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Living Waters of Grace 02.12.26 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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  This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis
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  Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland
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  County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he
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  continues teaching through God's Word.
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  Please pray this prayer, he said.
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  That prayer is that. You may be filled.
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  With the knowledge of his will. It is so important that we know.
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  The will of God, that's how we. Get to know God by knowing His
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  will. That's how we come to know how
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  to walk this Christian life out, by knowing His will.
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  There's just certain things that we don't have to.
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  Worry about worrying about what I don't.
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  Know if this is the will of God or not.
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  Today Pastor Lewis answers a question that many people ask.
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  How can I know the will of God for my life?
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  Sure, there are certain things that take extra time to discern,
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  but really to know the will of God for every facet of life, the
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  answer is right there in front of us.
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  So, do you want to know the secret to knowing the will of
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  God for your life? Open up His Word.
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  God has given you His Word to lead, guide, and direct you into
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  His will for your life. His will is for you to be in His
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  Word and His Word to be in you. Now here's Pastor Lewis in Titus
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  chapter 3 with today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  Now during this time that Paul wrote.
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  This letter he was. Actually in he was in jail.
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  He was under house arrest in Rome when he.
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  Wrote this particular letter. And you'll see a lot of
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  similarities to Colossians and Ephesians and we'll be
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  referencing that quite. A bit as we go through this
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  letter. But he mentions Timothy as being
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  with him now. Timothy wasn't in jail with him,
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  but Timothy. Was there to assist.
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  Him and to help him. Timothy was probably the one who
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  scribed. This letter as Paul.
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  Was giving his words to it and he says Timothy our brother.
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  Well, we know that he called Timothy his son, but here?
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  He's just. Expressing the fact or stressing
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  the fact that Timothy is a. Brother in the Faith.
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  Just like he's a son of faith. The other thing I also want to
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  mention is the fact. That he.
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  Calls Jesus, he mentions Jesus Christ and he calls that
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  together now, pretty much. All the epistles.
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  In his introductory he mentions the name Jesus.
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  Christ, but if you were. To just think.
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  About or go back through like the four gospels.
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  You won't see those two names together.
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  We know that Jesus. Is the name that means you know,
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  that means, you know, save our people and we know that Christ.
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  Is actually his office. I mean, that's his.
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  Position of authority. He is the Christ.
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  He's the Messiah, the. Son of the living.
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  God. But you won't see those two
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  together. Very much in the Gospels, only
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  about 8 times you may see those things.
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  Together, Peter was. One who mentions that when he
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  says who, you know who, who am I?
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  Who does man say I am? Peter said.
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  You. You're the Christ.
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  You're the Son. Of the living God.
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  But you don't see that. That often in the Gospels, and
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  that's why Jesus was so. Quick to say oh.
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  Flesh and blood didn't. Reveal that to you.
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  But my father. Who was in heaven?
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  Because Jesus didn't even reveal himself as that as much in the.
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  Gospels so he. Knew that it had to be
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  spiritually reviewed or spiritually revealed to him.
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  But here you see these names. Together Jesus Christ.
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  And you'll see that together in most most of the epistles
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  because by this time. Those who are.
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  Teaching and preaching the gospel are presenting Jesus as
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  the Messiah. And when we preach and teach.
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  Jesus. We should do it as Jesus.
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  Christ the Messiah. The true God, the the Son of
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  God. God.
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  In the flesh and then in verse 2 he says to the Saints and
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  faithful brethren in Christ who are in.
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  Colossae, grace to you. And peace from God our Father in
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  the Lord Jesus. Christ.
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  We give thanks and that's another thing you're going to
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  see quite often throughout this. Letter.
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  The giving of thanks and talking about thanks and we talked.
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  About it before. That that's something that we.
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  Should probably be. More intentional about doing in
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  our lives is giving thanks to God, you know, in our.
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  Prayers we should always. Take time to give.
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  Thanks to God. You know, we, we always can go
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  into talking about a laundry list of things that we need.
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  And I sure need a lot of things. I need God to do a lot of things
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  in my life as well. But we should always.
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  Remember to thank him for the things that he has done.
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  The things that he's. Already fulfilled in our lives.
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  Because the truth. Is if God never did another
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  thing for any of us, He's already done more than what we
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  deserve. So when he talks about the
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  peace, he talks about. You know, giving thanks, he
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  said. We give thanks to.
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  God to the God. And.
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  Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you.
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  Since. That's the key there.
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  Since. We heard of your.
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  Faith in Christ Jesus. And of your love for all the.
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  Saints because of the. Hope which is laid up.
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  For you in heaven. Of which you heard.
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  Before in the word. Of the truth of the gospel.
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  I just want to pause there, he said.
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  Since he said we never, you know, we.
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  Pray for you always. Since.
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  We heard of your. Faith in Christ Jesus and of
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  your love for all the Saints. Because of the hope.
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  So right there you have all three of the pillars of the
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  gospel faith, love and hope. In First Corinthians chapter 13
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  and 13, you know Paul says now. Abide these three faith.
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  Hope and love and the. Greatest of these is love.
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  The greatest of these is love. But he says.
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  Here since we heard. Of your faith.
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  Many of us are praying for people that we want God to save.
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  I certainly am. My wife and I, we are.
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  We have. Children that are yet not saved.
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  That we desire before we leave this world.
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  To see them walking with the Lord.
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  And I'm sure some of you may have people that you love.
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  Whether they're your children. Some of you may be your parents.
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  It could be brothers and sisters, whoever.
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  It may be nieces, nephews, friends, good friends, whoever
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  it is that you desire. To be saved and.
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  I just want to encourage you to please keep praying.
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  Because there was a. Time that my mother and and my
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  sisters and and and my and my grandmother was praying for me.
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  Was that Lord? Please save that boy.
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  Save that boy. And the Lord did, and He can do.
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  It for yours as. Well, he can do it for mine, I
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  believe that and we going to hang on that.
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  But he said since. We.
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  Heard of your faith? In Christ Jesus and of your
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  love, in other words, since we heard you got.
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  Saved. We've been.
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  Praying for you always. And what I want to say to you is
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  now. If they get saved, those people
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  you praying for once they get saved.
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  Don't stop praying. In fact, that's when you want to
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  start praying even more. Once they get saved, we become a
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  target. When we get saved, Satan comes
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  right for. US.
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  He doesn't want. Anybody to leave?
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  The Kingdom of darkness No one so we.
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  Have to make. Sure that you know, Paul says.
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  Since we. Heard you guys saved we we we
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  pray for you always we want. You to stay in the faith, and
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  that takes prayers and your faith and your love for all the
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  Saints. The love is so important because
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  love is one of the true evidences of a changed life.
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  A person who loves. The way Jesus loved that agape
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  love. That unconditional.
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  Love that we should the church. Should be showing to each other
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  when people recognize the. Church one of the.
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  First things they. Should say that sets the church
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  apart. Should be.
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  Oh how they love. One another how they love one
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  another. Look how they care for one
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  another. Look how they talk to one.
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  Look how they treat. Look how they look after each
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  other. They.
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  Love one another. It always blesses.
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  Me when someone come to visit. Our church.
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  And they're overwhelmed by the love that they experience in the
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  church. What an evidence.
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  That the Holy Spirit is with us. What an evidence, What a
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  blessing. To be able to hear that, so he
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  said for the love. For all the Saints, that
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  evidence of salvation. And then he goes on, he says.
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  Which is laid up. For us, and that laid up means
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  reserved. We have a reservation.
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  We have a reservation in heaven. And it's already there.
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  And it can't be cancelled by anybody.
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  And our confirmation is the Holy Spirit that's in US can't be
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  cancelled by. Anybody.
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  We are reserved. We have a place reserved in
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  eternal life. How?
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  You've had. Opportunities where you've made.
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  Hotel reservations before. And you know the comfort you
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  felt to know that where you're going, you had somewhere to stay
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  and you ain't have to worry. About it I got.
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  Somewhere to stay and we're good.
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  I got my confirmation number. Oh, we hold on to that thing,
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  don't we? We keep it in our emails.
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  We may take a. Picture of it.
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  You know what I mean? We're quick.
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  You know, once someone that challenges me, I got a
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  confirmation number. We don't want no trouble in
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  here. We're.
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  Good. You know how you feel about
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  that, that comfort that you get. By having that, how much more,
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  how much more comfort do we have?
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  How much more excited? Should we be?
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  About knowing that we have a reservation in heaven and it's a
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  reservation that cannot be. Canceled.
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  We have it forever. We're just.
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  Waiting for the fulfillment of it.
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  We're just waiting for. We're just waiting to.
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  Arrive at the hotel. Amen.
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  What a blessing that is. So then he goes on here and he
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  says that. Hope.
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  That's laid up for you in heaven.
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  Of which you heard before. In the word of truth of the
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  Gospel, Amen. The word of truth in the Gospel,
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  which has come to you as it has in.
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  All the world Paul was already. Establishing the fact.
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  That the gospel has gone out to all the world the the the
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  apostles. And not only himself.
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  But there's other apostles out there.
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  And the people that they meet make disciples, and the people
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  that they meet make disciples, and the people that they meet
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  make disciples, and all this word.
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  Goes out. And Paul says I'm confident.
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  I know it's going out through. All the world, All the world.
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  I mean, just think about it. Hit.
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  US. Right here in Little Greensburg,
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  PA, The gospel and he says going out through.
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  All the world. And not only is it going out,
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  but it is bringing forth fruit as it is among as it as it is
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  also among you, since the day that you heard and knew the
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  grace of God. In truth, the Gospel always
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  brings forth fruit. The Gospel.
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  Always brings forth a. Change in people's lives.
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  It's the power of God that's. Why Paul said it?
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  I'm not ashamed of the gospel of.
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  Christ, because it is the power. Of God and to salvation.
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  It's a power for you to be changed from.
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  Death to life is the power of God.
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  Of salvation. So Paul said, I'm not ashamed of
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  it. I'll teach.
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  I'll, I'll, I'll share that message anywhere, anytime in
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  front of anybody. It's power in that thing.
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  Praise God. Praise God.
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  And then he says here in verse 7, as you learned also from.
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  Epiphras, our dear. Fellow servant, who is faithful
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  minister of Christ on your behalf now.
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  Epiphras. He's only mentioned two other
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  times in the Word of God. He's mentioned at another place
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  here in Colossians, in Colossians chapter 4, verse 12.
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  He's mentioned there, and he's also mentioned the 23rd verse of
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  Philemon. He is a faithful servant with
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  God with with Paul he probably got.
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  Converted to Christianity when Paul was teaching in.
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  Ephesus, in fact, that's. Where a number.
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  Of people. In Asia got converted.
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  A places that Paul. Never even went to.
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  But while he was. Preaching in Ephesus.
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  There was a young man there named Epiphras.
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  Who heard the Gospel? And we'll see.
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  As he says here that he's a. Faithful minister of Christ on
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  your behalf. Who also declared to us your
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  love. And the Spirit.
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  So now just think about it. Paul's preaching in Ephesus,
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  teaching the Word. Of God.
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  There's a young man there, sitting and listening.
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  Paul might not even. Recognize who this guy was,
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  probably. Didn't even stand out.
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  To Paul, but he's. Sitting there listening and he
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  is sitting there hearing the gospel and his life is getting
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  changed and he goes back. To he goes back to.
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  Colossians or to colossi? And establishes a church.
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  And now a church that Paul has never even heard of, Paul's
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  sending a letter to. Now keep in mind.
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  Also that Paul. Had begun to.
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  Work with Epiphras at. One point and he served.
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  With Paul. In different.
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  Places but Paul. Had never been to.
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  Colossae so. You just never know what impact
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  the gospel has on your life and the life that you and the impact
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  you can have on somebody else's. You could have an impact on the
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  city of Greensburg, you know, Thank God.
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  Thank God that our pastor that Clark heard the.
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  Gospel somewhere him and his wife and got saved and started
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  Calvary Chapel here in Greensburg and the people.
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  Who shared the gospel with him? Probably didn't even.
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  Know. That this man got saved and was
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  taken, and the gospel took him the way it did.
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  But yet he was able to found a church here.
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  In Greensburg, PA and have impact on the town of
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  Greensburg. Who knows what impact you have
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  had on somebody by just sharing the gospel.
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  You don't have to be up here to do it.
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  Maybe you were in the Maybe you were in the the lunch room.
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  At your job. And you were sharing the gospel
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  with somebody. You never know who that person
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  wouldn't told and who that person wouldn't told and who
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  that person wouldn't told. All because of that.
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  Lunch. That he shared with you.
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  In that lunch room when you were bold enough and then bold
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  enough. To share the gospel.
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  That's why it's so important when he says that, you know?
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  We are to share the gospel, go on to all the world.
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  And share it, you know, don't just share it in certain.
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  Places everywhere you go. You get an opportunity when God
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  gives you that window. Share Share the Gospel.
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  You never know what kind of effect it's going to have.
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  Many of the largest. Pastors or the.
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  Or what we consider to be the. The the biggest?
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  Pastors in this country are men. Who just heard the gospel
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  preached? And went out and began to
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  minister and start ministries. It's a blessing because there's.
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  Power in it. It's no power in us.
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  There was no power in Clark, but there was power in the Gospel.
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  So we have we have Epifast who shared the the gospel there at
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  Colossae. And made an impact there in the
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  city. Of Colossae back.
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  Right back where he come from. And he had, and Paul had depend
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  on him to share and to declare to him the love of the Spirit.
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  That was there at Colossae. And then in verse 9, he goes in
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  and he says for this reason we also since the day we.
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  Heard. Do not.
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  Cease to pray for. You and to ask that may that you
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  may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
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  spiritual understanding intend that.
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  You may walk worthy of the Lord. Fully pleasing him, being
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  fruitful in every good work, increasing in the knowledge of
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  God. And then one more.
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  We're going to finish on this one strengthened with All Might,
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  according. To his glorious power for all.
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  Patience and long-suffering. With joy now.
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  I'm going to take just a couple minutes to go back and deal with
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  just a couple of these points in closing.
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  First of all, he said I don't. He said that we since.
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  The day we heard that you got saved just like he said over
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  there in verse 4. He said since the day we heard
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  that, you guys say, we didn't cease to pray.
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  For you we. Realize how important it is.
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  To pray for you. Since you got saved and to ask
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  now, this is his. Prayer.
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  And I'm going to. Ask that as you read this
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  prayer, whether you read it here or whether you read it at.
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  Home, I'm going to ask that you. Pray this prayer for yourself
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  first of all. And secondly.
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  That you pray it for. Everyone else that's in the body
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  of Christ and please, please pray it for Clark and I and all
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  the leaders here in Calvary Chapel and everywhere else
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  that's here. Everyone else that's here.
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  Please pray this prayer, he said.
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  That prayer is that. You may be filled with the
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  knowledge. Of his will.
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  It is so important that we know the will.
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  Of God, that's how. We get to know God by knowing
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  His will. That's how we come to know how
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  to walk this Christian life out, by knowing His will.
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  There's just certain things that we don't have to.
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  Worry about worrying. About well, I don't know if this
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  is the will of God or not. What do you mean?
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  Well, I'm married to somebody that I'm, you know, I think
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  there's somebody else I should be married to.
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  So I'm going to divorce this person and go.
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  I just think that's God's will. No, it's not.
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  We don't even have. To pray about that.
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  We know that that's not God's will.
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  Well, let's see if I just. Cheat on my taxes just a little
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  bit because I have some big expenses coming up and maybe
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  this is God's way of making sure that I can meet those expenses.
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  So I'm going to just. Tattle.
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  Just a. Little bit, you know, tweak.
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  These taxes a little. Bit so I can get more money back
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  and we know that that's not. God's will.
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  There's just certain things we know is not his will.
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  So we read his word. To understand His will.
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  Now watch how these dots connect so you know the knowledge.
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  Of his will. And all wisdom and spiritual
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  understanding wisdom. Is just the practical.
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  Outworking of the knowledge. You have.
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  You make decisions. That are wise.
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  Based on the knowledge. You have about a situation so
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  we. Can walk in the wisdom of God
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  based on the knowledge that we. Have of God.
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  And his will. So that first dot.
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  Connect and the spiritual understanding or understanding
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  that comes through discernment. That understanding is spiritual
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  discernment, those things that come through.
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  The Spirit that reveals to us the will of God.
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  It reveals that we're the the will of God.
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  The Bible says that the natural. Man doesn't understand the
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  things that. Are of the Spirit.
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  The natural man understands the natural things that are of man.
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  It's spiritual. Things that understand spiritual
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  things. So it's the Spirit.
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  And he says walk in our wisdom and we can walk in our wisdom
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  because we understand his will and we obtain that will, the
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  knowledge of that will through spiritual discernment.
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  And then verse 10 that. You.
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  Walk may walk. Worthy of the Lord.
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  Fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every.
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  Good work. How are we going to be fruitful?
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  By knowing the will of God? By understanding and discerning.
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  The will of God. And the knowledge.
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  Of God by walking. In the wisdom of that which we
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  know and when we. Do that we are fruitful.
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  We are fruitful in in every. Good.
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  Work increasing in the knowledge of God we should never.
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  Ever, ever stop. Wanting to increase our.
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  Knowledge of God. That's why men and women who
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  have been following the Lord. For years.
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  Who have been serving the Lord for.
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  Years still go to. Bible studies still go to.
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  To Wednesday night Bible study and come on Sundays and then go
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  to the men's Bible studies the men's breakfast is in women's go
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  to the women's Bible studies in the women's.
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  Breakfast. Because regardless of how.
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  Long you've been serving the. Lord, we always.
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  Want to know more about Him? We always want to know more
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  about Him. That's the mercy or the grace.
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  That God has given to us is the desire.
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  To want to know more about him. It's a beatitude, Lord.
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  Make me hungry and thirsty. For.
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  Righteousness, and that's in Him.
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  So we always want to be hungry. For the word.
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  Of God. And then this last one
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  strengthened with All Might, according.
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  To his glorious power for all. Patience and long-suffering.
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  Now this patience. Is actually.
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  Endurance. It's perseverance.
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  And this long-suffering is. Like it says.
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  Being able to suffer long, but it's patience.
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  It's patience. Look at what?
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  Paul asked for though what he prayed for, he says.
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  I'm not praying that you become physically strong to be able to
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  combat. The people who are.
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  Persecuting you or the people that are causing tribulation in
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  your life. I'm not asking you to become
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  physically strong. I want you to become spiritually
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  strong. That you're able to persevere.
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  That you're able. To endure, join those.
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  Hardships that you're able to have.
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  Long-suffering to have patience and to.
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  Do it with joy, the disciples. Over in the book.
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  Of Acts 5, they said after they got.
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  Beaten for. Preaching Christ, they rejoiced.
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  And they rejoiced. Because they said we're counted
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  worthy. Worthy to suffer persecution
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  for. His name's sake, Jesus even
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  said, when you were persecuted, rejoice when you're persecuted,
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  when you're reviled, and when you're lied on.
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  He said rejoice, rejoice, we have good cheer.
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  So we want that strength and we want that strength with joy.
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  It's not important that I'm that we're physically strong.
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  We know this outward body is going to perish.
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  We know that. But we want our inward man to be
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  renewed day by day. Amen.
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  We want to be strengthened in our inner man.
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  We want to be strengthened to be able to.
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  Go through hardships we want to be.
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  Strengthened to be able. To have the.
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  Patience to endure our tribulations.
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  And I pray. That for each and everyone of
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  you, I don't know, maybe, maybe somebody's going through
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  something in here right now and you're wondering.
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  I don't know if I can hold on. I've been going through this for
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  so long. I've been dealing with this for
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  so long. I don't know if I can hold on,
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  Hold on, hold on. Wait on the Lord.
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  Wait on the Lord. He.
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  He will renew your strength and cause you to mount up with wings
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  as eagles. He can do that for you.
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  Wait on the Lord. Whatever it is that you're.
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  Dealing with. Our prayers that you're going to
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  be. Strengthened in the inward man,
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  you're going to be strengthened with with the endurance.
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  To be able to deal with it. This has been Living Waters of
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  Grace, a ministry of Pastor Louis Harrell of Calvary Chapel,
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  Westmoreland. Today's message has been on the
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  Book of Titus. This book is a master class in
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  how Christians should live in modern culture.
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  Titus was ministering to the people of Crete, an island off
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  the coast of Greece, but he was facing many challenges.
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  The Cretans who came to know Jesus seemed to assimilate Jesus
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  into their existing culture instead of allowing themselves
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  to be transformed by the Holy Spirit inside of them.
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  Others were fully devoting themselves to Jesus but shutting
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  themselves off from the world around them.
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  The apostle Paul encourages Titus to help his audience find
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  a middle ground where they can live in this world while still
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  following a different way of life in Jesus.
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  If you would like to learn more about what it means to
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  faithfully follow the teachings of Christ in a world full of
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  darkness, we'd love to get connected with you in person.
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  If you are in Greensburg, PA, we'd love to invite you to join
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  us at Calvary Chapel Westmoreland.
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  We meet every Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St.
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  Ste. 6B. Also, if you visit us at
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  calvarychapelonline.com, you'll find links to our mobile app,
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  our giving page, and our contact form where you can leave a
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  prayer request if you have one. Before we go off the air for
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  today, we ask you to invite someone to tune in next time
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  right here on Grace FM 91.7 or streaming online at Grace Radio
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  dot FM. Word of mouth is the best way to
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  spread the good news of the gospel with those who are hungry
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  to hear. Until next time, this has been
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  another edition of Living Waters of Grace.