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Faith for Evangelism (Part 3) · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons Each message here is
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designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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walk with God Don't miss out, stay with us until
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the end for a rewarding experience Let's dive
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right in So our teaching this morning is continuing
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from where we stopped the last time which is
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faith for evangelism the fruit of our preaching
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in the life of people you know what pastor victor
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said is actually something that is a burden has
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been a burden and i believe we will see the fruits
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you know that there'll be a time when we'll have
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gatherings of believers in christ there will
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not just be us alone but people of this yun,
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yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun,
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yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun,
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yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun,
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yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun, yun,
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yun, yun, yun. yun yun yun yun yun yun yun yun
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yun but the circumstances that would pray for
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much more that they will lead the proclamation
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of the gospel on this island that is the impact
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that that makes there's a difference that that
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makes so let her be abiding you know let her
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be abiding all right so faith for evangelism
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and i think this is the third one uh that we
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we are working on and we are teaching this morning
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yi yi yi yi yi yi yi us strengthen us in the
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work of faith and everything writes everything
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that pertains to the work of ministry so matthew
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chapter 1 verse 21 or we can start from verse
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20 but while he taught on these things behold
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the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a
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dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not
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to take unto thee marry thy wife for that which
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is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and
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she shall bring forth a son and thou shall call
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his name Jesus for he shall save his people from
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their sins he shall save the people from their
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sins so now all this was done that he might be
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fulfilled which was spoken of the lord by the
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prophets saying beo the virgin shall be with
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child and shall bring forth a son and they shall
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call his name immanuel which been interpreted
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god with us then joseph being raised from sleep
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did as the angel of the lord at beating him and
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took his wife took unto him his wife a new anoint
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until she was brought forth a first -born son
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and he called his name jesus now the emphasis
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is from verse 21 to 23 right and the tidying
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up that we're doing is that when the scripture
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talks about the incarnation of christ okay when
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the scripture talks about the incarnation of
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christ the resurrection which is what christ
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would do is also preached alongside okay when
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the scripture teaches that a child will be born
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it also teaches that the child will save a people
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right so it tells us what a child will do which
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is teaching about the fact that god will come
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in the flesh to deliver his people to deliver
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us and that is one thing that we see so the incarnation
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and the resolution are not preached separately
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but where we find the information bring talked
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about the resurrection is emphasized right the
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resurrection the ascension is emphasized so we
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can say that the entire gospel right communicates
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the testimony of christ so talk about the testimony
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of christ right it talks about the entire thing
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that's jesus did it talks about the entire thing
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that jesus did means it's coming to life the
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incarnation is suffering is death's barrier and
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resurrection okay so it's coming to life which
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is incarnation is suffering is death's barrier
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and resurrection and what we call the ascension
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so incarnation suffering death's barrier the
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resurrection and what we call the ascension which
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we have taught separately that ascension means
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right the giving of life into us to give us eternal
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life means christ in us ascending into us and
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we have taught that there are teachings on that
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uh if we want to further in that or if you want
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to revise that now so where is the problem why
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do did i have to teach that the other day that
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some people believe jesus as a prophet right
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that some people believe jesus as just incarnate
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some people believe jesus as why do we have to
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teach that we have to teach that because when
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it comes to the communication of the gospel okay
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when it comes to communication of the gospel
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the problem is not in the message the problem
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always starts from the mind of men okay so when
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it comes to the communication of the gospel when
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the gospel is preached it is not the message
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of the bible that has a fault no it is always
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the mind of men the mind of men so the teaching
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that we do helps the mind of man to align with
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the accurate precise knowledge of the gospel
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which is what we prayed about right what we prayed
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about so sometimes when you begin to uh see people
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pick some part of the gospel and say well i believe
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these i don't believe that uh it's about the
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mind of man so people can perceive one part of
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the truth right just like the disciples also
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perceived uh at some point in time only a certain
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part of the truth so when you are listening to
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a message one of the things that you should be
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praying for yourself is lord i receive revelation
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when you are listening to a message and the pastor
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is preaching one of the things you should regularly
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do is to say lord i receive revelation so that
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you can enjoy the entire council of god in that
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message right we've seen jesus being with the
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disciples preaching preaching and yet at resurrection
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they were wondering if it is true that it was
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going to come alive again so let's open to our
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bibles right just see look look 24 look 24 verse
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25 and verse 25 to 34 then he said unto them
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all foolish ones and slow of hearts to believe
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in all that the prophet has spoken or not the
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christ who have suffered these things and enter
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into his glory and beginning at moses another
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prophet he expounded unto them to them all the
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scriptures in all the scriptures the things concerning
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himself we can see it the things concerning himself
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you can go to verse 30 let's see Now it came
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to pass as he sat at a table with them that he
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took bread and blessed and broke it and he gave
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it to them And then their eyes were open and
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they knew him and he vanished from their from
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their sights And they said to one another did
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our heart not burn right? Did our heart burn
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within us while he talked with us on the road
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and while he opened the scriptures to us so you
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can see that ប ប ប ប ប ប these are the words
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which i did words i spoke to you while i was
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with you these are the words i spoke okay this
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just appeared right all right these are the words
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i spoke to you while i was with you luke 24 verse
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44 that all things must be fulfilled which were
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written in the law of moses and in the prophets
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and in the psalms concerning me right concerning
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me now would you say that they have not believed
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jesus as the christ that has come they have worked
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with him they have done what he has instructed
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them to do they've preached alongside with him
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they've healed the sick alongside with him yet
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there's a part of the gospel that they couldn't
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come into terms with and that was the suffering
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of christ and the resurrection of christ so the
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problem was with them now verse 45 told us what
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happens and hoping they are understanding that
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they might comprehend the scriptures so one of
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the things you will always do is to pray for
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yourself right that lord i comprehend the scriptures
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i understand the scriptures i understand what
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the bible says otherwise you would just appropriate
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the bible wrongly right so we see that the problem
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is with the mind of men so to explain that some
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people believe in carnation is because we have
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seen that happen in the mind of men and we put
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scriptures like matthew 16 matthew 16 verse 21
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to 23 which some people were about to make jesus
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king haven't seen all the miracles haven't fed
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them haven't understood that okay this must be
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the christ they say let's make him a king right
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who would not like to have a king that will continually
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provide for them you know everybody likes to
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have a king right that will continually provide
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for them that will continually be with them right
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even though they did not understand the time
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our life it was going to come and stay in them
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so everybody would like to have a king and they
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wanted to make him a king you know it's like
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somebody making a road and you know fixing the
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road in your community putting uh street lights
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and all of that and you want to make him the
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chairman of the local government you know why
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not but when it comes to the scripture and spiritual
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things it has deeper understanding so they didn't
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understand that the process by which jesus will
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be their king is not by making him a king of
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the jews so they didn't understand the process
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the same thing with the disciples they didn't
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understand the process by which jesus will be
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with them forever they didn't understand that
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process so it was their mind that could not comprehend
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a king all the kings they know nif you remember
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what samuel told them about the kind of kings
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they are kings that rule and they rule what i
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mean they rule and they rule it means that they
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rule over the people over the kingdom they have
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soldiers they have military they have security
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and that is the kind of king that they comprehended
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but scriptures made us to know that's not in
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that way right and that is why jesus would say
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my kingdom is not of this world right we don't
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it's not of this world it's not how you make
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kings in this place so they couldn't comprehend
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they couldn't comprehend and we see that now
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john john chapter one verse 12 uh we see that
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john chapter one verse 12 i think just a little
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bit of title there as well he said but as many
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as receiving to them gave he power to become
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the sons of god even to them that believe in
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his name and verse 13 says which were born not
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of blood not of the will of the flesh not the
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will of man but the will of god so it's talking
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about people coming to christ they believe they
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receive him right and they are born of god so
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it's talking about people that are being that
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are born again this is a revelation what we mean
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as uh post -resurrection explanation of jesus
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in john chapter one so he's talking about people
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that have come to believe people that have received
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him so at this point they already comprehended
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everything right at john 12 right what john was
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referring to says well they understood now so
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they believe so they became born again so coming
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into being born again right means that you comprehended
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you know the resurrection of right the death
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barrier and uh the ascension of christ into you
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so they have received him they believe in and
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uh they believe and they have received him so
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they are not doubting at this point the disciples
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are not doubting whether he's going to die right
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as we know john the book of john was written
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later after many of these revelations we are
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already clear rights and review so this is a
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resurrection reality all right so i said it's
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aligned with first john chapter three verse two
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that says now are we the sons of god which means
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at that present time right while this book was
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written john and other disciples were the sons
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of god good so i'm not going to revise every
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other part which is those uh that didn't believe
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in the scriptures you can listen to the message
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is online is on ncf uh ncf .church and we have
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the ncf media there and you can please listen
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to those messages and it will bless you but the
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emphasis right that we are going to make today
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is for the believer so we said there are people
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who believe jesus the first category of people
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right the belief jesus as the belief jesus and
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the entirety of the scriptures the belief jesus
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and the entirety of the scriptures and we said
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that those who believe jesus after resurrection
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although they didn't believe uh the incarnation
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they were doubting if it was truly christ but
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they believe uh and there are those who just
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believe that is born uh there are those who did
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not believe neither the incarnation nor the resurrection
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and those who believe that is a prophet now our
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our empathy when we are teaching faith for evangelism
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is not for them okay is not for them why because
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the only people that can work in faith in evangelism
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is the believer do we get it is the believer
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so you cannot do evangelism when you're not safe
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i mean that's not possible right if you're doing
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that probably from head knowledge right you don't
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have the reality of it so the people who are
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responsible to do evangelism and to work in faith
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for evangelism are the believers do we get that
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so as a believer you are expected to work in
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faith for evangelism right you are expected to
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work in faith for evangelism now the first thing
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we need to know okay the first thing we need
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to know is that you have faith you have you have
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faith this is the first thing we need to know
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that there is no faith coming from outside into
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you right that's when you became born again you
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have the faith of christ in you when you became
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born again you have the faith of christ in you
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we must establish this because it is upon this
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reality that's your function okay it is upon
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this reality that you function you have the fate
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of christ in it so you are not looking for a
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fate from outside right but a fate that is established
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in you right that is made manifest do you get
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it you are not looking for me afraid from outside
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but a fate that is established in you that is
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made manifest so the question is what do we do
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to this fate what we do to it is that we steer
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it up okay we steer each other up we steer this
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fate up for the work of ministry right we steer
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this fate up for the work of ministry so that's
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what believers do we steer each other up in faith
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for the work of ministry we steer each other
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up in faith for the work of ministry Now, why
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is it necessary, right? Why is it necessary to
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steer each other up in faiths for the work of
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ministry? Now, that is where that scripture filament
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comes in again, which was read during the prayers.
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Filaments chapter one verse six. Filaments chapter
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one verse six. Is that the sharing of your faiths
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become effective by the acknowledging of every
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good thing that is yours in christ so when we
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stay together up in faith we are acknowledging
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that we have it do we get it we are acknowledging
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that we have it when we stay together up in faith
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we acknowledge that we have faith we acknowledge
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that we have faith we acknowledge that we have
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faith so we steer each other up in faith the
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faith is given we have the fullness of it but
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we steer each other up in faith so that we can
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be effective in our work of ministry is that
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the sharing of your faiths may be effective so
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whatever you do as a believer it will be effective
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to the extent at which you acknowledge all that
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is yours in christ do you get it all that you
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do in christ will be effective to the level at
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which you acknowledge it right to the level at
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which you acknowledge it so why is it necessary
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why is it necessary to stay each other up in
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faith now let's write down let's write down the
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conduct of a believer the conduct please conduct
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in quotes in bold letters right the conduct of
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a believer it means someone who has received
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jesus who has believed christ someone who has
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received jesus who has believed christ can show
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a weakness of faith the conduct of a believer
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can show a weakness of faith so someone can have
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a weak faith now have you ever wondered when
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you became born again when you believe jesus
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and you started working with god have you ever
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wondered that sometimes you manifest certain
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things and at those early stages you were doubting
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if you ever saved have you ever wondered you
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know has that ever happened to you i'm sure it
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happens to you sometimes you sit down and you
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examine yourself at those very stages like i
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might really see the way i just lambasted this
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guy i just spoke to him anyhow and you know i
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just said my mind you wonder so you go back and
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you begin to think i might really say or you
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find yourself with some thoughts some thoughts
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and you begin to like but i said i believe jesus
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but these thoughts are coming good so the believer
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writes at certain seasons and time can have a
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weak fate and we have to check it from the scriptures
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even on certain things that are found in the
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bible on certain things something the bible said
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clearly you can have a weak faith on those matters
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so let's check romance 14 verse one romance 14
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verse one we want to strengthen each other's
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feet now the truth is we all have been weak in
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faith at certain points in our lives and that's
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the truth we must acknowledge that at certain
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points we have been weak in faith by the time
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we begin to diagnose things we will see that
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in certain areas we've shown weaknesses in faith
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but what is sustaining us is because there was
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somebody there that said brother this is what
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the word of god said and because of that you
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stayed firm right there are certain conducts
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you wanted to manifest but because someone showed
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you and said have you forgotten that this is
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what the scripture says right or someone just
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told you have you forgotten that god is a faithful
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god and your mind just just that will just change
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the entire direction you want to take right so
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in certain seasons and times and time again we
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can find ourselves in this challenge but let's
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see how the scripture establish you know points
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to some people having a weak faith in certain
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circumstances romance 14 verse 1 it's a receive
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one who is weak in faith but not to dispute over
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doubtful things right it's a receive someone
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who is what who is weak in faith now read verse
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21 can we go to verse 21 said it is good neither
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to eat meat nor drink wine not do anything by
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which your brother stumble or is offended or
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is made weak now this is talking about people
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who don't believe that they should eat anything
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sacrificed to idol okay so they don't believe
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that they should eat anything that is sacrificed
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to idol while there are other people in that
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church they were just you know we can say they
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believe to eat everything they were just wiping
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everything like you know you would say and the
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discussion came about the fact that some people's
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faiths are weak what does that mean it means
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that for those people right for those people
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they still believe right they still believe that
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if an animal is unclean or is sacrificed to idol
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it is literal and should not be eaten and that
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idol is something do we get it so it was having
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this discussion and some says well idol is nothing
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right we can eat we have the liberty in christ
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and order says well their conscience will begin
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to see you differently so therefore avoid it
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now this does not teach that people should avoid
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food sacrifice or either or any food that is
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unclean but paul was saying that for love accommodates
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do we get it that is the first thing that chapter
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14 was saying he said for the love of god accommodates
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these people okay so refrain from it you don't
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have to eat it you don't have to eat it refrain
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from it we know you have the knowledge and the
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revelation now go to chapter 15 verse 1 pa did
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not stop there but he went to 15 verse 1 and
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he said something he said we then that are strong
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ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and
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not to please ourselves let every one of us please
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his neighbor for his good to edification and
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even christ please not himself as it is written
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the approaches of them that approach d fell on
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me so it's emphasizing that those that are strong
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should be right so those that are strong is referring
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to people whose conscience are clicked and they
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have the understanding that meets are only a
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communication of course meeting the old testament
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a communication of old doctrine and meet sacrifice
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to idol because there is nothing referred to
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as idol right rather they would receive it with
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thanksgiving and eat so this is a controversy
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that is clear there now we see this in that sense
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let's go to romance let's go to romance uh chapter
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four let's go to roman's chapter four verse 20
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it says it did not waver at the promise of god
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true unbelief but was strengthened in faith some
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scripture says it was strong in faith giving
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glory to god now this was talking about abraham
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okay and at this point in abraham's life abraham
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was strong in faith right did you see that when
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you are strengthened in faith you don't weaver
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you don't shake you don't you don't doubt it
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says he was strengthened in faith strong in faith
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giving glory to god so we can say believers can
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actually be weak in faith and they can strong
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in faith and how do we know it is not that uh
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it is not by the spirit for example we have to
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measure your spirit there's no spiritometer right
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there's nothing like spiritometer where we can
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measure how spiritual you are however we can
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know that you are strong or weak in faith by
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your conduct okay we can know that you are strong
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or weak in faith by what by your conduct so every
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day the believer must check their conducts to
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see whether they are still in faith all right
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so let's write the scriptures down Galatians
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2 verse 11 to 21 Galatians 2 verse 11 to 21 now
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we're going to see a situation where even apostle
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peter a scenario shows apostle peter that it
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was also weak at some point in time it was weak
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in faith now i'm intentionally not taking scriptures
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from the gospels yet i'm bringing scriptures
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from acts and the epistles that is why we have
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read romans and we are reading acts and we're
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going to read galatians now let's go to galatians
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11 don't forget so be weak in faith right would
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refer to i don't know if we if we define that
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but it refers to the conduct of a believer in
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not acknowledging all that is written in the
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scripture so we can write it down you can write
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it down let's write this down that should be
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weak in faith refers to the conduct of the believer
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the conduct of the believer that does not acknowledge
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all that is found in the scripture okay the conduct
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of the believer that does not acknowledge all
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that is found in the bible so in your life you
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can find yourself in this scenario and in romance
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14 what we saw was that people said well we are
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not going to eat any food even if we know god
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created everything but these ones we're going
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to set aside so it's a corner of the believer
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that does not acknowledge all that the scripture
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says now this definition will help us to evaluate
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apostle peter and see and one thing that is setting
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is that he grew beyond that now galatians 2 verse
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11 now when peter had come to antioch paul said
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i withstood him to his face because he was to
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be blamed for before certain men came from james
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Right before starting men came from James he
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could hit with the Gentiles but when they came
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What did Peter do Peter withdrew himself? He
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separated himself Fearing those who were of the
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circumcision Who did he separate themselves from
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from the Gentiles Peter separate said let this
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circumcision party not know that I am fellowshiping
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with what the Gentiles why because as at this
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time right as at this time there is this common
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understanding then that the jews and the gentiles
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should not fellowship together now you can read
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that from john chapter four from that john chapter
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four where jesus was talking to that woman right
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and they said we will worship on the mountains
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and your own your church is the church of jerusalem
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the samarians their church is the church of the
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mountains and they are separated so this is a
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common knowledge now at this time that that's
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cutting has been divided has been destroyed that's
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cutting the partition the jews and the gentiles
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have been taken off but this is at the early
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stage of the church is at the early stage of
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the church so what was happening here was that
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peter was separating himself it's like someone
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comes to you right and fellowship with you but
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when some other friend comes the person excuses
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himself now this happened to me very practically
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and i'll share with you now when i believe and
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i was i was laid hands upon to pray in tongues
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right i was laying down upon to paint it was
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in another church where i schooled so we're schooling
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there and they took us for a camp and hands were
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laid and i began to pray in tongues day and then
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now i was sure what happened to me and i knew
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i was supposed to continue in that however when
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i got to my home church back home the pattern
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of speaking in tongues is different it is not
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by the will of man okay it is not by the will
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of man is by i don't know it's it's it's what
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we call something comes upon you right is by
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coming upon let's use that you can still relate
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with that right in the old testament you know
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how spirit comes upon the prophets and the prophesy
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so that was the style and when the spirit comes
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upon you people will know right people will know
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so i got to church that day and they started
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leading prayers and i started praying in tongues
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under my tongue but i was watching people are
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they looking at me is anybody noticing i'm praying
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in tongues and i realized that my closest friend
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also are going to cut something somewhere that
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it was keeping quiet and refusing to speak in
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tongues so we tried our service did not pray
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because we were scared of people catching us
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speaking in tongues without something coming
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upon you so in that scenario my fate was weak
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i didn't believe that you have to just you i
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believe i knew but because of the people around
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and because this environment does not permit
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that i didn't it took me two years to come back
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to praying in tongues without you know restriction
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so at that point my faith was weak so this is
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similar to the case of peter right seeing some
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people come around and people were not circumcised
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and you have been eating with them you have been
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fellowshiping with them and because some people
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came you withdrew so it means that although he
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knows but in his conduct right his conduct shows
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that is not fully acknowledging all that is found
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in the scriptures so that fits in very well that
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fits in very well but what happened did peter
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stay here the answer is no peter did not stay
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here at any point in time now let's continue
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reading let's continue reading and the rest of
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the juice also played the hypocrites galatians
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2 verse 13 the play words hypocrites with him
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so that even banabas was carried away with their
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hypocrisy but when i saw that they were not straightforward
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about the truth of the gospel i said to peter
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before them all if you being a jew live in a
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manner of gentiles and not as jews why do you
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compare gentiles to live as jews we we who are
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jews by nature are not sinners of the gentiles
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knowing that a man is justified is not justified
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by the works of the law but by what's by faith
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by faith in what's in jesus christ so here he's
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saying that circumcision does not justify a man
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this is paul addressing an issue even we believe
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in christ jesus that we might be justified by
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faith in christ and not by the works of the law
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for by the works of the law no flesh shall be
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justified so paul in this place spoke to peter
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and explained to him now let's go to acts 11
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acts 11 verse 1 to 4 acts 10 verse 45 acts 11
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verse 1 to 4 acts 10 verse 45 now the apostles
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and the brethren who were in judia they heard
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that the gentiles also received the word of god
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and peter came up to jerusalem came up to jerusalem
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those of the circumcision contended with what
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with him and saying you went into the words on
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circumcised men and et with what and et with
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them but peter did what he explained it to them
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in order from what from the beginning so he was
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confronted about the word of god about what he
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did and he had to explain himself but one thing
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that was remarkable is that in the explanation
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of peter he acknowledged that faith is uh justification
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is by faith and that circumcision is unnecessary
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for the gentiles so that is what we call growth
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in faith so you write write it down growth in
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faith is when we growth in faith is when we see
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the revelation of god's word when we see the
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revelation of god's word we acknowledge it ប
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ប ប ប ប ប at chapter 15 verse 7 at chapter 15
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verse 7 now paul became or peter became the one
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who spoke in the jerusalem council to explain
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that circumcision is unneeded right is not needed
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rather right the circumcision was not needed
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so this issue of circumcision came up and when
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there had been much disputes peter rose up and
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said to them men and brethren you know that's
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a good while ago god chose among us that by mouth
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of the gentiles that by my mouth rather the gentiles
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should hear the word of the gospel and believe
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so god who knows the hearts acknowledge them
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by giving them the holy spirit just as he would
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as he did to us and made no distinction between
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us and them purifying their hearts by faith now
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therefore why do you test god by putting a yoke
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on the neck of the disciples which neither our
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fathers nor we were able to bear but we believe
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that through the grace of the lord jesus christ
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we shall be saved in the same manner as they
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are then all the multiple all the multitude kept
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silent and listened to banabas and paul declaring
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how many miracles and wonders god had walked
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through them among the gentiles go to verse 17
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verse 17 so that the rest of the mankind may
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seek the lord even all the gentiles who are called
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by my name says the lord who does all these things
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now if you read from verse 12 to 17 they are
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to refer back to the scriptures to the old testament
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to prove that god requires all men to come to
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him by faith not by circumcision do we get it
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not by circumcision so from this place we can
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see that they were in certain accents uh weak
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in faith and what happened is that they grew
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the apostles grew in faith the apostles grew
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in faith now what happened there is similar to
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what happened in luke 24 jesus abdid yir mind
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and explained to them peter opened their minds
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and explained to them paul opened peter's mind
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peter opened the mind of the others and do you
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know what happened they put it in writing he
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said write this letter and send that nowhere
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should the gentiles be required to be circumcised
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so we can say that revelation gives people a
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strengthened faith revelation strengthens our
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faiths revelation strengthens our faiths they
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thought from the scriptures and point that only
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by faiths should man be saved so revelation strengthens
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our faiths revelation strengthens our faiths
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yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi yi kwenye kwenye
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kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye kwenye
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kwenye kwenye or they will tell you to go and
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stay in church do you know what you'll be doing
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in church this one is practical i i managed to
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escape it they will tell you to open the books
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of proverbs and be writing it you become a scribe
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you will write the book of proverbs from the
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first chapter to the last chapter this is i saw
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it live and it happened to my cousins i don't
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know why i was you know only a few times i got
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into that so the punishment is you go to church
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you you see that you you you write or you fast
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now there is one that will help us to understand
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revelation another punishment is that they will
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tell you to go and evangelize they'll call it
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ikede in my in my language ikede and you know
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evangelism is not this one that you go and meet
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people uh from where i come from you have to
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carry a bell so so you have to ring the bell
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and then speak right you have to ring the bell
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and then you speak so this is one of the punishments
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and i'm very serious about it so one of the things
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that happen when you go for this kind of you
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know edification is that your classmates will
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see you and they would see you on the evangelism
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ground right so what happened is that when they
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give you this kind of punishment you want to
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do it very early in the morning before the day
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breaks so that you can justify that you have
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done it not that anybody had listened to you
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why because at that time you are avoiding your
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classmates your high school mates and all of
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that seeing you on the road and be teasing you
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and all of that and the interesting thing is
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that they will call you Woli you know they'll
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call you prophets it means a prophet and then
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we we didn't have a revelation that you know
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when they call you a prophet you should be excited
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about it and you're doing the work of god so
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it was a teasing so we avoided it and as a result
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somehow somehow you have to be uptight in the
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house going to church not going to watch football
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when the service is going on and all of that
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but today what is the difference between me of
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then and me of now is a revelation all the people
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that pass through that system in my house if
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they go out now they don't mind anybody seeing
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them the difference is that we came to understand
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first that truly you are a prophet it is not
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a they can see it as a tease just like the word
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christian is a you know it came out of a teasing
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they they are followers of christ right people
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who don't really understand i say oh they are
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followers of christ these guys have been with
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jesus right they are in the same school of thought
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the same way that was to us but because of revelation
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we understood that truly we share in the ministry
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of christ we share in the work of christ so revelation
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took us out from where our faith was weak to
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where we became strong and we can boldly go out
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and teach the gospel we can boldly go out and
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evangelize we can go out and someone will say
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oh that guy is a prophet i say yes we work in
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the office of the prophet so revelations strengthens
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your faiths revelation what differs between now
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and then is revelation through the word of god
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the bible did not change did the bible change
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from then and now the bible did not change but
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the understanding of what the bible says about
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me and you changes what i knew then is not what
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i know now so revelation strengthens our faiths
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revelation strengthening our faith let's write
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this down romance i think i wrote romance for
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uh 20 wrote romance for 20 uh romance for 20
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now put effecients one verse 17 as well effecients
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one verse 17 let's let's just read that patience
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you say sometimes we keep we quickly brush through
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that script or we become too familiar with it
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verse 15 says wherefore i also after i heard
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of your faith in the lord right the lord jesus
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and your love to us all the sins cease not to
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give thanks for you making mention of you in
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my prayers that the god of our lord jesus christ
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the father of glory may give unto you the wisdom
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of the spirit as you say and the revelation revelation
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right in the knowledge of him these are people
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that have received the faiths did you see we
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heard of your faith means the faith the salvation
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they have received right and your love towards
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the saints so it's like someone who has believed
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right and is serving in church we can put that
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in our category right someone has believed the
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person is serving in church and paul is saying
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that i pray that you will get the revelation
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in the knowledge of christ that you will not
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miss the revelation you will not miss the revelation
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in the knowledge of christ because it will help
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you to know it will help you to know verse 18
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it says the eyes of your understanding be enlightened
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that ye may know what is the hope of your calling
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and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance
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in the saints so it makes you know what you have
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been called to do that's what revelation is right
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it makes you know what you have been called to
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do you are not called to sit down and not preach
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the gospel you are not called to you are not
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going to run away from evangelism you are not
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called to not preach you are called actually
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to preach the gospel that is the hope to which
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god has called you to that comes by revelation
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now you can be a christian for many years and
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you've not done evangelism right it means that
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you need to come into in -depth revelation of
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what that means you know it you have heard it
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but the explanation and the clarity of it by
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the spirit must come to you must come to you
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and that is one of the reasons why we say you
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should keep coming to church it will not happen
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in one day do we get it revelation does not happen
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like in one day you might hear the message hear
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the message hear the message it becomes strong
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in your hearts and one day your faith is teared
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up your faith is teared up so not neglecting
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the gathering of the brethren also contributes
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to strengthening your faiths right not neglecting
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the gathering of the brethren contribute because
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that is where you hear revelation that is what
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when revelation becomes done on you and you are
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able to do what you have been called to do on
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Wednesday we will continue much more in this
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teaching but what we have been able to establish
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today is that revelation strengthens you now
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if there are areas of the bible if there are
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things that you think that you should be doing
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and you are not doing as a believer but you have
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seen it in the world that the bible says this
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is who you are this is how you should work you
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can pray that you come into that revelation i
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said what you can pray that you come into that
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revelation if you are struggling in any area
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of your conduct as a believer you can pray that
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the revelation this is paul's prayer here that
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the revelation will come that there will be a
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dawn in your heart that will make you begin to
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do all that is yours in christ can we pray that
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prayer this morning We appreciate you being here
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