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Episode 50: The Faith Proof · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for this glorious day, this splendid,
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marvelous, great, great day of salvation. And we are forever grateful and
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Lord, thankful to you for all of your blessings that you have bestowed upon
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us. Thank you for Jesus Christ, the precious blood that we shed for
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the remission of our sins. We thank you for your word, Oh God,
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your word that is a lamp unto our feet, a light into our
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pathway. We thank you for that word that a man illuminates our heart,
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it guides us, it leads us into all truth loss. We pray to
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that word, the living Word, the word that you've sent down from heaven,
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the word that shall not return unto your void, the word that will
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accomplish what you please. We pray today that your word, oh Lord,
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will lead someone in God, someone today, Lord, that they may come
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to see and come to know that you are the true in the living God,
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and there is none other beside thee God. Be glorified today in your
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people everywhere in Jesus name, we pray, and we thank you in advance.
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Amen and amen. All right, God bless you again. Everyone,
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We as always Amen, forever cognizant, Amen, of the fact that it
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is in Him that we live and move and have our being, and apart
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from Him that is Jesus Christ, our Savior, our redeemer. Amen,
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we can do nothing. Amen. Thank God strength this day. Thank God
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for the mind to serve him. A man to a man, engage as
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good soldiers in this warfare. Amen. We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
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Amen. Our fight, Amen, our battle a man is against principalities
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and powers, the spiritual wickedness that is in the high places. And therefore
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we as soldiers a man who have been called a man to this fight,
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to this battle, we are to fight the good fight of faith. Amen,
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the good fight of faith. Amen. That is exactly what we're gonna
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be Amen, talking about today, is the faith. Amen. In this
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series, on this great question, are you saved? Amen, we are
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going to examine today the faith. Amen, the faith that is necessary a
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man as a biblical proof, one of the biblical proofs of our being saved
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a man. It is one of the biblical proofs of our being saved.
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Amen. All right, We thank God again as always for all of you
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who pray for and support. Amen. The work of this ministry, Radio
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ministry, podcast ministry a man that we endeavor to a man speak the truth
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of God, a man, preach the word of God, to teach the
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Word of God plainly, a man in such a way that a man,
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even a wayfary man, need not error therein because I believe, I believe
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that the Word of God is crystal clear a man in its instructions to us,
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a man, in what we must do in order to be saved.
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Amen. I believe the Word of God is crystal clear in that regard.
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Amen. And so Amen, we are simply called to amen, preach the
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truth in love a man, and that is what we endeavor to do each
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and every time, a man. We are given the opportunity by the Lord
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Jesus Christ to a man represent him as his ambassador. Amen. That's who
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we are. We are ambassadors for Christ. We are a man appointed as
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his spokesman. Amen. And so we want to be faithful in that charge,
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faithful in that duty. And again we are grateful to each and every
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one of you who, as always, as I say, pray for and
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support the work of this ministry. By the way, this radio broadcast,
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Amen to Amen again, spread the good news of Jesus Christ, a
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man. It's all about him. It's none of us. It's not about
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us, a man. It is all about Jesus the Christ, the Savior,
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the redeemer of lost man. Amen. Okay. Today again we're going
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to be in the Word of God as always, So if you have your
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Bibles, you will be able to follow along with us. If not,
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also you will be able to take notes a man of where these scriptures are
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because we're coming a man with the biblical perspective, a man of our salvation,
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and as we have been discussing in our previous sessions in this series on
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this most important question of are you saved? We have demonstrated again from the
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biblical perspective that there are biblical proofs of salvation and evident in the lives of
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those who are truly saved. When a person is saved, he or she
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is delivered. That's what being saved means. It means that you are delivered,
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you delivered from something, you delivered from what. It simply means that
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we again, according to the scriptures, we have been delivered from self.
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We've already covered these. We've been delivered from self. We've been delivered from
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sin, We've been delivered from Satan. We've been delivered from death. We've
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been delivered from Hell, We've been delivered from the grave, and we have
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been delivered from the wrath of God. Amen. That is what God has
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done for us, people of God, a man by the power of His
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Holy Spirit, that he sends into our hearts, a man, and we
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can only receive the Holy scold the Holy goes if, as I've stressed,
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as the Bible makes clear again, a man only through repentance, only through
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believing God and that's what we're gonna be talking about, the faith and say
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and see. And of course, as I've said already already, we we
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we've clearly a man. We are all clearly or should be clearly a man
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knowledgeable of the fact that the Bible is very explicit again about the simplicity of
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what we need to do in order to be saved. And so we are
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now examining the biblical proofs of salvation that us be evident in each and every
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one of us. And I've got seven of them. Amen, that again
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come from the scriptures. Number one, the change, number two, the
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love number three, the one we're gonna be talking about today, the faith
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number four, the fruitfulness number five, the forgiveness number six, the obedience
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in number seven. We're putting all of these together, prayer, praise,
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worship and fellowship. Now we've already talked about number one and number two,
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the change and the love. It is impossible for anyone to be saved and
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not be changed. It is impossible for anyone to be saved again according to
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the biblical proof. Amen. From the biblical perspective, from the word of
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the Living God. It is impossible for anyone to be saved and not be
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changed. The Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he is
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a new creation. The old is passed away, and behold, all things
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have become new. That's the first one that we've discussed. The change that
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happens in the life of those who have been delivered, saved, set free,
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brought out of the darkness into the marvelous like the change. Number two,
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it is I have the love, the love of God. The Bible
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teaches that the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
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gost that is given to us. So number one, it's impossible to be
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saved without the change taking place, the change, the new creation. Number
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two, it is impossible to be saved without the love of God being manifests,
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being spread abroad, a shed abroad ruther by the Holy Ghost in you.
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Number three. Today we're going to be talking about the faith. It
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is also absolutely, unequivocally impossible for anyone to be saved without faith. Hebrews
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Chapter number eleven, Verses one through three, and then verse number six.
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The Bible tells us, now, faith is the substance of things hoped for,
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the evidence of things not seemed for by it the elders obtained a good
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report. Through faith. We understand that the worlds were framed by the word
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of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which
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do appear verse number six. But without faith, or listen to the word
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of the Living God, without faith, it is im I didn't make it
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up, y'all. All right, I'm giving you the word of the Living
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God. Without faith, it is m to please him who God you.
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If you're not pleasing to God, you cannot be saved. You cannot be
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saved without being pleasing to God. Amen. And you cannot I please God.
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Without faith, we can close, we can we can end this right,
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we can literally, that's that we can end it. That ought to
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shut the case, that shut, it does shut the case. Without faith,
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it is impossible. It is impossible to please God. He that cometh
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to God, the Bible says. Listen what the Bible says, must believe.
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He that cometh to God must believe that He is and that He is
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a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. It is impossible. It is
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impossible to please God. It is impossible to be saved by God without faith.
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He that cometh to God. God must believe. Now. Faith,
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simply put, is actively believing God. Actively. It is not some one
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time instance where you had some kind of epiphany or some kind of emotion or
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some kind of feeling and you made some kind of confession or profession. No
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no, no, no, no, no, amen. It is actively
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daily and that's what we're gonna show you in the scriptures. Believing God.
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Faith in God causes us to act in such a way that demonstrates that we
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believe what we say we believe. In other words, faith in God is
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a call to action. How we respond towards God and man for that matter,
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is a proof. One of the biblical proofs that we're talking about is
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a proof of the profession of our faith. Faith in God demands actions on
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our part again, and these actions on our part are the manifestation of what
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cannot be seen outwardly by man. Faith can't be seen outwardly by man,
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only a man. Only God can see. Only God knows. And it
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is absolutely true that the omniscient God of all knowledge, of all understanding,
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of always him a man, He is intimately acquainted with the hearts of all
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of his creatures. But it's not enough to just say, well, God
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knows my heart. Of course he knows. He knows all hearts. But
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the faith is not about proving to God that we believe him. Again,
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God knows all things. It is far more about proving to ourselves and to
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others by our actions, that we believe what we say we believe. Who
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help us, Jesus, Help us, Jesus. I'm I'm gonna get to
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I'm gonna show you what the Bible says. Now, I'm not just I'm
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not just postulating here with theories or my own personal Amen, opinion, Amen,
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this is biblical. This is biblical. You see, faith comes first,
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and the Bible says faith comes by what hearing. Hearing, by what
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the Word of God God speaks, we hear. Faith is produced, and
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then what follows is works or action. Faith comes first, and then the
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actions or the works follow in manifestation of our faith. I can give you,
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and I'm going to give you a myriad of examples from the Word of
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God. And by the way, all of these are going to be from
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the Old Testament. The Old Testament. Faith is not something new, Grace
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is not something new. Believing God is not something new, nor the Bible
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says, believed God, and he moved with fear. You see, he
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acted upon his faith. He got a word from the Lord. He believed
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that word from the Lord, and he acted. He went to work.
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He went to work doing what building the ark. Now, Nor was not
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saved because of the ark. Nor and his family were not saved because they
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were in the ark. No, they were saved because they believed God.
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The ark was the instrument, It was the manifestation. It was what they
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demonstrated in their belief. And now who saw their faith, who saw their
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faith? The whole world, the whole world saw knows faith in action.
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When he begin the construction, when he finished the construction, and all the
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while those of one hundred and twenty years, he was preaching the word of
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the Living God. He was, the Bible says, a preacher of righteousness.
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He was calling the people to repentance, calling them to come into the
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ark. Now, those who would have come into the ark the arc again,
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was not their salvation. Their believing the word of God saves them,
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and their walking into the ark is their action. Is their faith in action
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demonstrating that they believed God. Oh help us Jesus, whoa Abraham, the
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Bible says, believed God, and he left his pagan upbringing. He left
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that land of idolatry. He didn't know where he was going. All he
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got was a word from the Lord, get out. Go. Where am
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I going? To a land that I will That's future that I will should
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That requires faith. Now, Abraham could have sat there and said, oh,
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okay, I believe you. Wait wait wait, wait wait. If
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you believe, you move, you act. That's what Abraham did. He
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stepped out in demonstration manifestation of his belief which could not be seen. You
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can go to your family, you can talk to your friends. Abraham could
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have went to his wife Sarah. He could have went to his friends.
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He could have went to his family and said, you know what, I
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just heard from God and I believe God. Well what did he say?
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What did he tell you to do? Well? He said for me to
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leave. But you know, I believe him. But I'm I'm staying here
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for a little while. I'm I'm waiting on this, and I'm waiting on
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that. No, no, no, to a land that I will show
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you. Abraham believed to God. The Bible tells us, Amen, And
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furthermore, we could go out and horner by Abraham. He believed God when
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he was willing to offer Isaac up to the Lord. He's where did Abraham
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demonstrate his faith in that particular activity. First of all, when they left
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the first thing, by the way, let me get back up just a
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little bit more. When the Lord told him to do it, the Bible
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says the next morning, not next week, not next year. The next
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morning Abraham got up early in the morning. He gathered the he had servants.
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Amen. He didn't have to do these things. He did it.
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He gathered the necessary things, brought with him and Isaac a couple of the
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servants. Amen. And then when they got close to the place amen,
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where the Lord had spoken to him of Mount Mariah, he spoke to the
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servants and said, stay here, Me and my son are going to go
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a little further. We're going to worship and listen what he says, and
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we will return. And then as they were going he and Isaac alone,
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Amen. Isaac said, Father, he was familiar with these things. We've
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got the wood, we've got the altar, we've got the fire, we
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got all the necessities. But where is the sacrifice? You know what the
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ram said, because he believed God. He said, God will provide for
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himself. Now again, Abraham had that faith. But he demonstrated with Isaac,
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with the servants, with his own hands, with his own works,
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with him gathering the wood, coming with the altar, going to the place
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what God told him to go. He demonstrated it with his actions that he
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believed God. Samson believed God. He believed God for a restoration. Yes,
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he sinned against the commands of God. He violated. Amen, the
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the the, the, the, the the What's the word I'm trying to
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use here, The covenant of the Nazarene a man, he was a Nazarite,
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dedicate it to God from birth. The things that he were not supposed
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to do should not be engaged in. Amen. As such, he violated
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them. Amen. And one even outside the covenant of faith. Amen.
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And and marrying outside of the will of God, outside of the will of
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its parents. Amen. Sampson did all of us. But yet Sampson,
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at the end of his life, in repentance, in faith, prayed to
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the Lord, believed God. God strengthened him. Listen, listen, listen.
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All of us sin and fall short of the glory of God. Amen,
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do you believe? Do you really believe? Amen? Do you believe
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God for restoration? Do you believe? As the thief on the cross,
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as I said, I mentioned often, it wasn't dodging his responsibility, his
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accountability. Amen. I deserve to be here. I deserve to die.
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Lord, remember me Hannah, y'all remember Hannah in the Old Testament. Hannah
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believed God that he would open up her wound. That's why she prayed.
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She prayed, and if you didn't believe it, she wouldn't pray. And
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that's why a lot of people don't pray. A lot of us are lacking
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in prayer because we don't believe God. We don't believe that we can have
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or will have the things that we ask. Of course, we got to
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ask in faith, We got to ask according to the will of God.
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But we don't believe God, and so we don't pray. Hannah believed that
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God would hear her petition. She believed God that he who is the giver
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of life, would give to her. And she was very specific. She
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didn't just say a child. She said give to me a man, child,
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a son, and I will give him back to you. She believed
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God and God did just that. He opened up her wound, and we
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got from that prairie request her faith. Samuel. She believed God. Joe
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believed God in hell, fast and to his integrity in all that he went
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through. We know that Daniel believed God. He refused to eat at the
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table of the devils. Oh, Oh, the Bible tells us you can't
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eat at the Lord's table and the table of devils. Amen. Daniel and
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his Amen prayer partners believed God. They had the faith. They were in
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the faith. Amen, and his prayer partners, you know, Shadradi Shaka
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bitneygo. They believed God, and they stood the test of their profession of
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faith. Anybody can talk it until the fire comes, until the heat is
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turned up, until the furnace is right there in front of you, Amen,
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right in the face of sure death at the hands of the ruthless dictator
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Nebucha Nazza. They believed God, and they professed it. They spoke it.
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Our God is able, Amen, and he will if he wills to
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do it, he will deliver us. Amen. All of these people of
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the faith, except for Noah and Abraham, were under the old covenant of
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the Law given through Moses. They were not saved by the law. The
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blood of bulls, the blood of goads cannot take away sin. They were
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not saved because of that offering up, the sacrifices and burnt offerings. David
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said, oh no, no, some I'm fifty one read it. You
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don't delight in those things? He said, I could, I could do
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that. No, what does God want? He wants everyone first and foremost
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to believe him. That's faith. Believe God. And then when you believe
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God, you act abondon believing God. Amen, you act upon it.
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The clear and compelling message a man throughout the scriptures is that no man is
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saved by his works, by his sacrifices, by his goodness. No,
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no, no old or new covenant. It must be by faith, the
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faith. The very first order of business for the saved, those of us
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who have been delivered. Amen. The very first order of business for every
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one of us is to live like we are saved. In other words,
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we got to walk in it. We are now to live by the faith,
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which is again is one of the proofs that are made. Manifests in
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any creature, because he becomes a new creation, any creature in christies.
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Any man be in Christ, he becomes a new creation. The Bible says
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the fruit of the Spirit Galatians five and twenty two is love, joy,
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peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, faith, The fruit
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of the spirit one of the manifestations of the fruit of this but not the
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fruits. You can't separate him, you can't divide him. You can't Amen
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dispatch with those that you don't necessarily agree with. If you and then,
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by the way, we don't get to choose. We don't get to pick
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and choose. We don't get the cherry pick the fruit of the spirit.
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Faith. We've already talked about love. The love love number one, love,
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joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, faith.
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Without faith, it is impossible to please God. Second Corinthians five and
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seven says we walk by faith, not by sight. We walk by faith,
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we live by faith. We operate by faith. We are in the
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faith. Faith and action, or faith and works are inseparable. This is
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what James argues. If you will in his letter amen to the brethren James
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chapter number two, and I'll pick it up at verse number fourteen. Again.
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If you have your Bibles, you can follow along with us, James,
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this is the word of God, This is a word of the Living
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God. Can again, We got a lot of people who profess a lot
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of people who claim to be Christians, claim to be saved, claim to
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believe God. But the proof, ladies and gentlemen, the proof, the
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biblical proof, is in our action, our works, and they are inseparable.
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This is what the Bible says, First number fourteen James, Chapter number
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two. What doth it prophet, my brethren? Who is he talking to
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people in the church, people who are professing to be believers. Now James
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is not questioning whether or not they are believers. He's just again showing to
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those who are in the faith, in the household of God, that there
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is proof of your faith, and it is to be seen. Jesus said,
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let your light shine. You don't make it, you let it,
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because if it's in you, it comes out of you. Again, the
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love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy egos that is
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given to us. What does the profit, my brethren? Though a man
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say he have faith and have not works, can faith save him? Can't?
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In other words, can his profession of faith? James is not talking
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to me, he's not dismissing faith. He's talking about this man's profession.
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This man saying that he has faith. Can what he says, can his
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profession alone stand all by itself? Is that the proof is that the evidence?
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Oh, I say said, I said that, I'm saying I said
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that I believe God? What doth it, Prophet? My broth? And
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though a man say he hath faith and have not works? Can faith save
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him? Verse fifteen? If a brother a sister be naked and destitute of
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daily food. This is just an example that James is given to us.
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If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one
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of you say, unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and
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filled. Notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body.
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What doth it, Prophet? Where the works? Where is the proof?
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The proof of your profession of faith? Even so? Verse seventeen.
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Faith, if it hath not works, if there is no action, if
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there is no demonstration, if there is no manifestation of what you say you
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believe, if it hath not works, James says, it's dead. Your
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profession is dead. What you say is dead. Being alone, because that's
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all you have. We are lip service. We have talking. We have
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a so called profession of faith. If it hath not works, if there
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is no demonstration, evidence proof, if it's all by itself, James says,
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it's dead yea verse eighteen. A man may say, again, this
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is profession, this is talking. A man may say, thou hast faith,
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and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works, and
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I will show thee my faith by my works. Oh, listen, listen,
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listen. He says, thou believest that there is one God. Thou
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doest, Well, that's good, that's great, that's that's commendable. James
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says, yes, that's commendable. That's wonderful. Amen, And it is.
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And there's no sarcasm here at all, nothing sarcastic, nothing sarcastic intended,
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because that's necessary. Also, Amen. There's no duplicity, there's no
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idolatry that can be tolerated. There's only one God. And James says,
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you believe that there is one God. He said, that's great. But
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the devils also believe, and tremble, the devils, demons, Satan himself,
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they're all cognizant. Knowledgeable and know that there is one God, the
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True in the Living God. They know it, and the Bible says,
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they tremble. Now again, James is not dismissing, he's not minimizing in
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any way a person's belief in the One and the Truth and the Living God.
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But what he is emphasizing here is if you say you believe God,
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you act upon it. Actions, works, the demonstration, the manifestation must
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follow. Because he says, wilt thou know verse twenty, old vain man
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that faith without works, he's dead. Faith without the works, he's dead.
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Now there are many professors. We have professors, and I mean tenured
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professors, who have made a profession of being in the faith. They say,
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they say, they talk, but their actions, their works are not
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manifested. As the apostle Paul wrote the Titus, Listen what the Bible says
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Titus chapter number one. If you're taking notes, if you're following along Titus
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chapter number one, verses ten and sixteen, listen what the thist what the
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Bible says. Then what the Bossil wrote to his son in the Gospel Titus,
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there are many, not a few, he says, there are many
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unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision. That's verse
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number ten. Got On verse sixteen, he says, they profess that they
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know God. They say they are his children. They call themselves Christians,
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believers, disciples, followers, followers of Jesus. They call themselves Christians.
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They profess, But listen what the Bible says. This is not me,
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my my opinion. This is the word of God. But in works,
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in their actions, in their activity, in their lifestyle, they deny him.
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They say they't know Jesus. They say they were baptized in Jesus.
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They say they will feel the Holy Spirit. They say, they say,
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they say, they talk, they talk, they talk, But their actions
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and worked they didn't high him. Being abominable, disobedient and unto every good
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work. They are reprobates. Oh my God, Oh my God. When
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it comes to the work of the ministry, when it comes to supporting the
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work of the ministry, supporting the church, Amen, fighting with the church,
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fighting with the people of God, warring a good warfare. Amen.
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And again, we talked about this on last week when we talked about the
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love and well, I understand we all understand we all get it that we
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have all been you know, and have undergone disappointments in the Church and the
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Body of Christ. Many of you have been hurt, got the church hurt.
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But don't say you love Jesus and you hate the brother that you have
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seen. That's what the Bible says. How can a man say that he
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loves God whom he has not seen and he hates his brother and he can't
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forget Oh, my God, I I who help us Jesus or help us
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Jesus. They profess that they know God, but it works in their walk,
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in their living. Oh they talk it, they talk it good.
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That's what the Apostle is saying. Here. There are many unruly and vain
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talkers. They talk it, they sound apart, they looked apart. They
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dress it just like the Pharisees did, and Jesus created them. Look at
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Matthew chapter twenty three. I believe it is. It's not the talkers,
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it's the walkers. It's the ones who live it, who work it out,
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who work out their soul salvation with fear and trembling. As the Bible
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says for it, it is God who works in us, both to will
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and to do of his good pleasure, they profess, tenured professors. That's
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what we have. We got a lot of. This is the Bible,
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this Bible. Many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, tenured professors. They
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say that they know God. But when it comes to living, when it
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comes to obedience, when it comes to love, when it comes to being
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share aped and molded and conformed until the image of Jesus Christ, when it
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comes to that, Oh no, they deny him. How do they deny
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him? In their abominable actions, in their disobedience? This is right in
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the word. Look at it. Titus, chapter one, verse sixteen.
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They profess. See, the proof is not in my talking. It's not
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in my talking. It's not in my preaching. That's not the proof.
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Anybody can preach it. Anybody can talk it. Anybody can make a profession.
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It's not in my professing. The proof is in my works of obedience
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to what Jesus has commanded me to do. Am I oldbeying God. Abraham
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and believed God. Noah believed God. Dan, you'll beliead God. Hannah
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believed God. Amen. Do you believe him? If you believe him,
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You're gonna obey him. Jesus said, if you love me. We talked
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about this last week. If you love me, keep my commandments, keep
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my word. That's the proof is not up again. We talk my biblical
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proof, not in my talking, not in my professing. No, no,
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no, ladies and gentlemen. The proof is in works of obedience.
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The Bible makes it clear. There's only one faith Efesian two and eight.
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For by grace. This is what the Bible says. And I'm gonna go
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to Efesian chapter four, verses four and five. For by grace we are
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saved through faith that not of ourselves. It is the gift of God.
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God is the one who gives the gift of faith. Faith comes by hearing.
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How does hearing come by the word of God. If God doesn't speak,
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we don't have faith. The word of God is what generates faith,
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is what makes faith possible. It comes by the word of God. It
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is the gift of God. The Bible says, Grace is the gift of
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God. Faith is the gift of God. Love is the gift of God.
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All of these things that comes from God gifts of God. In order
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to save us. Amen. This is what the Bible says. Ephesians,
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chapter four, of which is four to five. There is one body,
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one spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling,
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism. One. It's only one way
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to be saved. And Jesus says, I am the way. I'm the
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way, And if you don't believe that I am he, you'll die in
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your sins. Now again, it's not my professing, it's not my talking,
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amen, it's my living it. And the Bible tells us on multiple
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occasions, and it starts in Habaka in the Old Testament, the just shall
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live by his faith. Romans chapter one, verse sixteen seventeen. For I'm
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not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. For it is the power of God
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unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the jew first, and also to the
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Greek for the listen. What the Bible says for their end is the righteousness
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of God revealed from faith to faith. As it is written, the just
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shall live by faith. And then again in Galatians chapter two, verse twenty
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list of what Paul says, I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live,
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yet not I see it's no longer about me. Oh Oh Jesus,
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Oh Jesus, helpers all, Jesus, help us, happers, Lord,
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happers, Jesus all we are in a self centered all about self. Generate
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deliver us fromself, Who deliver me from me? Lord, I am crucified
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with Christ. Nevertheless I live, Yet not I, the apostle says,
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But Christ liveth in me and the life he says that I now live.
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See the life that he did live before. It was about him. It's
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about no. He is his religion, his ignorance in carrying out what he
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thought was right. He said, I did it in ignorance and in unbelief,
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he said, the life which I now live, though, he says,
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listen in the flesh, in this body, I live by the faith
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by what by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and
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gave himself for me? Whoa help us Jesus he bruised. Chapter ten,
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I'm sorry Galatians. Chapter three, in verse eleven, the Bible says,
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but that no man is justified by the law. In the sight of God.
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It is evident the just shall live by faith. We gotta live it,
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y'all. We have to live it, not talk it. Live it.
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We gotta live by this faith. Listen what the Bible says. He
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Bruce, Chapter ten, verse thirty eight thirty nine. Now the just,
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here it is again, shall live by faith. But if any man draw
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back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. God will not be
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pleased. Jesus said, no man putting his hand to the plow and looking
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back is fit for the kingdom. My soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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But he says, we are not those of us who are truly saved,
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who have truly been delivered by the power of God, who have the
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Holy Ghost working in us, perfecting us, sanctifying us, cleansing us,
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separating us. We are not of them who draw back unto perdition. But
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we are of them who believe. That's what faith is believing God. We
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are of them. This is what the Bible says, that be leave to
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the saving of the soul. We gotta live it. The just shall live
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by faith because we have been justified by faith, the Bible tells us Romans
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Chapter five, verses one and two. Therefore, being justified by faith,
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we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also listen
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what the Bible says, we have access by faith. How can you have
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access if you don't have faith, You don't have access to God. By
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faith, the Bible says, he that come to God again must believe that
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he is. Faith is believing God. The only way you have access to
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God is through faith. We have access, the Bible says, by faith
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into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice and hope of the glory of God
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again. In Galations chapter two, take note verse sixteen. The Bible says,
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knowing that a man listen, what the people says is not justified by
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the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even
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we have believed in Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, the Life.
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Even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we listen what he says
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might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the
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law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
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Listen, listen, people of God, we and no one can be saved
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by working their way. The works come after the faith. We are to
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add to our faith. That's what the Bible tells us. All we are
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called to add to our faith second Peter, and I'm closing with this chapter
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one, verses three through ten. According as his divine power, hath given
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unto us all things that pertained unto life and goddess, through the knowledge of
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Him that hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us
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exceeding great and precious promises, that by these you might be partakers of the
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divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through us.
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And listen what he says. And besides this, giving all diligence. This
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is now God has done what he has done. And it's not that he's
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finished with us. He didn't just save us and then leave us to ourselves.
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The Bible says, it is He who works in us, but there
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is our participation with the Holy Spirit working in us. The Bible says,
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giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue and to virtue, knowledge
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and to knowledge, temperance and to temperance, patience and to patience, godlinness
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and to godliness, brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness, charity. For listen
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what he says. If these things be in you and abound, they make
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you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful. And we're going to revisit
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this in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But on the other hand,
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he says, he that lacketh these things, So you gotta add to
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your faith. You say you believe, then you where's your virtue? Where's
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the knowledge? Where's the temperace? Where's the self control? Here? Where's
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the brotherly kindness? Where's the charity the love of God? If you say
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you made a profession, add to what you say you are who you say
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you are. He that lacketh these things, the Bible says, is blind,
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cannot see you far off, and have forgotten that he was purged from
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his old sins. Wherefore, he says the brother, brother, and give
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diligence to make your calling and election. Sure that's you proving, that's you
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self examining. Oh no, no, no, it's not proving to me,
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not proving to anyone else. This is you and Jesus, You in,
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Jesus, Jesus in you be diligent about making your calling an election.
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Sure, the Bible says, listen what he says, for if you do
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these things, you shall never fall. Oh thank God for this blessed assurance.
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Father, help someone today to hear, to know, to have the
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blessed assurance that they are in you and you are in them or God.
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Because your word is explicit, your word is true. Your word shall never
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fade away. Help us to walk in it, to live in it,
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to love it, to obey it, so that you get the glory out
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of our lives, and that we may hear your voice. Say, well
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done, good and faithful servant. In Jesus name, we pray and give
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thanks for all things. A man and a man