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Philippians chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Philippians chapter 2. Let us pray our Father, who is
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  in heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom come, Your will be
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  done on earth just as it is in heaven.
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  Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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  Forgive us for our trespasses. Lead us not into temptation.
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  Deliver us from the evil. 1 For yours is the Kingdom, the power,
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  and the glory, forever and ever. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will bring heaven to earth.
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  God, you will mark us. Lord, encircle and encamp us.
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  God, and everywhere that we go is holy ground today.
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  God, bring heaven down to earth. Today, let us go out and snatch
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  those out of the fire. Let us go out and tell everybody
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  about you and what you have done.
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  And the same thing you did for us, you can do for them.
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  God, I pray that we will not blasphemy the Holy Spirit.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus that we will have reverence for your
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  holy name, the name that is above all names.
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  Yeshua, Thank you God for all the many blessings that you've
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  already poured out on us. Lord, we're praying for daily
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  bread today. Help us not to store up.
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  God, help us not to try to worry and have anxiety for tomorrow,
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  and help us not to be stuck in the past, but for today.
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  God, we are content with food and clothing.
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  God, help us to walk in the Spirit today.
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  Help us to pray in the Spirit today.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us to
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  know that we are yours and we are known by you.
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  God, help us to extend forgiveness out to every single
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  person who's ever wronged us. Help us not to find our identity
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  in our refusal to forgive. Help us not to find our identity
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  in the things that have happened to us, Lord, but help us to know
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  that we are a new creation, Lord, and that all of the things
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  in the past are in the pass and they're under the blood of
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  Christ, Lord. And we extend that out, that
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  invitation out to every single person that we meet today.
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  Lord, I pray against all the schemes of the enemy.
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  Father, I pray against the fiery darts.
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  God, let us put on the full armor today and withstand God
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  and flee from all of the evil, Lord.
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  Help us not to succumb to any of the negativity, Lord, the
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  backbiting and dissension and discord.
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  God is not becoming of us. Lord, we are yours.
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  We are called by your name, Father, and I pray in the name
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  of Jesus Christ Lord, for your Kingdom, your power, your glory
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  to be on full display today. Show up and show off, Father, we
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  love you. King Jesus, I decrease as you
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  increase. Hide me, hide my words.
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  Speak to us today in the mighty name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. If there be therefore any
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  consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
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  fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies.
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  What's he talking about here? He's talking about the comfort
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  that can only come from God Almighty, the comfort that can
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  only come by knowing that none of our sins will ever be counted
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  against us. Blessed is that man whose
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  transgressions will never be remembered, whose sins will
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  never be counted against him. Blessed is that man.
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  I pray that you can have this same consolation.
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  I pray that you can be consoled in the Spirit.
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  I pray that you know that you are not bound by all of the
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  things that you used to do. That is not your identity.
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  Your identity is in Christ and Christ alone, friends, and it is
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  nothing that we do, but it is everything that He did.
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  And the thing that separates Christianity from every other
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  religion in the entire world, friends, is grace.
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  And it is grace through faith. And by faith we take a hold of
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  this, friends. You need to understand that
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  every other religion in the entire world is scales and
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  balances and you're good better outweigh your bad.
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  But it never does. And you don't really know where
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  you stand with God when you take your last breath.
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  But Christianity is different. It is nothing that we do and it
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  is everything that he did and it is a free gift, but we must take
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  hold of it by faith. Friends to fulfill you.
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  My joy that you be like minded having the same love being of 1
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  accord of one mind. That is what God's plan and
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  purposes is for the church. He wants us to be of 1 spirit
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  and one mind, the mind of Christ to be filled with the Holy
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  Ghost. And where the Spirit is, there
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  is an immense amount of freedom. And you need to know that
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  whenever David was running from King Saul that he went in and he
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  ate the bread and there was a lot of liberty there and God did
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  not strike him down. Because when you are in Christ,
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  you have many privileges. And we don't abuse those
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  privileges, but we can know what is pleasing to God Almighty.
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  And we don't abuse grace. We don't use it as a license to
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  sin, friends. But you can know that everything
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  is under the blood of Christ and everything is permissible, but
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  not everything is beneficial. Friends three, let nothing be
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  done through strife or Vainglory, but in lowliness of
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  mind let each esteem other as better than themselves.
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  That's the key. Friends, we have humility.
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  We always think of others as better than ourselves.
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  This is so foreign to the current culture where we have
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  Vainglory and we want everybody to look at us and think of us as
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  being so special and that is not what Christ would have us to do.
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  We don't need to be under the spotlight.
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  We don't need to have center stage.
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  We should not seek vanity and pride that is not from God.
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  We do things hidden, knowing that God sees and He will openly
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  reward in due season. You do not need to be seen by
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  others. You do not need to tell others
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  what you have done for God. You need to do it for God and
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  God alone. And God will reward you openly
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  in due time. For look, not every man on his
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  own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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  Don't be so self-centered and so self preoccupied.
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  Don't be lovers of self and lovers of pleasure and lovers of
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  money. You need to take care of the
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  orphans and widows in their time of distress.
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  We need to be others centered and not self-centered friends. 5
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  Let this mind be in you, which also is in Christ Jesus.
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  You need to have the mind of Christ, and how we can have that
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  is by putting on His righteousness and His purity and
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  His perfection, by being covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  And we can have the mind of Christ, knowing that all the
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  wrath of God was satisfied on the cross.
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  And we are going to stand before God Almighty Holy, because He is
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  holy. Six, who being in the form of
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  God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
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  Jesus is God. Jesus is the name above all
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  names, friends, and he is the second person in the Trinity,
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  God the Father and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, three in
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  one. 7 And he made himself of no reputation, and he took upon him
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  the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
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  Jesus Christ was all man and all God at the same time and that is
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  a hard concept for those who are struggling with how He can be
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  100% of both man and 100% still divinity in God.
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  He did not step down from His divinity.
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  He did not step down from His God status, but He chose to come
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  lowly in a Manger. He chose to come and to put on
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  humanity so that he can identify with us friends.
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  And that is what you need to know is that Christ has gone
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  through every emotion and every struggle.
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  Christ has gone through every single temptation that you and I
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  go through, and He conquered it and He lived a perfect and
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  sinless life, friends. And that is what was pleasing
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  and acceptable to God Almighty for the atonement of our sins,
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  so that the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb.
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  And He was the only one found worthy to open the scroll,
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  friends, because of what He did on the cross when He laid down
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  His perfect sinless life, so that you and I can put on His
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  righteousness and be covered in His blood, so that we can enter
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  in to the presence of God Almighty.
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  And God will not see any of the sins that we have ever
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  committed. He will only see the perfect
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  life of Jesus Christ covering us A and being found in fashion as
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  a man, He humbled himself and became obedient unto the death,
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  even the death of the cross. And this death of the cross was
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  the most humiliating death that a human could have ever gone
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  through. And Jesus Christ willfully
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  obeyed God all the way to death. Friends.
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  And no one took His life, but He laid it down himself. 9
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  Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a
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  name which is above every name. The name of Jesus Christ is the
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  only name that has the power to save.
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  And that is what Jesus means is salvation.
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  He is salvation, and there is no salvation apart from Jesus
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  Christ. Jesus is the way, the truth, and
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  the life, and no one comes unto the Father except through him.
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  And at at that name every knee will bow, and every tongue will
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  confess, friends, that he is Lord Adonai, the Saviour of the
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  world. 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee will bow.
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  Of things in heaven, and things in earth and things under the
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  earth, you need to know that at the great white throne of God He
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  will amass every single person who has ever been born, is
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  living today, or will be born, and every single knee and every
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  single tongue. Friends will confess and bow
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  that Jesus Christ is Lord. We can do it now or we can do it
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  then, but it is far better to do it now and to receive salvation.
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  11 that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
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  Lord to the glory of God the Father.
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  So God the Father is glorified in the highest when we choose
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  Jesus Christ as our Savior, and He is going to make every single
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  person bow down and give Jesus Christ his due honor and glory.
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  Friends, but once you take your last breath, if you have not
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  bowed the knee and confessed with your tongue that Jesus is
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  Lord, it'll be too late even though you do it.
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  There is no universalism. Friends, there is no every
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  single person is going to make it there.
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  Friends, you have to do it while there's still breath in your
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  lungs that you have to do it out of the free will that God gives
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  to you and in His loving kindness He does not take from
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  you. He could this very make you bow
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  down and confess Jesus as Lord, but He doesn't.
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  He leaves you in your free will and He loves you so much that He
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  does not take it from you. And He gives you chance after
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  chance after chance after chance after chance after chance.
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  Every breath that you draw is another chance to confess Jesus
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  Christ as Lord, but so many choose to go their own way to
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  their own eternal destruction and damnation. 12 Wherefore, my
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  beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence
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  only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
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  salvation with fear and trembling.
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  Today is the day of salvation. Friends, do not wait for
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  tomorrow. And for those of us who have
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  placed our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, recommit your life
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  to Him today, over and over and over.
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  Every day that you get, get on your knees and confess Him as
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  Lord. And it does not mean that you
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  can lose your salvation, but it does mean that we need to renew
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  our vows. We need to recommit our lives to
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  Him every single day. Friends, work out your salvation
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  with fear and trembling. This is the awe inspiring glory
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  of God shining all around us. Friends, that leads us to
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  repentance. It leads us to the confession.
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  It leads us to loving Him with all of our heart, all of our
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  mind, all of our strength. Nothing compartmentalized.
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  Friends, we do not have us on Saturday night and then a
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  different us on Sunday morning. We are called to be laid down.
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  Lovers bond servants of Jesus Christ 24 hours a day, seven
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  days a week, 365 for however many years that you have on this
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  earth. We do not get to check out,
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  friends. We go out into the harvest, we
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  put our hands to the plow, we lock eyes with Jesus Christ, and
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  we refuse to be distracted. 13 For it is God which works in you
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  both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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  It is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that enables us to live
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  the life that is pleasing unto God. 14 Do all things without
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  murmurings and disputings. You need to know, friends.
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  A critical spirit is a sure sign of a backslidden Christian, and
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  it does not mean that God loves you any less, but he will use
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  you less, 15 that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons
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  of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked, perverse
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  nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
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  We are called to be salt and light to this wicked and dark
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  and perverse generation. And there are many who are
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  steeped in idolatry and there are many whose are steeped in
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  perversity, and there are many who are steeped in wickedness
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  and satanic revolt. Friends.
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  And we are called to be different.
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  We are called to be the difference makers in this world
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  today. The Holy Spirit indwells us and
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  there is still a lot of good in this world as long as the Saints
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  are still left here in this world.
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  And we are the body of Christ, and we are His hands and feet,
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  and we are out here in the world to do His bidding. 16 holding
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  forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of
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  Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
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  We need to finish the race well. Frank friends, it's easy to
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  start a race, but it's hard to finish it.
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  And what is he telling us? He's saying that we have the
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  words of life that we hold in our hands.
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  The Bible from Genesis to Revelation, nothing added and
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  nothing subtracted, the inerrant, infallible Word of
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  God. God breathed and alive and
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  active. Friends, and that is what you
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  need to understand is that we hold in house and have and hide
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  the Word of God and we cannot let it go by the wayside.
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  We cannot water it down, friends.
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  We cannot add anything to it or take anything out of it.
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  It is complete. It is authoritative and it is
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  the words of life. And we do not need to run this
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  race in vain. At the very last minute, right
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  before we crossover, we fall down and there's lots of things
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  that. Come to light that we tried to
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  hide. Friends, we cannot let the enemy
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  infiltrate the camp. We must stay active.
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  We must stay alert and on guard of all the schemes and the Wiles
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  of the enemy and have integrity. If there was ever a time in the
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  history of mankind to have integrity, it would be today.
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  Friends, everything you say and everything you do is being
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  watched and recorded. 17 Yeah. And if I be offered upon the
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  sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with
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  you all. This is a groundswell that
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  cannot be stopped. The blood of the martyr is the
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  seed of the Church, and Paul understood that.
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  Here he says, If I'm sacrificed and spilled out for your sake,
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  it is for God's glory. We need not be afraid. 18 For
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  the same cause also do you joy and rejoice with me.
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  Don't be afraid of persecution. 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus
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  to send Timothy shortly to you, that I also may be of good
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  comfort when I know your state. So Timothy was going to come to
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  the church here and Philippi, and then he was going to go back
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  and give Paul an account of what was happening there.
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  And Paul had great confidence that the report that he would
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  get would be nothing but good cheer. 24 I have no man like
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  minded who will naturally care for your state.
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  He's giving them Timothy's pedigree, and he's saying that
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  Tim Timothy is like a son to him. 21 For all seek their own,
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  not the things which are Jesus Christ.
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  Far be it from us to be self seeking.
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  We need to have the mind of Christ and to know what to do
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  and when to do it and how to do it by being connected to Jesus
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  Christ, being in Jesus Christ. 22 But you know the proof of
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  him, that as a son with the Father, he has served with me in
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  the gospel. Timothy has served with Paul
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  like a son in the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ. 23 Him,
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  therefore, I hope to send presently so soon as I shall see
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  how it will go with me. So Paul's awaiting trial.
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  He's awaiting to see what will happen, and he's wanting to know
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  if he should send Timothy or not.
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  And it's all dependent on what happens at the verdict of the
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  trial. 24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall
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  come shortly. He's saying that I will come to
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  you if I am released. 25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to
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  you, if Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labor and
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  fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that
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  ministered to my wants. 26 For he longed after you all, and was
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  full of heaviness, because that you heard that he had been sick.
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  So this Epaphroditus was sick when he came to visit with Paul,
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  and then the Philippians heard about it, and they were all
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  sorrowful. 28 I sent him there for the more carefully that when
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  you see him again you may rejoice, and that I may be the
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  less sorrowful. And Paul was grateful that
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  Epaphroditus did not die on his watch. 29 Receive him, therefore
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  in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in reputation will
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  end on 30 because for the work of Christ he was near to death,
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  not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service
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  toward me. Paul was saying that
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  Epaphroditus wasn't afraid of death, but for the Philippians
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  encouragement. God spared his life so that the
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  sorrow would not be too overbearing for Paul if
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  Epaphroditus would have died on his watch.
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  And you can see that God spared his life so that the Philippians
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  would be even more encouraged. What an amazing God we serve.
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  What a powerful, amazing God who can perform miracles.
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  And you need to know that no matter what you're going
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  through, life or death, disease or miraculous healing, God is
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  sovereign. God is in full control and He
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  knows how to bring the most amount of glory to Himself
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  through the lives of the Saints. Let's get sold out for Jesus
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  Christ today. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter here in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.