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Living Waters of Grace for April 22nd, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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  Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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  County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  What kind of excuse do we have that we don't really follow the
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  Lord fully? Well, we might say I'm weak, or
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  I'm this wishy washy, or I'm complacent or you know, I have a
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  tendency to back, or we can make all kind of excuses, right?
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  Instead of saying, Lord, I don't want to be that way.
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  I don't want to have any excuses in my life in regard to my
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  relationship with you. I want you to work on my heart
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  so that I don't have an excuse. I want you to remove everything
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  that I use as an excuse so that there is no more excuses.
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  We all know what it's like to hear excuses.
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  If you're a parent, I'm sure you've heard dozens of reasons
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  why your kids shouldn't have to clean the room.
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  Or if you're in a management position, I'm sure you've heard
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  every excuse in the book as to why your employees can't make it
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  to work on time. Well, today Pastor Clark urges
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  you not to make any more excuses as to why you're not ready to
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  follow Jesus. Today is the day to take up your
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  cross and follow him. So what's holding you back now?
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  Here's Pastor Clark in Matthew chapter 19 with today's edition
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  of Living Waters of Grace. Again, though, in marriage, you
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  know, some people get some warped ideas in the culture that
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  somehow a sexuality is not a good thing.
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  It's a good thing in marriage, but only in marriage.
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  That's why Paul says the marriage bed is undefiled.
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  There's no corruption in the marriage bed with the sexual
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  union between the husband and the wife.
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  So we're not talking about marriage here.
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  In regard to the context of why these people chose to be
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  virgins. I don't think if you went out
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  there in that time, in the last days, could any of these people
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  actually find a godly woman If everybody's heart is thinking
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  evil continually, the pickings are pretty slim.
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  Some of you single folks know the pickings are sort of slim
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  now. Or you know, you look and you
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  say, well, where is a godly man or a godly woman?
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  Are you willing to wait on the Lord before you would try to get
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  involved with someone just because you think you need to be
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  married? You'll you'll regret that the
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  rest of your life. Perhaps no godly women or men
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  are left to marry at this time. And so these people like Paul
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  chose to be entirely separated to Christ for the ministry in
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  this time of tribulation. So they're not affected by
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  distractions. Some people are called to this
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  idea of a celibacy and and being virgins.
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  Turn over to Matthew 19 and very interesting comments that you
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  find that as I read what Paul said and also what Jesus says
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  himself here in Matthew 19 verse 11 and 12, he says to them, all
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  cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been
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  given. So in other words, if you have
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  the gift to be celibate and to be single, this clicks with you.
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  He says most people can't accept this saying, only those to whom
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  it has been given. For there are eunuchs who were
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  born this thus from their mother's womb, and there are
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  eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who
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  have made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of heaven sake.
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  He was able to accept to accept it.
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  Let him accept it. So again, a calling for some
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  people to be in that place of perpetual virginity.
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  Why were these guys like this in Revelation?
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  I really believe it enabled them to have an undivided heart for
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  the Kingdom of heaven's sake. It was by choice and by gifting
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  that they were able to do this. So the full focus on ministry
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  was definitely done by these 144,000.
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  They had such an amazing testimony.
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  Now I think about their heart, their compassion, their, their
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  passion for the Lord, their love for the Lord.
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  It says they're the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he
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  goes. Man, I I pray that's what's
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  going on in our hearts here that every day we get up.
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  Lord, what is it that you want of our lives today?
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  What's your plan for me today? I'm just not coming to church
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  Sunday just to fulfill some kind of religious obligation.
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  Lord, I want to be encouraged today that in in my job, in my
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  marriage, in my home, with my kids, if I'm single, whatever
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  I'm doing, Lord, that I want to be a follower of you.
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  I want to be called to be a follower of Christ and be
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  willing to sacrifice and to seek the things that are above and
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  not the things that are upon the earth.
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  I think of Jesus when he speaks to us in the Gospels about
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  discipleship over in Luke Chapter 9 verse 57, the cost of
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  discipleship. Now it happens, they journeyed
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  on the road that someone said to him, Lord, I will follow you
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  wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes
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  have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man
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  has nowhere to lay his head. Then he said to another, Follow
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  me. But this person said, Lord, let
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  me first go and bury my father. Jesus said to him, let the dead
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  bury their own dead, but you go and preach the Kingdom of God.
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  Another also said, Lord, I will follow you, but let me first go
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  and bid them farewell who were in my house.
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  But Jesus said to them, No one, having put his hand to the plow
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  and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.
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  Now Jesus is not saying if your dad dies, your mom dies, that
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  you know, you shouldn't be interested in giving them a, a
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  Christian burial and that kind of stuff.
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  Or, you know, you want to say goodbye to family before you're
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  called to the mission field. So you just blow them off.
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  It's the heart that he's looking at.
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  What's really tying you into this world and preventing you
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  from fully surrendering to me? What kind of excuse do we have
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  that we don't really follow the Lord fully?
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  Well, we might say I'm weak or I'm this wishy washy or I'm
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  complacent or, you know, I have a tendency to back.
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  We can make all kind of excuses, right?
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  Instead of saying, Lord, I don't want to be that way.
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  I don't want to have any excuses in my life in regard to my
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  relationship with you. I want you to work on my heart
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  so that I don't have an excuse. I want you to remove everything
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  that I use as an excuse so that there is no more excuses.
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  And then by your grace, I'll follow you as a faithful
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  disciple. I need you to move certain
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  things out of my life in order to make me more willing to
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  surrender to you. And John chapter 12, Jesus says
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  in verse 24 and 26, he says, most assuredly, I say to you,
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  unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and it dies, it
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  remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much
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  grain. He who loves his life will lose
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  it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for
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  eternal life. If anyone serves me, let him
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  follow me. And where I am, there my servant
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  will be also. If anyone serves me, him my
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  Father will honor. So we're called to die to
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  ourself, all of us. And as we die to our self,
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  tremendous things come out of our lives and ministry for the
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  sake of others. And anytime you do something for
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  Jesus, there's a cost. And lots of times you don't get
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  the reward in this world. You're not going to see the
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  reward until you stand before him.
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  And then he says to you, looking into your eyes with that love
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  and that compassion, well done, good and faithful servant, enter
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  into the joy of the Lord. My favorite verse when I get
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  down and discourage, as we all do, be steadfast, immovable,
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  always abounding in your work for the Lord.
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  For as much as you know, your labor is not in vain in the
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  Lord. So no matter what it is that
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  you're called to do, and you might think it's insignificant
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  or unimportant, there's not one thing that Christ has called any
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  of you to do, witnessing your job, whatever it is, that's
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  insignificant or in unimportant. God doesn't level.
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  And he says, well, this is more important to me than this level
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  of service. No, we're all equal at the foot
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  of the cross. We all use our gifts for him.
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  And whatever is he's given you the capacity to do, you do it
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  with complete conviction that he's worthy to serve.
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  And then the last one over there in Luke Chapter 9 verse 23.
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  Luke Chapter 9, 23 Then he said to them all, If anyone desires
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  to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross
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  daily, and follow me. For whoever desires to save his
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  life will lose it. But whoever loses his life for
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  my sake will save it. For what profit is it to a man
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  if he gains the whole world and is himself destroyed or lost?
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  For whoever is ashamed of me, in my words of Him, the Son of Man
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  will be ashamed when he comes in his own glory and in his
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  Father's, and of the holy angels.
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  So the good news is, is that God is calling all of us to deny
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  ourself. And you might want to pray even
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  today. Lord, what is it in my life that
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  you want me to deny myself of? Is there anything currently in
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  my daily life that's getting in the way of my relationship with
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  You? Am I too obsessed with my
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  career, maybe as my mind and my focus, too overwhelmed with all
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  the stuff I have to do around my house?
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  Or, you know, am I? Am I allowing weight in this
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  life to weigh me down so that I don't have your joy anymore and
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  I don't have your purpose and I don't have your plan in my life?
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  Lord, help me to like cut loose of the stuff that isn't really
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  your intention so that I can truly sacrifice and lay it down
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  and just say, Lord, take it so that I can be more responsive to
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  your will. And these people, it says were
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  redeemed in Revelation chapter 14.
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  They were redeemed. They were redeemed from among
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  being firstfruits to God the Lamb.
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  I love what it says over there in First Corinthians chapter 6
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  about this subject. You know, when you're talking
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  about laying your life down, it isn't like one of these things
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  like, well, maybe I should consider that.
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  Maybe I don't have to consider it.
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  We all have to consider it because this is what Paul says
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  regarding the subject and especially in regard to sexual
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  immorality in the context he says in first Corinthians 615,
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  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?
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  Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of
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  a harlot? Certainly not.
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  Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is 1 body
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  with her, For the two he says shall become one flesh, but he
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  who is joined to the Lord has one spirit with him.
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  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is
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  outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins
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  against his own body. Or do you not know that your
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  body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
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  have from God, and you are not your own?
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  That should be a wake up. We're not, we don't.
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  I don't own this body. You don't own yours.
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  That's why he says that we're present our bodies to to God, a
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  living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is
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  our reasonable servants. He says you are not your own.
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  Your body is a temple, the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you
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  have from God, and you are not your own, for you were bought at
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  a price. Therefore glorify God in your
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  body and your spirit, which are gods.
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  Paul Dye told us in the men's study last week that that was a
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  life changing verse for him when he realized that he couldn't
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  make promises to God. I'll do this, I'll do that as a
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  missionary. He knew they'd all fail.
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  All he could do was say, Lord, here's this body, this vessel,
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  this clay, and I'm just going to surrender it to you for you to
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  move it around and do with it what you please, what you want,
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  what we're redeemed with. Peter says in first Peter 118
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  and 19, knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible
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  things like silver and gold. Jesus in bias with money.
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  Some people say money can buy everything.
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  It can't buy your salvation. It can't buy mine, can't buy
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  yours, can't buy anybody. But this is what we're redeemed
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  with by the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without spot,
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  without blemish. You know, you think about the
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  fourth first portion here, that he, there's so much in these two
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  verses. We could go on and on, but when
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  you slow down and you think about every little statement,
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  every little word within 2 verses, you can, as I say, have
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  a lot of teaching material. But the first portion in regard
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  to the nation of Israel was the harvest spiritual awakening in
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  Israel. And this is a picture of the
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  preparation that God has for Israel in the millennial
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  Kingdom. In Romans Chapter 9, he talks
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  about the number of the children of Israel will be as a sand to
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  the sea. The remnant, the first fruits
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  will be saved. And then he talks about it in
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  Chapter 11. He says Even so then at the
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  present time there is a remnant according to the election of
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  grace. God in His divine sovereign
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  decree has those He's called already prepared for this time
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  in Revelation. He's not scrambling around
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  trying to recruit people to hey, you want to sign up to be part
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  of this amazing group of people. They're already called, like
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  Paul says, I was called in my mother's womb before the
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  foundation of the world to be an apostle.
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  That's crazy. I mean, all those years, he
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  certainly didn't give any evidence that he was called.
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  He persecuted Christians. He he came after them and you
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  know, and then God says, hey, Paul, it's time.
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  And on that road to Damascus, he met the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And right away he knew it was, and he said, Lord, what would
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  you have me to do? And so be encouraged, you know,
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  in all the laws of the people you care about, you're
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  preaching, you're sharing, you're praying, nothing seems to
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  be happening. But the God in his mercy, when
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  it's time for those he's called, he reveals himself, and they
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  can't help but to come. The Lord in his grace draws us
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  by his Spirit. This is goodness that leads us
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  to repentance. So the first stage of the final
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  harvest of Israel and in Revelation 14 four.
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  These are the ones that keep God's word, his commandments and
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  have the testimony of likeness of Jesus Christ in their lives.
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  In verse 5, as we begin to wind down, it says in their mouth was
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  found no deceit for they are without fault before the throne
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  of God. I think about how do we walk.
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  The Bible says our tongue is like a poison.
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  Have you ever been guilty of using your tongue for something
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  you wish you never did or said? Yeah, it's it's a very, very
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  embarrassing thing. As you look back, you wish you
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  could take words back. You wish you could have not said
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  certain things. The Lord forgives us as we
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  repent. Sometimes people don't.
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  All we can do is ask for humility and ask for their
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  forgiveness. But the tongue is very, very
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  dangerous. So how do we walk?
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  Are we like these people that in our mouth is found no lies, no
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  deceit, no lies? Can you remember a time when you
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  thought it was OK to tell a little white lie?
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  Or maybe even now you're telling some lies and your heart's
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  convicting you and you know you shouldn't, and He's asking you
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  to come clean and tell the truth, no matter what the cost,
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  that your conscience is so connected with the Holy Spirit
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  that the slightest little thing that's just not right, you can't
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  live with. You got to make it right.
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  You can't hide it, you can't ignore it.
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  You can't act like you didn't see it when God shows it to you.
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  Got to do something about it, right?
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  I'm going through my reports at work on the computer and there's
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  this one account that the business went down.
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  So I call them up and they say we this in an area I don't call.
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  And they say, and if I get credit for it, they say, well,
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  we don't even use you. We don't send any worker.
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  I'm thinking, well, who's sending us this 6 or $7000 of
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  business a month and it's coded under me, right?
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  I'm thinking, well, no one knows about it but me and you, Lord,
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  my boss doesn't know about it. The company doesn't know about
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  it. I just keep getting credit every
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  month. I can't, I can't live with that.
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  There was a time when I would have probably just like ignored
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  that. No big deal.
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  Business is business, church is church.
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  But you can't do that, can you? When God is in your heart and
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  he's working in your life, everything has to be right.
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  No deceit. So Monday I got to e-mail them,
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  hey, I don't know who these people are, but I shouldn't be
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  getting credit for this. No deceit, no lies.
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  Proverbs chapter 8 says listen, I will speak of excellent
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  things, and from the opening of my lips will come right things,
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  for my mouth will speak truth. Wickedness is an abomination to
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  my lips. All the words of my mouth are
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  with righteousness. Nothing crooked or perverse is
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  in them. That's Proverbs 8 verse 6
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  through 8 if you want to look at that later without fault.
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  John the Apostle says these people are how can they be
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  without fault? Is any of us here today?
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  Can any of us raise our hand and say them without fault?
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  I know my fault, you know yours. But the beautiful thing in
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  regard to the economy of God and through Christ is that he makes
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  us blameless from his throne's perspective because he he looks
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  at us in the person of Jesus Christ.
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  He looks at us through the blood of the Lamb.
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  When Jesus died for your sins, He died for every one of them,
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  the ones you committed and the ones you haven't committed.
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  That's hard for our minds to grasp that He's made us
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  blameless. Blameless people represent holy
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  behavior. They're faithful because of
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  God's grace to be something far beyond what they themselves
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  could ever exhibit. God gives us favor when we
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  commit ourselves to Him to serve Him.
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  I have a lot of faults, but I have a lot less faults than I
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  used to have. That's not because I'm getting
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  better. It's because Christ is taking
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  over me more as I yield. And as you yield more and more
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  to the Lord, we become conformed to His image and His likeness.
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  We can't take credit for that, can we?
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  None of us. It's a work of His grace.
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  So wonderful. It happens for all of us.
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  It happens in all of us and God makes us what we know we could
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  never be in ourselves. And so before the throne of God,
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  it's I began to wind down here. He says that I look at this
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  picture in Isaiah chapter 6. Isaiah had this vision.
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  He's a prophet. He has this vision of the throne
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  of God. He sees the Lord on the throne
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  high and lifted up, and his train filling the temple.
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  He hears the Sarah from crying out.
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  Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
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  The whole earth is full of his glory.
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  And this is Prophet Isaiah's response.
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  Woe is me, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the
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  midst of an unclean people. And as he's saying that, he's
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  freaking out because the post to the temple and the door is
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  shaking and the whole house is filled with the glory of God,
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  the smoke of God's presence. He says, woe is me, I am undone.
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  And all of us could, I'm sure, relate to that.
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  Even today, as we are here in the presence of God, we say, woe
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  is me, I am undone. I'm a man of unclean lips at
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  times, and I dwell in the midst of an unclean group of people,
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  even in the church. But what's beautiful is a
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  seraphim brings this coal and puts it on the lips of Isaiah.
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  And this is a picture of the grace of God, the work of God,
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  because he makes Isaiah someone he could never be in himself.
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  He takes His Holiness, God's own holiness, and he pours it out
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  upon the lips of his servant Isaiah.
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  And he touches his lips and he says to him, Your iniquity is
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  taken away and your sin is purged.
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  And that's all we need to do. We ask the Lord, come and purge
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  me, cleanse me, touch my heart, touch my lips, touch my mind so
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  that I can become blameless. First, John 19 tells us that if
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  we confess our sins, and that's part of being blameless, I make
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  a mistake, I sin against God, I repent of it, I confess it.
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  I hurt you or you hurt me. We come to one another and say
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  please forgive me. I was insensitive, I was
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  ungodly. I have no excuse for my
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  behavior. Forgive me and Christ will
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  forgive us of our sins through the power of his blood.
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  And as we do that first, John tells us in chapter 1 verse 5,
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  this is a message which we've heard from him and declare to
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  you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
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  If we say that we have fellowship with Him and we walk
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  in darkness, we lie and we do not practice the truth.
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  But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have
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  fellowship one with another. And the blood of Jesus Christ
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  His Son cleanses us from all sin.
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  The blood of the Lamb is what makes us blameless.
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  The blood of the Lamb is what cleanses us from all our
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  impurities and unrighteousness. And He says if we say that we've
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  not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in US.
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  I'm so thankful that God is helping me by His grace to get
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  over pride in the sense of not being willing to admit to God
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  when I don't do what's right. I want to be quick with
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  repentance. I want to be fast with being
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  upfront about my life with the Lord, with my wife, my family.
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  If I mess up, I don't want to act like it didn't happen and
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  ignore it. I want to go right to the
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  situation and say I was wrong. Please forgive me.
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  And God is merciful because you know no matter what it is you've
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  done in your life or what you could do or what you you
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  shouldn't have done, whenever you make it right with the Lord
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  through repentance and you humble yourself among other
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  people. They might not forgive you, but
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  they can't point the finger anymore and say you're.
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  This is because they know you saw it was wrong and you wanted
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  to make amends. You did what you were supposed
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  to do right. You set things right on your
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  side of the fence. What they do with it, that's
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  between them and God that you've walked away as a blameless
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  person and it tells us in Jude chapter or Jude does only 1
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  chapter verse 24. It says not to Him who is able
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  to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless or
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  blameless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.
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  Remember, it's not works of righteousness which you have
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  done. It's nothing.
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  You could do nothing in my hands.
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  I bring Amen only to the cross. I cling and rest assured in Him.
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  Not to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to
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  present you faultless. You can't present yourselves
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  faultless, guys. I can't either.
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  He's the one that does that. Worthy is a lamb that was slain
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  for the foundation of the earth, for you and for me who trusts in
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  me. This has been Living Waters of
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  Grace with Pastor Clark. We're going through the
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  challenging and also intriguing Book of Revelation.
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  Whether you're a fan of reading ahead in books of fiction,
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  there's such a benefit to reading ahead in the Bible to
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  read about how it all ends. But in an interesting turn of
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  events, the Book of Revelation is not really the end.
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  I'd rather the beginning. It's the end of life as we know
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  it here on earth, but there's so much to look forward to.
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  But what comes after all? The judgement of the earth and
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  those who reject God? There's a lot to work through,
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  and it can be heartbreaking to read through the intense
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  judgements and wrath that will come on those who hate God with
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  all their might. The thing is, God has given
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  chance upon chance to these people and they don't want it.
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  So the outcome is that there are judgments and consequences for
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  those who've rejected the good news and the gift of salvation
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  that's offered through Jesus's death and resurrection.
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  Are you one who has heard about these things but doesn't really
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  want it because you want to live life on your terms?
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  Trust me, living for Jesus is so much better.
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  That doesn't mean it will be easy, but as you listen and read
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  through Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark
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  realization that you don't want to be on earth when the
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  apocalypse happens. So check out Calvary Chapel
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  online.com to learn how to come to a saving grace through faith
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  that will allow you to be with Jesus for eternity.
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  We'd also love to meet you in person at Calvary Chapel
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  Westmoreland. Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh
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  St. Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.
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  This has been living waters of Grace.