instituted or what the crime deserved.
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And so capital punishment was instituted from the beginning
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and even continued on through the Old Testament and the New
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Testament. What Jesus is teaching here in
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Matthew is personal, not governmental not the societal
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laws, but what he's teaching us is how we relate to one another
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personally. How we relate to one another
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individually. And so the context, anyone that
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would compare these, two are comparing as you might have
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heard apples to oranges. It's not an equal comparison.
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Jesus, affirms capital punishment in Matthew chapter 26
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Before Peter, Paul affirms it before Felix and Acts chapter
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25. And here, no has given it in the
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establishment. Come back to chapter 9 of
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Genesis again, then God spoke to Noah and his sons with him
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saying. And as for me, behold, all
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establish my Covenant with you and with your descendants after
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you. And with every living creature,
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that is with you, the birds, the cattle, every beast of the
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Earth. With you of all that go out of
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the Ark, every beast of the earth, I will establish my
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Covenant with you. Never again, shall All Flesh be
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cut off By the Waters of the flood.
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Never again, shall there be a flood to destroy the Earth?
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And God said, this is the sign of the Covenant which I make
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between me and you every living creature that is with you for
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Perpetual Generations. I set my rainbow in the cloud
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and it shall be for a sign. Sign of the Covenant between me
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and the Earth and it shall be. When I bring a cloud over the
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Earth that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud.
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And I will remember, my Covenant, which is between me
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and you and every living creature of All Flesh.
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The water shall never again, become a flood to destroy all
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the flesh. The rainbow shall be in the
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cloud. And I will look on it to
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remember the Everlasting, Covenant between God and every
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living creature of the flesh, that is on the earth.
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And God said to Noah, this is The sign of the Covenant, which
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I have established between me and All Flesh, that is on the
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earth. This is the very first rainbow
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in all of history and we're in a time in Colorado where the
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rainbows are very abundant. And you know, the first thing
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that happens when you see a rainbow, you look up you look up
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and although the distance between our culture and the
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Bible is vast these days, the world still knows the true
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meaning of the rainbow and immediately get your eyes up in
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all and wander. As the the the sky declares the
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glory of God, but it's a sign, the rainbow is a sign of the
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Perpetual Covenant, that God will not judge the Earth in the
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same ways. He did during Noah.
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Which, by the way, can we just speak on a personal level?
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This must have been very encouraging to Noah.
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On a personal level, we think high in the areas of theology,
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but I want you to consider Noah for a moment, all that he's been
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through all the faith that he's exercise, all that he has seen
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all that, he has heard now, coming out of the Ark and
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wondering what will he think? The first time he sees rampant
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sin again. Well the Judgment come again
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will the Judgment come again? And almost might even create a
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fear in him that the next time God speaks to him.
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It's going to be all over again. And so what is God doing?
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He says, no, no, no, it's never going to happen again this way.
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I just love that about God. Speaking a word of encouragement
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to us. Speaking of word, is we even
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learning during our time of learning about the gift of
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Prophecy, just speaking and affirmation of his promise.
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And then on top of that, giving Noah a reminder in the sky.
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Every time you saw it, I won't forget, I won't forget.
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God is faithful. I wonder how many signs are how
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many scriptures or how many things you have set up in your
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house. House that will remind you of
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the faithfulness of God. The goodness of God, we have the
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rainbow that speaks to all of us.
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The rainbow is a steady promise of God's faithfulness in his
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word even today is Psalm 138. The Bible says that God has
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magnified his word even above his name.
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Now I recognize and it must be spoken of that today.
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The thought of the rainbow is mocked.
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The colors of the rainbow, at least the primary colors and now
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so many others have been co-opted and corrupted to
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identify an Ever growing expanding group of people that
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desire to be defined by their sinful behavior and it's very
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obvious. We just came out of a month
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where that becomes, the great emphasis of our culture of our
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world. But I want you to know that even
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as some try to co-opt and corrupt, it doesn't Anything
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away from the promise of God. It doesn't take anything away
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from his, the rainbow in and of itself is a promise and it's
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maker stands true. When you see the rainbow,
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remember, it's a sign and a signal, grabbing our attention,
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reminding us of the heavens that declare the glory of God.
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And even in the ways that it's been co-opted and corrupted, it
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brings a reminder to think of the God who created the rainbow
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and to pray for those that are hearts.
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So hard in this season of their life that rather than identify
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themselves by their maker. They've chosen a whole different
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pathway. And by the way church, that's
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not the only pathway of sin in this world.
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And it's not the only way people have corrupted and co-opted
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things that God has created. Its the way of rebellion and the
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ray of resistance. And I can tell you one thing
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that helps me navigate through a very sinful world, is to
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remember where I came from. Do you know, it's not too many
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years ago that I'd lived in Great Rebellion against God?
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That my heart was hardened toward God, that I was a mocker
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and a blasphemer. It wasn't too many years ago.
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And here I am by the grace of God.
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A lover of God born again. But listen, only by the grace of
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God, people praying for me, not giving up on me.
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Wait willing to step into the mess of my own sin willing to
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overlook my language and my behavior and my all of that went
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through it. And so Church, remember where
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you came from. And, and if you were preserved
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from all this crazy sin in the world today than thank God for
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that and walk forward in the grace of God, because the enemy
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is always using things to get you off your game, to get your
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attention away from the person created in the image of God,
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because sin can be so repulsive. Especially since it's obvious
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and telegraphing be so repulsive.
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And it can be so sickening and could be so difficult.
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And could be so hard that if you're not careful, your own
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soft heart, that God's often remember what he promised and
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Jeremiah the New Covenant, remember the New Covenant, he
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prophesied it in, Jeremiah. I'm going to take your Heart of
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Stone and what I'm going to replace it with a heart of
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Flesh, a soft heart. But haven't you learned some of
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you could testify to this? That over time, even a soft
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heart. Can be hard can become hard
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again because of the world in which we live.
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Now, as we close up today, I want you to notice In verse 18.
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Now, now the sons of Noah, who went out of the Ark were Shem
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ham and japheth ham was the father of Canaan.
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These three were the sons of Noah.
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And from these, the whole earth was populated, Now, Noah some
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time has passed and Noah began to be a farmer and he planted a
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Vineyard so far, so good. Noah a very good career path to
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walk into But then verse 21, he drank of the wine and was drunk
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and became uncovered in. His tent.
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We Trace our lineage, back to Noah, and his three sons.
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But even after the flood, and even after the Judgment of God,
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I want you to notice God wants us to see that was sin was still
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on the earth. Sin was perpetuated through this
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family, and sin is still on the Earth.
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Noah it says be started a career as a farmer.
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He planted a Vineyard must have been a successful Vineyard
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because he drank of the wine and was drunk and There's always,
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you need a jot this down, you need to write it, you need,
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especially if you have a tendency toward alcohol.
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You need to write this down. I want you to see the path.
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There's a couple things you can never miss here.
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The Bible is clear and I want to be abundantly clear?
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It is not a sin to drink alcohol.
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The Bible is equally clear. It is not wise to drink alcohol.
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It's not wise, you'll King Lemuel to be to take in William.
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That's not Wise. It's not a sin but there are a
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lot of things that are not a sin that are not wise.
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So I want you see the pathway drunkenness, the sin of
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drunkenness can only happen. One way.
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After the first drink, it can't happen any other way.
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It must priest be preceded by the first drink.
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Now, you don't have to have plant a Vineyard and you don't
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have to be a farmer, but you do have to take the first drink
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and, you know, from my own testimony.
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Till the day. I meet Jesus Christ, I will beg
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you not to drink. I will bake you.
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I know it's not a sin. I'm not rewriting the Bible.
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But it's not wise, it's just not why?
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It's not a good testimony, it's not a good witness.
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It's not even necessary with so many other things that are
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available for you to quench your thirst.
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It's not even necessary. It just leads to so much
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difficulty in so much pain and it just it.
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So you got the pathway with me, so far.
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Drunkenness, can't happen without the first drink.
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Now, this is something you need to understand from Noah's life.
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After drunkenness, the very next word is, and And I'm warning.
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You listen to me carefully. Anyone young and old there is
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always an and after drunkenness, they always go together.
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In this case, drunkenness LED Noah to this weird nakedness
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from the essence of this word, some perversity, where he
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becomes shameful before his family.
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Shameful. While this is the first mention
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of wine, I want you to note that it's connected with sin.
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It's not saying drinking was a sin, neither does the rest of
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the Bible, but the first mention of wine is connected with sin.
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And this first mention and the first drinking of wine is
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connected to drunkenness. And drunkenness always has an
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aunt. Sometimes many ends.
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Sometimes it ends in absolute disaster.
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And anyone that's been delivered, from alcohol, anyone
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that's been delivered from that lifestyle, they will testify to
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you that they're grateful. And like many of my can't see
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every, but I could say most like me, they would say they never
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wish they took the first drink. I was a kid, I remember it.
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Like it was yesterday. The first drink I ever took
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about call. It was nothing in insignificant
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we were just being cool. Kids, graduating Elementary
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School? Wow, what a great thing super
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mature to do. I remember like it was
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yesterday. and I also remember the night that I began my path
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way of being delivered from alcohol now for 31 years.
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So that's a better night to remember being born again and
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being completely delivered. Then it was the first one.
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I want you to understand with no, even the best of people are
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taken down by alcohol and drugs even the best.
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This is Noah The man that found Grace the man that lived
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obediently, the man who walked with God, the man who the Bible
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says, was righteous blameless and a preacher of righteousness.
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He to stumbles and Falls, why? Because man is frail and will
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falter and everyone sends everyone.
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Again, drunkenness, is associated here because there is
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a close relationship between intoxication and iniquity.
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There is a close relationship between drunkenness and
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debauchery. Noah becomes naked here.
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The implication of this, it was perverse or twisted, and here's
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what happens when a person begins to lose their normal.
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Faculties through alcohol, inhibitions and restraint or
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taken away. Really alcohol is so often run
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to in times of difficulty and tragedy.
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It's a very popular coping mechanism especially when you're
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down and discouraged. But alcohol will work against
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you when you're down and discouraged because technically
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alcohol is a depressant. And so if you enter in with a
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depressing difficult situation, it's only going to make things
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worse. And you think about it, not just
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make, it doesn't just make things worse.
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But it takes away all your inhibitions it wears down your
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Ability to think and and even still in our.
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In our society, the law still says, Don't drive.
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While you're drunk, the numbers tend to change, but at least
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they still agree. There comes a point in time
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where you shouldn't be operating.
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A motor vehicle. There comes a point in time
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where you shouldn't be watching your kids drunk.
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Where you shouldn't be going to work?
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You shouldn't be operating heavy machinery.
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Like, even in our world still against God, they say look
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there's just things you should stay away from for your own good
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and for the good of others. And what happens among Believers
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today is, there's just not a sense of Desiring to live a holy
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life instead of holding his first Freedom becomes first, but
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there's no freedom without Holiness, there's no free of
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Holiness comes first God, by his very nature is Holy and holy
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doesn't mean like living a perfect life.
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Remember the word comes to us and the definition of holy means
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to set apart and God is truly set apart from us.
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He is God, we're not He is sinless and so when we walk in
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the Holiness of God we too are set apart from anything that
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might let make us less useful for the kingdom.
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Give us less of a witness in a world and whatever culture we
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might be going into whatever missionary field and Endeavor we
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would want to stay away from those things that would make us
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less useful and create a stumbling block between that
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person and Jesus. And as you step in under the
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influence violin, nasty things can happen.
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Drunkenness always comes with an aunt.
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Please, I beg you. I can make a strong biblical
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argument and you go I can argue with you too great.
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I don't want to argue, I won't even take that path.
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I'm not even interested in arguing with you.
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I'm just begging. You take it from someone that
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lived. It you don't need in your life
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you just don't need it. There's so much more available
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to you in Christ. There's so much available to
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you, to be used sober mindedness to have a clear head to look
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someone in the eye and say, I walk in Freedom and I am I
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Freedom helps me to say no to things not.
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Yes. How about all?
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Look at you? Fuddy-duddy, you call me.
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Her name's you want, but I'm telling you right now, I'm not
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ordering a drink across the table from you, because I love
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you. Because I love you and your
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family and your kids don't want your kids walking in on, you
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know, me at Chili's over there and saying look daddy daddy.
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He drinks and gets drunk just like, you know, I don't know.
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I don't. Or you have a kid there and they
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you've grown up in an alcoholic home and you see all these
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Liberties and go look at but no I don't want you to be reminded
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of how you were raised and the home you were raised in or the
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abuse. The you experience.
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I know it's not a sin, don't misunderstand me.
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I know, this will go out on the radio and I'm not, I'm not
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rewriting the Bible, I'm just telling you right now I don't
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want you to follow in the path of Noah.
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And how do you avoid what Noah did here.
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Don't drink at all. Don't drink it.
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All ask God, to make you more usable.
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And all of this, all of this. It's the topics because this is
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where it's here. But let me just add It may not
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be alcohol for you. It could be something else that
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you are exercising, freedom, but outside the Holiness of God that
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creates a stumbling block between you and others.
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So may not be alcohol at all. It may be something where you
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step into it. Well, this is not a sin in and
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of itself but it's going to lead to being under its influence and
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then it's going to lead to you being a very useless person for
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the kingdom of God. And in these last days, we need
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more useful people than useless people.
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Amen. I mean, that's why you're
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pressing in, that's why you're growing.
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That's why you're listening to Christian radio Bible studies,
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that's why you are saying, God man that hurt.
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I don't like that guy, and I'm willing to stand and go.
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You don't need to like me. I want you to love Jesus and
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he'll lead you and guide you in his word.
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And there's great Victory. And let me just say this, You're
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like Ed, you're saying a lot? Yes, let me just say this, let
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me say this. When you consider The life that
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some are listening right now that are living in bondage to
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alcohol thinking they could never get out from under it.
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They need more testimonies of men and women in Christ that not
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only have got out from under it, but have lived in Victorious.
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Sobriety from the day they were delivered.
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That is a powerful testimony. And just think if you just were
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one person saying, you know, even some of your testimonies
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are even more powerful, aren't they?
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Because you never started King to begin with that's powerful in
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this world with the peer pressure.
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The Tha that is a powerful testimony on to the Lord.
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Well. We got two pages and two
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minutes. But I need to, I need to draw
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this out. So let's draw it.
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Out verse 22, ham. The father of Canaan, saw the
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nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside, but
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Shem, and japheth took a garment laid it back on their shoulders
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and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father,
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their faces were turned away and they did not see their fathers
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nakedness. So no awoke from his wine and
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knew what his younger son had done to him.
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And he said, cursed, be Canaan, a servant of servants, he shall
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be to his Brethren and he said, blessed be the Lord, the god of
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Shem and Canaan be his servant and may God enlarge japheth and
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me dwell in the tents of Shem. And may Canaan be his servant
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and Noah lived After the flood. 350 years.
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So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years and
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he died. Okay couple things I forgot.
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One last thing with drunkenness just in This comes up because
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the argument is made. Well, you know, if you're in a
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different culture and it's accepted Lee not culture, you
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can go ahead and let your guard down and drink with them.
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Listen, there are alcoholics and every culture.
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So the word know works just about in every language or no,
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thank you. And you don't need to
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participate, no matter what country you're in.
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You can say no. Do you have anything else?
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Do you have something else than that?
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Because you don't know, like, just because something is
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culturally acceptable, doesn't mean it.
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From the Lord. And we've just gotten away from
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a Biblical way of thinking. It was just keep us safe.
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So I forgot to mention that, but this one's here, I want you to
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notice the sun's here, because we have an example here in verse
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22. That ham saw the nakedness of
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his father. The word saw there.
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You can Circle it, it means intense gazing.
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He this didn't glances, he's walking by Dad, he stopped to
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stare Which itself gives his view of his rebellious nature.
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It's not just that, but there is something about hams sin here
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that no Ascend now tempted, his son to send.
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And now he's sending because sin begets, sin compromise, begets
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compromise. And so now here, if this would
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have never happened, at least it wouldn't have come out this way.
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But here there's a Temptation now to him.
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And I believe ham was happy as father was out of it.
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I believe his fault. He was happy to see, you know,
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could you imagine the time on the Arco righteous dad.
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Oh, holier than now, dad, and who knows what language it was
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used. But in the corruptness of his
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heart, I think him staring at his daddy's happy now.
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He's got one up, his dad has failed and he can take advantage
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of it. And notice what he did.
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He went out and immediately told He immediately told and on the
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other hand, according to verse 23, when Chemin hat japeth heard
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about it, they didn't want to see it.
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They walked backwards to cover up their dad.
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And this is such a great picture for us in the church because you
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can be one of two types of people.
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You can be, I would say there's a lot of hams in the church
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today. That love to spread the sin of
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others. They love to talk about the
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failures of others, exposing others.
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They like to gaze upon the sins of other and self-righteousness
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is, if they don't send everyone sends everyone.
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And they want to make sure everybody knows.
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And this is the root of the sin of Gossip instead of helping
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according to Galatians and coming alongside a brother or a
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sister and helping them up, they would rather expose them.
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I mean, social media is filled with this.
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Rhett happy and excited about the sins of others.
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When the Bible, clearly says we're not to glory in the sins
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of others. We're too, according to
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Galatians 6, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you
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who are spiritual restore, such a one, don't destroy him or kick
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him when he's down. And so who will you be?
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Will you be ham? That's a exposing or were you be
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Shem and japheth who's covering? As Peter said, they're not going
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to be able to undo the sin or the consequences of the sin, but
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they don't need to make it worse.
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That's the body of Christ. That's the True Heart of agape.
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Love covers not excuses. Love never excuses.
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Send never ignores it. Never pretend it didn't happen.
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But we also don't make it worse. We don't choose to make it worse
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and canaan's heart is revealed and he's judged.
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And he's cursed. through ham sin, while his brothers would
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experience blessings with prophetic Insight, Noah speaks
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of his sons, descendants experiencing separation and
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rebellion and you Bible students, you recognize most
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likely as you saw, Canaan, what did it remind leave immediately
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remind you of one of the arch enemies of the people, God the
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Canaanites Started right here. And so as we close, I want you
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to notice verse 28, Noah lived After the flood, 350 years, and
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all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he
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died. And the life of Noah is recorded
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in the scriptures just ends, so abruptly.
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No, talk of restoration, no talk of it.
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Just ended the way it was. All of a sudden.
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And I just began thinking about how many people I've seen over
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the years who started out well, but didn't end well.
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It's why it's been on my heart this week and a few people very
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close to me. They just have burned.
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They just don't finish in their waist while they're still alive,
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so they can get up and run again, that's my hope.
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But they're captured under the deceit of their own decisions
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and influence, and all kinds of things.
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I think of people in this own and our own church family over
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the years who started out so strong and so bold and were so
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effective, they're not even walking with the Lord anymore.
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Some of them and took an anti-god position.
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Some of them identify themselves as full-blown atheists now, I
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mean, they served in prayed here baptized us with us and the
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reservoir. I mean, they were entrusted with
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people with care under in this church and while God is gracious
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to us, they just haven't made it.
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They stumbled hard and Noah so strong in the beginning, his de
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final description. Drank drunk, naked.
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And the one of his kids. Decides to exploit him.
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And so as we close sin, will rob you and steal from us.
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Just remember sin will destroy the wages of sin is always
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death. He can't get around it.
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I can't get around it. Gift of God is eternal life, but
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sin is destructive harmful, and it's God's will that you stay
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away from it. Amen.
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Well, what a challenging chapter tonight, but I know that you use
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it so that we might grow in our understanding of your heart for
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us, And even among all the Liberties and freedoms that we
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have, God give us wisdom how to use them. under the cloak of not
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hiding things, but under the cloak of holiness, that we might
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ask you for direction that we might ask you how to exercise
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our liberties and even if we're the odd man out, even if we're
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the odd woman out, even if we get made fun of even if we get
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excluded or whatever, that we would make our decisions, not
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even from the passionate plea of a pastor but from the passionate
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plea of a savior We might live, holy and righteous lives.
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Depending upon you, living in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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And help us God not to be gossips and slanderers.
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But rather to cover in to help and to restore.
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In Jesus name, amen. We pray that you've been
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